March 26, 2026 United States
US operator Aligned Data Centers has secured new financing to support its data center build-out. The company this week today announced the closing of a new $2.58 billion credit facility to support the continued expansion of its US data center portfolio.Backed by insurance firms, pension funds,...
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March 25, 2026 Minnesota
Singapore-based real estate firm RealVantage is entering digital infrastructure, investing $7 million in a 21MW data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The data center was acquired earlier this year by US firm Cloud Capital and Bahrain’s Arcapita, who plan to expand the site to 31MW. “The...
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March 24, 2026 Montana
Data center developer Krambu is planning an AI facility in Bonner, Montana. The project, proposed for the former Bonner Mill Industrial Park in Missoula County, is intended to have a sustainable footprint, according to CEO Steve Wood. In an interview with local outlet MTN, Wood said the proposed...
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March 23, 2026 United States
€1.6B Irish Data Center Proposed in 2019 Finally Approved A €1.6 billion data center project finally received approval on Friday, March 13, after six years of permitting hurdles and legal challenges. Art’s proposal will see the construction of a 200MW campus with six data halls each offering...
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March 21, 2026 Virginia
A new data center project may be planned in the heart of Virginia’s Data Center Alley. DCD understands that the Regency neighborhood in Ashburn, Loudoun County, is in talks to sell the site to a data center developer once planning approval is secured.Regency is a residential community of around...
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March 21, 2026 Georgia
Real estate firm Crow Holdings Development and CHI/Acquisitions have effectively withdrawn their application to build a data center in Fayetteville, Georgia. Although the project was rejected by the city’s planning and zoning commission in late January, Crow Holdings had planned to appeal the...
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March 19, 2026 Ohio
Ohio state senator Bernie Moreno has urged the backers of a $136m data center to forgo tax subsidies tied to its planned expansion. In a public letter on Monday, he argued that the economic benefits of expanding the Ark Data Centers campus do not justify the subsidies.The expansion would create...
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March 18, 2026 Georgia
Local authorities have approved the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia. Commissioners backed the project in a 4–1 vote; officials estimate it will be worth $1 billion and generate about $25 million in annual local tax revenue. The project will include six data...
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March 17, 2026 Mississippi
A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a...
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March 16, 2026 Canada
Canadian data center company Virtual Grid has launched a prototype modular “compute node.” The unit is designed to function as both a virtual data center and a virtual power plant, and is set to be deployed across Western Canada, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba....
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March 16, 2026 United States
A €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) data center project finally received approval on Friday, March 13, after six years of permitting hurdles and legal challenges. Developer Art Data Centres secured planning permission in 2022, won an appeal in 2024, and successfully defended against a judicial review...
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March 16, 2026 United States
Microsoft and Meta Commit to $50bn in New Data Center Leases in Latest Quarter Microsoft and Meta have each committed around $50 billion to additional data center leases in the latest quarter, thee new deals pushing total future data center lease commitments by cloud companies and hyperscalers to...
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March 13, 2026 United States
US real estate company Comstock has launched a dedicated data center unit and partnered on two development projects. The Nasdaq-listed firm announced the creation of its Data Center Platform (DCP) and said it has entered into two separate partnerships to pursue large-scale data center campuses in...
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March 13, 2026 United States
Smelting company Korea Zinc is discussing plans with US tech firms to extract and recycle rare earth minerals from retired data center equipment, according to Chairman Yun B. Choi in a Reuters interview. Trade tensions between Beijing and the US, exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s threats of...
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March 12, 2026 Ohio
A new data center has been confirmed for Adams County, Ohio, at the former Dayton Power & Light landfill site. According to a regulatory filing from AES Ohio, the proposed operator has requested an initial electricity load of 100MW in 2028, rising to 1.3GW by 2032.Since the filing, the US...
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March 12, 2026 Pennsylvania
A data center project has been proposed for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The proposed “Smithfield Gateway” development was discussed by the Smithfield Township Planning Commission in mid-February and would be located south of Music Center Drive and north of Smithfield Lane. Plans include two data...
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March 12, 2026 Maryland
Aligned has reached the topping-out milestone for a data center in Frederick, Maryland. Turner Construction Company and Aligned announced that the structural phase of the 72MW Aligned IAD-06 facility is now complete.The two-story, 450,000 sq ft (41,805 sqm) data center sits on a 75‑acre campus...
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March 11, 2026 Mississippi
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus 2...
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March 10, 2026 Kansas
The developer behind a proposed 316-acre data center project in Spring Hill, Kansas, has pulled its application ahead of a planning commission meeting scheduled for March 25. Data center consultancy Colossus Data Center Advisors had planned to develop a campus at the southeast corner of 191st...
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March 10, 2026 United States
Crestchic has launched a 600kW load bank designed to test liquid-cooled data center infrastructure.The company, a manufacturer and provider of load bank solutions, last week announced the launch of its 600kW Liquid Cooled offering. Loadbanks are electrical testing devices that simulate a real...
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