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August 01, 2026
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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...
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Polarise
Investment bank Macquire Group and data center infrastructure startup Polarise have formed a "strategic financing partnership" to support the fit-out of the latter's data centers. The partnership is worth up to €117 million ($136.65m).Michel Boutouil, CEO of Polarise, said: “This financing is ...
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North Carolina
A large data center campus is being proposed outside Greensboro, North Carolina. The Stokes County board of commissioners is due to meet next week to discuss an amendment to the county’s zoning ordinance to include data centers as permitted in the heavy manufacturing conditional zoning classi...
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Turkey
Turkish Airlines has laid the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned development at Istanbul Airport in Turkey (Turkiye), including a data center. In total, the company is building eight new facilities at the airport and investing more than TRY 100 billion ($2.32bn).Deta...
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Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, LLC (IVCM) is seeking to develop a 950,000 sq ft (88,257 sqm), 330MW single-story data center, emergency backup generator building (330MW), on-site substation, and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS, 862MWh) on 74 acres around 2304 Clark Road.The BESS w...
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Nebius
European cloud firm Nebius is planning a large data center development outside Kansas City, Missouri. According to the city of Independence, Nebius is planning a 2.5 million sq ft (232,255 sqm) campus in the existing Eastgate Commerce Center, off Little Blue Parkway and Missouri Highway 78 in ...
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Japan
Nanto City and data center firm GigaStream Toyama are planning to develop a large-scale cluster known as the Nanto Campus. The site, located on land outside Toyama within Nanto City, will reportedly support up to 3.1GW upon completion.Renders suggest two-buildings are planned in the first phas...
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Mississippi
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for th...
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North America
Exus Renewables North America has closed a $400 million senior secured corporate credit facility to fund the expansion of its utility-scale wind, solar, and battery storage portfolio. The company noted that the expansion would support it in meeting huge demand emanating from the data center ma...
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United States
Soluna has signed a deal with Siemens to develop a 2MW pilot project to determine power management challenges for AI computing at renewable energy sites. The companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to develop the project. It is set to be deployed at Soluna’s Project Grace si...
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OVH Group
OVHcloud has published its earnings for the first quarter of 2026, with public cloud doing much of the heavy lifting. Revenue for the first quarter totaled €275.3 million ($320bn), up six percent Year-on-Year (YoY). This is further broken down into private cloud (€167.2m/$194.41m- up four perc...
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Texas
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy has partnered with OpenAI to build and operate the previously announced 1.2 GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will provide the project's powered infrastructure, while SoftBank and OpenAI invest $1 billion in the company to support its growt...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is planning to invest $400 million in a data center project in Castroville, Texas. Dubbed SAT 82, the data center will be located at 2580 Farm to Market Road, 471 N in Castroville, a town to the west of San Antonio. The data center will span 195,670 sq ft (18,178 sqm) across one sto...
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New York
Memory chipmaker Micron will break ground on a $100 billion semiconductor fab campus in Onondaga County, New York, on January 16. Consisting of four fabs when fully built, the so-called megafab is expected to be complete by Q3 2041 and will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US.In a ...
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Ohio
A company behind the affiliate Tilted Gate LLC is looking to develop a data center in Scioto County. The Scioto County commission said the center would be built in the Franklin Furnace area, specifically the Haverhill part of the county. The Scioto County commission has made its own announceme...
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Duos Edge AI
Nasdaq-listed Duos Technologies Group, Inc., through its Duos Edge AI, Inc. data center subsidiary, this week announced the deployment of a new Edge data center in Abilene, Texas. Duos said the containerized facility will support K-12 education, healthcare, workforce development, and local bus...
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United States
Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion to help fund its data center build-out. Financial backers include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group.“This financing will accelerate our world-leadin...
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Keppel Data Center REIT
Keppel has secured a land lease extension for a data center campus in Singapore. The company last year announced that the relevant authorities had granted conditional approval for a 10-year land tenure lease extension for the Keppel Data Centre Campus at Genting Lane in Singapore.Keppel said t...
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Oklahoma
Data center developer Beale Infrastructure is planning another data center campus outside Tulsa in Oklahoma. Local press reports that the city of Claremore and Claremore Economic Development (CED) are in discussions with Beale over a data center development known as Project Mustang.“Over the p...
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Bucharest
The government of Chad is investing €175.1 million ($204.7m) in developing a National Data Center and in expanding its fiber optic networks. The investment represents Phase I of the State Connectivity Infrastructure Modernization Project (PMICE), seeking to improve digital infrastructure in th...
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