Uptime Institute's 16th Annual Global Data Center Survey reports modal rack density reached 11 kW in 2026, up from 9 kW in 2025, while AI racks such as Nvidia's GB300 NVL72 require up to 142 kW per ra…
Nvidia's data center revenue surged 117% year over year to $89 billion in the quarter ended July 26, with total revenue reaching $96.2 billion, and the company forecasts $108 billion for the current q…
Data center operators are increasingly deploying AI to improve cooling, power optimization, and predictive maintenance, with Digital Realty reporting a 34% portfolio growth against only a 3% increase …
PJM Interconnection's latest capacity auction left the grid operator 6.8 GW below its Reliability Requirement for the 2028/29 delivery year, prompting a proposed Reliability Backstop Procurement filed…
OpenAI is moving energy planning inside its data center development organization by hiring a Clean Energy and New Technology Lead within its Industrial Compute organization to evaluate clean firm powe…
Data center rack densities have risen from 5-10 kilowatts (kW) to 30 kW, 50 kW, or higher, pushing air cooling to its limits, according to tech expert Brien Posey. Three liquid cooling options—rear-do…
Lancium and Nvidia are partnering to deploy Nvidia's AI factory technology across Lancium's portfolio, which includes 4 GW of leased capacity and more than 15 GW of powered land in development. Nvidia…
Prometheus Hyperscale plans a 1.5 GW data center campus in Reeves County, Texas, powered by an islanded generation system to avoid initial ERCOT grid connection, with a development path to 2.5 GW. The…
Zayo Group Holdings Inc. has reserved manufacturing capacity with Corning Inc. for a material portion of the fiber it needs through 2030 to support its 15,000 route-mile network expansion, driven by A…
Global data center capital spending is projected to surpass $3 trillion by 2030, nearly doubling Dell'Oro Group's January 2026 forecast, driven by hyperscalers, sovereign AI programs, and specialized …
Micron Technology announced Thursday it will invest $10 billion in Micron Research Labs, a Boise-based hub focused on advanced memory technologies, memory and compute architectures, advanced packaging…
Cisco, Broadcom, and Nvidia are converging on 51.2-102.4 Tbps-class Ethernet switching silicon to prevent network bottlenecks in AI data centers, with Cisco announcing its Silicon One G300 and P200 ch…
A new House bill, H.R. 10102, introduced by Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore., would impose a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour federal excise tax on electricity used by data centers with more than 1 megawatt of pow…
Nvidia Corp. is providing up to $105 billion in residual-value guarantees for OpenAI's planned Ohio data center campus, covering an initial 4.25 GW of IT capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike Technology …
Data Center Knowledge's most-read hardware stories from July through mid-August 2026 highlight an infrastructure-first phase of AI buildouts, with energy, minerals, and networking taking center stage.…
North American data center vacancy remains at 1%, but JLL reports that only a very small share of that capacity can support high-density AI deployments, with most vacancies in legacy products. A 5 MW …
A March 2026 Gallup survey found that 71% of Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their area, and a June 2026 Reuters/Ipsos poll put local opposition at 57%, as community backlash…
Amazon is building its own power system for an 8,000-acre Texas AI campus and is now exploring connecting that system to the grid to supply other customers, according to a company spokesperson. The pr…
Sunrun will supply Voltus with capacity from residential solar-plus-storage systems in PJM and MISO under an agreement supporting Voltus' Bring Your Own Capacity programs for AI hyperscalers, the comp…
Asia-Pacific's data center development pipeline hit a record 26.5 GW in H1 2026, driven by AI and cloud infrastructure investment, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The pipeline grew by 7.1 GW in six …