Former Newspaper Building in Kansas City Eyed for 20-Story Data Center Development
Revitalization Unlimited, a Miami‑based historic‑preservation fund, plans to replace the 1900‑era Western Newspaper Union building in Kansas City with a 20‑story, 30 MW data center. The 142,085 sq ft tower would feature natural‑gas fuel cells and ground‑floor retail, demolishing the existing 29,990 sq ft structure. Architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill presented the proposal to the Kansas Downtown Neighborhood Association to gather community feedback. The project will require a special‑use permit because the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
SoftBank Eyes 10GW Data Center at Former DOE Nuclear Enrichment Site in Ohio
SoftBank’s SB Energy will develop a 10 GW data‑center campus on the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment site in Ohio, powered by 9.2 GW of new natural‑gas generation funded with $33.3 billion of Japanese capital. The public‑private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy...
Duos Deploys Second Edge Data Center in Amarillo, Texas
Duos Edge AI has installed its second containerized edge data center in Amarillo, Texas, on Potter County land adjacent to the region's largest colocation facility. The 300 kW pod is slated to become fully operational in the coming months, expanding the...
Google Affiliated Company Buys 430 Acres of Land in Kansas City, Missouri
A Google‑affiliated entity, Shenandoah Computing LLC, has bought 430 acres near Kansas City International Airport to develop a data‑center campus dubbed Project Kestrel. The plan includes five 500,000‑square‑foot facilities built in phases, with a 44.2‑acre parcel earmarked for an on‑site...
Two Data Center Projects Debated for 11 Hours at Planning Meeting in Franklin County, Missouri
At a Franklin County planning and zoning commission meeting, officials debated two data‑center rezoning proposals for over 1,000 acres of agricultural land. The session stretched 11 hours, from 6 pm to 4:30 am, and ended with a decision postponed by a month....
Photonic Chip Company Q.ANT Deploys Second-Gen Photonic Processors at Germany’s LRZ
Q.ANT has installed its second‑generation photonic Native Processing Units at Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Center, expanding on a 2025 pilot. The new NPUs deliver over 50× higher matrix‑multiplication throughput and six times lower energy use while connecting via standard PCIe alongside...
Canaan Acquires Cipher’s Texas Mining Stake for $39.75m
Canaan has purchased a 49% equity stake in Cipher Digital’s West Texas mining venture for $39.75 million, acquiring three sites that together deliver 120 MW of power and about 4.4 EH/s of hash rate. The deal was funded through the issuance of over...
Telehouse Parent KDDI Acquires Office Site in London's Docklands Zoned for Data Center Expansion - Report
KDDI, the Japanese telecom group behind Telehouse, has agreed to buy the Republic campus in Tower Hamlets for roughly £250 million. The 483,000‑sq‑ft office site carries planning consent for a 376,000‑sq‑ft, 30 MW multi‑story data centre, directly adjacent to Telehouse’s existing Docklands...
Building the Next Generation of Data Centers: Where Industrial Expertise Meets Digital Urgency
Global data‑center spending is set to more than double by 2032, driven by AI and cloud workloads that could consume up to 8.6 % of national electricity by 2035. Traditional power and cooling architectures are reaching breaking points, prompting hyperscalers to...
SpaceX’s Starlink Asks Ofcom for Permission to Build Two New Earth Stations in London and Essex
SpaceX’s Starlink has applied to Ofcom for two new Ka‑band Earth stations—one in London’s Mulberry Wharf and another in Harlow, Essex—targeting early 2026 deployment. The company says its current gateway network is nearing capacity, forcing it to limit service to...
LRZ Decommissions CoolMUC-3 Supercomputer After Almost Decade of Use
Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has retired its CoolMUC‑3 supercomputer after almost a decade of service. Deployed in 2017, the nine‑rack cluster housed Intel Xeon Phi processors and delivered roughly 400 teraflops for fluid‑dynamic research at Bavarian universities. It pioneered Megaware’s ColdCon...
€1.6bn Irish Data Center Proposed in 2019 Finally Gets Go-Ahead
Art Data Centres secured final approval for a €1.6 billion, 200 MW data‑centre campus in County Clare after a six‑year legal battle involving environmental challenges and judicial review. The project, approved in 2022 and upheld through appeals, will feature six halls, off‑grid...
