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Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center t...

August 30, 2025

United States

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

August 28, 2025

United States

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in TexasVantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrun...

August 25, 2025

United States

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2b...

August 23, 2025

United States

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...

August 22, 2025

United States

DartPoints to Expand Data Centers at Four Sites Across US

US operator DartPoints is expanding its data center portfolio across South Carolina, Indiana, and Ohio, announcing the first phase of expansion, following the equity investment from Nova Infrastructure.“Our vision of delivering AI-ready environments in the next ring of US markets is now becomi...

August 21, 2025

United States

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in IowaQTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data CenterUS...

August 18, 2025

United States

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

August 15, 2025

United States

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

August 13, 2025

United States

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

August 09, 2025

United States

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

The Pentagon is planning to put out a request for proposals for the next iteration of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program as soon as Q1 of 2026. The contract dubbed JWCC Next will replace the previous iteration, which was awarded in 2022, though there will be a transition per...

August 07, 2025

United States

Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round

Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider and video, image, and audio provider Fal has raised $125 million and has closed its Series C round, which saw the company valued at $1.5 billion.Posting to LinkedIn, Fal wrote: “Fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applica...

August 06, 2025

United States

Top Data Center News from 28th July - 2nd August

Madari Space to Pilot Sending Data Centers into SpaceUAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026, addressing the exponential growth of data that is being generated both on Earth and in space. eStruxture Secures US$1 Billion in Data Center ABS FinancingeStruxture D...

August 04, 2025

United States

Quantica Plans for 1GW Campus in Montana

Quantica Infrastructure, a new venture focused on providing land and power to data centers in the US this week introduced its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure, a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus outside Billings, Montana.The company said the proj...

August 04, 2025

United States

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Swells to 10GW

California’s largest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), has reported another increase in its data center pipeline. The utility said that it now has 10GW of capacity in its pipeline, expected for connection over the next ten years.Of the 10GW, 17 data center projects ...

August 02, 2025

United States

Meta Pilots Use of Mass Timber in Data Center Construction

Meta has begun piloting the use of mass timber in the construction of its data center campuses, aiming to replace the use of steel and other building materials with wood-based products engineered for strength and durability.According to Meta, the products are engineered for use in industrial a...

August 02, 2025

United States

Apple to Increase AI Investments

Apple is planning to increase its investment in AI infrastructure as CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh recently told analysts that they expect capex to grow "substantially." The spending will, in a large part, be driven by the company's focus on AI, with Parekh stating that this will see the c...

July 31, 2025

United States

Talen Energy Acquires Two Gas Plants within PJM Market

US Independent Power Producer Talen Energy has made two major power generation acquisitions in Ohio and Pennsylvania to support its capacity to power the data center sector.The company acquired the 1.058GW Moxie Freedom Project located in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, from Caithness Energy, an...

July 30, 2025

United States

Exelon Reports Data Center Pipeline of 33GW

Public US utility Exelon has said it has 33GW worth of data centers interested in connecting to its system. Exelon said that of the 33GW, 17GW is already in line to connect to its system, with a further 16GW set to be studied and added to the formal pipeline later this year. "We want to be par...

July 30, 2025

United States

Data Center News

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

DartPoints to Expand Data Centers at Four Sites Across US

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round

Top Data Center News from 28th July - 2nd August

Quantica Plans for 1GW Campus in Montana

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Swells to 10GW

Meta Pilots Use of Mass Timber in Data Center Construction

Apple to Increase AI Investments

Talen Energy Acquires Two Gas Plants within PJM Market

Exelon Reports Data Center Pipeline of 33GW

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