Data Center News

Virginia Lawmakers Split over Future of Data Center Sales Tax Exemption

Virginia

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...

atNorth sold to Equinix and CPP Investments in $4.2bn deal

Nordic data center firm atNorth is set to be acquired by Equinix and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) in a $4.2 billion deal. Current owner Partners Group said on Friday it had agreed a deal to sell atNorth in a transaction with an enterprise value of $4 billion.News that Equinix...

Amazon to Invest €33.7bn in Data Centers in Aragon, Spain

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest an additional €18 billion ($21bn) in Spain, bringing its total data center infrastructure investment in Aragon to €33.7bn ($39.5bn). At MWC26 in Barcelona, the company announced the new buildout, which includes new facilities in the three Aragon provin...

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

United States

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...

Google has Acquired a 900-hectare Site in Finland for the Development of a New Data Center

Google

The municipality of Vaala this week announced Google has acquired some 900 hectares in the area. The site is about six kilometres (3.7 miles) from the center of Vaala, near Fingrid's Nuojua substation on both sides of Ouluntie (Highway 22). Full details of the planned development haven’t been ...

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

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...

Digital Edge has Signed an 83MW Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa to Supply Renewable Energy to its Data Center in Navi Mumbai, India

Digital Edge DC

Digital Edge has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Hexa Climate Solutions for 83MW of solar power to support the first phase of its 350MW BOM campus in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.“This 83MW PPA demonstrates how renewable energy can scale with the country’s digital economy, sett...

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

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...

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

United States

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...

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

United States

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...

Cogent Completes Conversion of Former Sprint Sites into Data Centers, Continues Discussions Over Potential Sale of Facilities

The last couple of years have seen Cogent converting legacy technical buildings and switch sites previously used for Sprint’s wireline business into colocation data centers. The company has been looking to sell a number of those facilities on a wholesale basis. In October, Cogent signed a lett...

Vantage and Altarea Plan 400MW Data Center Development in Bordeaux, France

Vantage Data Centers

The campus, to be built on land owned by Altarea, is expected to rank among the largest data center developments in France, according to the companies. Altarea has already secured a 400MW grid connection for the site. However, the exact location and construction timeline have not been disclose...

Microsoft to Begin Permitting Process for 1,385-acre Data Center campus in North Carolina

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...

Nvidia Posts Record Quarterly Data Center Revenue of $62.3 billion, Marking a 75% Year-over-year Increase

NVIDIA

Revenue was up 20 percent from the previous quarter and 73 percent on the same period last year. Data center specific revenue hit $62.3bn, up 22 percent from Q3 and up 75 percent from a year ago. For the full fiscal year 2026, revenue totaled $215.9 billion, representing a 65% increase year ov...

ESR Plans to Develop a 60MW Data Center in Mumbai, India.

ESR Group

The company this week unveiled plans for a multi-story data center in the Rabale area of Mumbai, Maharashtra. The ESR Rabale MU1 Data Centre (MU1) will be developed on a 3.25-acre site and is designed to support up to 60MW of IT load. Total investment in the project is expected to reach $100 m...

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

United States

 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...

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

AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)

 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...

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

Mississippi

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...

Google Plans to Develop a “Clean Energy” Colocated Data Center in Wilbarger County, Texas

Google

Google has announced a new data center in Wilbarger County, Texas, to be powered by onsite ‘clean energy’ from US energy firm AES. AES has secured the land and grid interconnection agreements for the project and will construct the shared electrical infrastructure needed to support the co-locat...

EQT-backed Scale Acquires Powered Land Specialist Reload to Expand its Data Center Footprint

EQT

EQT-backed US energy developer Scale has acquired Reload, a US-based provider of powered land for data centers.“We’re excited to partner with Scale, whose operational expertise combined with access to EQT’s long-term, forward-thinking capital and industrial insight will help us achieve a truly...