March 05, 2026 Virginia
Private equity firm HighBrook Investors has closed its first US data center fund, securing $266 million in total commitments. The launch of the fund was first reported last year. HighBrook said the fund saw contributions from existing investors alongside new institutions, including leading...
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March 05, 2026 Arizona
Vintage Partners has scrapped plans for a data center in Laveen, Phoenix, Arizona. The developer will instead move forward with a mixed-use project on the 63-acre site, featuring commercial, retail, restaurant, and multifamily residential space.Vintage changed course at the request of the City of...
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March 04, 2026 Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawmakers may soon put forward a proposal for a statewide moratorium on new data center developments.In a memo circulated to members of the Pennsylvania Senate on February 12, Democratic state senator Katie Muth said she plans to introduce legislation “in the near future” to impose a...
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March 03, 2026 Georgia
A new data center campus may be on the way to Columbus, Georgia. Economic development organization Choose Columbus announced that the Development Authority of Columbus is in negotiations with Habitat Partners to secure a site for the proposed project.Project Ruby would be a $5 billion+ data...
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March 03, 2026 Australia
CDC, one of Australia’s largest data center companies, has opened a campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne. The two-facility campus was inaugurated last Thursday with government officials in attendance, including Australia’s assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.CDC has not disclosed details about the...
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March 03, 2026 Germany / Deutschland
Construction company Hochtief has broken ground on a new timber-built edge data center for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. The facility is being developed on a 7,500 sqm (80,729 sq ft) site at the Southwest Industrial Park in Dorfen, located in Bavaria’s Erding district, east of Munich.Hubert Aiwanger,...
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March 02, 2026 United States
Aircraft developer and natural gas turbine provider Boom Supersonic has selected US energy firm Baker Hughes to supply gas-generation equipment to complement its 42MW natural gas turbine platform. The equipment will support a 1.21GW onsite power agreement Boom has signed with AI data center...
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March 02, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zone in the UAE is experiencing an outage after being “impacted by objects that struck the data center.” While AWS has not disclosed further details, the incident comes amid ongoing missile and drone attacks on the UAE attributed to Iran.The objects...
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February 28, 2026 United States
A data center simulator game – aptly named “Data Center” – where you can “build, cable, and grow a living data center,” is set to release later next month. Players will have to “build, cable, and grow a living data center from the group up,” according to the game’s description on Steam. Unlike...
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February 28, 2026 Virginia
The two houses of Virginia’s legislature, the Senate and the House, have passed two competing budgets that call, respectively, for the removal and approval of an existing data center sales tax exemption. The Senate’s budget proposal calls for ending the exemption effective January 1, 2027,...
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February 28, 2026 Pacific Northwest
The US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has issued a request for information (RFI) for an “on-premises next-generation AI compute data center.” The proposed facility would be funded and operated by the DOE itself, separate from a broader initiative that would...
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February 27, 2026 Switzerland
US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities. The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...
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February 27, 2026 Italy
Italy-based inference provider Xference has rolled out a new distributed infrastructure from a data center in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region. The startup also announced plans to launch a beta service for 100 selected users in the near term. The development follows a €700,000 (approximately...
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February 26, 2026 United States
In its first new solution since acquiring Nubis Communications last year, Ciena continues to tackle data center AI demands with the launch of a flexible, high-density pluggable optical engine, Vesta 200 6.4T CPX. The new solution is claimed to reduce power consumption by up to 70 percent, while...
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February 26, 2026 United States
US President Donald Trump has directed major data center operators and technology companies to build their own power generation infrastructure to supply their facilities. Speaking during his annual State of the Union address, Trump argued that the move is necessary to prevent consumers from...
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February 25, 2026 North Carolina
The technology firm acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park in Woodsdale Township back in November 2024, reportedly paying $26.85 million for the land. At the time, no plans for the site were shared.Kyle Puryear, Person County board of commissioners chairman, said: “Person County is proud...
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February 25, 2026 United States
In collaboration with Supermicro, US virtual power producer (VPP) CPower Energy and AI orchestration platform Bentaus have completed a joint demonstration project aimed at improving how AI compute interacts with the power grid. As part of the trial, CPower transmitted real-time wholesale...
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February 24, 2026 Mississippi
The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand...
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February 24, 2026 AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)
The partnership will combine Nexalus’s expertise in advanced science, thermal engineering, and system-level design with Alps Alpine’s automotive-grade manufacturing capabilities, quality systems, and global operational presence. Together, the companies “form a unified platform capable of...
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February 23, 2026 United States
Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in Utah TV’s Kevin O’Leary is plotting a second “Wonder Valley” development, this time in the US state of Utah, and says the scheme could offer up to 7.5GW of power for hyperscale data centers.Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity...
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