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A 45-acre former chemical plant tests whether local land-use rules can hold against data center demand.

The 'we want your pee' campaign shows consumer anger becoming a permitting risk for AI infrastructure buildout.

A-to-G ratings in 2027 and minimum standards in 2030 will separate modern heat-reusing facilities from legacy stock and shift how they are underwritten.

A SAFE round and a hyperscaler contract back a fiber technology aimed at stretching the distance between AI data centers.

The company's $15 billion Oklahoma buildout includes water-line upgrades for Washington County Rural Water District and grid commitments in Tulsa County.

Governor Shapiro's order makes local sign-off and full-grid-cost payments prerequisites for state permits.

Nvidia's guarantee, more than its equity, is what would make the $500 billion project financeable.

The value-add fund is betting a 24MW Frankfurt build can turn a near-full colocation platform into a broader German player.

A £202 million National Wealth Fund guarantee sits behind £252.5 million of senior debt on DataVita's CoreWeave-contracted Scottish campus.

An oversubscribed facility shows debt markets underwriting data center capacity ahead of signed leases.

The site's appeal is the substation and battery next door, not the building itself.

A small GPU footprint shows the wiring that makes interactive streaming work.

The trial will assess whether low-grade waste heat can become usable water inside a working data center.

The companies say their reference design cuts energy use 15 percent and copper 80 percent.

The Scarborough trade prices a working 10-megawatt facility at CA$1.65 million per megawatt.

Pilot's acquisition of Extenet's enterprise fiber business adds more than 20 data center connections and a New Jersey footprint. Terms were not disclosed.

The pact lays out a cloud-native, Open RAN future for Viva without committing capital or setting a deployment schedule.

The paper ties construction constraints to inflation and margin pressure, landing as hyperscaler commitments keep growing.

The two-series note sale can expand past $5 billion with a greenshoe, paying for GPUs and data center construction while revenue still catches up.

Nvidia's balance sheet now stands behind OpenAI's 10GW-scale data center.

A single headline points to a solar off-take by Equinix in Singapore; no terms or confirmation are in view.

New South Wales will require new data centers to buy wind power for 40% of their electricity before approval.

The Yadkin County acquisition shows AI cloud providers paying for existing buildings to compress the path to capacity.

An unnamed hyperscaler has committed to the first phase of the 1GW campus, with service expected in early 2028.

A sovereign fund's potential ¥1 trillion backing would mean a seven-year wait through 2033.

AWS adds a $6 billion Shreveport campus and pays the water and grid bills itself.

The appointment ends a months-long acting stint and puts nearly 800MW of development squarely on Nguyen's plate.

The AU$4.1 million order is a small contract, but it suggests airports are buying prefabricated edge capacity as a standard product.

The revived 82-acre campus needs a special use permit and a five-to-seven-year wait for power.

A top-five hyperscaler signs a master supply agreement, with revenue expected from fiscal 2028.

Robert Crespi takes over as the company raises $230 million and takes on a 300MW mandate for HighBrook.

The endorsement puts Castrol on a short list for AI cooling specs, but no capital commitments came with it.

Sacramento adds legislative risk to the data center site-selection math.

The engineering firm's loss shows where AI infrastructure risk lives: construction, not demand.

A fourth Singapore PPA brings Equinix's contracted renewable capacity to 215MW, all expected online in 2028.

Companies call the 10,000-GPU deployment India's largest single-cluster AI infrastructure, with a 250MW first phase.