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Pimco to Provide $14bn for Oracle Michigan Data Center Project

Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) is reportedly in discussions with Bank of America Corp. to provide around $14 billion in debt financing to Related Digital for an Oracle data center in Michigan. According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, the funding would position...

April 08, 2026

Oracle

Edged Opens 36MW Data Center in Phoenix, Arizona

US operator Edged has launched a new data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The Endeavour-owned company this month announced the opening of its PHX01-1 facility. Situated on a 12-acre site at 8811 E. Warner Road in Mesa, Maricopa County, the two-story building delivers 36MW of capacity across 210,00...

April 08, 2026

Edged Energy

EdgeConneX Begins Construction on a New Data Center in Osaka, Japan

EdgeConneX has begun construction on a new data center outside Osaka, Japan. The company announced this week that it is developing its first 200MW, AI-ready campus in Greater Osaka in partnership with Kagoya Asset Management.The Kyotanabe campus will cover 130,000 sqm (1.4 million sq ft), with...

March 19, 2026

EdgeConneX

Meta Signs Pre-development Agreement for Data Center in Beloit, Wisconsin

Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a pre-development agreement with the Town of Beloit for a potential data center project in southern Wisconsin. According to the Beloit Daily News, the facility could be built on a 430-acre site located between Town Line Road, South Prairie Avenue, and East ...

March 05, 2026

Meta

Meta Plans to Deploy 366MW of Modular Gas-fired Units to Support a 1GW Data Center in El Paso, Texas

The 1GW project, which broke ground in October, would be powered by 813 modular generators, slated to come online by 2027. The units are expected to cost $473 million. The proposal has also drawn opposition from environmental and community organizations. For instance, the Sembrando Esperanza C...

February 23, 2026

Meta

Tract’s Fleet Data Centers Seeks $3.8bn to Fuel Nevada Build-out

Fleet Data Centers, the data center development arm of Tract, is seeking to raise billions of dollars to build out a campus in Reno, Nevada, for a major tenant.The project has been 100 percent leased to an unnamed “AA- investment grade rated tenant with a market cap in excess of $3 trillion” o...

February 14, 2026

Tract

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...

February 11, 2026

Meta

iXAfrica to Host Oracle Cloud Region in Nairobi, Kenya

East African data center firm iXAfrica this week announced it has been selected as the host partner for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya.“We are delighted to be in execution mode to bring OCI to Kenya,” said Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica. “With this collaboration, iX...

February 03, 2026

Oracle

QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

January 30, 2026

QTS Data Centers

$Edged secures permission for second data center at Irving campus, Tex$

Edged secures permission for second data center at Irving campus, Tex

Data center operator Edged this week announced plans to add a second data center to its Edged Dallas campus in Irving, Dallas County. The news follows Irving City Council voting unanimously to approve the expansion, which will be located on North Wildwood Drive in the industrial area east of H...

January 17, 2026

Edged Energy

Verizon Secures Approval for $20bn Frontier Acquisition

Verizon has secured all regulatory approvals to close its acquisition of Frontier Communications. It comes as the carrier this week received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to push ahead with the deal.“California isn’t just approving a merger, we’re securing rea...

January 16, 2026

Verizon Enterprise

Tract expands into Illinois with plans for 1GW data center park

Data center park developer Tract is expanding into Chicago, Illinois. The campus, located off I-80 and Highway 6 in Morris, can reportedly support up to 1GW at full build-out across ~2.9 million sq ft of data center capacity. Initial energization is targeted for June 2028, and a full 1GW load ...

January 16, 2026

Tract

Blue Owl Backs Out of Funding Oracle's $10bn Michigan Facility

Blue Owl Capital is not planning to provide financial backing to Oracle's planned data center in Saline Township, Michigan. The data center project, valued at $10 billion, is being developed by Oracle, Related Digital, and OpenAI as part of the latter's Stargate project.The campus is expected ...

January 03, 2026

Oracle

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

December 11, 2025

Lumen Technologies

Edged Breaks Ground on Second Chicago Faciity

Data center firm Edged has broken ground on a second data center in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 2835 Bilter Road, the new facility will be purpose-built for high-density AI workloads and feature advanced closed-loop, waterless cooling. The facility will go live in Q2 2027.“Safety and perform...

November 21, 2025

Edged Energy

Oracle Launches Second Cloud Region in Italy

Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Italy which will give organizations access to all of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's cloud and AI services. According to Oracle, its sovereign capabilities will also help ensure that data remains within Italy's borders to help meet regulatory requirem...

November 20, 2025

Oracle

Nvidia Partners with Oracle and DOE for two AI Supercomputers

Nvidia has partnered with Oracle and the US Department of Energy to build two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Solstice will be the largest AI supercomputer owned by the DOE and will be built with the DOE’s new public-private partnership model. Equinox will consist...

October 31, 2025

Oracle

VoltaGrid to Supply Oracle with 2.3GW of Natural Gas Power

Texas gas solutions provider VoltaGrid plans to supply Oracle with 2.3GW of natural gas capacity to support the energy demands of the cloud provider's artificial intelligence data centers to be supplied through Energy Transfer’s midstream pipeline network. “AI workloads are uniquely power-inte...

October 15, 2025

Oracle

Oracle to Deploy Cluster of 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is planning to launch a cluster of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs with as many as 50,000 GPUs. The MI450 GPU will be based on the CDNA 5 architecture and made using TSMC's 2nm fabrication technology. Each GPU offers up to 432 GB of HBM4 and 20 TBps of memory b...

October 13, 2025

Oracle

Aligned Data Centers Sold in $40bn Deal

Aligned Data Centers is being sold to BlackRock and MGX in a deal worth $40 billion, the biggest ever acquisition in the digital infrastructure space. Macquarie Asset Management selling it to a group comprising the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock-owned Global Infrastruc...

October 11, 2025

Aligned

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