Key Takeaways: Raeden Acquisitions has taken Gibraltar, Michigan, to court over a temporary data center moratorium imposed shortly after the developer filed plans for the former McLouth Steel site. The dispute is one of at least seven such lawsuits filed in 2026, marking a sharper turn in the fight over where larg
Key Takeaways: CPP Investments and Equinix have completed their US$4 billion acquisition of atNorth, placing substantial institutional and industry capital behind one of the Nordic region’s leading data center operators. The transaction gives CPP Investments a controlling interest in atNorth, reported at roughly 5
Key Takeaways: Chillicothe officials are pressing pause on data center development while they investigate what a proposed facility at the former Chillicothe Paper Mill could mean for local infrastructure and residents. The City Council passed the 60-day moratorium Aug. 24, temporarily blocking data center projects
Key Takeaways: NASA’s space data operation is increasingly starting to resemble a hyperscale technology platform. The agency’s Science Mission Directorate managed about 150 petabytes across 54,532 datasets and 10 repositories in FY 2024, serving more than 53 million unique users. Those figures, published through N
Key Takeaways: Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan is urging New York to use its temporary pause on hyperscale data center permits to establish stronger protections for communities, utility customers and natural resources. Speaking on “In Focus,” Sullivan praised Gov. Kathy Hochul’s moratorium and called for clea
Key Takeaways: The Trimbos Institute has issued a “Red Alert” in the Netherlands after drug-testing centers received potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped like the head of U.S. President Donald Trump. Several of the tablets were recently submitted through the country’s network of testing facilities, which allows
Key Takeaways: Data center development has become the dominant force in northwest Ohio’s investment pipeline. From January through July 2026, the region secured just over $11 billion in new investment, with approximately $10 billion associated with a QTS data center campus in Van Wert and another $500 million tied
Key Takeaways: Oliver County’s increasingly contentious debate over data center development has expanded beyond permits, land use and public infrastructure. It now includes questions about media transparency, professional conduct and the relationships surrounding a newly established publication. At the center of t
Key Takeaways: Project River is putting power infrastructure at the center of its proposed $11.3 billion industrial campus in Bradley County, Tennessee. The development concept combines a large-scale data center with on-site electricity generation, potentially making it one of the largest private investments in Ea
Key Takeaways: Armada has launched Orion, a 10MW modular data center designed to compress the time required to deploy high-density AI and cloud infrastructure. The configuration is the largest system in Armada’s Galleon family and can support up to 2,880 GPUs across 40 racks. Orion represents an almost 10x increas