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- Data centers & fiber
Google evaluates Roanoke County's Wood Haven park for a data center
Due diligence and inspection at the 111-acre site are expected to run through March 2027, with entitlements due by September 2027; size, building count and IT capacity have yet to be provided.
- Energy Transition
Amazon and AEP agree to explore 960MW of X-energy reactors in Indiana
Amazon would fund the project and buy the first power from 12 Xe-100 units rated at 80MW each.
- Data centers & fiber
Manchester Financial seeks investment for potential 400MW data center at Navy NAVWAR site
The San Diego developer and Edgemoor hold a 99-year lease to redevelop the Point Loma campus, and no final project has been approved.
- Data centers & fiber
Anthropic signs 20-year lease for EverWind's Point Tupper data center
EverWind says the campus carries $10bn of private investment, with 95MW due by late 2027 and 325MW more targeted for 2028.
- Energy Transition
AEP, Amazon and X-energy explore 960-MW Indiana nuclear project
Amazon would buy the power under a contract covering the facility's cost and operations if it is built; no price, term or schedule was disclosed.
- Transport & public-private
US DOT obligates $550M for North Carolina's S-Line rail corridor
The Federal Railroad Administration funding follows a nearly $300 million April award for the Piedmont Corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte.
- Data centers & fiber
Stack Infrastructure affiliate files for second Lancaster data center building
The DFW02B filing carries a $540 million construction budget and a March 2027 to December 2028 schedule.
- Data centers & fiber
Apax agrees to buy Warburg Pincus's Odido stake for full control
The Dutch operator, formerly T-Mobile Netherlands, serves about eight million subscribers; the deal carries no disclosed price and needs regulatory approval.
- Data centers & fiber
GreenSquare opens SYD1 phase one with Sharon AI as anchor tenant
The eight-month retrofit reused a 1995 IBM data center; a planned 80MW addition would take the Sydney campus to 110MW.
- Data centers & fiber
Israel's Electricity Authority caps new data center connection capacity at 200MW, with per-megawatt guarantees
The reported rules follow a queue of about 27GW of projects and require NIS 2 million ($643,300) in guarantees per megawatt requested.
- Data centers & fiber
Alcoa to sell Massena smelter site to data center developer for up to $315m
Alcoa expects $50m to $65m at closing, with up to $250m more as the buyer's capacity is approved and commissioned.
- Data centers & fiber
Microsoft exits Nscale's Loughton data center as grid power slips to 2030s
Nscale says it remains committed to Loughton and is exploring alternative power sources; the site had targeted late-2026 completion.
- Data centers & fiber
Hillwood Polska shrinks buildings at planned Warsaw-area 130MW data center campus after opposition
The Reguły campus southwest of Warsaw will sit further from homes behind a landscaped buffer, after residents raised water, power and noise concerns.
- The Wrap
Microsoft-NiSource power deal makes data center customer fund its own generation
The 20-year contract, closed Oct. 19, adds roughly 1.1GW to NiSource's portfolio from 2028 and covers a northern Indiana data center.
- Data centers & fiber
Enverus: SPP leads large-load readiness while PJM holds largest pipeline
SPP has the most advanced framework but about 5% of the high-confidence pipeline; PJM's 11.8 GW is 58% expected to be served behind the meter.
- The Wrap
Uruguay signs $5.7bn Solaria deal for up to 500MW of solar-paired capacity
Phase one pairs a 200MW data center with a 350MW solar project and is due in 2029, according to the newsroom's data basis.
- Data centers & fiber
Microsoft signs 20-year NiSource power deal for northern Indiana data center
The contract adds roughly 1.1GW to NiSource's portfolio from 2028, under a large-load rate class that makes the customer fund its own generation.
- Energy Transition
Illinois passed a battery storage incentive program as data center demand rises
Canary Media reports Illinois has built renewables toward its 2050 clean-energy mandate but has lagged on storage.
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- Fundraising
Global Infrastructure Hub: Private infrastructure investment flat for eighth year in 2021
Green projects reached a record 60% of total private infrastructure investment in 2021.
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- Data centers & fiber
Moncalieri mayor halts 576MW data center application near Turin
The project, billed before the halt as Italy's largest data center application, was to occupy 270,000 sqm on a former printing works LCP bought for €9 million in 2022.
