North America Data Center News

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

August 09, 2025

United States

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

August 08, 2025

Amazon AWS

Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was devel...

August 08, 2025

Texas

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

The Pentagon is planning to put out a request for proposals for the next iteration of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program as soon as Q1 of 2026. The contract dubbed JWCC Next will replace the previous iteration, which was awarded in 2022, though there will be a transition per...

August 07, 2025

United States

Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round

Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider and video, image, and audio provider Fal has raised $125 million and has closed its Series C round, which saw the company valued at $1.5 billion.Posting to LinkedIn, Fal wrote: “Fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applica...

August 06, 2025

United States

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost approxi...

August 05, 2025

Ohio

Top Data Center News from 28th July - 2nd August

Madari Space to Pilot Sending Data Centers into SpaceUAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026, addressing the exponential growth of data that is being generated both on Earth and in space. eStruxture Secures US$1 Billion in Data Center ABS FinancingeStruxture D...

August 04, 2025

United States

Quantica Plans for 1GW Campus in Montana

Quantica Infrastructure, a new venture focused on providing land and power to data centers in the US this week introduced its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure, a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus outside Billings, Montana.The company said the proj...

August 04, 2025

United States

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in Arizona

Land developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project. The potential facility would be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site south of Eloy, which is a city in between Phoenix and Tucson. The land parcel is located along the Greene Canal.Once devel...

August 04, 2025

Arizona

Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

A US data center park developer is seeking to build a new campus in North Carolina. In planning since last year, the site is currently zoned RA – Residential Agricultural. Tract’s site plans suggest up to five buildings could be developed on the site. The 400-acre site, between Patterson Farm ...

August 02, 2025

North Carolina

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Swells to 10GW

California’s largest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), has reported another increase in its data center pipeline. The utility said that it now has 10GW of capacity in its pipeline, expected for connection over the next ten years.Of the 10GW, 17 data center projects ...

August 02, 2025

United States

Meta Pilots Use of Mass Timber in Data Center Construction

Meta has begun piloting the use of mass timber in the construction of its data center campuses, aiming to replace the use of steel and other building materials with wood-based products engineered for strength and durability.According to Meta, the products are engineered for use in industrial a...

August 02, 2025

United States

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...

August 01, 2025

California

eStruxture Secures US$1 Billion in Data Center ABS Financing

eStruxture Data Centers this week announced CA$1.35bn (US$967.9m) in financing to fund the development of AI-ready data centers across Canada. The financing includes the first rated, Canadian asset-only data center securitization, raising a total of C$750m (US$542.8m) from its inaugural issuan...

August 01, 2025

Canada

Apple to Increase AI Investments

Apple is planning to increase its investment in AI infrastructure as CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh recently told analysts that they expect capex to grow "substantially." The spending will, in a large part, be driven by the company's focus on AI, with Parekh stating that this will see the c...

July 31, 2025

United States

Talen Energy Acquires Two Gas Plants within PJM Market

US Independent Power Producer Talen Energy has made two major power generation acquisitions in Ohio and Pennsylvania to support its capacity to power the data center sector.The company acquired the 1.058GW Moxie Freedom Project located in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, from Caithness Energy, an...

July 30, 2025

United States

Exelon Reports Data Center Pipeline of 33GW

Public US utility Exelon has said it has 33GW worth of data centers interested in connecting to its system. Exelon said that of the 33GW, 17GW is already in line to connect to its system, with a further 16GW set to be studied and added to the formal pipeline later this year. "We want to be par...

July 30, 2025

United States

Blueprint Projects Receives Approval for Data Center in Taylor, Texas

Taylor City Council has unanimously approved a data center project proposed by new data center company Blueprint Project in northeast of Austin in Taylor, Texas on July 24. The data center will be located on a 52-acre parcel at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Taylor and, after three cons...

July 29, 2025

Texas

Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th July, 2025

Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in WyomingCrusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewa...

July 28, 2025

United States

Data Center News

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

Satoshi Energy Launches Behind-the-Meter Data Center at Texas

Pentagon to Launch Next Iteration of JWCC Contract in 2026

Fal Raises $125m in Series C Funding Round

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

Top Data Center News from 28th July - 2nd August

Quantica Plans for 1GW Campus in Montana

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in Arizona

Tract Plans 400-acre Data Center Park outside Charlotte

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Swells to 10GW

Meta Pilots Use of Mass Timber in Data Center Construction

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

eStruxture Secures US$1 Billion in Data Center ABS Financing

Apple to Increase AI Investments

Talen Energy Acquires Two Gas Plants within PJM Market

Exelon Reports Data Center Pipeline of 33GW

Blueprint Projects Receives Approval for Data Center in Taylor, Texas

Top Data Center News for 21st - 26th July, 2025

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