Americas Data Center News

Elon Musk's xAI Raises $20bn to Fund Data Center Build-out

Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion to help fund its data center build-out. Financial backers include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group.“This financing will accelerate our world-leadin...

January 08, 2026

United States

500,000 Square Feet Data Center Development Targeted for Scioto County, Ohio

A company behind the affiliate Tilted Gate LLC is looking to develop a data center in Scioto County. The Scioto County commission said the center would be built in the Franklin Furnace area, specifically the Haverhill part of the county. The Scioto County commission has made its own announceme...

January 08, 2026

Ohio

Micron to Break Ground on New York Megafab Campus Next Week

Memory chipmaker Micron will break ground on a $100 billion semiconductor fab campus in Onondaga County, New York, on January 16. Consisting of four fabs when fully built, the so-called megafab is expected to be complete by Q3 2041 and will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US.In a ...

January 08, 2026

New York

Beale Infrastructure in Talks to Build Data Center Campus outside Tulsa, Oklahoma

Data center developer Beale Infrastructure is planning another data center campus outside Tulsa in Oklahoma. Local press reports that the city of Claremore and Claremore Economic Development (CED) are in discussions with Beale over a data center development known as Project Mustang.“Over the p...

January 07, 2026

Oklahoma

Rowan Starts Work on 300MW Data Center in Temple, Texas

US data center firm Rowan Digital Infrastructure this week announced it has broken ground on a new $700 million project in the Bell County city. The company is developing on some 700 acres along Bob White Road. At full build-out, the campus could reach 300MW. “This campus will help unlock the...

January 07, 2026

Texas

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer (...

January 06, 2026

New Jersey

Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern FranceData4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near...

January 05, 2026

United States

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios...

January 03, 2026

Georgia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data ce...

January 02, 2026

Virginia

Element Critical announces new data center platform in US

Element Critical this week announced the launch of a new US data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Element said with backing from its investors, the new platform will "accelerate acquisitions, development, and strategic expansion across top US markets."...

January 02, 2026

United States

Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

A new data center has been proposed in New Castle County, Newark, Delaware. The proposed data center would sit just off of Ogletown Road, on a 44-acre site currently occupied by the White Clay Center Industrial Park.The application describes consolidating the seven buildings of the campus into...

January 02, 2026

Delaware

Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

Chinese tech firm Token Cat and US-based Better Now have announced that they will collaborate to develop and operate an artificial intelligence data center in New York. The project will see a multi-phase roll-out to build a 30MW data center, with the company already having secured access to 12...

December 30, 2025

New York

Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025

AtlasEdge Sells Nine Data Centers Across Europe to Spanish Operator TemplusEuropean Edge data center company AtlasEdge has sold a portfolio of facilities to Spanish operator Templus. The companies announced the deal this week, with nine data centers trading hands. Google to Buy Intersect Power...

December 29, 2025

United States

What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

Few places on Earth are as quietly vital as a data center. From the outside, most look like simple warehouses: broad, windowless, and often isolated. However, data centers house some of the most complex environments ever engineered over centuries. Vast rooms filled with servers hum continuousl...

December 29, 2025

United States

New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

New Era Energy & Digital has signed a binding agreement to acquire Sharon AI’s 50 percent stake in Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture between the two companies, which is developing an AI data center in Ector County, Texas.New Era Energy & Digital will pay SharonAI an a...

December 26, 2025

Texas

New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

New Era Energy & Digital has signed a binding agreement to acquire Sharon AI’s 50 percent stake in Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture between the two companies, which is developing an AI data center in Ector County, Texas.New Era Energy & Digital will pay SharonAI an a...

December 26, 2025

Texas

Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

US independent power producer Red Post Energy Group has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with data center developer Wise Innovation Hub Venture (Oasis) to develop a natural gas power supply solution for a planned data center and technology hub in Wise County, Virginia."Reliable, dispatchable po...

December 24, 2025

Virginia

Nscale Agrees $865m Deal for 40MW of Space at WhiteFiber Data Center

Colo firm WhiteFiber has agreed a $865 million deal with Nscale that will see the neocloud take 40MW of space at an upcoming data center in North Carolina. The ten-year deal will see Nscale rent space at WhiteFiber’s NC-1 facility in Madison, North Carolina."WhiteFiber has taken a prudent and ...

December 24, 2025

North Carolina

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data ce...

December 20, 2025

Virginia

Data Center News

Elon Musk's xAI Raises $20bn to Fund Data Center Build-out

500,000 Square Feet Data Center Development Targeted for Scioto County, Ohio

Micron to Break Ground on New York Megafab Campus Next Week

Beale Infrastructure in Talks to Build Data Center Campus outside Tulsa, Oklahoma

Rowan Starts Work on 300MW Data Center in Temple, Texas

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Element Critical announces new data center platform in US

Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025

What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

Red Post Energy to Develop Natural Gas Power Solution for Planned Data Center

Nscale Agrees $865m Deal for 40MW of Space at WhiteFiber Data Center

Top Data Center Stories for 15th- 20th December

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

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