Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) signed an engineering contract with Texas-based Mousterian Corporation to develop floating data centers, each delivering 50 MW of critical IT capacity, with deployments …
Local opposition delayed or blocked at least $130 billion of planned data center investment in the first quarter of 2026, the most in any single quarter on record, according to Roshan Shah, a data cen…
PJM Interconnection proposed a framework on July 27 requiring AI data centers and other large electricity users to secure generating capacity or face curtailments during shortages, with the plan slate…
Amazon.com Inc. raised its expected 2026 cash capital expenditures to approximately $220 billion, up from about $200 billion, citing higher memory costs, and CEO Andy Jassy said AI capacity will remai…
Uptime Institute's 16th Annual Global Data Center Survey, released on July 29, finds that 79% of operators report management concern over costs, modal rack density reached 11 kW, and 46% of IT workloa…
Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta used second-quarter earnings to signal a turning point in the AI infrastructure race, focusing on deployment speed, power availability and networking scale rather than GPU…
Brookfield and NextEra Energy plan to invest $100 billion to transform part of the US Department of Energy's former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant into an AI data center campus with more than 1.2 GW …
Amazon urged Virginia regulators during hearings this month to allow hyperscale data center operators to voluntarily fund transmission infrastructure through contributions in aid of construction (CIAC…
Core Scientific doubled its leased AI data center capacity to approximately 1.1 GW after signing a 15-year infrastructure agreement with AMD covering 530 MW across five campuses and representing more …
Galaxy Digital has acquired 500 acres in McGregor, Texas, to develop an AI and high-performance computing campus with a 74 MW first phase, representing more than $400 million in planned investment. Th…
Georgia Power recorded a 3,200 MW customer commitment and evaluated an anonymized 3,210 MW project months before OpenAI publicly unveiled its $20 billion, 3.2 GW Project Camellia AI campus, according …
AI workloads are expanding into low Earth orbit, but atmospheric turbulence and cloud cover threaten to throttle ground-to-space optical links, which are needed to move data at capacities above 100 Gb…
Texas regulators are tightening rules for AI data centers after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to make developers pay more of their grid connection costs and pr…
Intel is preparing another round of layoffs in its data center group, which supplies processors for AI infrastructure, despite reporting $5.1 billion in first-quarter 2026 data center and AI revenue, …
Gartner forecasts global data center spending will reach $653 billion in 2026, a 31.7% increase over last year, as AI infrastructure drives companies to rethink asset ownership across different econom…
The Department of Energy's draft 2026 National Transmission Needs Study concludes that AI data centers are now the dominant driver of U.S. electricity demand growth, reshaping grid expansion plans. Th…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the Helios rack-scale AI system and sixth-generation Epyc 9006 Series CPUs at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on July 23, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia's 'Data Center Alley' on Wednesday caused hyperscale data centers to automatically transfer to backup power, removing more than 3 GW of load from the PJM…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia's "Data Center Alley" caused hyperscale data centers to automatically transfer to backup power Wednesday, resulting in more than 3 GW of load disappearin…
Data center sustainability efforts, which had gained traction through voluntary pacts and efficiency standards, have been sidelined by the rapid buildout of generative AI infrastructure, but regulator…