Hive Expanding Buzz Cloud Footprint in Canada
Hive Digital Technologies announced a four‑fold expansion of its Buzz HPC liquid‑cooled data‑center campus, raising total Canadian capacity from 4 MW to 16.6 MW. The rollout adds a new 5 MW colocation facility in British Columbia with an optional 7.6 MW boost, enabling support for...
Proposed Maine Moratorium Could Scupper Plan for Data Center in Old Paper Mill
Sentinel Data Centers, via developer JGT2 Redevelopment, plans a 1 million‑square‑foot data center on the former International Paper mill in Jay, Maine. The project, slated to begin construction in July, promises 800‑1,000 construction jobs and 125 permanent positions, with a proposed...
Digital Edge Secures Indonesia’s Largest-Ever Data Center Green Loan, Targeting Local AI Data Center Development
Digital Edge secured a $665 million green loan—the largest data‑center loan in Indonesia—to fund the first phase of its 500 MW CGK Campus, an AI‑ready facility that can scale to 1 GW. The loan supports a design targeting a PUE of 1.25, recycled‑water...
Canada's Bell Announces 300MW Data Center Campus in Saskatchewan, Names CoreWeave & Cerebras as Customers
Bell Canada announced a 300 MW data‑center campus near Regina, Saskatchewan, slated to begin construction this spring. The facility, Bell’s largest investment in the province, will be pre‑leased to AI cloud provider CoreWeave and wafer‑scale chip maker Cerebras. The first data...
Google Pledges $1bn Investment in North Carolina Data Centers
Google announced a $1 billion investment to expand its Lenoir, North Carolina data center, which already supports core services such as Maps, Photos, Search, Workspace, and YouTube. The expansion will add roughly 60 acres to the 337,000‑square‑foot campus, though detailed timelines...
Sponsored: Power-Ready Doesn’t Mean Shovel-Ready: Why Data Center Site Selection Is a Multi-Dimensional Problem
US data‑center investment is projected to reach $2.8 trillion by 2030, intensifying competition for viable sites. Power availability remains a visible constraint, but recent Q2 2025 data shows $98 billion in projects delayed or blocked due to regulatory, environmental, infrastructure, and community opposition....
Behind-the-Meter Data Center Proposed Outside Richmond, Virginia
LS Power is planning a 205‑acre, four‑building data‑center campus outside Richmond, Virginia, that could draw power directly from the adjacent Doswell natural‑gas plant via a behind‑the‑meter connection. The site will feature a GE Vernova LM6000 gas turbine and on‑site solar...
Orange Conducts 5G Standalone Trial for Emergency Services in Spain
Orange Spain and Madrid City Council completed Spain’s first real‑world 5G Standalone (SA) trial for emergency services, demonstrating network slicing that gives absolute priority to police, SAMUR and fire departments during a major public event. The trial, part of the...
Solving the Heat Problems: How Silicon Photonics Is Redefining Thermal Efficiency in Data Centers
AI-driven compute density is straining data‑center cooling as data movement generates most heat. Traditional copper interconnects add resistive losses, forcing energy‑intensive air cooling. Silicon photonics replaces electrical links with optical ones, slashing energy‑per‑bit and thermal output. Recent heterogeneously integrated photonic...
Eutelsat Completes Its Re-Financing Plan, Closing €1.5bn Bond Offering
Eutelsat announced the completion of its €5 billion financing plan by closing a €1.5 billion senior note issuance, the final step of a multi‑year equity and debt strategy. The proceeds will fund the deployment of OneWeb’s low‑Earth‑orbit satellites and support Europe’s IRIS²...
Openreach Uses Fiber Network to Detect Water Leaks in UK Trials
Openreach has teamed with Affinity Water and Lightsonic to pilot Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) on its UK fiber‑optic network, converting cables into thousands of vibration sensors that locate water‑pipe leaks. The trial monitors 650 km of water infrastructure, identified more than...
Atlancis and EverseTech Launch Sovereign AI Cloud in Kenya
Atlancis Technologies and EverseTech have launched Servernah Cloud, Kenya’s first sovereign AI cloud, hosted in iXAfrica’s Nairobi data centre. The platform merges Atlancis’ Servernah infrastructure with EverseTech’s AI‑as‑a‑Service, allowing Kenyan enterprises and government agencies to run AI workloads within national...
