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Microsoft Corp. will occupy a data center project previously earmarked for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI, scooping up 900 megawatts of capacity after the other two companies walked away from the site. The ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WGN) — Hours of public comment on Monday delayed the vote on a massive A.I. data center in Joliet. Three days later, the Joliet City Council (JCC) reconvened and voted the development ...

Crews continued site preparation work at the data center project Thursday. Google acknowledged it was behind the project Monday morning. AMERICAN TOWNSHIP — Google is the company building a data ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—State officials’ approval of a $4.5 million tax break for a Northeast Ohio data‑center expansion was met with a chorus of online criticism, given that the project will only create 10 ...

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced that it has received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build agreement with Base Electron, an independent power producer backed by Applied Digital, to ...

America’s economy is evolving at a pace and scale unseen since the industrial revolution. Data center campuses are the factories of this new era, breaking new ground in medicine, technology, ...

A Maryland developer has halted plans to build a 300-megawatt data center near Apex following months of resident pushback. On Thursday, Natelli Investments announced it would withdraw applications to ...

The developers of a proposed data center in Apex are killing the project, Natelli Investments announced Thursday. Natelli Investments said the developer is withdrawing its annexation and rezoning ...

The Project Washington data center north of Delaware City is still on the table. It still needs an appeal hearing after the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control said it ...

Early work had already begun on the 63-acre site in the Phoenix urban village of Laveen at the southwest corner of Lower Buckeye Road and Loop 202. The location already featured the required ...

TRENTON, Ohio — The people of Trenton and the prospective developers of a roughly 880,000 square foot data center project participated in a marathon question-and-answer session Monday. The prospective ...