August 08, 2025 Amazon AWS
The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...
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August 08, 2025 Texas
Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was...
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August 08, 2025 Core Scientific
Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer...
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August 07, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an...
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August 06, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately...
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August 02, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's...
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July 31, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...
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July 29, 2025 Texas
Taylor City Council has unanimously approved a data center project proposed by new data center company Blueprint Project in northeast of Austin in Taylor, Texas on July 24. The data center will be located on a 52-acre parcel at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Taylor and, after three...
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July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...
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July 16, 2025 Texas
Duos Edge AI is set to deploy two of its Edge data centers in Corpus Christi, Texas which will serve as “central communications hubs for carriers delivering services to mobile operators, enterprises, local education, healthcare, and digital economy sectors while driving growth across the local...
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July 04, 2025 Texas
Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable,...
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July 03, 2025 Hut 8 Corp
Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie...
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July 02, 2025 Hut 8 Corp
Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by Hut...
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July 02, 2025 Texas
The University of Texas is looking to deploy a new data center to be housed in the education building at 500 W University Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The data center will span 4,568 sq ft (424.4 sqm) and is estimated to cost around $3 million. According to the posting, the project will be privately...
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June 28, 2025 Texas
The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 million...
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June 26, 2025 Texas
US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial...
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June 20, 2025 Amazon AWS
Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's...
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June 19, 2025 Texas
APR Energy has obtained approval from state regulators to move forward with the development of an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. The Pampa Chamber of Commerce and the Pampa Economic Development Corporation approved the project last Tuesday (July 10). The data center is expected to have an...
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June 18, 2025 Dallas
Cawley Partners has acquired 5,200 acres south of Dallas to potentially develop a large data center park outside Dallas. The acquired South Creek Ranch in the City of Ferris is set to see a mix of uses, including data centers, logistics, manufacturing, and residential. “This particular piece of...
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June 13, 2025 Amazon AWS
The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve...
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