Ayar Labs and Wiwynn Partner for Development of Co-Packaged Optical AI Infrastructure
Ayar Labs and server maker Wiwynn announced a partnership to build rack‑scale AI infrastructure that uses Ayar’s co‑packaged optics, specifically TeraPHY engines powered by a SuperNova remote light source. The design can connect up to 1,024 AI accelerators and deliver...
Data Center Could Come to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Preliminary plans for the ‘Smithfield Gateway’ project propose two 250,000‑sq‑ft data centers in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on land between Music Center Drive and Smithfield Lane. The proposal is tied to Legend Properties, a commercial‑real‑estate firm active in the Philadelphia market, though...
Aligned Tops Out Maryland Data Center
Aligned announced the topping out of its IAD‑06 data center in Frederick, Maryland, completing the structural phase of the 72 MW, 450,000 sq ft facility. The two‑story building is part of a 75‑acre campus within TPG’s Quantum Frederick park, where a total of...
Texas Instruments Unveils Two New Microcontroller Units to Support Edge AI Applications
Texas Instruments announced two new microcontroller units, the MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex, equipped with its TinyEngine neural processing unit for Edge AI workloads. The integrated NPU promises up to 90‑times lower latency and more than 120‑times lower energy per inference compared...
Cadillac F1 Team Selects Core Scientific as Data Center Partner
Cadillac has appointed Core Scientific as the official data‑center partner for its new Formula 1 operation. The multi‑year deal will shape a $200 million, 400,000‑sq‑ft facility in Fishers, Indiana, designed for high‑density simulation, engineering, manufacturing, and race‑day workloads. Core Scientific will provide...
STMicroelectronics Enters High Volume Production of Photonics Chip
STMicroelectronics has begun high‑volume production of its PIC100 photonics chip, a 300 mm silicon platform that merges silicon photonics with next‑generation BiCMOS technology. The chip delivers 800 Gbps and 1.6 Tbps optical interconnects, targeting AI‑heavy data‑center workloads. Simultaneously, the company unveiled the PIC100 TSV...
400MW Data Center Could Be Built in Eastern South Africa
eThekwini Municipality in eastern South Africa signed a preliminary Memorandum of Agreement with a Korean energy‑technology consortium to explore a data centre near the Lovu River, south of Ocean View Road. The proposal mentions a potential 400 MW capacity, but the...
Data Center Proposal Rejected in Pekin, Illinois
The City of Pekin, Illinois, announced that it will not move forward with a proposed 321‑acre data‑center campus on the Lutticken Property. Mayor Mary Burress cited community opposition and uncertainty as reasons for halting the project, despite a tentative land‑sale...
Data Center Colo Results Q4 2025: Digital Realty, Equinix, Iron Mountain, American Tower
The leading public colocation operators—Digital Realty, Equinix, Iron Mountain and American Tower—closed 2025 with record revenues, each surpassing $6 billion and collectively topping $35 billion. Digital Realty posted $6.112 billion in total revenue and a $857 million Adjusted EBITDA, while Equinix reached $9.217 billion and...
Germany’s Polarise Plans 30MW Facility Outside Munich
German cloud provider Polarise announced a 30 MW AI‑focused data centre in Amberg, a former short‑wave transmitter site outside Munich, with a launch target of mid‑2027. The facility is designed to scale to 120 MW and will be powered by on‑site renewable...
FirstLight Expands New Hampshire Data Center
FirstLight announced a 25% expansion of its Bedford, New Hampshire data center, adding space for 100 new racks and private suites. The upgrade boosts power, cooling and connectivity to support enterprise workloads, private cloud and AI inference. The facility, originally...
CyrusOne Tops Out Latest Texas Data Center
Data center provider CyrusOne announced the topping out of the first building at its new Bosque County campus in Whitney, Texas. The $750 million DFW10 facility, a 250,000‑sq‑ft, single‑story data center, was constructed by 650 workers over 450,000 man‑hours without incident....
Akash Systems Launches AMD-Powered Diamond Cooled AI Servers
Akash Systems has introduced the first AMD‑powered AI servers that use its proprietary diamond‑cooling technology. Each chassis houses eight AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs, two EPYC 9005 CPUs and AMD Pensando AI NICs, and is built by MiTAC Computing. The company secured a...
