March 18, 2026 Georgia
Local authorities have approved the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia. Commissioners backed the project in a 4–1 vote; officials estimate it will be worth $1 billion and generate about $25 million in annual local tax revenue. The project will include six data...
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March 17, 2026 Estonia
Renewable energy company Sunly has applied for planning permission to develop a 180MW AI data center near the village of Risti in Lääne-Nigula municipality, Estonia. If approved, the facility would become the country’s largest single electricity consumer and the biggest data center of its kind in...
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March 17, 2026 Mississippi
A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a...
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March 17, 2026 Germany / Deutschland
Stadtwerke Lübeck has launched its first self-operated data center in the northern German city of Lübeck. Built to strengthen the city’s digital sovereignty, the facility will support business-critical and sensitive applications for local companies and features multiple layers of redundancy.While...
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March 17, 2026 Oslo
Another data center may be on the way in Norway. Østfold Energi is preparing sites in Sarpsborg and Våler in partnership with local municipalities, with Google likely to take the Våler location.“We have extensive experience with project development in collaboration with landowners, local...
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March 16, 2026 Canada
Canadian data center company Virtual Grid has launched a prototype modular “compute node.” The unit is designed to function as both a virtual data center and a virtual power plant, and is set to be deployed across Western Canada, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba....
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March 16, 2026 United States
A €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) data center project finally received approval on Friday, March 13, after six years of permitting hurdles and legal challenges. Developer Art Data Centres secured planning permission in 2022, won an appeal in 2024, and successfully defended against a judicial review...
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March 16, 2026 United States
Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest Quarter Microsoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter, thee new deals pushing total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers to...
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March 14, 2026 Norway
Investment firm 3i Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter (LMD). Announced this week, 3i plans to invest €300 million ($347.3 million) in the deal, which is expected to close in summer 2026.The data center company is being acquired from a fund...
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March 14, 2026 United Kingdom
A proposed 1GW data center campus at a former RAF airbase in North Lincolnshire, UK, has received planning approval. North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee approved the Elsham Tech Park project during a meeting on Wednesday.The data center campus would be built on land south and east of...
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March 13, 2026 United States
US real estate company Comstock has launched a dedicated data center unit and partnered on two development projects. The Nasdaq-listed firm announced the creation of its Data Center Platform (DCP) and said it has entered into two separate partnerships to pursue large-scale data center campuses in...
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March 13, 2026 Germany / Deutschland
A 40MW data center is proposed for an industrial park near Butzbach, about 35km (22 miles) north of Frankfurt, Germany.The project is in its early stages and will involve multiple partners, including energy company RheinEnergie.The first phase of the facility will require up to 10MW of electrical...
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March 13, 2026 United States
Smelting company Korea Zinc is discussing plans with US tech firms to extract and recycle rare earth minerals from retired data center equipment, according to Chairman Yun B. Choi in a Reuters interview. Trade tensions between Beijing and the US, exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s threats of...
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March 12, 2026 Ohio
A new data center has been confirmed for Adams County, Ohio, at the former Dayton Power & Light landfill site. According to a regulatory filing from AES Ohio, the proposed operator has requested an initial electricity load of 100MW in 2028, rising to 1.3GW by 2032.Since the filing, the US...
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March 12, 2026 Pennsylvania
A data center project has been proposed for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The proposed “Smithfield Gateway” development was discussed by the Smithfield Township Planning Commission in mid-February and would be located south of Music Center Drive and north of Smithfield Lane. Plans include two data...
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March 12, 2026 Maryland
Aligned has reached the topping-out milestone for a data center in Frederick, Maryland. Turner Construction Company and Aligned announced that the structural phase of the 72MW Aligned IAD-06 facility is now complete.The two-story, 450,000 sq ft (41,805 sqm) data center sits on a 75‑acre campus...
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March 12, 2026 Saudi Arabia
State-backed AI venture Humain has secured 211 land plots across Saudi Arabia for future data center expansion. In a recent statement to The Information, Humain’s CEO Tareq Amin said the firm’s strategy “is built on geographic diversity and multiple fiber-optic routes, which is possible because...
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March 11, 2026 Mississippi
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus 2...
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March 11, 2026 Switzerland
Switzerland’s grid operator Swissgrid has opened a tender for a three-year contract to install server racks in its data centers. The contract also covers supplying materials such as fiber optic and copper cabling, racks, and protection devices. No data was made available about the location of the...
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March 10, 2026 Kansas
The developer behind a proposed 316-acre data center project in Spring Hill, Kansas, has pulled its application ahead of a planning commission meeting scheduled for March 25. Data center consultancy Colossus Data Center Advisors had planned to develop a campus at the southeast corner of 191st...
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