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Read Sabey Data Centers Pilots HVO Diesel Replacement at Austin Data Center
[Sabey Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/sabey-data-centers) has started a pilot using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a diesel replacement in backup generators at its Austin campus...

Sabey Data Centers Pilots HVO Diesel Replacement at Austin Data Center

October 30, 2026 Austin

Sabey Data Centers has started a pilot using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a diesel replacement in backup generators at its Austin campus. The company is testing the renewable fuel as the primary fuel source for those generators, according to Sabey's announcement. Sabey says the pilot will...

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Read Verizon Signs $2B-Plus Dark Fiber Deal With AWS
[Verizon](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/verizon-enterprise) will supply dark fiber to Amazon Web Services ([AWS](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/amazon-aws)) under an agreement worth more than $2...

Verizon Signs $2B-Plus Dark Fiber Deal With AWS

October 27, 2026 Amazon AWS

Verizon will supply dark fiber to Amazon Web Services (AWS) under an agreement worth more than $2 billion, the carrier said on Oct. 26. Verizon disclosed the deal in its third-quarter results. The carrier provides the high-capacity fiber links, and AWS is the customer that uses that connectivity...

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Read CoreWeave Brings 22.5MW Online at atNorth's Copenhagen Data Center
CoreWeave has brought most of its planned 22.5MW of IT capacity online at [atNorth](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/atnorth)'s [DEN01](https://baxtel.com/data-center/atnorth-den01) data center in t...

CoreWeave Brings 22.5MW Online at atNorth's Copenhagen Data Center

October 27, 2026 CoreWeave

CoreWeave has brought most of its planned 22.5MW of IT capacity online at atNorth's DEN01 data center in the Copenhagen metro, its first deployment in Denmark. The company announced the activation from London on October 27. atNorth owns and operates DEN01, a colocation site in Ballerup, Greater...

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Read Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks
Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20...

Amazon Settles With Two Former AWS Managers Over Data Center Kickbacks

October 27, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20 that it had reached the agreement with Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, less than two weeks before...

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Read Amazon Plans Second Missouri Campus With Up To 15 Data Center Buildings
[Amazon Web Services](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/amazon-aws) plans up to 15 more data center buildings on as much as 890 acres in [Missouri](https://baxtel.com/regions/missouri)'s Montgomery C...

Amazon Plans Second Missouri Campus With Up To 15 Data Center Buildings

October 26, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services plans up to 15 more data center buildings on as much as 890 acres in Missouri's Montgomery County, a second campus that would sit closer to Danville, several miles from the Project Green build already under construction near New Florence. Amazon representative Brian Bolton...

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Read Fireworks Reserves $94.4M Nvidia B300 Capacity at Forum Edge AI Dallas Site
Fireworks has reserved three years of Nvidia B300 GPU capacity at Forum Edge AI's powered data center in Dallas. The 36-month agreement carries a combined total contract value of approximately $94....

Fireworks Reserves $94.4M Nvidia B300 Capacity at Forum Edge AI Dallas Site

October 26, 2026 Dallas

Fireworks has reserved three years of Nvidia B300 GPU capacity at Forum Edge AI's powered data center in Dallas. The 36-month agreement carries a combined total contract value of approximately $94.4 million, Forum Edge AI said on Oct. 26, reflecting GPU capacity and associated CPU management node...

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Read Umatilla Declares Emergency Over Oregon Data Center Permit Pause
The city of Umatilla, Oregon, has declared a state of emergency over Governor Tina Kotek's order pausing state environmental permits for new and expanded data centers, an escalation of local pushba...

Umatilla Declares Emergency Over Oregon Data Center Permit Pause

October 25, 2026 Amazon AWS

The city of Umatilla, Oregon, has declared a state of emergency over Governor Tina Kotek's order pausing state environmental permits for new and expanded data centers, an escalation of local pushback against the statewide freeze. Five of the six city council members present voted for the...

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Read SpaceXAI Discloses $6.1M Stormwater Permit Exposure at Mississippi AI Campus
SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, disclosed Thursday that Mississippi environmental regulators say construction started at three of its Southaven sites before required stormwat...

SpaceXAI Discloses $6.1M Stormwater Permit Exposure at Mississippi AI Campus

October 24, 2026 xAI

SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, disclosed Thursday that Mississippi environmental regulators say construction started at three of its Southaven sites before required stormwater permits were in place, with potential penalties of up to $6.1 million. The admission came in a...

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Read O-Green Replaces Vantage In 570MW Zaragoza Data Center Campus Plan
O-Green, an investment fund linked to the Sultanate of Oman, will finance a 570MW data center campus at San Mateo de Gállego in Zaragoza. The project replaces a [Vantage Data Centers](https://baxte...

