Data center

United States

Amazon Plans Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant for AI Data Center in Texas

Amazon is planning to build a major AI data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, powered by a dedicated natural gas plant with a planned capacity of 7.65 gigaw…

United States

Texas Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Statewide Audit

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a temporary halt to data center connections to the state’s power grid as officials review the sector’s growing im…

United States

SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines From Colossus Data Center Site by 2027

SpaceX has agreed to begin removing temporary gas turbines that power part of its Colossus AI data center complex, though the final units may remain in place un…

South Korea

Gaon Cable to Supply Power Distribution Cables for U.S. Big Tech Power Plant Project

Gaon Cable, a subsidiary of LS Cable & System, said on July 28 that it will supply power distribution cables for a power plant project being developed by a majo…

Germany

Hitachi Energy to Deliver Advanced Grid Connection for Kauri CAB Data Center in Frankfurt

July 13, 2026 — Hitachi Energy has been awarded an order to provide an advanced grid connection solution for a new data center developed by Kauri CAB Digital I…

United States

Chevron signs power supply deal with Microsoft for Texas data center

Chevron said on June 22 it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to develop a co-located ​facility that would provide natural-gas fired power to the technolog…

United States

SpaceX to Build 10 GW Solar Manufacturing Facility in Texas

Aerospace company SpaceX has announced that it will build a 10 GW solar manufacturing facility in Bastrop County near Austin, Texas, as part of its aims to laun…

United States

Overview Energy, Meta announce space solar partnership for data centers

Overview Energy and tech giant Meta have inked a first of its kind partnership to power Meta data centers with U.S.-built space solar energy through satellites.…

Microgrid

Crusoe signs two deals with energy storage firms to support AI data center buildout

AI data center developer Crusoe has expanded its strategic partnership with battery energy storage firm Redwood Materials.The expansion follows the successful d…

United States

Google Inks Deals with Five US Utilities to Cut Data Center Power Use at Peak Demand

Google said on Thursday it has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities across states from Arkansas to Minnesota to reduce its electricity consumptio…

United States

Alphabet to Acquire Intersect for $4.75bn in AI Push

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Intersect, a provider of data center and energy infrastructure soluti…

United States

NextEra, Google Accelerate US Data Center Build-Out With New Deals

U.S. utility NextEra Energy and Google Cloud, a unit of Alphabet, announced on Monday an expanded partnership to develop new electricity generation capacity acr…

United States

Amazon to Invest $15 Billion in Indiana to Boost Data Center Infrastructure

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) announced on Monday that it will invest approximately $15 billion in Northern Indiana to develop multiple data center campuses, further expa…

China

Foxconn, OpenAI Partner on AI Hardware Manufacturing

Foxconn has entered into a cooperation agreement with U.S.-based OpenAI to jointly design and develop data center racks, related components, and artificial inte…

Brazil

AFD and IDB Launch $324M Subsea Fibre and Data Centre Project in Brazil’s Amazon

The French Development Agency (AFD) has collaborated with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to allocate $324 million toward a comprehensive subsea fiber…