October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...
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October 10, 2026 Google
Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned Google data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory environmental impact assessments were completed, the BBC reported. The order covers the company's project sites in Muhos and Kajaani, both in the...
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October 10, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the company announced on Oct. 7. The facility is being developed by MC Digital Realty, the operator's 50/50 joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, and is...
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October 08, 2026 AirTrunk
AirTrunk plans to invest an additional $1 billion to expand its Inzai data center campus in Japan and deploy liquid cooling for high-density AI workloads. The expansion will be funded by a $1 billion green loan led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, and United Overseas Bank....
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October 08, 2026 Google
Google’s planned data centers in Finland are under investigation after around 300 hectares of forest were reportedly cleared before environmental assessments were completed. Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has requested reports from local authorities and project manager Tuike Finland...
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October 07, 2026 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services has formally signed on to the largest gas-powered data center project in the United States. Amazon Data Services, Inc., the company's development arm, filed a Preliminary Land Development Plan with the Indiana County planning commission on August 28 under the project name...
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October 07, 2026 Google
Google will buy 890 MW of new nuclear output from Constellation Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement covering 11 reactors across the PJM Interconnection, the companies announced on Oct. 6. Constellation will spend more than $4.3 billion upgrading reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and...
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October 07, 2026 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has filed plans for a 36-building data center campus at the Homer City Energy Campus in Pennsylvania. AWS first revealed its interest in the area in August while discussing potential development with Homer City Redevelopment. The proposed campus will span 1,100 acres...
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October 06, 2026 Nova Complex
Green hydrogen and ammonia producer EverWind Fuels is exploring plans to add data centers at its industrial site in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company confirmed to CBC that its long-term plans could include data center development at the site, near Port Hawkesbury. EverWind...
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October 05, 2026 Google
Google’s former head of global data center design and construction, John M. Wilson, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff, leading EMEA capacity delivery after six years at Google. "Leading global infrastructure delivery across data centers and subsea programs taught me two enduring...
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October 01, 2026 Google
Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the...
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October 01, 2026 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received planning approval for a new data center project in Iver, Buckinghamshire, UK. Buckinghamshire Council approved the development, which will replace 17 industrial and warehouse units with a data center featuring 27 backup generators. Planning officers...
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September 30, 2026 Meta
Meta has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer Firmus Technologies for GPU compute capacity at Firmus sites across Southeast Asia, the companies announced Tuesday. The agreements cover contracted capacity plus options to expand, and Capital Brief...
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September 30, 2026 Equinix
Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the...
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September 30, 2026 Meta
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne...
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September 29, 2026 Google
Google has received planning approval from An Coimisiún Pleanála to expand its data center campus at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, following a lengthy dispute with South Dublin County Council. The company first proposed a 72,400 sqm (779,310 sq ft) third data center building at the...
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September 29, 2026 Global Switch
Global Switch has been chosen to host a large Nvidia Blackwell cluster at its data center in Paris, France. The mostly liquid-cooled deployment will be installed at Global Switch’s Nvidia DGX-ready facility in the city. The exact size has not been disclosed, but Global Switch described it as one...
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September 26, 2026 Amazon AWS
Generac has signed a long-term deal to supply backup generators to Amazon’s data centers. The agreement includes about $2.4 billion in deliveries over two years and could reach $8 billion overall. Amazon will also have the option to buy nearly 1.7 million Generac shares. “It provides visibility...
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September 26, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadership roles, most recently as general manager of global energy markets. Before Microsoft, he spent a...
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September 23, 2026 Google
A three-month Google-sponsored battery storage pilot in Texas has shown how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free energy matching for data centers. The pilot, led by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen Energy, used batteries to store surplus renewable energy and discharge it during periods of higher...
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