Data Center News

180-acre Data Center Set to be Built in Lyon Township, Michigan

Michigan

A data center campus spanning 180 acres is set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. If the data center – known as Project Flex – is built, it will be located on the east side of Milford Road, south of the Huron Valley Trail crossing and south of New Hudson Drive West. It will consist of six...

PACE Taps Mace to Construct 168MW UK Data Center Portfolio

United Kingdom

UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three da...

Fermi America Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the proposed up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit filed by national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague PC was made on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fermi securities dur...

Google Confirmed as Company Behind 500,000 Square Feet Data Center

The Scioto County Commission has confirmed that Google is the company behind a 500,000 sq ft (46,452 sqm), $1 billion data center project in Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Google's identity was revealed after the commission awarded the cloud giant a tax abatement on the project.Google has been given ...

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...

Applied Digital Starts Work on 430MW Data Center Campus

Applied Digital

Data center firm Applied Digital this week announced that it has broken ground on Delta Forge 1, an AI factory campus located in a “strategic southern US market.” Delta Forge 1 is designed to support an initial 430MW of total utility power, enabling up to 300MW of IT load, with the ability to ...

Internet Services Partially Restored in Uganda Following General Election

Some Internet services have been restored in Uganda following the country's general election last week. Internet services were shut down in Uganda ahead of the election by Uganda's Communications Commission "to mitigate the rapid spread of misinformation."He saw off competition from former pop...

WOM Chile Completes the First Phase of its 5G rollout

WOM Chile has completed the delivery of all 366 mandatory locations named in its 5G rollout. Mandatory Locations are areas defined by the Chilean government as priorities for mobile connectivity and are part of the legal obligations associated with the allocation of 5G spectrum. “This mileston...

Instapay Technologies selects Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Malaysian fintech Instapay Technologies has selected Alibaba Cloud to support its payment platform. Alibaba Cloud has been selected to enable Instapay to scale quickly and reliably, while meeting regulatory requirements. The fintech is regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.Speaking on the agreemen...

NextDC Receives Development Approval for M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia

NextDC has received 'Development Approval' from the Victorian Government for its upcoming M4 campus in Melbourne, Australia. NextDC's CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, revealed the milestone in a post to LinkedIn late last week.The site is planned to host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engi...

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,"...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...