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National Grid Ventures Invests $1.75bn in Gas Plant for Microsoft Texas Data Center

National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of power infrastructure for large data centers. The investment will help fund Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron. ...

July 04, 2026

Microsoft Azure

NextDC Unveils 612MW S7 Data Centre, OpenAI Stargate Set to Be Customer

NextDC's proposed S7 data centre in Eastern Creek, Sydney, will provide up to 612MW of capacity, according to planning documents. The Australian developer submitted plans for the project in mid-March, several months after acquiring the 255,135 sqm site for AU$353 million (US$244m) in October 2024...

July 02, 2026

NEXTDC

AWS reports record expansion in 2025, adding 1.2GW of data centre capacity in Q4 alone

Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighted strong expansion in its latest sustainability report, saying it added more data centre capacity globally than any other company last year, including over 1.2GW in Q4 alone. Between October 2024 and October 2025, AWS added a total of 3.8GW. CEO Andy Jassy said...

July 02, 2026

Amazon AWS

Digital Realty Buys Blackstone Stake in Three Virginia Data Centers for $3.5 Billion

Digital Realty is acquiring a stake in three Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone. The deal covers 288MW of fully leased capacity across two sites in Manassas and one at the Digital Dulles campus in Sterling, all 100% leased to hyperscale customers. Blackstone is selling a 64% interest ...

July 01, 2026

Digital Realty Trust

NextDC Secures 169-hectare Land Parcel Outside Melbourne

Australian data center firm NextDC has acquired a large land parcel outside Melbourne, Victoria. Local media, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, report that the company has purchased 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, Victoria, near Geelong and around 70km west of Melbourne. The site ...

June 25, 2026

NEXTDC

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

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

Equinix Trials Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology at Data Center in Ireland

Equinix has launched its first trial of hydrogen fuel cell technology as a replacement for diesel backup generation at a data center in Ireland. Working with ESB and GeoPura, the company has deployed two hydrogen-powered generators at its DB3 Data Center facility. The 12-week trial will support c...

June 19, 2026

Equinix

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

Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers

Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later this year and continue through 2028, with the capacity intended to support AI training and inference wo...

June 17, 2026

Rackspace

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

OpenAI in Early Talks for 10GW Data Center Lease in Ohio

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center in Ohio being developed by SB Energy on US Department of Energy land at the Portsmouth Site in Pike County. The project, backed by SoftBank Group, could be built in phases starting with an 800MW first stage expected in 2028, with fu...

June 10, 2026

OpenAI

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

Keppel Plans 60MW Data Center in Seoul as It Expands Into South Korea

Singapore-based real estate investor Keppel will develop a 60MW greenfield data center in Ansan, near Seoul, marking its entry into South Korea’s data center market. The project will be developed through Keppel Data Centre Fund III (KDCF III), which has acquired a majority stake in the vehicle th...

June 09, 2026

Keppel Data Center REIT

Digital Realty Plans New Data Center in Seattle, Washington

Digital Realty is planning a new data center in Seattle, Washington, as the city considers a moratorium on new developments. According to BizJournal and other reports, the company has filed plans with the Seattle City Council to replace the existing retail building and parking garage at 301 Virgi...

June 05, 2026

Digital Realty Trust

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

DXN Secures Deal with Unnamed Neocloud to Deliver Modular Data Center

DXN has been chosen by an undisclosed neocloud provider to deliver a modular data center solution. The contract, valued at AU$8.8 million (US$6.29 million), will see DXN design, engineer, manufacture, and commission an AI HPC modular data center system for the client, providing a total capacit...

June 03, 2026

DXN Limited

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

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