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Granite sells Toronto data center to unknown buyer for CA$16.5M
The Scarborough trade prices a working 10-megawatt facility at CA$1.65 million per megawatt.
Pilot Fiber closes Extenet acquisition, crossing into New Jersey
Pilot's acquisition of Extenet's enterprise fiber business adds more than 20 data center connections and a New Jersey footprint. Terms were not disclosed.
Rakuten Symphony and Viva Bolivia sign non-binding Open RAN MoU
The pact lays out a cloud-native, Open RAN future for Viva without committing capital or setting a deployment schedule.
Barings paper argues the AI buildout's limits are physical
The paper ties construction constraints to inflation and margin pressure, landing as hyperscaler commitments keep growing.
Nebius plans $4.5 billion convertible raise for AI cloud buildout
The two-series note sale can expand past $5 billion with a greenshoe, paying for GPUs and data center construction while revenue still catches up.
Nvidia guarantees first 4.25GW of OpenAI's Ohio data center
Nvidia's balance sheet now stands behind OpenAI's 10GW-scale data center.
Renewables Now flags Equinix Singapore solar deal
A single headline points to a solar off-take by Equinix in Singapore; no terms or confirmation are in view.
New South Wales ties data center approval to 40% wind power
New South Wales will require new data centers to buy wind power for 40% of their electricity before approval.
WhiteFiber pays $60M to turn North Carolina textile plants into data centers
The Yadkin County acquisition shows AI cloud providers paying for existing buildings to compress the path to capacity.
Hyperscaler signs 20-year lease for 50MW at Goodman's Tsukuba campus
An unnamed hyperscaler has committed to the first phase of the 1GW campus, with service expected in early 2028.
Mubadala weighs ¥1 trillion bet on 500MW Akita data center
A sovereign fund's potential ¥1 trillion backing would mean a seven-year wait through 2033.
AWS lifts Louisiana data center bet to $18 billion
AWS adds a $6 billion Shreveport campus and pays the water and grid bills itself.
Colt DCS names Quy Nguyen permanent CEO after acting stint
The appointment ends a months-long acting stint and puts nearly 800MW of development squarely on Nguyen's plate.
Melbourne Airport taps DXN for AU$4.1 million edge data center
The AU$4.1 million order is a small contract, but it suggests airports are buying prefabricated edge capacity as a standard product.
JK Land refiles Gainesville data center plan with a five-to-seven-year wait
The revived 82-acre campus needs a special use permit and a five-to-seven-year wait for power.
Everpure signs second hyperscaler for DirectFlash storage
A top-five hyperscaler signs a master supply agreement, with revenue expected from fiscal 2028.
Centra names CyrusOne veteran to lead 300MW buildout
Robert Crespi takes over as the company raises $230 million and takes on a 300MW mandate for HighBrook.
NVIDIA validates Castrol direct-to-chip coolants for AI factories
The endorsement puts Castrol on a short list for AI cooling specs, but no capital commitments came with it.
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California data center bills advance as lawmakers target rates and pollution
Sacramento adds legislative risk to the data center site-selection math.
AECOM's record backlog meets a $337 million charge
The engineering firm's loss shows where AI infrastructure risk lives: construction, not demand.
Equinix signs 11.5MW rooftop vPPA with Flo Energy in Singapore
A fourth Singapore PPA brings Equinix's contracted renewable capacity to 215MW, all expected online in 2028.
L&T to host Nvidia cluster for Together AI in Chennai
Companies call the 10,000-GPU deployment India's largest single-cluster AI infrastructure, with a 250MW first phase.
Gramercy sells its financial backbone before it has a route
Gramercy Networks wants trading firms to pre-order capacity on a five-city network before construction begins, letting demand set the route.
Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea data center
The new site lands just over a year after the second, deepening Alibaba's Korean footprint under a $53bn global buildout.
Core Scientific closes Polaris deal, expands Muskogee campus to 1.5GW
The $444 million Polaris acquisition delivers 440MW of grid power and 40 acres, letting Core Scientific push its Oklahoma campus to 1.5GW.
TBC family office files for 300MW data center campus in Northumberland
A UK joint family office has requested a screening opinion for a potential 300MW data center campus, with a second project listed in Didcot.
Tencent Cloud's Johor region lands next to Alibaba
Two availability zones go live this week in southern Malaysia, putting Tencent in the same state Alibaba chose for its June launch.
ABB builds ultracapacitor storage for Ireland's data-center grid rule
A modular behind-the-meter platform pairs ultracapacitors with grid-forming controls to keep Irish data centers connected through fault events as EirGrid's MPID345 code takes shape.
Nigeria to start deploying 3,700 rural towers in October
A World Bank-backed state program will start deploying more than 3,700 telecom towers in October. The goal is mobile coverage for more than 20 million Nigerians.
Koray GYO brings Turkish capital to US data center land
The Turkish REIT is scouting Texas and Louisiana, a new cross-border entrant to the US data center buildout.
CVC DIF takes majority stake in Frankfurt colocation operator
CVC DIF's Value Add IV is buying Firstcolo, whose Frankfurt sites are nearly full, plus a 24MW development due in 2027. The founders stay on to build a German platform.
Sunrun, Voltus turn home batteries into AI data center capacity
A distributed-energy pact lets hyperscaler-backed data center developers bring residential capacity to PJM and MISO interconnections.
DayOne deploys Singapore’s first biological data center prototype
A 20-unit Cortical Labs CL1 system now runs at NUS Medicine, putting lab-grown neurons on the path from research to commercial infrastructure.
Engie's three-party Texas deal adds a layer between QTS and the grid
Renewables Now reports the power deal but does not name the third counterparty. That missing name is the detail to watch.
Two California data center bills advance despite industry pushback
State lawmakers move to keep the AI buildout from raising utility rates and pollution.
California approves Charter-Cox merger with $305 million in conditions
California's approval of the Charter-Cox merger comes with $305 million in required investments and a five-year affordability commitment.
Starlink goes live in Vietnam and signs a launch deal with VinSpace
Starlink switches on in Vietnam as its sixth Southeast Asian market, under a 600,000-subscriber cap and a 2030 sunset. The VinSpace launch deal looks past the trial.
CVC DIF takes majority stake in German colocation operator Firstcolo
The infrastructure fund's purchase lands alongside a Frankfurt data-center exit, pointing to mid-market asset rotation.
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Axe Compute puts 49% stake in Duos' 55MW build
The neocloud is buying ownership of the data centers, not just renting capacity.
The inland data center build-out hits a wall of resistance
Seven in ten Americans oppose local data centers, and the industry's next phase has to navigate that opposition.