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

Feb 02, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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 Alberta, Canada

The town of Olds has announced that Synapse Data Center Inc. has proposed a 1GW data center development which would total ten 100MW buildings and some two million sq ft (185,805 sqm) of space with possible investments totaling CA$10 billion (US$7.3bn)

Microsoft Given Greenlight for 15 More Data Center Buildings in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

Microsoft has received approval to establish a further 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The company wants to construct nine data centers, each measuring nearly 580,000 square feet on the first site and six data centers, each just over 568,000 sq ft (52,770 sqm) on the second.

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

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

Perplexity Signs $750m Cloud Agreement with Microsoft

Perplexity has signed a three year $750 million cloud computing agreement with Microsoft, the first cloud agreement the company has signed outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS), of which it has a long-term partnership.



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