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August 01, 2026
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North Carolina
A US data center park developer is seeking to build a new campus in North Carolina. In planning since last year, the site is currently zoned RA – Residential Agricultural. Tract’s site plans suggest up to five buildings could be developed on the site. The 400-acre site, between Patterson Farm ...
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United States
Meta has begun piloting the use of mass timber in the construction of its data center campuses, aiming to replace the use of steel and other building materials with wood-based products engineered for strength and durability.According to Meta, the products are engineered for use in industrial a...
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United Arab Emirates (UAE)
UAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026. Details around the satellite/data center the company is planning to launch, as well as how much capital the company will be investing in the project, weren't shared.When asked about the company, Romaithi said that this ...
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Uruguay
Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company, Antel, has announced that it wants to expand its infrastructure with two new data centers, as announced by the company's president, Alejandro Paz, during his visit to the Ing. José Luis Massera data center.On the creation of a data center ...
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California
US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...
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Applied Digital
CoreWeave has agreed to lease an additional 150MW of data center capacity from Applied Digital. This builds on a previous leasing agreement made in June 2025 for 250MW, netting Applied Digital around $7 billion over the 15-year contract term. This has now been increased to $11bn.“These long-te...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...
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Spain
Echelon Data Centres this week announced the signing of a joint venture (JV) agreement with Iberdrola to build and operate data centers in Spain. Echelon will own 80 percent of the JV, with Iberdrola owning the remaining 20 percent through its dedicated digital infrastructure subsidiary CPD4Gr...
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United States
Public US utility Exelon has said it has 33GW worth of data centers interested in connecting to its system. Exelon said that of the 33GW, 17GW is already in line to connect to its system, with a further 16GW set to be studied and added to the formal pipeline later this year. "We want to be par...
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Texas
Taylor City Council has unanimously approved a data center project proposed by new data center company Blueprint Project in northeast of Austin in Taylor, Texas on July 24. The data center will be located on a 52-acre parcel at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Taylor and, after three cons...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microso...
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California
The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial bu...
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Aligned
Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent t...
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Germany / Deutschland
European operator AtlasEdge has launched a new data center in Stuttgart, Germany, STR001 in the Böblingen area of the city. The company said the site was 100 percent powered by renewable energy and is fully compliant with the German Energy Efficiency Act (Energieeffizienzgesetz).“We’re proud t...
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Minnesota
Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably a...
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Wyoming
Crusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewable energy developments in the region....
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United States
US private real estate investment and development firm Menlo Equities is doubling down on data centers with a new dedicated platform - Menlo Digital, focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of data centers.Rick Holmstrom, Menlo Equities' founder and executive chairman, said: "We...
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United States
Krohne, the manufacturer of instrumentation and measurement tools, is expanding its production for the data center market and will be developing more magnetic flow meters (magmeters) for data centers, "dedicating a significant portion of its annual production capacity to meet escalating demand...
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United States
Vertiv has acquired the Great Lakes Data Racks & Cabinets family of companies, a maker of server racks for $200 million. Vertiv said the acquisition is expected to enhance its capacity to deliver pre-engineered, AI-ready rack solutions optimized for the enterprise, Edge, colocation, and hy...
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Italy
Italian Edge data center provider Rai Way has integrated geo-distributed cloud storage enabler Cubbit's DS3 Composer technology into its data center platform, starting with five data centers in Italy, located in Venice, Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Florence. The solution currently offers a storage...
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