Data Center News

Kevin O’Leary Targets 7.5GW Data Center Development in Utah

Utah

TV’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."We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necess...

Adani Plans to Develop 5GW of Data Center Capacity Across India

AdaniConneX

Indian conglomerate Adani is more than doubling its data center development pipeline. The company this week announced plans to invest $100 billion in developing renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centers by 2035."The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound th...

Muhlenberg, Ohio, Imposes One-year Moratorium on New Data Center Projects

Ohio

The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the ...

xAI faces legal action from SELC over gas turbine use at Memphis facility

xAI

The US environmental non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), alongside other environmental groups, is preparing to sue xAI over the deployment of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.“xAI has once again built a polluting power plant wi...

Oklahoma House Committee Moves Forward Bill on Data Center Grid Costs

Oklahoma

An Oklahoma House budget subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at protecting residential ratepayers from having to foot the bill for new infrastructure driven by rising data center demand.“This would make sure that regular ratepayers aren’t having to pay for those really high energy cost...

Anthropic CEO Cautions on Risks of Poorly Timed AI Data Center Investments

United States

The CEO of generative AI firm Anthropic warned that the purchase of escalating data center compute costs could be "ruinous" for the company if timed wrong."I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he said."One questio...

ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

Dublin

Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...

Top Data Center News for 9th-14th February, 2026

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana which represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of Meta’s largest infrastructure invest...

Tract’s Fleet Data Centers Seeks $3.8bn to Fuel Nevada Build-out

Tract

Fleet Data Centers, the data center development arm of Tract, is seeking to raise billions of dollars to build out a campus in Reno, Nevada, for a major tenant.The project has been 100 percent leased to an unnamed “AA- investment grade rated tenant with a market cap in excess of $3 trillion” o...

Legrand Completes Acquisition of Data Center Power Specialist Kratos Industries

United States

The company this week announced the acquisition of Kratos Industries, a manufacturer of low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power equipment. Terms of the deal were not shared.“Data centers are facing unprecedented pressure to build out digital infrastructure at scale and with extreme reli...

NeevCloud and Agnikul Cosmos Unveil Plans for Space-based Data Centers

India / Bhārata

India's space tech company Agnikul Cosmos and AI cloud provider NeevCloud are planning to launch data centers in space. The latest of numerous companies to have expressed a desire to bring compute to space, the two have signed an agreement that will see a data center launched in orbit by the e...

Ukrainian Forces Hit Data Center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk

Ukraine

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) branch struck three targets across Russian-occupied lands, including a data center. The drone division said that it attacked the facility in Prymorsk, a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine."Every day Russian occupying forces make living more difficult. ...

Jericho and Comstock Partner to Launch AI Data Center Projects in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Canadian energy company Jericho Energy Ventures has partnered with real estate developer Comstock Holding to form a joint venture focused on the development of AI data center campuses across Oklahoma."We are pleased to welcome Comstock, a leading real estate investor and developer, as a major ...

nLighten Will Feed Waste Heat From its Stuttgart Data Center Into the Local District Heating Network

nLighten

European Edge data center developer nLighten has signed a deal to connect one of its data centers in the German city of Stuttgart to the city’s district heating network.“The excess heat project with nLighten creates an added value for everyone involved: it delivers climate-friendly heat for ou...

Google Begins Construction on Second Data Center Campus in Kansas City, Missouri

Google

Google has begun construction of a second data center campus in Kansas City, Missouri. Dubbed "Project Mica," Google has long been linked to the project but only officially confirmed its involvement this week.It is set to be on a 500-acre site, off the northeast corner of Interstate 435 and 16...

Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center

Crusoe

US energy storage firm Energy Vault has partnered with AI infrastructure provider Crusoe to deploy modular data centers at Energy Vault’s technology center in Snyder, Texas.“Crusoe is executing against a clear market imperative: customers need scalable compute delivered quickly and reliably,” ...

AEW Aquires Aventos’ Fully Leased Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg / Nürnberg

German real estate firm Aventos has sold a data center in Nuremberg to real estate investor AEW. Built in 2010, the 2,590 sqm facility is fully leased to a global technology company under a long-term double-net lease.“In view of the currently very high demand for data centers on the real estat...

Brennan Investment Group Pulls Out from $2bn Data Center Project Near Chicago

Brennan Voice and Data Pty Ltd

Real estate developer Brennan Investment Group has withdrawn plans for a $2bn data center project outside Chicago, Illinois. As reported by Shaw Local, the data center was previously planned in Barrington Hills, on land south of Penny Road and west of Pond Gate Drive.A Facebook post from the V...

Nebius Unveils Plans for a 240MW Data Center in Béthune, France

Nebius

Amsterdam-based AI cloud provider Nebius is planning a 240MW data center in Béthune, France. As reported by Les Echos, the project will see the former Bridgestone tyre plant redeveloped and set to deliver capacity in phases.Speaking on the project, Blackwell said: "The choice of France came ab...

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta

 Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...