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Read Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers
Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers

Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers

January 27, 2026 Colorado (CO)

Colorado could offer tax breaks to data center developers that pledge to power their facilities with renewable energy. A new bill proposed in the state’s House of Representatives would offer a 20-year, 100 percent sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers. The bill would see a new...

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Read Top Data Center News for 19th - 24th of January, 2026.
Top Data Center News for 19th - 24th of January, 2026.

Top Data Center News for 19th - 24th of January, 2026.

January 26, 2026 United States

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India AM Green Group (AMG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh which states that AMG will establish an $25 billion AI infrastructure hub in the Greater Noida...

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Read Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed
Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

January 24, 2026 United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg. The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal...

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Read Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers
Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

January 24, 2026 Canada

Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “taking...

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Read AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India
AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India

January 24, 2026 India / Bhārata

AM Green Group (AMG), which specializes in the ‘green’ production of industrial materials and fuels like ammonia, hydrogen, and methanol, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.The memorandum, which is non-binding, states that...

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Read Sharon AI Secures $500m Debt Facility from USD.AI
Sharon AI Secures $500m Debt Facility from USD.AI

Sharon AI Secures $500m Debt Facility from USD.AI

January 23, 2026 United States

Aussie neocloud Sharon AI has secured a $500 million debt facility to expand its AI infrastructure in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. The debt facility has been provided by USD.AI's on-chain credit system and will enable Sharon AI to deploy GPUs financed with stablecoin...

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Read 180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan
180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan

180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan

January 22, 2026 Michigan

A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...

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Read PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio
PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

January 22, 2026 United Kingdom

UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three data...

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Read Top Data Center News for 12th-17th January, 2026
Top Data Center News for 12th-17th January, 2026

Top Data Center News for 12th-17th January, 2026

January 19, 2026 United States

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The aim for the 760-acre site is for a major pole of data center capacity and an engine of sustained economic...

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Read Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas
Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas

Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas

January 19, 2026 Texas

Social media giant Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US renewable energy developer Origis Energy to offtake power from a solar plant in Texas."We are thrilled to partner with Origis Energy and bring an additional 240 MWac of solar energy to the local grid. With this...

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Read BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan
BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan

BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan

January 17, 2026 India / Bhārata

Indian AI cloud company BharathCloud has teamed up with JLL for its planned expansion across India and "select international locations." BharathCloud plans to invest the $100m over the next five years, subject to board approvals, with JLL set to help the company select colocation sites and with...

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Read Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in UAE
Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in UAE

Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in UAE

January 15, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Indian cloud and managed IT service provider Zoho Corp has opened two data center locations in the UAE. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are part of a AED 100 million ($27.23m) investment plan for the region Zoho announced in 2023."The opening of our data centers is part...

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Read Former Colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, Could House Data Center
Former Colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, Could House Data Center

Former Colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, Could House Data Center

January 14, 2026 United Kingdom

A data center could be built as part of a housing development on a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Property developer Harworth Group wants to build the data center on the land that used to house the Rufford Colliery, located near the village of Rainworth.Drawings included as part of...

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Read New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers
New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

January 13, 2026 New Jersey

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit...

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Read Top Data Center News for 5th - 10th January, 2026
Top Data Center News for 5th - 10th January, 2026

Top Data Center News for 5th - 10th January, 2026

January 12, 2026 United States

SB Energy to Build and Operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate Data Center in Milam County, Texas SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered...

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Read Turkish Airlines Breaks Ground on New Development
Turkish Airlines Breaks Ground on New Development

Turkish Airlines Breaks Ground on New Development

January 10, 2026 Turkey

Turkish Airlines has laid the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned development at Istanbul Airport in Turkey (Turkiye), including a data center. In total, the company is building eight new facilities at the airport and investing more than TRY 100 billion ($2.32bn)....

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Read Proposal Filed for 1,800-acre Data Center Campus Outside Greensboro, North Carolina
Proposal Filed for 1,800-acre Data Center Campus Outside Greensboro, North Carolina

Proposal Filed for 1,800-acre Data Center Campus Outside Greensboro, North Carolina

January 10, 2026 North Carolina

A large data center campus is being proposed outside Greensboro, North Carolina. The Stokes County board of commissioners is due to meet next week to discuss an amendment to the county’s zoning ordinance to include data centers as permitted in the heavy manufacturing conditional zoning...

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Read Exus Renewables Closes $400m Credit Facility
Exus Renewables Closes $400m Credit Facility

Exus Renewables Closes $400m Credit Facility

January 09, 2026 North America

Exus Renewables North America has closed a $400 million senior secured corporate credit facility to fund the expansion of its utility-scale wind, solar, and battery storage portfolio. The company noted that the expansion would support it in meeting huge demand emanating from the data center...

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Read xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi
xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

January 09, 2026 Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for the...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan
Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

January 09, 2026 Japan

Nanto City and data center firm GigaStream Toyama are planning to develop a large-scale cluster known as the Nanto Campus. The site, located on land outside Toyama within Nanto City, will reportedly support up to 3.1GW upon completion.Renders suggest two-buildings are planned in the first phase....

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