Data Center News

Meta Inks Solar PPA with Origis Energy in Texas

Texas

Social media giant Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US renewable energy developer Origis Energy to offtake power from a solar plant in Texas."We are thrilled to partner with Origis Energy and bring an additional 240 MWac of solar energy to the local grid. With th...

Soluna Partners with Metrobloks for Texas Campus

HPC and cryptomine data center firm Soluna Holdings this week announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Metrobloks, a data center developer and operator focused on AI-ready infrastructure, to enter into a co-development partnership to build Project Kati 2.“Project Kati ...

Duos Edge Delivers Edge Data Center to School District in Hereford, Texas

Duos Edge AI

Duos Edge has rolled out another Edge data center pod to a school district in Texas. The company, a subsidiary of Duos Technologies, said its latest deployment will serve the Hereford Independent School District (ISD) in the city of Hereford, located 48 miles (77.2km) southwest of Amarillo.Acc...

Google Signs 1.17GW Worth of PPAs with Clearway Across US market

Google

Google has signed a spate of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) totalling 1.17GW with Clearway Energy Group across Missouri, Texas, and West Virginia. Under the terms of the PPAs, Clearway will supply power to support Google’s data center operations in the Southern Power Pool, ERCOT, and PJM Inte...

Edged secures permission for second data center at Irving campus, Tex

Edged Energy

Data center operator Edged this week announced plans to add a second data center to its Edged Dallas campus in Irving, Dallas County. The news follows Irving City Council voting unanimously to approve the expansion, which will be located on North Wildwood Drive in the industrial area east of H...

Vertiv Launches New Prefab Data Center Module

Vertiv

Data center power and cooling provider Vertiv this week announced new configurations of its MegaMod HDX, a prefabricated power and liquid cooling infrastructure solution engineered for high-density computing.“Today’s AI workloads demand cooling solutions that go beyond traditional approaches,"...

BharathCloud selects JLL as partner for $100m AI cloud expansion plan

India / Bhārata

Indian AI cloud company BharathCloud has teamed up with JLL for its planned expansion across India and "select international locations."  BharathCloud plans to invest the $100m over the next five years, subject to board approvals, with JLL set to help the company select colocation sites and wi...

Iron Mountain Breaks Ground on 85MW Data Center in Mumbai, India

Colocation firm Iron Mountain has broken ground on its planned 85MW data center campus in Mumbai, India. An opening date for the facility has not been disclosed, but once complete, it will complement Iron Mountain’s two existing facilities in Mumbai, which offer a total of 8.3MW.Writing on Lin...

Keppel secures rights to 720MW data center campus outside Melbourne, Australia

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel this week said its Connectivity Division has secured the rights to lease a 123-hectare contiguous site near Morwell, Victoria, with a gross power capacity of up to 720MW, from Australian energy and infrastructure landowner Lightwood Group.Manjot Singh Mann, CEO of Connectivity, Keppel, ...

Tract expands into Illinois with plans for 1GW data center park

Tract

Data center park developer Tract is expanding into Chicago, Illinois. The campus, located off I-80 and Highway 6 in Morris, can reportedly support up to 1GW at full build-out across ~2.9 million sq ft of data center capacity. Initial energization is targeted for June 2028, and a full 1GW load ...

DC Blox Secures $240 Million in Holdco Financing

DC BLOX

US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excit...

Verizon Secures Approval for $20bn Frontier Acquisition

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has secured all regulatory approvals to close its acquisition of Frontier Communications. It comes as the carrier this week received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to push ahead with the deal.“California isn’t just approving a merger, we’re securing rea...

PowerHouse Data Centers leases data center to unnamed hyperscaler at Arcola campus in Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers

PowerHouse Data Centers has signed an unnamed hyperscaler at its PowerHouse Arcola campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. The lease is described as long-term, though it has not been stated if the hyperscaler will take up all the capacity at the campus. "PowerHouse Arcola's lease execution undersc...

Google Expands 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Partnership with Engie

Google

Google has expanded its 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) partnership with renewable energy developer Engie in Germany until 2030. The expansion will see the companies integrate battery energy storage systems (BESS) and additional renewable Power Purchase Agreements into the CFE mechanism.“We are ...

Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in UAE

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Indian cloud and managed IT service provider Zoho Corp has opened two data center locations in the UAE. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are part of a AED 100 million ($27.23m) investment plan for the region Zoho announced in 2023."The opening of our data centers is par...

Avaio to Develop $6bn Data Center Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas

AVAIO Digital Partners

Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new data center hub near Little Rock in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Known as Avaio Digital Leo, Avaio is currently contracted with Entergy Arkansas for 150MW of power, but the company anticipates power demand of up to 1GW as the 760-acre cam...

Former Colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, Could House Data Center

United Kingdom

A data center could be built as part of a housing development on a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Property developer Harworth Group wants to build the data center on the land that used to house the Rufford Colliery, located near the village of Rainworth.Drawings included as part ...

New Jersey Senate Advances Bill to Establish New Rate Class for Data Centers

New Jersey

The New Jersey Senate has advanced a bill that would create new tariff classes for “large load” data centers in an effort to protect ratepayers in the state from cost increases.The bill, cosponsored by ten Democrat lawmakers, would require public electrical utilities in the state to submit pro...

Hive Digital Technologies to Launch Buzz Cloud Platform in Paraguay

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd

Texas-based digital infrastructure company Hive Digital Technologies is bringing its Buzz Cloud platform to Paraguay. According to Hive, through this partnership, the company will bring its AI cloud offering dubbed "Buzz Cloud" to Paraguay, hosting its hardware in a Tier III data center in the...

Telenor JV Skygard Acquires Two Data Centers from Orange in Oslo, Norway

Orange

Norwegian data center firm Skygard, which is owned by Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund, and investment fund HitecVision, has acquired two facilities from Orange Business Services Norway."The acquisition marks an important milestone for Skygard. With this, we are significantly i...