Planning Commission Recommends Approval for 1.6m Sq Ft Planned Data Center in Louisville, Kentucky
The Louisville Planning Commission has recommended approval for a 1.6 million‑square‑foot data‑center campus near Shively, Kentucky. Developed by Poe Companies and PowerHouse Data Centers, the project will feature seven 219,534‑sq‑ft server buildings, an office, utility and security structures across 153 acres....
Equinix Signs Wind PPA with Auren Energia in Brazil
Equinix has signed a power purchase agreement with Brazil's Auren Energia to source wind power from two new farms, covering a substantial share of its Brazilian energy demand. The agreement, effective from 2026, underpins the company's expansion of data centers...
Vertiv & Generate Capital Team up on "Bring Your Own Power & Cooling" Offering for Data Centers
Vertiv and Generate Capital have launched a Bring Your Own Power & Cooling (BYOP&C) solution for U.S. data‑center developers facing grid constraints. The partnership merges Vertiv’s power‑train, thermal chain, and services with Generate’s financing, asset ownership, and operational expertise. BYOP&C...
Edge Data Center Firm Duos Partners with Hydra Host for Nvidia Cluster Deployment
Duos Technologies Group announced a non‑binding letter of intent with Hydra Host to deploy a high‑density Nvidia GPU cluster for an unnamed global technology customer. The GPU‑as‑a‑Service partnership is projected to generate about $176 million in revenue over the next 36...
Crestchic Launches Loadbank to Test Liquid-Cooled Data Center Infrastructure
Crestchic has introduced a 600 kW liquid‑cooled loadbank that can deliver up to 648 kW at 415 V while maintaining temperature accuracy of ±0.5 °C. The single‑vessel unit is available for both sale and rental and includes software for real‑time monitoring, automatic load profiling,...
Flexential Seeking $1.4bn in ABS, Backed by 28 Data Center Sites
Flexential is pursuing a $1.4 billion asset‑backed securities (ABS) issuance. The notes, structured in two series across four classes, will be secured by its 28 data‑center sites spanning 14 markets and roughly 1.8 million sq ft of floor space. Proceeds will cover closing costs...
Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banorte Partners with Hitachi Vantara of Data Center Migration
Grupo Financiero Banorte teamed with Hitachi Vantara to relocate its primary data center from Mexico City to Querétaro, moving 450 TB of information in under an hour. The migration introduced two mainframes, three Hitachi storage arrays, and the Virtual Storage Platform...
AWS Likely Behind Plans for $750m Data Center in Clinton, Mississippi
Amazon Web Services is poised to invest $750 million in a new data center on a 99‑acre site in Clinton, Mississippi, repurposing the former Milwaukee Tool facility. The city council approved a fee‑in‑lieu tax arrangement, though final approval from the Mississippi...
Orange Wholesale CEO: We're Not Looking to Sell Data Centers
Orange Wholesale CEO Michaël Trabbia told MWC that the French telco will not sell its roughly 75 data‑centre assets across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Instead, Orange plans to monetize the facilities by expanding colocation services for enterprise customers,...
Nvidia Hiring for Orbital Data Center System Architect, as Space Compute Market Grows
Nvidia announced a senior hire for an orbital data‑center system architect, offering a base salary between $224,000 and $356,500. The role will design end‑to‑end AI compute solutions that operate from the GPU chip through satellite platforms and inter‑satellite links. The...
Macquarie Partners with KINX & Gabia for South Korean Data Center Build-Out
Macquarie Asset Management’s Asia‑Pacific Infrastructure Fund 4 has teamed with South Korean IT firm Gabia and its network subsidiary KINX to launch a $420 million hyperscale data‑center venture. The joint‑venture will initially build a 40 MW facility in Ansan, Seoul, and aims to...
Google Files for Fifth Data Center at Midlothian Campus in Texas
Google, via shell company Sharka LLC, filed to build a fifth data center on its Midlothian, Texas campus. The $880 million project will span 288,000 sq ft and is slated for completion by February 24, 2027. This addition follows a $100 million fourth building announced in...
AWS UAE Suffers AZ Outage After "Objects Strike Data Center" And Cause Fire, Amid Iran Attacks
Amazon Web Services’ ME‑CENTRAL‑1 region in the United Arab Emirates experienced an Availability Zone outage after unidentified objects struck the data center, igniting a fire and prompting emergency power shutdown. The incident coincided with a wave of Iranian missile and...