Crusoe tops off final AI data center in Abilene, Texas
Crusoe has marked a major milestone in its AI infrastructure expansion by topping out the eighth and final building at its flagship Stargate data center campus in Abilene, Texas. The campus is being developed by Crusoe and leased to Oracle and OpenAI. Construction began in July 2024 as part of the Lancium Clean Campus with […]
EDF, OpCore in talks to repurpose power plant in Paris
EDF and OpCore, a joint venture between Iliad Group and funds managed by InfraVia Capital Partners, have entered into exclusive negotiations with a view to developing a data center of several hundred megawatts on the site of the former Montereau-Vallée-de-la-Seine thermal power plant, located in the municipalities of Vernou-La-Celle-sur-Seine and La Grande-Paroisse (wider Paris metropolitan […]
EdgeMode to buy five AI data centers in Spain
EdgeMode, a global energy and AI-focused data center infrastructure company, has signed a definitive agreement with Blackberry AIF (BAIF) to acquire and develop five major data center sites in Spain. The assets will be transferred to a new special purpose vehicle (SPV) with EdgeMode holding a 75 percent stake and BAIF 25 percent. EdgeMode will […]
Forestalia to invest US$ 14 billion in three Aragon data centers
Forestalia, a renewable energy developer, plans to invest €12 billion (US $14 billion) to construct three data centers in the province of Zaragoza from 2028 or 2029, according to a report by euro press. Forestalia plans to power the data centers, located in Magallón, Botorrita and Alfamén, with 50 per cent renewable energy namely wind […]
Google invests US$40 Billion in 3 data centers in Texas
Google plans its largest investment in any state in the U.S. with US$ 40 billion and establishing three new data-center campuses across Texas as announced last Friday in Midlothian by Governor Greg Abbott and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. These facilities will power next-generation AI systems, strengthen cloud services for businesses, and expand the technical backbone […]
ESR debuts 80-MW data center in South Korea
Asia-Pacific real asset owner and manager ESR has announced plans to build its first data center in South Korea in partnership with Seoul-based Wide Creek Asset Management. The 80-megawatt facility spanning a nine-storey complex is named KR1 Data Center. Construction is scheduled to begin this week in Incheon’s Bupyeong district and will be fully operational […]
DartPoints completes US$ 125 million data center expansion in South Carolina; raised capacity 5 times
Data center provider DartPoints recently completed a US$ 125 million expansion of its Greenville County, South Carolina, data center increasing capacity from 2.5 megawatts to 12.5 MW and adding 88,000 sq ft of space. The Greenville site serves enterprises and universities that rely on high-performance computing and research capabilities to advance AI innovation. Facility construction […]
Solaria, Goldman Sachs seek European data center investor: Bloomberg
Spanish renewable-energy developer Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente SA has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to secure a financial partner for a newly established European data center infrastructure platform, according to Bloomberg, quoting sources familiar with the matter. The platform consolidates 3.4 gigawatts(GW) in grid connection capacity and 400 hectares of land across Spain, Italy, […]
Cassava Technologies and Entanglement ink deal to boost AI infrastructure and quantum innovation across Africa and Middle East
Cassava Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with U.S.-based Entanglement, Inc. to accelerate the rollout of advanced AI, cyber-security and quantum-inspired technologies across Africa and the Middle East. The agreement was finalized in Cape Town, South Africa on November 13, and aims to fast-track digital innovation in high-growth markets including Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, […]
Microsoft launches “planet-scale AI superfactory” in Atlanta
Microsoft has launched its newest Azure AI data center in Atlanta, Georgia, described as the world’s first “planet-scale AI super factory.” The Atlanta facility, the second in the line of Fairwater AI data centers, joins the first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, and connects to Microsoft’s broader global network of Azure data centers, enabling unprecedented compute […]