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Read Microsoft Signs Two Solar PPAs With Blueleaf For Japan Data Centers
[Microsoft](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/microsoft-azure) will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in [Japan](https://baxtel.com/regions/japan) developed by Blueleaf Energy under lon...

Microsoft Signs Two Solar PPAs With Blueleaf For Japan Data Centers

October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in Japan developed by Blueleaf Energy under long-term power purchase agreements. Macquarie Asset Management, which owns Blueleaf, said in a press release on Oct. 28 that its Energy Markets and Customer Solutions team coordinated both...

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Read Microsoft Extends Data Center Useful Life To 25 Years As Cloud Revenue Rises 30%
[Microsoft](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/microsoft-azure) is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective ![blogs.microsoft.com](/rails/activ...

Microsoft Extends Data Center Useful Life To 25 Years As Cloud Revenue Rises 30%

October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective this fiscal year. The company reported fiscal first-quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue up 30% on Oct. 28, with Azure revenue up 48%, according to Microsoft's earnings release. "Effective at...

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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 Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The [Development of Regional Impact application](https://dca....

Microsoft Files for 422MW Three-Building Data Center Campus in Rome, Georgia

October 22, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...

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Read Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex
Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor [Nscale](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nscale)'s Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sov...

Microsoft Exits Nscale's 50MW Loughton Data Center Deal In Essex

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has ended its agreement to anchor Nscale's Loughton AI campus in Essex, the 50MW facility that UK ministers promoted as the country's largest sovereign AI data center when it was announced in 2025. The withdrawal, first reported by The Telegraph on Oct. 18, leaves the £2bn project...

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Read Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal
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](https://www.nisource.c...

Microsoft To Fund 1,100MW Of Indiana Generation Under 20-Year NiSource Deal

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

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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Read NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power
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](https://www.nisource.com/news/article/ni...

NiSource And Microsoft Sign 20-Year Deal For 1,100MW Of Indiana Power

October 19, 2026 Microsoft Azure

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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Read 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, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, fo...

Microsoft Acquires 600 Acres for Data Center Development in Woodward, Iowa

October 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has acquired 600 acres in Woodward, around 30 miles northwest of Des Moines, Iowa, for a potential data center campus. The purchase was disclosed at a residents’ meeting on October 12, four days after the sale closed. The site lies between Highway 141 and Seminole Avenue, but...

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Read Nebius Signs LOI to Anchor VOLT's 600MW Rotterdam AI Gigafactory
[VOLT](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/volt-data-centers) has lined up [Nebius](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/nebius) as the first off-taker at its [Rotterdam AI Gigafactory](https://fromvolt.com...

Nebius Signs LOI to Anchor VOLT's 600MW Rotterdam AI Gigafactory

October 13, 2026 VOLT Data Centers

VOLT has lined up Nebius as the first off-taker at its Rotterdam AI Gigafactory, the anchor customer the Dutch developer needs before it can take a 600 MW campus at the Port of Rotterdam to lenders. The letter of intent, announced Monday, covers a long-term lease, with a first phase of two...

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Read Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected tax...

Microsoft Trims Mount Pleasant Data Center Plan To Seven Buildings From Nine

October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...

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Read Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers
Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed...

Schneider Electric and Equinix Trial Software-Defined Switchgear for Data Centers

September 30, 2026 Equinix

Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the...

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Read Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia
Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data C...

Microsoft Files Plans For Data Center Campus In Prince William County, Virginia

September 16, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data Center at 13490 University Boulevard. The project would include two one-story data center buildings...

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Read Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio
Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three devel...

Vantage Data Centers Raises $2B For North American Development Portfolio

September 15, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has secured $2 billion in financing to support early-stage development across its North American portfolio. The five-year revolving credit facility initially covers three development assets, with more eligible to be added. Vantage said the funding will accelerate project...

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Read Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with le...

Microsoft Plans 38GW Of Data Center Capacity By 2032

September 11, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda,...

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Read Diraq And Equinix To Deploy Australia’s First Commercial Quantum Computer
Australian quantum startup Diraq has partnered with Equinix to deploy a quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney. The eight-qubit system will use a silicon chip with self-contained cryo...

Diraq And Equinix To Deploy Australia’s First Commercial Quantum Computer

September 03, 2026 Equinix

Australian quantum startup Diraq has partnered with Equinix to deploy a quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney. The eight-qubit system will use a silicon chip with self-contained cryogenic cooling and control electronics. The chip can be replaced to increase the qubit count without...

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Read We Energies Begins Three Renewable Projects to Help Power Vantage Data Center
Wisconsin utility We Energies has begun construction on three renewable energy and battery storage projects, with about half of their combined capacity earmarked for a major AI data center campus i...

We Energies Begins Three Renewable Projects to Help Power Vantage Data Center

August 08, 2026 Vantage Data Centers

Wisconsin utility We Energies has begun construction on three renewable energy and battery storage projects, with about half of their combined capacity earmarked for a major AI data center campus in Port Washington. The projects include a 150MW solar farm with 50MWh of battery storage, a 110MW...

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Read Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup
Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderfu...

Former Microsoft Researcher Launches Data Center Robotics Startup

August 04, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Swiss startup Exclaim Robotics, founded by a former Microsoft engineer, has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding to develop autonomous robots for AI data center maintenance. Backed by Founderful and Playfair, the company aims to automate remote hands tasks such as cleaning optics,...

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Read Microsoft Secures Capacity At Pure DC Data Center In Finland
Pure DC has launched the first phase of its Seinäjoki, Finland, data center project, with Microsoft reportedly among the customers leasing capacity at the site. The initial phase will deliver 110MW...

Microsoft Secures Capacity At Pure DC Data Center In Finland

July 14, 2026 Microsoft Azure

Pure DC has launched the first phase of its Seinäjoki, Finland, data center project, with Microsoft reportedly among the customers leasing capacity at the site. The initial phase will deliver 110MW of capacity with an estimated investment of $1.7 billion. Pure DC has been developing plans for the...

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Read Equinix to Reuse Data Center Heat to Warm Homes in Milan
Equinix has partnered with Italian energy company A2A to recover waste heat from its data center campus in Settimo Milanese and feed it into Milan’s district heating network. Under the agreement, E...

Equinix to Reuse Data Center Heat to Warm Homes in Milan

July 10, 2026 Equinix

Equinix has partnered with Italian energy company A2A to recover waste heat from its data center campus in Settimo Milanese and feed it into Milan’s district heating network. Under the agreement, Equinix will design and operate the heat recovery system, while A2A will use four large-scale heat...

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