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- The Wrap
NERC stakeholders back draft reliability rules for 50MW-plus compute loads
The draft covers 50 MW-plus AI data centers and crypto miners at 100 kV or above; the next step is the NERC board, then FERC.
- Energy Transition
FERC proposes dropping air dispersion modeling from gas project reviews
The draft policy statement passed 4-1, with Commissioner Judy Chang saying it would weaken assessment of local air impacts.
- Data centers & fiber
Riverway and Offshore Data Center plan floating compute platform on stranded gas
The platform would be 50 percent lighter than traditional designs and use seawater cooling, but no timelines, IT capacity or build costs were disclosed.
- Data centers & fiber
Salience Labs raises $125m Series B led by Bullhound Capital for optical switching
AMD Ventures and Intel Capital join the round, which the Oxford company says will fund volume manufacturing and a Silicon Valley expansion as it plans 128- and 256-port configurations.
- Energy Transition
Actis adds 244MW of Polish battery storage from DRI
Kozienice is acquired and construction-ready; Trzebinia is signed and completes once operational.
- Data centers & fiber
LightEdge signs letter of intent for 10-acre Iowa data center campus
The Boone site could draw up to 46MW from utility Alliant, but LightEdge says it will start with a much smaller load and scale over years.
- Data centers & fiber
Nscale's Glomfjord data center six months behind schedule as IPO nears
Only 6.4MW of the Norwegian site's planned 30MW is operational, according to a Bloomberg report relayed by Data Center Dynamics.
- Data centers & fiber
Digital Realty eyes 1GW data center campus in Kokomo, Indiana
The plan covers three single-story data centers across roughly 3 million sq ft and a possible full buildout by 2033, according to Data Center Dynamics.
- Data centers & fiber
Odisha cabinet approves $18.62m disaster recovery data center in Keonjhar
The Keonjhar site would back up the state's primary data center in Bhubaneswar, with more than $17m covered by a Fifth State Finance Commission grant.
- Data centers & fiber
Vietnam's CMC and Lotte Innovate sign MoU to develop data centers
The memorandum also covers cloud, EV charging, security and offshoring; planned data center projects were not detailed.
- Data centers & fiber
Pure Data Centres completes final Brent Cross transformer ahead of energization
The third 75MVA Hitachi Energy unit brings the LON01 substation to 150MVA; the second building is slated for completion in Q2 2029.
- Data centers & fiber
Modal raises $750m in Series D at $15.75bn, five months after Series C
The AI cloud company says it crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate and works with 13 cloud partners without owning data centers.
- Data centers & fiber
CapitaLand Investment unveils 53MW Chennai data center for end-2026 completion
The Ambattur facility, jointly held by CapitaLand India Trust and CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund, will offer 34MW of IT power in 13 data halls.
- Data centers & fiber
Langenhorn council advances Uniq Land's 150MW data center plan
The August 26 vote opens planning studies, but a 300MW expansion and wind-powered supply depend on regional grid upgrades.
- Data centers & fiber
Uruguay signs $5.7bn Solaria deal for up to 500MW of solar-paired data center capacity
Phase one pairs a 200MW data center with a 350MW solar project and is due in 2029.
- Data centers & fiber
Ooredoo Fibre agrees to buy iQ Networks dark fiber for Iraq-Turkey route
The route would carry Fibre in the Gulf traffic from Iraq's southern coast toward Turkey, subject to regulatory approval.
- Data centers & fiber
UK rejects Drax-backed bid to power 1.2GW data center with biomass
The Selby application failed AI Growth Zone selection criteria; Drax has pivoted to a 100MW project on grid power.
- The Wrap
AEP to buy up to 1.6 GW Mainspring units, plans $4B Cheyenne fuel cells
The eight-year Mainspring agreement carries a stated ceiling of up to $4 billion; the 702 MW Cheyenne project pairs Bloom Energy fuel cells with a 20-year Google PPA.
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- Data centers & fiber
DigiCo signs 71MW Sydney data center lease, taking SYD1 to fully leased
The 15-year agreement includes 20MW reassigned from capacity already under contract at the facility.
- Data centers & fiber
NERC stakeholders approve reliability standards for AI data centers, crypto miners
The draft rules would apply to computational loads of 50 MW or more connected at 100 kV and above; they next go to the NERC board and, if adopted, to FERC.