Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureTexas ties data-center permits to a wider review of power and water demands
A September 21 directive pauses TCEQ permit issuance pending a data-center audit, following an earlier order on water-use reporting.
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Energy & PowerDOE’s power-electronics agenda brings interoperability into the grid investment discussion
A September 10 Department of Energy update highlighted modular power electronics as a route to stronger domestic grid equipment supply and more scalable deployment.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureLiquid cooling makes the handover between building and server teams harder to ignore
A cooling strategy needs a clear division of responsibilities, a commissioning plan and an operating team ready to inherit it.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureAmazon narrows its Maryland subsea-cable proposal to a small power-feed building
Amazon’s September 16 update proposes a power feed equipment building at Ocean City Municipal Airport for its Fastnet cable connecting the United States and Ireland.
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All digital infrastructure coverage →Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureAmazon Pairs Data Center Expansion With a $1 Billion Community Program
Amazon launched a data-center operating commitment and said its Built Together program will add more than $1 billion over five years for education, energy, water and local priorities.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureOracle Offers to Absorb Point Beach Energy Costs as Wisconsin Data Center Plan Advances
Oracle says it will absorb rising Point Beach nuclear energy costs through a proposed subscription arrangement connected to its Wisconsin data center plans. In its October 2 announcement, the company projected $300 million in fuel savings for approximately one million Wisconsin customers.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureProject Star Pairs a Texas Data Center Campus With Dedicated Energy Infrastructure
A newly announced $22.3 billion campus in Encinal, Texas combines data center capacity with planned generation and grid-support infrastructure.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureAligned Breaks Ground on 2-Gigawatt Project Phoenix Data Center Campus
The three-building campus in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, pairs gigawatt-scale digital infrastructure with dedicated on-site generation.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureA 29-megawatt Tennessee data-center site tests the value of substation-adjacent capacity
Atlantic HPC's September 30 filing describes a Dyersburg site with 29 MW of contracted demand and a path that still depends on utility construction and transformer upgrades.
Data Centers & Digital InfrastructureNVIDIA and Palantir put AI factory supply-chain coordination into the delivery conversation
NVIDIA and Palantir have announced an AI collaboration beginning with NVIDIA’s own supply-chain operations.
Related Projects
Explore Project Atlas →Data center development, semiconductor manufacturing and supporting power infrastructure. Stages and source links are maintained in each project profile.
Stargate Abilene AI Data Center Campus
An AI computing campus with operational capacity and continuing phased development. Oracle reported 75% of campus capacity delivered in September 2026.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Vantage Frontier AI Data Center Campus
A planned 1.4 GW, ten-building AI data center campus. Vantage announced a $25 billion investment; Oracle now targets initial customer delivery in the first half of 2027.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Project Jupiter AI Data Center Campus
An AI campus under construction with closed-loop cooling and planned Bloom Energy fuel-cell power. Oracle identifies initial customer delivery in the first half of 2027.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Vantage Lighthouse AI Data Center Campus
A Stargate data center campus in Port Washington. The city confirms construction began in December 2025; Oracle expects customer delivery in the second half of 2027.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Stargate Saline Township AI Data Center Campus
An AI campus being developed through Oracle's Stargate partnership with OpenAI. Oracle targets customer delivery beginning in the second half of 2027.
ConstructionProject details & sources →SB Energy Milam County AI Data Center
A planned 1.2 GW AI data center that OpenAI selected SB Energy to build and operate. The January 2026 announcement links the campus to new energy development and reduced water use.
PlanningProject details & sources →Microsoft Fairwater Mount Pleasant AI Data Center
Microsoft's first Fairwater facility in Mount Pleasant is fully operational. The June 2026 milestone concerns the first facility rather than completion of every planned campus phase.
Operating / CompletedProject details & sources →Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta AI Data Center
An operational Fairwater AI facility connected to Microsoft's distributed AI computing network. Microsoft reported that the Atlanta site began operation in October 2025.
