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Read AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand
AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

AWS Launches Cloud Region in New Zealand

September 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cloud region in New Zealand dubbed the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This region consists of three availability zones. AWS has previously said it would invest around NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in its cloud operations and infrastructure in...

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Read Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus
Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

August 29, 2025 CoreWeave

Blue Owl is funding the development of CoreWeave’s planned data center campus in Pennsylvania. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital closed on a joint venture partnership to include $4 billion of funding for the previously announced CoreWeave developments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Blue Owl aims to...

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Read Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam
Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

Amazon Pledges $570m to Expand Kuiper Service in Vietnam

August 29, 2025 Amazon AWS

Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing in...

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Read Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US
Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US

Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US

August 28, 2025 Hut 8 Corp

HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 this week announced plans to develop four new sites across the United States, totaling 1.53GW of capacity under development. The expansion sites range in scale from 50MW to 1GW of utility capacity across Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois. Hut 8 said it...

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Read Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas
Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas

Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas

August 27, 2025 Soluna

Cryptomining and high-performance computing data center developer Soluna has announced two new projects in Texas with a combined capacity of 350MW, bringing its total capacity in operation and development to 1GW.The first project announced was Project Fei, a 100MW data center project colocated...

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Read Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas
Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

August 26, 2025 Texas

Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliability...

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Read Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas
Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

August 22, 2025 Texas

WHL Dallas 45 LLC has filed to develop a large campus across two adjacent sites in the Lancaster area of Dallas, known as Project Orange and Project Labrador. Combined, the two sites could host 13 facilities across more than 530 acres, totaling more than 2.5 million sq ft (232,258 sqm) and...

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Read BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS
BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

August 21, 2025 Amazon AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’t...

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Read Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility
Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

August 20, 2025 Texas

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milestone...

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Read Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas
Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

August 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

August 09, 2025 Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end of...

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Read Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus
Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

August 08, 2025 Amazon AWS

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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Read Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas
Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

August 08, 2025 Texas

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was...

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Read Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

August 08, 2025 Core Scientific

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer...

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Read AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access
AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

August 07, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an...

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Read AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari
AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

August 06, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately...

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Read AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate
AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

August 02, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's...

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Read AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement
AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

July 31, 2025 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

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Read Blueprint Projects Receives Approval for Data Center in Taylor, Texas
Blueprint Projects Receives Approval for Data Center in Taylor, Texas

Blueprint Projects Receives Approval for Data Center in Taylor, Texas

July 29, 2025 Texas

Taylor City Council has unanimously approved a data center project proposed by new data center company Blueprint Project in northeast of Austin in Taylor, Texas on July 24. The data center will be located on a 52-acre parcel at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Taylor and, after three...

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Read Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada
Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...

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