Data Center News

OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset

OpenAI

OpenAI has reorganized its leadership as it shifts toward leasing more AI capacity from cloud providers. The company is still pursuing its global Stargate data center buildout with Oracle and SoftBank, but recent reports suggest it may scale back expansion plans in favor of rented infrastructu...

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...

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...

OpenAI Teams up with Tata to Expand Data Center Capacity in India

OpenAI

TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop AI infrastructure with 100MW of capacity, with an option to scale to 1GW.Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said: “India is already leading the way in AI ...

Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore

Singtel

Singtel has launched a new data center in Singapore. Nxera, The company's data center arm, this week announced the opening of DC Tuas, its largest facility in Singapore. With 58MW of capacity, the company claimed DC Tuas is Singapore’s highest-capacity data center.Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and ...

UAE-based Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Company Robo.ai is setting its sights on Data Center Development.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

An electric and autonomous vehicle developer is looking to move into the data center space.UAE-based Robo.ai last week announced that its Robo.ai Investments L.L.C.-FZ subsidiary has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Tachyon9 Corporation, a US-based data center infrastruct...

xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

South Africa

South African colocation and hosting firm xneelo  this week announced it has started construction on a new facility in the Samrand area of the city. Full details weren’t shared, but xneelo said the new facility will be modeled on its first Samrand data center's “proven design” while introducin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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: 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,...

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...

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...

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,...