February 03, 2026 Oracle
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,...
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January 30, 2026 QTS Data Centers
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...
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January 17, 2026 Edged Energy
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...
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January 16, 2026 Verizon Enterprise
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 real...
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January 16, 2026 Tract
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...
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January 03, 2026 Oracle
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 to...
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December 11, 2025 Lumen Technologies
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 and...
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November 21, 2025 Edged Energy
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...
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November 20, 2025 Oracle
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...
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October 31, 2025 Oracle
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 of...
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October 15, 2025 Oracle
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...
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October 13, 2025 Oracle
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...
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October 11, 2025 Aligned
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...
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October 10, 2025 Oracle
SoftBank Corp and Oracle are collaborating on a sovereign cloud offering in Japan which will be dubbed "Cloud PF Type A," and based on Oracle Alloy, deployed in SoftBank's Japan data centers.“We are delighted to collaborate with Oracle to offer a cloud platform that addresses the high-security...
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October 10, 2025 QTS Data Centers
QTS has begun site work on a massive data center project in Northumberland, UK which could see an investment of up to £10 billion ($13.2bn) across 10 facilities if fully built out. This March, the project received outline planning permission from the local council. After initially being pitched...
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October 06, 2025 Verizon Enterprise
Verizon has announced former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the carrier's next CEO. The CEO transition at the company means that current chief Hans Vestberg steps down from the role, which he has held since 2018.“I believe in Verizon and its future, and I am honored to be chosen to serve as CEO,”...
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October 01, 2025 Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has launched a new OCI Dedicated Region in Oman, the second in the country. The launch was announced on September 29 by Nick Redshaw, SVP of Oracle Technology Cloud MEA, via a LinkedIn post."The new OCI Dedicated Region offers 200+ OCI AI and cloud services, as...
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September 24, 2025 Edged Energy
Data center operator Edged recently celebrated the opening of its newest data center in New Albany. Tthe two-story facility delivers 24MW of capacity across 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm).“This project would not have been possible without the support of the City of New Albany, who has been unwavering...
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September 16, 2025 EdgeConneX
ASX-listed real estate firm Stockland announced it had formed an exclusive arrangement with EdgeConneX to establish a partnership to develop, own, and operate a data center portfolio, and was “exploring opportunities across Stockland’s logistics pipeline.”This partnership will combine...
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September 06, 2025 Flexential
US data center firm Flexential this week announced the acquisition of a land parcel in Hillsboro, Oregon, that will be home to its sixth data center in the city.Located across from Flexential's Hillsboro 1 data center at 3935 Northeast Aloclek Place, the site will host Hillsboro 6, a...
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