October 19, 2026 Northwest Indiana
Microsoft will pay for all the generation and transmission needed to serve its La Porte, Indiana data center campus under a 20-year electric service agreement with NiSource announced Oct. 16. Service starts in 2028. The utility's unregulated affiliate, NiSource Generation Company, will add...
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October 19, 2026 Hyperscale Data Center
Microsoft will fund about 1,100 MW of new generation and transmission in northern Indiana and buy the output for 20 years under an agreement with NiSource, the holding company that owns Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Announced Friday, the deal covers the La Porte data center campus...
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October 19, 2026 New York State
Alcoa will sell portions of its long-idled Massena East aluminum smelter in northern New York to a developer that plans to build a data center on the property, a transaction the company values at up to $315 million. Alcoa disclosed the definitive agreement in its third-quarter 2026 results on...
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October 19, 2026 New York
Alcoa Corporation has agreed to sell parts of its former Massena East smelter in upstate New York to an unnamed data center developer for up to $315 million. The buyer was not disclosed, though cryptominer NYDIG has previously been linked to the site, where an affiliate has filed plans for a data...
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October 19, 2026 United States
Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, valued at around $37.4 million, for a potential gigawatt scale data center campus expected to support cloud computing and data...
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October 17, 2026 Indiana
Digital Realty wants to build its first Indiana data centers in Kokomo, proposing a three-building campus with roughly 1GW of IT capacity on 476 acres of greenfield land. The global REIT published a project page for the development after city officials confirmed its interest earlier this month,...
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October 16, 2026 Kentucky
Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve a development and community revenue agreement with Meta, ending two years in which the company behind a planned hyperscale campus near Maysville, Kentucky was kept unnamed (Mason County Fiscal Court announcement). The site covers...
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October 16, 2026 Kentucky
The Mason County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to approve three agreements that clear the way for Meta to build a hyperscale data center campus on nearly 3,000 acres near Maysville in northeastern Kentucky. The approvals, set out in the county's news release, cover a 40-year...
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October 16, 2026 Indiana
Digital Realty is proposing a three-building data center campus on about 476 acres at Industrial Park North in Kokomo, Indiana, with a site plan that calls for roughly 1GW of IT capacity and completion in 2033. The company published the details on its Kokomo project page, and Kokomo Mayor Tyler...
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October 16, 2026 Iowa
LightEdge plans to develop a colocation data center on ten acres in Boone Business Park, Iowa, about 48 miles northwest of Des Moines. The Boone County Economic Growth Corporation has signed a letter of intent for the land sale. The city’s planning commission has approved the site plan for...
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October 16, 2026 United States
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide US data center construction moratorium could trigger a recession, given the economy’s growing reliance on AI infrastructure investment. JLL estimates data center development will require $3 trillion in investment by 2030. Global occupancy stands...
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October 15, 2026 Cheyenne
American Electric Power will invest about $4 billion in a 702 MW fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Google, the utility announced. The plant is being developed through Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, and is targeted to reach full operation...
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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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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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October 15, 2026 Virginia
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027...
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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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October 15, 2026 Virginia
Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027....
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October 14, 2026 Memphis
Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr., would allow officials to assess data centers’ social, health, and environmental impacts....
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October 14, 2026 Oregon
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has directed the state Department of Environmental Quality to stop processing and issuing air and water pollution permits for new or expanded data centers until July 1, 2027. The order came in an Oct. 9 letter to DEQ Director Leah Feldon, which the governor's office...
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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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