Data Center News

Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest Quarter

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter. According to Bloomberg, citing an analysis of quarterly filings, the new deals push total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers to more than $700...

Humain Acquires 211 Plots in Saudi Arabia for Data Center Development

Saudi Arabia

 State-backed AI venture Humain has secured 211 land plots across Saudi Arabia for future data center expansion. In a recent statement to The Information, Humain’s CEO Tareq Amin said the firm’s strategy “is built on geographic diversity and multiple fiber-optic routes, which is possible becau...

Data Center Proposed for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

A data center project has been proposed for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The proposed “Smithfield Gateway” development was discussed by the Smithfield Township Planning Commission in mid-February and would be located south of Music Center Drive and north of Smithfield Lane. Plans include two dat...

New Data Center Build Confirmed in Adams County, Ohio

Ohio

A new data center has been confirmed for Adams County, Ohio, at the former Dayton Power & Light landfill site. According to a regulatory filing from AES Ohio, the proposed operator has requested an initial electricity load of 100MW in 2028, rising to 1.3GW by 2032.Since the filing, the US ...

Aligned Tops out New Maryland Data Center

Maryland

Aligned has reached the topping-out milestone for a data center in Frederick, Maryland. Turner Construction Company and Aligned announced that the structural phase of the 72MW Aligned IAD-06 facility is now complete.The two-story, 450,000 sq ft (41,805 sqm) data center sits on a 75‑acre campus...

Google Outlines Plans for Data Center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google

Google has outlined plans for a proposed data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. Known as Project Raspberry, details of the project were revealed in a notice issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Norfolk District.Planned for a 343.6-acre site within the Greenfield Industrial...

Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers

Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus...

Digital Realty Approved for Sixth Data Center in Marseille, France

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Approved for Sixth Data Center in Marseille, FranceWith server racks at the data center set to require 120kW each, presumably to host AI workloads, Digital Realty plans to install a new high-voltage power supply. This will run from power company RTE’s Realtor substation in Cabri...

Swissgrid Seeks Bids for Data Center Racks in Switzerland

Switzerland

 Switzerland’s grid operator Swissgrid has opened a tender for a three-year contract to install server racks in its data centers. The contract also covers supplying materials such as fiber optic and copper cabling, racks, and protection devices. No data was made available about the location of...

Developer Withdraws Plans for 316-acre Data Center in Spring Hill, Kansas

Kansas

The developer behind a proposed 316-acre data center project in Spring Hill, Kansas, has pulled its application ahead of a planning commission meeting scheduled for March 25.Data center consultancy Colossus Data Center Advisors had planned to develop a campus at the southeast corner of 191st S...

Crestchic Launches Load Bank for Liquid-cooled Data Centers

United States

Crestchic has launched a 600kW load bank designed to test liquid-cooled data center infrastructure.The company, a manufacturer and provider of load bank solutions, last week announced the launch of its 600kW Liquid Cooled offering. Loadbanks are electrical testing devices that simulate a real ...

CyrusOne Completes Structural Topping-out of New Texas Data Center

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has reached the topping-out milestone for its latest data center in Texas. The company announced this week that the first building at its new campus in Bosque County has been topped out.“Bosque County, Texas, showed up — and CyrusOne was honored to celebrate alongside them,” the compa...

Nscale Raises $2bn in Series C Funding at $14.6bn Valuation

UK-based AI cloud Nscale has raised $2bn in its Series C funding round. The funding round, which the company claims to be the largest of its kind in European history, was led by established partner Aker ASA and 8090 Industries, with participation from Astra Capital Management, Citadel, Dell, J...

Australian Startup Cortical Labs Unveils Prototype Biological Data Center

Australia

Australian biological computing startup Cortical Labs has unveiled a biological data center prototype in Melbourne. The facility is designed to process information using what the company calls “wetware” — lab-grown neurons cultivated on traditional silicon chips.Built around neurological netwo...

Top Data Center News for 2nd - 7th March, 2026

United Kingdom

AWS  Behind Plans for $750M Data Center in Clinton, MississippiAmazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly planning a $750 million data center project in Clinton, Mississippi on a 99-acre site formerly the home of Milwaukee Tool, where the existing building redeveloped for the data center.Karatzis...

Norway Ammonia Plant Plans Dropped as Company Eyes Data Center Development

Norway

 Plans for a proposed ammonia plant in Norway have been scrapped, with the developer now exploring the site for potential data center use. The shift comes after delays caused the project to lose its grid capacity allocation with the local grid operator Iverson eFuels has decided to terminate p...

Avacon has Opened a New Data Center in Sehnde, Germany

Avacon Engineering

Network solutions provider Avacon Connect and energy services firm enviaM Group have opened a data center in Sehnde, Lower Saxony, near Hanover, Germany. The €40 million ($46 million) facility spans 2,000 sq ft (185 sqm) and can accommodate up to 28,000 servers.Avacon said that the data center...

Developer Withdraws Proposal for 250MW Data Center in Apex, North Carolina

North Carolina

A developer has withdrawn plans for a 250MW data center project in Apex, North Carolina. Natelli Investments LLC had proposed building four 200,000 sq ft data centers on an 89-acre site next to the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant.The company said the proposed New Hill Digital Campus would have cr...

Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara on data center migration

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

 Mexican financial institution Grupo Financiero Banorte has partnered with Hitachi Vantara to migrate its operations from a Mexico City data center to a facility in Querétaro and upgrade its mainframe storage environment. According to Banorte, the migration was motivated by a desire to reduce ...

Karatzis Group Plans €240M Data Center Project in Boeotia, Greece

Greece

Greek multinational Karatzis Group is planning a €240 million ($278 million) data center investment in the Boeotia region, according to real estate news outlet eRed. Headquartered in Crete, the company is best known for manufacturing plastic netting for the agricultural, packaging, and constru...