Melissa Palmer

Doubling campus raises power, scale, and community impact questions in York County, South Carolina

Doubling campus raises power, scale, and community impact questions in York County, South Carolina

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

QTS is doubling its planned York County, SC campus to roughly 800 acres with a $26 million land buy, positioning...

Microsoft backs $1B Lowell data center facing local resistance and delays

Microsoft backs $1B Lowell data center facing local resistance and delays

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

In a story we have been following closely, it has finally been announced that Microsoft is the company behind a...

Early Dowagiac, Indiana data center plans raise power and water concerns

Early Dowagiac, Indiana data center plans raise power and water concerns

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Hyperscale Data Inc is floating a huge expansion in Dowagiac, jumping from a 30 MW data center footprint to 340...

Local pushback blocks 429-acre AI data center rezoning in Shelbyville, Indiana

Local pushback blocks 429-acre AI data center rezoning in Shelbyville, Indiana

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Shelbyville’s plan commission just rejected rezoning for a 429-acre industrial data center campus, signaling how local resistance can slow AI...

Permian gas powers dedicated data center as Chevron sells electrons in Texas

Permian gas powers dedicated data center as Chevron sells electrons in Texas

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Chevron plans a 2.5 GW behind-the-meter natural-gas power plant in the Permian, expandable to 5 GW, dedicated to a single...

Rezoning clears path for hyperscale data center despite community opposition in South Dakota

Rezoning clears path for hyperscale data center despite community opposition in South Dakota

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Sioux Falls just cleared rezoning for its first hyperscale data center, a greenfield 164-acre site tied directly to Xcel’s Split...

Liquid‑cooled Rubin racks speed path from GPU allocation to deployment with Supermicro

Liquid‑cooled Rubin racks speed path from GPU allocation to deployment with Supermicro

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Supermicro Arms Up For NVIDIA Rubin Era With Liquid Cooled Rack‑Scale Buildout Supermicro announced expanded US based rack scale manufacturing...

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Vantage Data Centers and Liberty Energy’s Liberty Power Innovations unit announced a strategic partnership to develop and operate up to...

Rezoned Marana, Arizona land clears path for massive AI data center

Rezoned Marana, Arizona land clears path for massive AI data center

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Marana, Arizona, just rezoned about 600 acres for a large data center project from Beale Infrastructure’s Fremont Peak Properties, clearing...

stargate Michigan reshapes utility investment, regulation, and long-term power deals

stargate Michigan reshapes utility investment, regulation, and long-term power deals

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Stargate’s Michigan site shows how AI’s GPU hunger is now reshaping utility capex, with a single 1.4 GW campus adding...

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