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First Building at Stack’s 1GW Data Center Campus in Virginia Tops out in Stafford County

Stack Infrastructure has completed external construction work on the first building at its new campus in Stafford County. The company announced the topping out of the first building at the Stafford Technology Campus (STC). In just over a year, project teams have recorded more than 425,000 hour...

May 25, 2026

Virginia

Oregon Public Utility Commission Approves New Rate Class for Large Data Centers

Regulators in Oregon have approved a new electricity rate class requiring data centers and other large loads to pay for the grid infrastructure they use. The Oregon Public Utility Commission approved the rules under the POWER Act, signed into law in August 2025.The act establishes a new rate c...

May 22, 2026

United States

Fleet Breaks Ground on a New Data Center Project Outside Reno, Nevada

Fleet has begun construction on its first data center facility near Reno, Nevada. Local reports say the company broke ground this week at an event attended by Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo. The project will deliver a 230MW data center on a 256-acre site in Storey County owned by Tract.The Fleet...

May 21, 2026

Nevada

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Data Center rid Test-bed at National Laboratory of the Rockies

U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) in Applewood, Colorado has launched “Agora,” a data center grid integration test bed aimed at improving grid reliability. Funded by the DOE’s Office of Electricity and industry partners, it is described as the only dedicated ...

May 21, 2026

United States

Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers

Denver City Council voted Monday to approve a one-year moratorium on new data center developments. The measure temporarily halts the acceptance, processing, and approval of zoning permits, site development plans, and amendment applications related to data centers. However, the moratorium exclu...

May 20, 2026

Denver

Donald Trump has Invested Millions in Data Center Industry Companies

Donald Trump has bought millions of dollars’ worth of shares in data center-related firms this year, according to newly released financial disclosures. The 113-page filing shows he made hundreds of investments in publicly traded companies in 2026, including data center power and cooling firms ...

May 19, 2026

United States

$1.6bn Cleveland Data Center Plan Rejected

Cleveland, Ohio, has turned down Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion plan to develop a data center campus. Mayor Justin M. Bibb announced on May 14 that the city had denied the permit for the proposed facility, which was planned for a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St. Lakeland described the pro...

May 18, 2026

Ohio

H2CHP Raises £1.5m for Low-Carbon Data Center Generators

H2CHP, a Durham University spinout developing clean electric generators for data centers and other energy-intensive sites, has raised £1.5 million ($2 million) in its latest funding round, according to Recharge News. The company’s main product is a free-piston linear generator, which it descri...

May 16, 2026

United States

Oklahoma Passes Bill to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center-Related Cost Increases

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a bill to protect ratepayers from rising utility and infrastructure costs linked to data centers. Proposed by Rep. Brad Boles on January 3, 2026, it is expected to take effect in July. The law requires large-load customers—including data centers, crypto...

May 16, 2026

Oklahoma

$1.7bn Lebanon County Data Center Plan Withdrawn by Developer

A proposal for a $1.7 billion data center campus in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, has been withdrawn by developer Inch & Company. The project included plans for five data centers spanning roughly 640,000 square feet on a 100-acre site near Mt. Pleasant Road, including the rezoning of 58 ac...

May 15, 2026

Pennsylvania

Azio AI has Delivered a 5MW Modular Data Center to Envirotech Vehicles in Texas

Azio AI is set to deliver 5MW of modular data center capacity to a site in South Texas. The modules will be supplied to Envirotech Vehicles for its campus, which will run on behind-the-meter natural gas power. The companies previously announced a non-binding LOI in January for a $480 million m...

May 14, 2026

Texas

Developer Abandons 160-Acre Prince William County Data Center Project

Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The pr...

May 13, 2026

Virginia

DataBank Plans to Install a 3.1MW Rooftop Solar Array at its HOU3 Data Center in Houston

U.S. data center operator DataBank has revealed plans to install a 3.1MW rooftop solar array at its HOU3 facility in Houston, Texas. Once completed, the installation is expected to become the largest rooftop solar project in the Houston metropolitan area, producing around 4.5 million kilowatt-...

May 13, 2026

Texas

Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

Developer Western Hospitality Partners (WHP) has officially withdrawn its proposal to develop a data center in Pekin, Illinois, roughly two months after Mayor Mary Burress announced publicly that the city would not proceed with the project. “This letter shall serve as purchaser’s notice to ter...

May 13, 2026

Illinois

Concerns Grow Over Proposed 300-acre Land Sale for Data Center Project in Hillsboro

Residents in Hillsboro gathered in large numbers at a public meeting to raise concerns about a proposed data center that could be developed in the city. The project may be built on a 300-acre property currently owned by the Hillsboro Economic Development Corporation. Real estate company Provid...

May 11, 2026

Texas

A Utility in Ypsilanti has Placed a One-year Freeze on Providing Electricity to New Data Centers

The primary utility serving Ypsilanti has approved a one-year moratorium on providing water and sewage services to new data center developments. The decision was backed by both the Ypsilanti City Council and the Charter Township Board of Trustees, which voted in favor on March 3 and April 15, ...

May 11, 2026

Michigan

Florida Passed a Data Center Law on Rates, Water, and Zoning

Ron DeSantis has signed a new law in Florida regulating how large data centers are built, powered, and financed. The law, SB 484, prevents utilities from shifting data center infrastructure costs onto residential and small-business customers, requires large users to pay their full service cost...

May 11, 2026

Florida

Top Data Center News for 4th-9th of May, 2026

706-Acre Data Center Development Approved Near San Antonio, TexasCloudBurst has received approval for a 706-acre data center development outside San Antonio, Texas, where it plans to invest $14.5 billion to construct between 10 and 12 data center buildings in the project expected to span aroun...

May 11, 2026

United States

Two Data Centers with 5MW Combined Capacity Planned in Nepal

A pair of data centers with a combined capacity of 5MW is planned for development in Nepal. Local operator Bichuten Data Vault announced that the facilities will also represent Nepal’s first Tier IV hyperscale data center. The two planned facilities will be located in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capita...

May 09, 2026

United States

Developers Submit Plans for $1.6 Billion Data Center in Cleveland, Ohio

Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group has filed plans for a $1.6 billion data center project in Cleveland, Ohio. The proposal outlines a 150MW campus on a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St, currently owned by trucking company Morabito Enterprises. The development could include three two-story...

May 08, 2026

Ohio

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