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Defence Construction Canada posts notice for CA$1.5bn–CA$1.85bn Ontario data center
The 60MW federal facility is planned for the National Capital Region, with the notice for a "modify design built" contract expected in winter 2027.
Google evaluates Roanoke County's Wood Haven park for a data center
Due diligence and inspection at the 111-acre site are expected to run through March 2027, with entitlements due by September 2027; size, building count and IT capacity have yet to be provided.
Manchester Financial seeks investment for potential 400MW data center at Navy NAVWAR site
The San Diego developer and Edgemoor hold a 99-year lease to redevelop the Point Loma campus, and no final project has been approved.
Anthropic signs 20-year lease for EverWind's Point Tupper data center
EverWind says the campus carries $10bn of private investment, with 95MW due by late 2027 and 325MW more targeted for 2028.
Stack Infrastructure affiliate files for second Lancaster data center building
The DFW02B filing carries a $540 million construction budget and a March 2027 to December 2028 schedule.
Apax agrees to buy Warburg Pincus's Odido stake for full control
The Dutch operator, formerly T-Mobile Netherlands, serves about eight million subscribers; the deal carries no disclosed price and needs regulatory approval.
GreenSquare opens SYD1 phase one with Sharon AI as anchor tenant
The eight-month retrofit reused a 1995 IBM data center; a planned 80MW addition would take the Sydney campus to 110MW.
Israel's Electricity Authority caps new data center connection capacity at 200MW, with per-megawatt guarantees
The reported rules follow a queue of about 27GW of projects and require NIS 2 million ($643,300) in guarantees per megawatt requested.
Alcoa to sell Massena smelter site to data center developer for up to $315m
Alcoa expects $50m to $65m at closing, with up to $250m more as the buyer's capacity is approved and commissioned.
Microsoft exits Nscale's Loughton data center as grid power slips to 2030s
Nscale says it remains committed to Loughton and is exploring alternative power sources; the site had targeted late-2026 completion.
Hillwood Polska shrinks buildings at planned Warsaw-area 130MW data center campus after opposition
The Reguły campus southwest of Warsaw will sit further from homes behind a landscaped buffer, after residents raised water, power and noise concerns.
Enverus: SPP leads large-load readiness while PJM holds largest pipeline
SPP has the most advanced framework but about 5% of the high-confidence pipeline; PJM's 11.8 GW is 58% expected to be served behind the meter.
Microsoft signs 20-year NiSource power deal for northern Indiana data center
The contract adds roughly 1.1GW to NiSource's portfolio from 2028, under a large-load rate class that makes the customer fund its own generation.
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Moncalieri mayor halts 576MW data center application near Turin
The project, billed before the halt as Italy's largest data center application, was to occupy 270,000 sqm on a former printing works LCP bought for €9 million in 2022.
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Riverway and Offshore Data Center plan floating compute platform on stranded gas
The platform would be 50 percent lighter than traditional designs and use seawater cooling, but no timelines, IT capacity or build costs were disclosed.
Salience Labs raises $125m Series B led by Bullhound Capital for optical switching
AMD Ventures and Intel Capital join the round, which the Oxford company says will fund volume manufacturing and a Silicon Valley expansion as it plans 128- and 256-port configurations.
LightEdge signs letter of intent for 10-acre Iowa data center campus
The Boone site could draw up to 46MW from utility Alliant, but LightEdge says it will start with a much smaller load and scale over years.
Nscale's Glomfjord data center six months behind schedule as IPO nears
Only 6.4MW of the Norwegian site's planned 30MW is operational, according to a Bloomberg report relayed by Data Center Dynamics.
Odisha cabinet approves $18.62m disaster recovery data center in Keonjhar
The Keonjhar site would back up the state's primary data center in Bhubaneswar, with more than $17m covered by a Fifth State Finance Commission grant.
Vietnam's CMC and Lotte Innovate sign MoU to develop data centers
The memorandum also covers cloud, EV charging, security and offshoring; planned data center projects were not detailed.
Pure Data Centres completes final Brent Cross transformer ahead of energization
The third 75MVA Hitachi Energy unit brings the LON01 substation to 150MVA; the second building is slated for completion in Q2 2029.
Modal raises $750m in Series D at $15.75bn, five months after Series C
The AI cloud company says it crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate and works with 13 cloud partners without owning data centers.
CapitaLand Investment unveils 53MW Chennai data center for end-2026 completion
The Ambattur facility, jointly held by CapitaLand India Trust and CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund, will offer 34MW of IT power in 13 data halls.
Langenhorn council advances Uniq Land's 150MW data center plan
The August 26 vote opens planning studies, but a 300MW expansion and wind-powered supply depend on regional grid upgrades.
Uruguay signs $5.7bn Solaria deal for up to 500MW of solar-paired data center capacity
Phase one pairs a 200MW data center with a 350MW solar project and is due in 2029.
Ooredoo Fibre agrees to buy iQ Networks dark fiber for Iraq-Turkey route
The route would carry Fibre in the Gulf traffic from Iraq's southern coast toward Turkey, subject to regulatory approval.
UK rejects Drax-backed bid to power 1.2GW data center with biomass
The Selby application failed AI Growth Zone selection criteria; Drax has pivoted to a 100MW project on grid power.
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DigiCo signs 71MW Sydney data center lease, taking SYD1 to fully leased
The 15-year agreement includes 20MW reassigned from capacity already under contract at the facility.
NERC stakeholders approve reliability standards for AI data centers, crypto miners
The draft rules would apply to computational loads of 50 MW or more connected at 100 kV and above; they next go to the NERC board and, if adopted, to FERC.
Meta identified as developer behind nearly 3,000-acre Kentucky data center campus
The agreement includes a 40-year property tax abatement and a $10 billion first phase, plus $115 million for local infrastructure.
Colt DCS and RMZ start 64MW Mumbai 3 build after hyperscaler lease
Once online, the campus will total 86MW, with 148MW possible at full build-out.
Digital Realty tops out 64MW Seoul data center, targeting H2 2027
The facility was announced in 2021 and originally expected online in the first half of 2023.
Oracle asks FERC to expedite New Mexico gas pipeline for Project Jupiter
The 17.8-mile Green Chile line would carry about 400 million cubic feet of gas a day to on-site fuel cells, according to the report.
Russia weighs AI data center sites in Belarus and Kazakhstan amid power constraints
Consultations are under way in Russia's digital development ministry and no location has been chosen, per RBC's reporting.
CtrlS signs non-binding LOI for 150MW Bihar data center
The $1 billion letter of intent covers a Bodh Gaya hyperscale campus; CtrlS's Rs 400 crore Patna facility is live with 12MW of IT capacity.
Virginia senator Russet Perry proposes three-year data center moratorium
Senate Bill 843 would stop state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027.
Air Force seeks design-build contractor for $4bn Space Command facility in Alabama
The notice covers a command-and-control facility and its supporting data center at Redstone Arsenal, with applications due Dec. 15, 2026.
SubCo to build 850km Sydney–Melbourne fiber route by June 2028
The greenfield SM-1 system is specified at a minimum of 96 fiber pairs, and founder Bevan Slattery says he will decide by year-end whether to buy a cable-laying vessel.
Colliers lists Austin data center leased to Lumen and LightEdge
The 31,960 sq ft Semicon III building carries $508,000 in annual rent on triple net leases running to 2030 and 2031, with no asking price disclosed.
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OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju to run compute and Stargate, replacing Katti
Sachin Katti, who took over the Stargate effort in March, is expected to remain as an adviser.