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Read xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg
xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

February 07, 2026 South Africa

South African colocation and hosting firm xneelo this week announced it has started construction on a new facility in the Samrand area of the city. Full details weren’t shared, but xneelo said the new facility will be modeled on its first Samrand data center's “proven design” while introducing...

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Read SoleCrypt Plans 20MW Solar Powered Data Center in Bizerte, Tunisia
SoleCrypt Plans 20MW Solar Powered Data Center in Bizerte, Tunisia

SoleCrypt Plans 20MW Solar Powered Data Center in Bizerte, Tunisia

February 06, 2026 Rhode Island

Anglo-Tunisian data center and solar developer SoleCrypt is planning to build a 20MW data center in Bizerte, in northern Tunisia, in partnership with Schneider Electric. According to the companies, the data center will be located at the landing point for three submarine cables, including the...

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Read Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class
Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

February 06, 2026 California

A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez...

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Read Multi-gigawatt Data Center Campus Planned in East Texas
Multi-gigawatt Data Center Campus Planned in East Texas

Multi-gigawatt Data Center Campus Planned in East Texas

February 06, 2026 Texas

A 2.1GW data center campus is being planned in East Texas. Amp Z is set to acquire land outside Lufkin in Angelina County, some 120 miles (193km) north of Houston.Citing county property records, the Lufkin Daily reports Verdant Industries, LLC, and Verdant Industries Realty, LLC, granted Amp Z...

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Read Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center
Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

February 05, 2026 Croatia

Croatian Telecom (aka Hrvatski Telekom) this week announced that, alongside Siemens, it had successfully completed the White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) project.“Thanks to intelligent sensor placement and AI-based cooling management, HT’s data center in Zagreb now operates more efficiently...

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Read Warehouse in Provo, Utah, to be Replaced with Data Center
Warehouse in Provo, Utah, to be Replaced with Data Center

Warehouse in Provo, Utah, to be Replaced with Data Center

February 05, 2026 Utah

B+F Timpanogos is looking to redevelop a warehouse property in Provo into a data center. The two requests, set to be discussed at a Provo planning commission meeting next week, are seeking a zoning amendment to add a warehouse at 1507 S 180 E in Provo to the city’s data center overlay district...

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Read SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla
SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla

SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla

February 05, 2026 South Korea

South Korean energy company SGC Energy is set to build a 300MW data center in Gunsan, marking its first foray into the AI data center business.The 300MW facility will be built at the Gunsan National Industrial Complex 2, the largest of two industrial areas located around Gunsan that house...

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Read Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In
Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In

Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In

February 04, 2026 World

The company blames bureaucracy. The balance sheet tells a different story. Amazon has now eliminated 30,000 corporate positions since October, making it the largest workforce reduction in the company's 30-year history. The cuts came in two waves: 14,000 in late October 2025, followed by another...

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Read DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center
DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center

DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center

February 04, 2026 Poland

Polish real estate firm DL Invest Group will build a new data centre in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. The facility will be the first of a network of twelve in Europe as part of a joint venture agreed in November 2025 with cloud gaming firm Boosteroid.Leszczyński predicted that the Bielsko-Biała project...

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Read Top Data Center News for 26th-31st January, 2026
Top Data Center News for 26th-31st January, 2026

Top Data Center News for 26th-31st January, 2026

February 02, 2026 United States

Atlas Development Plans 12-Building Data Center Campus in Temple, Georgia A large new data center campus could be coming to Georgia as Atlas Development has filed an application for Project Bus, a large 350-acre campus with a total value of about $11 billion. 1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in...

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Read Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO
Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO

Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO

January 31, 2026 United States

Neocloud Sharon AI has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with co-founder and chairman James Manning taking over the CEO role from Wolf Schubert. Manning became CEO on January 23, having served as chairman of the company since its founding in 2024.Commenting on his new role at the company,...

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Read EPG Secures $100m Series B Funding
EPG Secures $100m Series B Funding

EPG Secures $100m Series B Funding

January 31, 2026 Singapore

Singaporean provider of modular and prefabricated data center infrastructure EPG has completed its Series B financing, raising nearly US$100 million. The company said the proceeds from the financing will support capacity expansion, working capital, and global growth.The round was co-led by...

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Read 1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada
1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

January 30, 2026 Canada

The town of Olds this week announced that Synapse Data Center Inc. has proposed a 1GW data center development. The campus, according to the company and filings with the Alberta government, would total ten 100MW buildings and some two million sq ft (185,805 sqm) of space.The campus could see...

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Read One Year Data Center Moratorium Introduced in New Orleans
One Year Data Center Moratorium Introduced in New Orleans

One Year Data Center Moratorium Introduced in New Orleans

January 30, 2026 New Orleans

A one-year moratorium on data centers has been introduced in New Orleans, Louisiana. At a special meeting this week, the New Orleans City Council approved two motions following news of a proposed data center in New Orleans East and the regulation of future data center developments citywide.Motion...

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Read Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city
Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

January 30, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates, is looking to lure data centers to the area and signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DataCanvas International and AI Caravan. The MoU outlines a collaborative effort among the parties to explore opportunities for establishing and...

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Read Zettabyte Secures Undisclosed Investment from Headline Asia
Zettabyte Secures Undisclosed Investment from Headline Asia

Zettabyte Secures Undisclosed Investment from Headline Asia

January 28, 2026 Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Taiwan-based AI cloud provider Zettabyte has received investment from Headline Asia. The terms of the deal have not been provided, including the value of the investment, but it will be used to support Zettabyte's expansion in Japan."Japan is entering a new build cycle for AI infrastructure,...

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Read Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway
Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

January 28, 2026 Norway

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager and...

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Read 20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore
20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore

20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore

January 27, 2026 Singapore

Managed hosting provider 20i has signed an agreement to lease capacity at an Equinix data center in Singapore. 20i providers hosting services, including reseller hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and cloud servers - including 20icloud, AWS, and GCP. It utilizes "autoscaling" and load balancing...

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Read Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania
Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania

Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania

January 27, 2026 Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania-based data center provider Alerify has partnered with AI cloud provider Zadara on an AI Edge platform. Through the agreement, Alerify will combine its data center infrastructure and cloud platform with Zadara's offering, creating a sovereign AI solution in Pennsylvania.“We chose...

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Read Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center
Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center

Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center

January 27, 2026 United States

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms is set to demolish a former Bitcoin mining facility in Washington state in order to redevelop it into an HPC/AI data center. The revamped facility is expected to be completed by December 2026, adding to the region’s growing number of data centers that are making use of...

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