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Microsoft’s First Data Center at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Campus Now Operational

The first data center at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus is now officially operational, the company confirmed on June 23. Construction was completed just over two years after the project was first announced. The site is part of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” data center design and will form...

June 23, 2026

Microsoft Azure

EdgeMode Plans 300MW Natural Gas Data Center Campus in Toledo, Spain

EdgeMode is expanding in Spain with plans for a 300MW “Malpica AI” data center project in Mora, Toledo province. The company is partnering with hydrogen fuel cell developer Bloom Energy to build a campus focused on AI workloads. The initiative represents an estimated €3 billion ($3.42bn) investme...

June 23, 2026

EdgeMode

Amazon Employees Back Data Center Regulations, Allege Workplace Retaliation

Three Amazon employees have alleged that the company retaliated against them after they testified in support of a Seattle data center moratorium. According to reports, the employees—Darius Irani, Patrick Schloesser, and Liesl Wigand, all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)—were...

June 22, 2026

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Begins Construction of La Porte Data Center Campus

Microsoft has broken ground on a new data center campus in La Porte, Indiana. Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, announced in a LinkedIn post that the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 17. Smith wrote: "Today we broke ground in La Porte, Indiana, alongside Mayor Tom Dermo...

June 18, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Meta Veteran Sham Parmar Joins Anthropic Supply Chain Operations

Meta’s Sham Parmar has joined generative AI company Anthropic. Parmar previously served as senior manager for supply chain and engineering, overseeing electrical, mechanical, and fiber connectivity systems. "I'm excited to share that I've joined Anthropic as a supply chain lead, power and coo...

June 16, 2026

Meta

AiOnX Completes $500 Million Genesis Digital Assets Deal and Transitions Facilities to AI

AiOnX has acquired a 77 percent stake in cryptomining firm Genesis Digital Assets for $500 million, gaining access to 15 data centers across the US and Sweden with 1.3GW of power capacity. The facilities will be converted to support AI and HPC workloads, increasing AiOnX’s total data center footp...

June 15, 2026

Genesis Digital Assets

Private Equity Firm Acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort Knox’ Data Center

Gnomon Capital has acquired 100% of Croatian data center DC North, known as the “Fort Knox” facility, in a deal involving former owners Cratis and Muraplast. Court records show the transfer was completed in late May, with Gnomon now listed as the sole shareholder. DC North was launched by Crat...

June 13, 2026

Meta

Microsoft Begins Construction on Alviso Data Center Campus in San Jose

Microsoft has started construction on its Alviso data center campus in San Jose, California. The 48MW facility will be the company's first wholly owned and operated data center in the city and is expected to be completed in 2028. The project is forecast to create around 600 construction jobs and ...

June 12, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Blue Owl Secures $975M Financing for Northern Virginia Data Center

Corscale Data Centers has secured $975 million in financing from Blue Owl for Project Helios, a newly built data center in Prince William County, Virginia. The funding was arranged by Newmark on behalf of a joint venture between Corscale and Affinius Capital. The facility is fully leased to an in...

June 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

Amazon Data Centers Consumed 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

Amazon said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Water withdrawals at facilities it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 despite an increase in the number of data centers, while the company did not disclose water use at leased sites. AWS owned about 28.4 million square feet ...

June 11, 2026

Amazon AWS

Meta Signs 168MW Data Center Pact at Reliance Gujarat Campus

Meta and Reliance are partnering to develop a 168MW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Reliance will build the facility, which Meta will lease to run AI workloads. The project may be expanded in the future, though no launch timeline has been disclosed. Meta will cover power and water costs,...

June 10, 2026

Meta

Microsoft Acquires 470-Acre Site on Finland’s West Coast for a New Data Center

Microsoft has acquired 190 hectares (469.5 acres) of land in Finland's GigaVaasa industrial zone for a potential data center project. The site spans the municipalities of Vaasa and Mustasaari on the country's west coast and was selected for its existing industrial infrastructure. “We are pleas...

June 09, 2026

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Seeks Expansion of Mecklenburg County, Virginia Data Center Campus

Microsoft has filed plans to expand its data center footprint in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, with a proposed 490-acre campus adjacent to its existing AVC17 facility. The project would add three data center buildings, an electrical substation, and supporting infrastructure to help meet growing d...

June 04, 2026

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConneX Proposes twin 730,000 sq ft Data Centers in Bastrop County

US operator EdgeConneX has filed plans to construct two 730,000-square-foot (67,820 sqm) data centers in Bastrop County, Texas. Named EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, the projects are planned for a 180-acre site at 6682 FM 535 in Cedar Creek, which the company acquired in November 2025. The parcel is lo...

June 03, 2026

EdgeConneX

Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion

France has secured billions of dollars in new investments across data centers, cloud services, and artificial intelligence. At this week’s Choose France Summit, President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a series of investment commitments tied to data center development and broader digital infrastruct...

June 02, 2026

Brookfield Asset Management

AWS Data Center Planned for Maintal, Germany

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled plans for a new data center in Maintal, Hesse, expanding its infrastructure footprint near Frankfurt. The 10.6-hectare (26-acre) site will include two data center buildings, a substation, and office space. AWS said the project is expected to create up to ...

May 29, 2026

Amazon AWS

EdgeConneX Plans a €3 Billion Investment in Data Centers in Italy

The government of Italy has described EdgeConneX’s €3 billion investment as being of “national strategic interest.” The EdgeConneX Campus Italia program, announced on May 14 during a council of ministers chaired by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, will develop three data center campuses in the L...

May 23, 2026

EdgeConneX

Data Center Operators are Hiring Laid-off Meta Platforms Workers

Several data center operators have pointed to open roles after Meta Platforms began laying off around 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The cuts affected staff across all levels, including some in data center roles. On LinkedIn, multiple data center firms expressed support for affec...

May 22, 2026

Meta

Meta Begins Laying off 8,000 Employees, Including Data Center Staff

Meta has begun laying off 8,000 employees globally as part of a broader restructuring tied to its growing AI and data center investments. The company plans to reduce its workforce by around 10 percent to free up cash flow for expanded data center spending. At the same time, Meta has canceled p...

May 20, 2026

Meta

Amazon Purchases Leased Virginia Data Center for $65 Million

Amazon has purchased a data center in Manassas, Virginia, that it had previously been leasing. According to local property records cited by BizJournal, an affiliate of Menlo Equities sold the property at 7505 Mason King Court to Amazon Data Services for $65 million. The 110,000-square-foot (10...

May 12, 2026

Amazon AWS

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