O-Green Replaces Vantage In 570MW Zaragoza Data Center Campus Plan

October 23, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

O-Green, an investment fund linked to the Sultanate of Oman, will finance a 570MW data center campus at San Mateo de Gállego in Zaragoza. The project replaces a Vantage Data Centers campus announced for the same area in September 2025. elEconomista reports the total investment reaches €7.446...

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Read Vantage Secures 1GW Of Heron Solid-State Transformers For AI Campuses
[Vantage](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/vantage-data-centers) has reserved more than 1GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, the solid-state transformer made by Heron Power Electronics, to ...

Vantage Secures 1GW Of Heron Solid-State Transformers For AI Campuses

October 22, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has reserved more than 1GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, the solid-state transformer made by Heron Power Electronics, to deploy across its hyperscale data center campuses. The agreement, announced Oct. 21, delivers medium-voltage grid power straight to 800 volts DC, cutting...

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Read Amazon Pledges €16B For Germany In 2027, Including €4.8B For AWS Frankfurt
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand the [AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region](https://press.aboutamazon.com/de/2026/10/invest-i...

Amazon Pledges €16B For Germany In 2027, Including €4.8B For AWS Frankfurt

October 21, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region, the company said on Oct. 20. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and federal economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche appeared with Amazon chief global...

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Read Amazon Drops 800,000 Sq Ft Data Center Campus In Loudoun County Deal
Amazon Data Services has withdrawn its application to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, ending a months-long standoff with Loudoun Coun...

Amazon Drops 800,000 Sq Ft Data Center Campus In Loudoun County Deal

October 21, 2026 Amazon AWS

Amazon Data Services has withdrawn its application to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, ending a months-long standoff with Loudoun County. Officials announced the agreement, called Project Potomac Promise, at the Oct. 20 Board of...

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Read AEP And X-energy Study 960MW SMR Plant To Power Amazon In Indiana
X-energy and American Electric Power will study a 960 MW advanced nuclear plant at a retired coal station in Sullivan County, Indiana, with Amazon funding development work and positioned to buy the...

AEP And X-energy Study 960MW SMR Plant To Power Amazon In Indiana

October 20, 2026 Amazon AWS

X-energy and American Electric Power will study a 960 MW advanced nuclear plant at a retired coal station in Sullivan County, Indiana, with Amazon funding development work and positioned to buy the plant's output. The companies announced a joint development agreement on Oct. 19 covering...

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Read Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediat...

Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Taylor Approval for 1GW Texas Data Center Campus

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediately east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. The joint venture announced the...

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Read Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Approval for 1GW Behind-the-Meter Texas Campus
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project e...

Big Watt, PowerHouse Win Approval for 1GW Behind-the-Meter Texas Campus

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. In a joint press release, the partners...

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Read Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse ...

Taylor Approves 1GW Gas-Fired Data Center Campus for Big Watt, PowerHouse

October 15, 2026 Austin

Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigawatt. The partners announced the approval in a Business...

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Read AMD Signs Credit Support Deal for Fermi's 222 MW Project Matador
[Fermi America](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/fermi-america) on Tuesday [announced a credit support agreement](https://feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release.html?newsid=5674092707179103&symbol=FRMI...

AMD Signs Credit Support Deal for Fermi's 222 MW Project Matador

October 14, 2026 Fermi America: HyperGrid Campus

Fermi America on Tuesday announced a credit support agreement with chipmaker AMD backing the first phase of its Project Matador energy and AI campus in Carson County, Texas, a 222 MW build the company described as a key milestone toward securing project financing. The deal The agreement supports...

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Read 2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity
[Texas](https://baxtel.com/data-center/texas) now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than [Virginia](https://baxtel.com/data-center/virginia). Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW buil...

2026 Is the Year Texas Passes Virginia in Data Center Capacity

October 13, 2026 Texas

Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...

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Read Memphis Council Delays 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Vote to Oct. 20
Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied ...

Memphis Council Delays 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Vote to Oct. 20

October 13, 2026 xAI

Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied to Elon Musk's AI buildout. The council moved the vote to Oct. 20 after a packed meeting that police...

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Read Project Longhorn Files $366M First Building at Anthropic-Linked Texas Campus
The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by [Pacifico Energy](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/pacifico-energy) and [BlackChamber Group](https://baxtel.com...

Project Longhorn Files $366M First Building at Anthropic-Linked Texas Campus

October 11, 2026 Austin

The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by Pacifico Energy and BlackChamber Group is on file with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The October 7 filing, reported by Community Impact, outlines a $366 million building at the Bastrop...

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