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November 04, 2026

Voters Back Data Center Limits In 40 Of 41 Ballot Measures Across 10 States

United States

Voters in 10 states approved nearly every local data center restriction on the Nov. 3 ballot. Ballotpedia counted 41 measures across those states, and voters backed limits or rejected pro-development proposals in 40 of them, according to the tracker's analysis and results compiled by CNBC. Th...

November 03, 2026

Drax, Brookfield and Radiant to Develop 1GW Data Center at Selby

Drax Group

Drax Group will develop up to 1GW of data center capacity at its North Yorkshire power station with Brookfield and Radiant. The deal was announced on Nov. 3. Brookfield estimates investment in the site could exceed £20 billion ($26.8 billion), including £2.5 billion foFeatured: Wide landscape edi...

November 03, 2026

SpaceXAI Expands Colossus 2 With Two Southaven Sites, 420,000 More GPUs

xAI

SpaceXAI is adding two data center campuses in Southaven, Mississippi, to its Colossus 2 complex, facilities chief executive Elon Musk said will host about 420,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs and be operating by the end of the year. Musk announced the sites, named Gun Range and Spam after their former occu...

November 03, 2026

Putin Allows Russian Firms to Use Foreign Data Centers After Drone Strikes

Russia / Россия

President Vladimir Putin has allowed Russian companies to run workloads in data centers outside Russia, subject to approval by the FSB. The decree, signed on Nov. 2, also requires non-state Russian data center operators to reserIn-article: Exterior view of the industrial and data center facility ...

November 03, 2026

California Resources and Bloom Energy Sign MOU For 1GW of California Fuel Cells

California

California Resources and Bloom Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly evaluate 1GW or more of solid-oxide fuel cell generation in California. The non-binding agreement names data centers, utilities, community choice aggregators, municipalities, and other industrial users as potent...

November 03, 2026

NTT Opens 12MW Jakarta 2 Annex Data Center in Indonesia

NTT

NTT DATA opened its new Jakarta data center on Nov. 3, adding 12MW of IT capacity at its existing campus in South Jakarta. The facility, the Jakarta 2 Annex Data Center, is known as JKFeatured: Wide editorial photograph accompanying coverage of NTT DATA's data center campus expansion in Jakar...

November 03, 2026

Dominion Energy Reports 54.9GW Data Center Pipeline, Up 13% Since December

Virginia

Dominion Energy reports 54.9 gigawatts of data center capacity in various stages of contracting across Virginia, a 13 percent increase from December 2025. The Richmond-based utility disclosedFeatured: Broad landscape view of a utility transmission line right-of-way powering data center corridors ...

November 03, 2026

Samsung SDS Breaks Ground on 60MW Gumi AI Data Center in South Korea

Samsung SDS

Samsung SDS has begun construction on the Gumi AI Data Center in Gongdan-dong, Gumi, in South Korea's North Gyeongsang Province. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 2 at the former Samsung Electronics Gumi Plant 1 site, Samsung SDS said. The facility starts with 60MW of power c...

November 02, 2026

Google Funds $160M Water Plant for Malaysia Data Center Campus

Google

Google will fund US$160 million of shared water infrastructure in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, for its planned Port Dickson data center campus. Google announced the commitment on November 2. GamudFeatured: High-resolution aerial artist's impression of Google's hyperscale data center campus ...

November 02, 2026

Prometheus Hyperscale Exits 1.25GW Casper Data Center Campus

Prometheus Hyperscale

Prometheus Hyperscale will not build its planned 1,250 MW data center campus near Casper, Wyoming, the developer said on October 28. Company president Trevor Neilson told WyoFile that Prometheus is withdrawing from the project in Natrona and Converse counties. Prometheus was the developer of the ...

November 02, 2026

Envision Claims World's First 800VDC Power System at Ulanqab AI Campus

Inner Mongolia

Envision says it is running the world's first 800VDC power system in a large-scale AI data center at its Galaxy campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia. Envision announced the deployment in a Nov. 2 pFeatured: Wide editorial photograph showcasing the Ulanqab AI data center campus following the soli...

November 02, 2026

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

United States

Naver Signs $9B Brookfield Deal for 200MW Sejong AI Factory Naver has signed a financing agreement with Brookfield for up to $9 billion, completing funding for a $10 billion expansion of its GAK Sejong data center into a 200MW AI factory, clearing the condition for Nvidia's planned $1 billion...

