In 1999, a farmer donated land for a children's park, now it's home to a $1 billion data center sparking a bitter community fightTaylor data center controversy: A ten-dollar land deal for a future park in Taylor, Texas, now faces a billion-dollar data center proposal....
28 Jul, 2026, 08.50 PM IST
Brookfield bets on grid-ready Indian states for green investmentBrookfield Asset Management plans to focus new renewable energy investments in southern India, citing stronger transmission networks and lo...
28 Jul, 2026, 08.32 PM IST
Meta, BlackRock partner on $14 billion El Paso data centerMeta Platforms and BlackRock are developing a $14 billion data center campus in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock-managed funds will own eighty per...
28 Jul, 2026, 03.53 PM IST
Nvidia behind $50 billion lease on Texas data center, FT reportsIn an impressive move, Nvidia is reportedly set to lease Hut 8's data center in Texas, with the value of the arrangement potentially soarin...
28 Jul, 2026, 11.22 AM IST
US agency says power for data centers can sidestep pollution lawsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said power plants built exclusively to supply electricity to data centers, and not conne...
28 Jul, 2026, 11.03 AM IST
Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data centre: WSJThe power for the project is controlled by the US government and funded separately by Japan under a recent trade deal, with US Commerce S...
27 Jul, 2026, 06.54 PM IST
Trump pledge on data center power supplies draws skepticismPresident Donald Trump announced a non-binding pledge for energy infrastructure. Power producers and data centers will fund massive AI-rela...
24 Jul, 2026, 04.00 PM IST
How a Pennsylvania couple turns struggling hog farm into $22 million fortuneRural American land values are rapidly increasing due to AI data center expansion. A Pennsylvania family sold their hog farm for over twent...
24 Jul, 2026, 12.19 PM IST
Anant Raj to demerge data centre arm into separately listed companyAnant Raj will demerge its data centre and cloud business into Ashok Cloud Pvt Ltd, creating a separately listed digital infrastructure com...
21 Jul, 2026, 07.47 PM IST
BlackRock-backed group commits $5 billion for Aligned Data CentersIn a significant development, a group backed by the investment giant BlackRock has pledged a massive $5 billion to Aligned Data Centers. Th...
21 Jul, 2026, 04.33 PM IST
Hut 8 signs $9.8 billion AI data centre lease, fully commercialises Texas campusHut 8 signed a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion. This agreement fully commercialises their 1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Texas. ...
20 Jul, 2026, 04.36 PM IST
Prysmian signs €5.5 billion Molex deal in data center pushItalian cable maker Prysmian signed a deal with Molex for fiber optic cables. This agreement is valued up to five point five billion euros ...
20 Jul, 2026, 04.26 PM IST
US data center protests go national as backlash growsOpponents of AI data center expansion plan nationwide protests this Saturday. HumansFirst is coordinating demonstrations in at least 125 lo...
18 Jul, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
US data centre protests go national as backlash growsProtesters are organising nationwide demonstrations against the rapid expansion of data centres. These demonstrations aim to voice concerns...
18 Jul, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Among AI crowd, some investors position for slower hyperscaler spending growthFor most of the past two years, the opposite trade prevailed: investors piled into semiconductor and infrastructure companies on the assump...
17 Jul, 2026, 11.30 AM IST
IBM warns AI boom is squeezing software budgets, triggers sector routSoftware investors have long been on edge over fears that AI tools capable of automating routine work could pose an existential threat to t...
14 Jul, 2026, 06.10 PM IST
New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratoriumThe moratorium positions New York at the forefront of a growing national debate over how to manage the infrastructure needed to support art...
14 Jul, 2026, 05.03 PM IST