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A $5 Billion Data Center Project is in Development near Columbus, 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 ce...

March 03, 2026

Georgia

Australia’s CDC has Opened a New Data Center Campus in Melbourne

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 cam...

March 03, 2026

Australia

Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

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 Aiwang...

March 03, 2026

Germany / Deutschland

Boom Supersonic Taps Baker Hughes for Natural Gas Generators to Support 1.21GW Crusoe Data Center Power Deal

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 de...

March 02, 2026

United States

AWS UAE hit by AZ Outage after Objects Strike Data Center, Causing fire amid Iran Tensions

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 "c...

March 02, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

New Data Center Simulator Game lets Players Build and Manage their own Facility, Set for Release in March

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...

February 28, 2026

United States

Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption

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, pro...

February 28, 2026

Virginia

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is Considering the Development of an AI-focused Data Center to Support Department of Energy Research into Large Language Models

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 ...

February 28, 2026

Pacific Northwest

Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, 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...

February 27, 2026

Switzerland

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in 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 $8...

February 27, 2026

Italy

Ciena Launches New Optical Engine Designed For The AI-driven Data Center Era

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, whil...

February 26, 2026

United States

President Trump Urges Big Tech to Develop Their Own Power Plants to Support Data Centers Across the US

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 be...

February 26, 2026

United States

Microsoft to Begin Permitting Process for 1,385-acre Data Center campus in 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 pr...

February 25, 2026

North Carolina

CPower, Bentaus, and Supermicro Complete AI Data Center Energy Orchestration Pilot Project in California

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 ele...

February 25, 2026

United States

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

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 indivi...

February 24, 2026

Mississippi

Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers

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 deli...

February 24, 2026

AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)

Top Data Center News for 16th-22nd of February, 2026.

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in UtahTV’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...

February 23, 2026

United States

NDSU and RII Launch Study Exploring the Reuse of Data Center Waste Heat for Greenhouses in North Dakota

Researchers at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and Resource Innovation Institute have formally launched a public-private research initiative to assess the possibility of colocating large-scale greenhouses with data centers in North Dakota.As part of the initiative, US data center operator...

February 23, 2026

North Dakota

US Utility PPL Reports 23% Increase in Data Center Pipeline, Reaching 25.2GW.

In its latest earnings report, the utility said that it now expects at least 10GW of data center load to be signed under Electricity Service Agreements (ESA) by the end of Q1. Vincent Sorgi, president of PPL, said during the call that he believes “ all of the 25.2GW of projects have a high pro...

February 23, 2026

United States

Modular vs. Traditional Data Centers: Which Design Wins?

The global digital economy depends on data centers. Every AI model trained, financial transaction processed, cloud application delivered, and video streamed relies on physical infrastructure engineered for reliability, scalability, and efficiency. As demand increases, driven by artificial inte...

February 23, 2026

United States

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