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Secretive data center deals obscure AI’s local costs and tradeoffs

Secretive data center deals obscure AI’s local costs and tradeoffs

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

Microsoft’s role in converting the failed Foxconn site into a data center was inexplicably redacted from Wisconsin Public Service Commission...

Nashville emerges as key AI data center hub in Tennessee

Nashville emerges as key AI data center hub in Tennessee

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Tennessee now hosts about 60 data centers, with the greater Nashville area accounting for roughly half, including large...

Former Maine Air Force base becomes liquid‑cooled AI data center hub

Former Maine Air Force base becomes liquid‑cooled AI data center hub

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Maine’s first AI‑focused data center is being built at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, using...

Virginia’s new high-load power rates reshape AI data center economics

Virginia’s new high-load power rates reshape AI data center economics

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

What Happened: Virginia regulators approved higher electric rates for Dominion customers and created a new GS-5 rate class for very...

Using AI data centers to heat Danish homes and cut carbon

Using AI data centers to heat Danish homes and cut carbon

Melissa Palmer
November 26, 2025

atNorth’s 22.5 MW DEN01 data center near Copenhagen will use direct liquid cooling and export waste heat into the local...

Penguin solutions Planning Blackwell-era AI clusters as integrated stacks, not DIY builds

Penguin solutions Planning Blackwell-era AI clusters as integrated stacks, not DIY builds

Melissa Palmer
November 25, 2025

Penguin is pre-validating OriginAI clusters built around NVIDIA DGX B300 (Blackwell) and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, targeting both large training...

VANTAGE DATA CENTERS ACQUIRES YONDOR’S MALAYSIA CAMPUS

VANTAGE DATA CENTERS ACQUIRES YONDOR’S MALAYSIA CAMPUS

Melissa Palmer
November 25, 2025

Vantage is putting $1.6 billion into its APAC data center platform, using part of it to buy Yondr’s 300+ MW...

Phase II completion puts first Applied Digital 100 MW AI building online

Phase II completion puts first Applied Digital 100 MW AI building online

Melissa Palmer
November 25, 2025

Applied Digital finished Phase II of its first 100 MW building at the Polaris Forge 1 AI campus in Ellendale,...

AMAZON powers up us federal to the tune of $50B

AMAZON powers up us federal to the tune of $50B

Melissa Palmer
November 24, 2025

Amazon lines up up to $50B to power AI and supercomputing for U.S. federal missions What Happened: Amazon announced plans...

Amazon’s $15B Indiana build shows where AWS AI capacity goes

Amazon’s $15B Indiana build shows where AWS AI capacity goes

Melissa Palmer
November 24, 2025

Amazon plans to invest $15 billion in new AWS data centers in Indiana, tied to about 1,100 jobs and local...