September 06, 2025 United States
Hitachi Energy has announced a $1 billion investment to scale up its grid infrastructure manufacturing footprint in the US, addressing the power demand from the AI data center sector. Nearly half of the investment, $475 million, is earmarked for the construction of a new power transformer...
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September 05, 2025 Chile
Chile’s undersecretariat of telecommunications (Subtel) this week authorized a request submitted by Starlink to roll out six ground stations across the country. Five of them will be located in the Metropolitan Region - in the municipalities of San Bernardo, Pudahuel, Las Condes, and Quilicura....
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September 04, 2025 United States
Rackspace Technology appointed Gajen Kandiah as its new CEO to drive its cloud AI ambitions in the sector, after joining the hybrid cloud provider from Hitachi Digital, where he served for more than five years across various divisions, most notably as COO and executive chairman."I am honored to...
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September 04, 2025 Virginia
Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...
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September 03, 2025 North Dakota
North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of...
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September 03, 2025 Michigan
A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Base...
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September 01, 2025 United States
Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers Google announced this week that it will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, which will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and the expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and...
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September 01, 2025 Ohio
Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’ to...
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August 30, 2025 New Mexico
Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the...
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August 30, 2025 United States
US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center that...
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August 28, 2025 United States
OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...
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August 27, 2025 New Mexico
US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has been granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site...
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August 26, 2025 Texas
Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliability...
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August 25, 2025 United States
Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrunk...
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August 25, 2025 Pennsylvania
Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III...
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August 23, 2025 United States
The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2bn...
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August 22, 2025 United States
Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...
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August 22, 2025 Texas
WHL Dallas 45 LLC has filed to develop a large campus across two adjacent sites in the Lancaster area of Dallas, known as Project Orange and Project Labrador. Combined, the two sites could host 13 facilities across more than 530 acres, totaling more than 2.5 million sq ft (232,258 sqm) and...
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August 22, 2025 Pennsylvania
The Dauphin County General Authority (DCGA) owned golf course was sold for $45.6 million to Harrisburg I, LLC, which intends to use the site for a data center project. Harrisburg I is a purchasing entity under the Texas realtor Provident Realty. According to the county, the proposal was one of...
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August 21, 2025 North America
Caterpillar, one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial equipment, has partnered with US power infrastructure developer Hunt Energy in a multi-year initiative to deliver upwards of 1GW of generation capacity for data centers in North America. The first project is expected to launch in...
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