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A confrontation between a Dallas billionaire and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at a Silicon Valley conference has exposed simmering tensions over an effort to secure financing for a sprawling campus of data centers powered by a private energy grid.
Whether you’re debating grid stability or cyber resilience, building both power and trust into data centers is essential.
As data-center developers frantically seek to secure power for their operations, one startup is proposing a novel solution: Build them into floating offshore wind turbines. San Francisco–based offshore wind-power developer Aikido Technologies today announced its plans to start housing data centers in the underwater tanks that keep its turbine platforms afloat.
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SoftBank's $500 billion Ohio data center: Largest single-site investment ever
The Fixer’ On the 22nd, Nikkei Asia described SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son, who announced a $500 billion (approximately 753 trillion Korean won) large-scale data center construction project in Ohio,
The US Space Command has announced it will host an industry day on April 1 to provide information about the construction of a command and control facility, set to contain a “secure data center.” The facility, which will serve as Space Command's new headquarters, has been allocated a 64-acre site on the Redstone Arsenal US Army base in Alabama.
T1 Energy said Norway's national grid operator assigned 50 MW of grid power to its industrial building in Mo i Rana and remains in the interconnection queue for 396 MW of power.
It’s the first time a Pennsylvania utility agreed to shield average ratepayers from data center costs. Data centers will pay $11 million for low-income rate relief.
US data center firm Flexential is moving to secure $1.4 billion in asset-backed securities (ABS) financing, backed by a 28-site-strong data center portfolio spanning 14 markets across 13 states.
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Locally owned Servpac Inc. has broken ground on Building 2 of its MTP Data Center in Mililani Technology Park, adding over ...