Operating / CompletedProject details & sources →Meta Prometheus AI Supercluster
Meta's planned 1 GW AI cluster spans multiple data center buildings. New Albany confirms its location and that the data center draws power from the regional grid.
ConstructionProject details & sources →AWS Richmond County Energy Way Tech Campus
An AI and cloud infrastructure campus tied to Amazon's announced $10 billion North Carolina investment. Final air permits for campus backup engines and temporary bridge power were issued in August 2026.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Amazon Northern Indiana Data Center Expansion
New data-center campuses representing an additional planned 2.4 GW of capacity and $15 billion investment. This expansion is separate from Amazon’s previously announced St. Joseph County investment.
PlanningProject details & sources →Meta El Paso Data Center
Development of a gigawatt-scale data-center campus supporting Meta’s AI infrastructure. Meta announced a strategic development venture with BlackRock in 2026.
ConstructionProject details & sources →Micron Boise Memory Fab Expansion
Expansion of Micron’s Boise campus with advanced DRAM manufacturing facilities. The Idaho project reports construction and cleanroom milestones during 2026.
ConstructionProject details & sources →SunZia Wind and Transmission
A 550-mile, 525 kV HVDC transmission system enabling the 3,500 MW SunZia wind development. RETA reports commercial operation began in May 2026.
Project details & sources →Companies to Know
Explore companies →38 organizations spanning AI cloud, compute, networking, power, cooling, data center operations and construction. Editorial selection; inclusion does not imply sponsorship, endorsement or a ranking.
Cloud, infrastructure & project delivery
Microsoft
Cloud computing, enterprise software and AI.
Cloud computing and digital infrastructure.
Amazon
Cloud computing, logistics and digital infrastructure.
NVIDIA
Accelerated computing and AI technology.
Schneider Electric
Energy management and industrial automation.
Eaton
Power management equipment and systems.
Siemens
Industrial technology, infrastructure and mobility.
DPR Construction
Commercial construction and construction management.
AI cloud
CoreWeave
GPU cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference.
Crusoe
AI cloud services, data center development and energy infrastructure.
Lambda
GPU cloud computing and AI infrastructure.
Nebius
AI cloud infrastructure for model training and inference.
Compute & servers
Cerebras
AI computing systems and inference services based on wafer-scale technology.
Groq
AI inference services and specialized inference computing.
AMD
Data center processors and AI accelerators.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AI servers, high-performance computing and supporting infrastructure.
Dell Technologies
AI servers, storage and integrated infrastructure solutions.
Supermicro
AI servers, rack-scale systems and liquid cooling solutions.
Connectivity & silicon
Broadcom
Custom AI accelerators, networking silicon and connectivity technology.
Arista Networks
Data center networking, Ethernet switches and AI fabrics.
Marvell Technology
Data infrastructure semiconductors, interconnect and switching technology.
Power & cooling
Vertiv
Critical power, thermal management and digital infrastructure systems.
nVent
Electrical protection, connection and data center cooling solutions.
Munters
Data center cooling and air treatment systems.
Modine
Thermal management and data center cooling equipment.
CoolIT Systems
Direct liquid cooling for AI, high-performance computing and data centers.
Submer
Liquid cooling and integrated AI infrastructure solutions.
LiquidStack
Liquid cooling systems for data centers and high-performance computing.
Motivair by Schneider Electric
Liquid cooling and data center thermal management systems.
Data center operators
Equinix
Colocation, interconnection and digital infrastructure services.
Digital Realty
Data center, colocation and interconnection services.
QTS Data Centers
Hyperscale and enterprise data center infrastructure.
Vantage Data Centers
Hyperscale data center development and operations.
Aligned Data Centers
Adaptive data center development, colocation and infrastructure.
STACK Infrastructure
Hyperscale data center development and operations.
DataBank
Data center colocation, connectivity and infrastructure services.
Flexential
Colocation, connectivity and hybrid IT infrastructure.
NTT DATA Global Data Centers
Global data center development, colocation and infrastructure services.
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