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Read Aligned Launches Delta Cube 3.0 Air Cooling With Munters
Aligned Data Centers launched Delta Cube 3.0 on October 28, a new generation of its patented air-cooling unit developed with Munters. The [Aligned press release](https://aligneddc.com/press-release...

Aligned Launches Delta Cube 3.0 Air Cooling With Munters

November 02, 2026 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers launched Delta Cube 3.0 on October 28, a new generation of its patented air-cooling unit developed with Munters. The Aligned press release states the system delivers a 10 percent increase in cooling capacity and a 10 percent gain in energy efficiency within the same physical...

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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 Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The [county's announcement](https://www.goochlandva.us/) name...

Google Identified as User Behind 1,200MW Goochland Data Center Campus

October 29, 2026 Google

Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner. Google...

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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 Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal
Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies [announced](https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-brings-google-t...

Oracle To Deploy Google TPUs On OCI In Multi-Gigawatt Deal

October 28, 2026 Google

Oracle will sell Google's Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure under a deal the companies announced on Oct. 27. The agreement makes OCI the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer the chips, Google Cloud said. TPU capacity on OCI is scheduled to become...

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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 Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico
Clayco and Kiewit New Mexico Co. topped out the 855,000-square-foot first building at Project Jupiter, a data center campus in Doña Ana County, [New Mexico](https://baxtel.com/regions/new-mexico). ...

Clayco and Kiewit Top Out First Building at Project Jupiter in New Mexico

October 27, 2026 OpenAI

Clayco and Kiewit New Mexico Co. topped out the 855,000-square-foot first building at Project Jupiter, a data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The contractors placed the final structural beam atop the building, completing its primary structural framework, Clayco announced on October...

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Read Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same si...

Hermantown Sets Friday Vote On Google Data Center After Protests Halt Meetings

October 27, 2026 Google

Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The resolutions...

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Read OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia
OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comm...

OpenAI Seeks Permit To Fill 72 Acres Of Wetlands At Project Camellia

October 26, 2026 OpenAI

OpenAI has applied for a federal permit to fill 72 acres of wetlands at its Project Camellia data center campus in Georgia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is taking public comments on the application through Nov. 4, the Savannah Morning News reported. The campus is planned...

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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 Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its [Muhos](https://baxtel.com/data-center/google-muhos) and [Kajaani](https://bax...

Google Apologizes And Halts Work At Two Finnish Data Center Sites

October 26, 2026 Google

Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority has told Google subsidiary Tuike Finland to keep preparatory work at its Muhos and Kajaani data center sites suspended. The agency set an Oct. 23 deadline for felling, excavation, blasting and road building to stop at both sites, according to its...

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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 Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM
Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies [announced](https://www.voltus.co/press/google-voltus-1gw) the expansion of their Bring Yo...

Google Expands Voltus Capacity Deal To More Than 1GW In PJM

October 23, 2026 Google

Google will buy 1,070 MW of additional flexible capacity from Voltus in the PJM grid region. The companies announced the expansion of their Bring Your Own Capacity agreement on Oct. 22, adding 1,070 MW to the 100 MW they committed in June. Voltus aggregates flexible capacity from homes and...

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Read Crusoe Signs 106MW Paraguay AI Cloud Partnership With Araico
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) signed a [strategic partnership](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/crusoe-partners-with-araico-to-deploy-ai-cloud-infrastructure-in-pa...

Crusoe Signs 106MW Paraguay AI Cloud Partnership With Araico

October 23, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe signed a strategic partnership with Araico, a Paraguayan energy and infrastructure developer, to build AI compute infrastructure powered by the Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam. The first deployment is planned for mid-2027, with a path to 106 MW of IT capacity. Under the partnership, Araico leads...

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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 Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus
[Crusoe](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/crusoe) will take a second, larger building at [Polar Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/polar-dc)' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the ...

Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus

October 22, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe will take a second, larger building at Polar Data Centers' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the expansion on Oct. 21 (announcement). The new building, DRA02, will add 40MW of liquid-cooled critical IT capacity on hydroelectric power and is due online in late 2027. Crusoe plans to...

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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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