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Read Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025
Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

September 01, 2025 United States

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers Google announced this week that it will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, which will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and the expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and...

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Read Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio
Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

September 01, 2025 Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’ to...

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Read Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico
Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

August 30, 2025 New Mexico

Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the...

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Read FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City
FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

August 30, 2025 Vietnam

FPT Corporation last week officially inaugurated and put into operation the FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center at the Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park, an eight-story Fornix HCM02 which totals 10,000 sqm (110,000 sq ft) and has capacity for 3,600 racks. FPT said this is the first data center in Vietnam...

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Read Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center
Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

August 30, 2025 United States

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center that...

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Read Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard
Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

August 29, 2025 Singapore

The Singaporean government has launched a new standard to support data center operators. The standard - SS 715:2025: Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment - aims to save energy consumption of IT equipment in data centers by at least 30 percent.The standard will also aid data center users...

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Read Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland
Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland

Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland

August 29, 2025 Iceland

AI cloud and data center firm Crusoe and atNorth this week announced a “significant expansion” of Crusoe Cloud’s capacity within atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Keflavik. This strategic expansion is designed to meet the surging demand for Crusoe Cloud services from customers of all sizes across...

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Read Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth
Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

August 29, 2025 United Kingdom

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tried...

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Read OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding
OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

August 28, 2025 United States

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

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Read Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project
Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

August 27, 2025 New Mexico

US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has been granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site...

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Read Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas
Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

August 26, 2025 Texas

Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliability...

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Read Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025
Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

August 25, 2025 United States

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrunk...

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Read Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion
Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

August 25, 2025 Qatar

Meeza, a data center and IT firm in Qatar announced this week that it has secured a QAR 800 million ($219.3m) Commodity Murabaha bank facility from Dukhan Bank to fund its build-out. The financing will fund expansion plans to add 44MW of data center capacity. The first phase will deliver 24MW,...

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Read Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility
Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

August 25, 2025 Pennsylvania

Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III...

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Read US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel
US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

August 23, 2025 United States

The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2bn...

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Read Terakraft and Neurophos Deploy AI Hardware at Data Center in Norway
Terakraft and Neurophos Deploy AI Hardware at Data Center in Norway

Terakraft and Neurophos Deploy AI Hardware at Data Center in Norway

August 22, 2025 Norway

AI data center operator Terakraft and AI chip company Neurophos are teaming up for AI infrastructure at the former's data center in Norway, aiming to develop "sustainable" AI infrastructure under the agreement.“By hosting Neurophos’ ultra-efficient optical chips in our green data center for...

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Read Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners
Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

August 22, 2025 United States

Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...

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Read 500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany
500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany

500MW Solar Park and AI Campus Planned in Germany

August 22, 2025 Germany / Deutschland

A major renewable energy and AI data center campus is planned for Weida-Land in Germany. Located in the Saxony-Anhalt municipality, the project will include a 500MW solar farm, 500MW/1,750MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), and an AI campus with a data center.The solar parks will be...

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Read Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas
Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

Large Data Center Campus Proposed in Lancaster Area of Texas

August 22, 2025 Texas

WHL Dallas 45 LLC has filed to develop a large campus across two adjacent sites in the Lancaster area of Dallas, known as Project Orange and Project Labrador. Combined, the two sites could host 13 facilities across more than 530 acres, totaling more than 2.5 million sq ft (232,258 sqm) and...

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Read Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Golf Course Set to Become Data Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

August 22, 2025 Pennsylvania

The Dauphin County General Authority (DCGA) owned golf course was sold for $45.6 million to Harrisburg I, LLC, which intends to use the site for a data center project. Harrisburg I is a purchasing entity under the Texas realtor Provident Realty. According to the county, the proposal was one of...

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