November 02, 2026

Rostelecom In Talks With Norilsk Nickel To Build Underground Data Centers

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is in talks with Norilsk Nickel to build an underground data center in Russia, the business daily Vedomosti reported. The partly state-owned telecoms operator is developing buried data centers with an increased level of protection againsFeatured: Exterior view of a Rostelecom facility,...

November 02, 2026

Aligned Launches Delta Cube 3.0 Air Cooling With Munters

Aligned

Aligned Data Centers launched Delta Cube 3.0 on October 28, a new generation of its patented air-cooling unit developed with Munters. The Aligned press release states the system delivers a 10 percent increase in cooling capacity and a 10 percent gain inFeatured: High-resolution editorial photo of...

October 31, 2026

L&T's Vyoma.AI Breaks Ground on 52MW Chennai Data Center

L&T-Cloudfiniti

L&T's Vyoma.AI broke ground on a 52 MW data center near Chennai on October 28, expanding its Kancheepuram campus. Vyoma.AI is the integrated AI cloud and hyperscale data center businessFeatured: Wide editorial photograph of Larsen & Toubro's corporate signage and facility. of Lars...

October 31, 2026

LEAP Pitches $10B-Plus, 700MW Data Center South of Lansing

Michigan

The Lansing Economic Area Partnership and Lighthouse Sustainability pitched a 423-acre data center site in Delhi Township, south of Lansing, Michigan, on Oct. 27. Crain's Detroit Business reported the development is pitched at more than $10 billion, and Data Center Dynamics reported the campu...

October 30, 2026

Tata Communications To Invest $450M In 10,000km AI Fiber Network In India

Tata Communications

Tata Communications will invest close to $450 million to lay about 10,000 kilometers of new AI-ready fiber across India. The company announcIn-article: Exterior view of 60 Hudson Street, a premier telecom carrier hotel and data center facility connected to Tata Communications' global backbone...

October 30, 2026

PowerBank Partner Signs First Lease For 2MW Modular Data Center In Ontario

Ontario

PowerBank Corporation's joint development partner has executed the first lease for a 2MW modular data center in Ontario, the company said in an October 29 announcement. The Toronto-based energy developer plans to lease the powered shell to an AI cloud operator that installs and runs its own G...

October 30, 2026

Hyundai Motor Group To Build Saemangeum AI Data Center With 50,000 GPUs

South Korea

Hyundai Motor Group will develop an AI data center in Saemangeum, in the South Korean city of Gunsan, after five group affiliates approved the investment. The project is part of the group's approximately 9 trillion won Saemangeum AI Valley development. Two special-purpose companies will launc...

October 30, 2026

FirstEnergy Data Center Pipeline Reaches 26GW With West Virginia At 6GW

West Virginia

FirstEnergy's data center pipeline grew to 26 GW in the third quarter. The pipeline expanded 4.8% from the prior quarter, and the West Virginia portion climbed to 6 GW from 4.3 GW. Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison, the FirstEnergy utilities behind the Maidsville Energy Center, expect a fi...

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atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path

Voters Back Data Center Limits In 40 Of 41 Ballot Measures Across 10 States

Drax, Brookfield and Radiant to Develop 1GW Data Center at Selby

SpaceXAI Expands Colossus 2 With Two Southaven Sites, 420,000 More GPUs

Putin Allows Russian Firms to Use Foreign Data Centers After Drone Strikes

California Resources and Bloom Energy Sign MOU For 1GW of California Fuel Cells

NTT Opens 12MW Jakarta 2 Annex Data Center in Indonesia

Dominion Energy Reports 54.9GW Data Center Pipeline, Up 13% Since December

Samsung SDS Breaks Ground on 60MW Gumi AI Data Center in South Korea

Google Funds $160M Water Plant for Malaysia Data Center Campus

Prometheus Hyperscale Exits 1.25GW Casper Data Center Campus

Envision Claims World's First 800VDC Power System at Ulanqab AI Campus

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

Rostelecom In Talks With Norilsk Nickel To Build Underground Data Centers

Aligned Launches Delta Cube 3.0 Air Cooling With Munters

L&T's Vyoma.AI Breaks Ground on 52MW Chennai Data Center

LEAP Pitches $10B-Plus, 700MW Data Center South of Lansing

Tata Communications To Invest $450M In 10,000km AI Fiber Network In India

PowerBank Partner Signs First Lease For 2MW Modular Data Center In Ontario

Hyundai Motor Group To Build Saemangeum AI Data Center With 50,000 GPUs

FirstEnergy Data Center Pipeline Reaches 26GW With West Virginia At 6GW

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