February 21, 2026 Virginia
US’ largest grid operator, PJM Interconnection, has approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan to keep up with surging data center connection requests across its footprint. The Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) serves all or parts of 15 states across the East Coast and South of the...
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February 21, 2026 Ontario
A new data center could be coming to Ontario, Canada. Bob Bailey, a member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, said on Thursday that a data center could be coming to the southern border city of Sarnia.Bailey suggested the proposed data center would deliver at least 100MW of capacity, noting that...
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February 21, 2026 New Jersey
Local authorities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday against allowing the construction of a data center on a plot of land slated for redevelopment, instead requiring that a park be built on the site. The New Brunswick City Council was reviewing a proposal for the Jersey-Sandford...
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February 20, 2026 Maine
Proposals to bring in a data center moratorium in Maine have threatened plans for a new campus in the Pine Tree State. The proposed bill, sponsored by Representative Melanie Sachs, includes a two-year moratorium on facilities above 20MW in the state while the impacts of data centers are studied...
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February 20, 2026 United States
Satellite operator SpaceX unveiled Stargaze, a novel SSA platform that uses 30,000 star trackers on its 9,600-satellite fleet to track surrounding objects in orbit and measure their speeds. “While Stargaze embodies a major improvement to the ability of any operator to fly safely, it is imperative...
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February 19, 2026 United States
US solid state transformer developer DG Matrix has raised $60 million as part of its Series A funding, led by Engine Ventures.“This Series A marks our transition from breakthrough technology to scaled infrastructure deployment,” said Haroon Inam, CEO of DG Matrix. “We are working with...
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February 18, 2026 United States
Cryptominer NFN8 Group has filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, with all of its assets put up for sale. The company pointed to a number of business challenges that had put pressure on its revenue line, but blamed a late 2025 data center fire for causing bankruptcy."For lessors whose miners...
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February 18, 2026 Utah
TV’s Kevin O’Leary is plotting a second “Wonder Valley” development, this time in the US state of Utah, and says the scheme could offer up to 7.5GW of power for hyperscale data centers."We have under development approximately 26,000 acres across two jurisdictions with the infrastructure necessary...
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February 18, 2026 Utah
US clean energy company Zeo Energy Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AI data center company Creekstone Energy to develop 280MW of solar and storage capacity for Creekstone’s data center campus in Millard County, Utah.“AI workloads are driving unprecedented demand for power....
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February 17, 2026 Ohio
The Ohio township of Muhlenberg has introduced a 12-month moratorium on planning applications for new data centers after residents voiced concerns about a digital infrastructure and energy campus being planned nearby.In comments reported by the Circleville Herald, trustee Jeff Wippel said the...
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February 17, 2026 Oklahoma
An Oklahoma House budget subcommittee has approved legislation aimed at protecting residential ratepayers from having to foot the bill for new infrastructure driven by rising data center demand.“This would make sure that regular ratepayers aren’t having to pay for those really high energy costs,...
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February 16, 2026 United States
The CEO of generative AI firm Anthropic warned that the purchase of escalating data center compute costs could be "ruinous" for the company if timed wrong."I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he said."One question...
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February 14, 2026 United States
The company this week announced the acquisition of Kratos Industries, a manufacturer of low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power equipment. Terms of the deal were not shared.“Data centers are facing unprecedented pressure to build out digital infrastructure at scale and with extreme...
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February 13, 2026 Oklahoma
Canadian energy company Jericho Energy Ventures has partnered with real estate developer Comstock Holding to form a joint venture focused on the development of AI data center campuses across Oklahoma."We are pleased to welcome Comstock, a leading real estate investor and developer, as a major...
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February 09, 2026 United States
Google Gets Greenlight for Data Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma The Sand Springs City Council has approved a gigawatt- scale data center campus development proposed by Google for just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, dubbed "Project Spring," planned for an 827-acre property located at 5615 OK-97, Sand...
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February 07, 2026 Virginia
Real estate firm TA Realty and its data center development arm, TA Digital Group (TADG), this week announced the sale of two hyperscale data center buildings totaling 745,000 sq ft (69,210 sqm) and 165MW of IT load capacity in Leesburg, Loudoun County.The facilities are the first two completed...
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February 07, 2026 United States
Data center infrastructure developer Serverfarm has closed its first asset-backed securities (ABS) offering at $589 million. The transaction was secured by three data center facilities: in Atlanta, a 153,000 sq ft (14214 sqm) facility with 12MW of critical IT capacity; a 300,000 sq ft (27,870...
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February 07, 2026 Texas
Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Spanish renewable energy firm Zelestra for energy from the 176 MWdc (136MWac) Skull Creek Solar Plant in Texas. According to Meta, the PPA will support its efforts to add new clean energy to the grid and support its drive to match...
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February 06, 2026 Rhode Island
Anglo-Tunisian data center and solar developer SoleCrypt is planning to build a 20MW data center in Bizerte, in northern Tunisia, in partnership with Schneider Electric. According to the companies, the data center will be located at the landing point for three submarine cables, including the...
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February 06, 2026 California
A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez...
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