Data Center News

Multi-gigawatt Data Center Campus Planned in East Texas

Texas

A 2.1GW data center campus is being planned in East Texas. Amp Z is set to acquire land outside Lufkin in Angelina County, some 120 miles (193km) north of Houston.Citing county property records, the Lufkin Daily reports Verdant Industries, LLC, and Verdant Industries Realty, LLC, granted Amp Z...

American Tower Pauses Plans for Edge Data Center in Indianapolis, Indiana

American Tower Corporation

US tower and data center firm American Tower has dropped plans to develop an Edge facility at a telecoms site in Indianapolis, Indiana.The single-story building would have totaled 4MW on seven acres of the 53-acre property. The company was planning to use a closed-loop cooling system and not r...

SoleCrypt Plans 20MW Solar Powered Data Center in Bizerte, Tunisia

Rhode Island

Anglo-Tunisian data center and solar developer SoleCrypt is planning to build a 20MW data center in Bizerte, in northern Tunisia, in partnership with Schneider Electric. According to the companies, the data center will be located at the landing point for three submarine cables, including the 8...

Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

Croatia

Croatian Telecom (aka Hrvatski Telekom) this week announced that, alongside Siemens, it had successfully completed the White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) project.“Thanks to intelligent sensor placement and AI-based cooling management, HT’s data center in Zagreb now operates more efficient...

AT&T Partners with AWS and Amazon Leo

AT&T

US telecoms firm AT&T is partnering with Amazon’s cloud and satellite units. The former will move more workloads to the cloud and utilize Amazon’s satellite fleet, while the cloud provider will benefit from new fiber connectivity between its data centers."This collaboration with AWS marks ...

SGC Energy to Build 300MW Data Center in North Jeolla

South Korea

South Korean energy company SGC Energy is set to build a 300MW data center in Gunsan, marking its first foray into the AI data center business.The 300MW facility will be built at the Gunsan National Industrial Complex 2, the largest of two industrial areas located around Gunsan that house ship...

Google Gets Greenlight for Data Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Google

The Sand Springs City Council has approved a data center campus development proposed by Google for just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dubbed "Project Spring," the campus is planned for an 827-acre property located at 5615 OK-97, Sand Springs, OK 74063, and is being developed by White Rose Partne...

Warehouse in Provo, Utah, to be Replaced with Data Center

Utah

B+F Timpanogos is looking to redevelop a warehouse property in Provo into a data center. The two requests, set to be discussed at a Provo planning commission meeting next week, are seeking a zoning amendment to add a warehouse at 1507 S 180 E in Provo to the city’s data center overlay district...

Amazon Capex to Hit $200bn in 2026

Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to double its capex spend in 2026, investing $200 billion, most of which will be funnelled into data centers for its AWS cloud division.The firm revealed the news as it reported its financial results for Q4 2025, which saw operating income across Amazon grow to $25 billion, up fro...

DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center

Poland

Polish real estate firm DL Invest Group will build a new data centre in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. The facility will be the first of a network of twelve in Europe as part of a joint venture agreed in November 2025 with cloud gaming firm Boosteroid.Leszczyński predicted that the Bielsko-Biała proje...

Amazon: 30,000 Jobs Out, $125 Billion in AI Spending In

Amazon AWS

The company blames bureaucracy. The balance sheet tells a different story.Amazon has now eliminated 30,000 corporate positions since October, making it the largest workforce reduction in the company's 30-year history. The cuts came in two waves: 14,000 in late October 2025, followed by another...

iXAfrica to Host Oracle Cloud Region in Nairobi, Kenya

Oracle

East African data center firm iXAfrica this week announced it has been selected as the host partner for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya.“We are delighted to be in execution mode to bring OCI to Kenya,” said Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica. “With this collaboration, iX...

STT GDC Launches Direct-Current Data Center Testbed in Singapore

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is launching a direct-current (DC) data center testbed in Singapore. Called FutureGrid Accelerator, it is Southeast Asia’s first live High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)-powered AI infrastructure testbed.Located at the Nanyang Technological University,...

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

United States

Atlas Development Plans 12-Building Data Center Campus in Temple, GeorgiaA 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 ...

NextEra Energy Targets 15GW of New Generation for Data Center Hubs

US utility company NextEra Energy has revealed that it has 20GW of interest from large load users, predominantly from hyperscale data center customers. Of the 20GW, 9GW is in the advanced discussions phase.In the call, the company also said it is targeting 15GW of new generation for data cente...

Atlas Development Plans 12-Building Data Center Campus in Temple, Georgia

Atlas Development LLC

A large new data center campus could be coming to Georgia. Atlas Development has filed an application for Project Bus, a large 350-acre campus. The development could see up to 12 buildings and two substations developed.The campus could be completed by 2036. According to the application, the va...

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 additional 15 data center buildings will be located on land near Microsoft's existing data center campus that was previously slated to be used for a Foxconn manufacturing site.The scale of ...

EPG Secures $100m Series B Funding

Singapore

Singaporean provider of modular and prefabricated data center infrastructure EPG has completed its Series B financing, raising nearly US$100 million.  The company said the proceeds from the financing will support capacity expansion, working capital, and global growth.The round was co-led by in...

Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO

United States

Neocloud Sharon AI has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with co-founder and chairman James Manning taking over the CEO role from Wolf Schubert. Manning became CEO on January 23, having served as chairman of the company since its founding in 2024.Commenting on his new role at the company,...

Penta Infra Acquires Data Center in Munich, Germany

Penta Infra

European data center firm Penta Infra has acquired a facility in Munich, Germany. The company announced the acquisition this week, saying the facility will be “fully modernized and expanded” into a colocation data center with 20MW of IT capacity.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "Munich...