DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Construction & Site Selection, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah
Fourth expansion company has announced at campus
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Meta's $1.2bn data center in Kuna, Idaho, goes live
Facility is the company's second AI-optimized data center
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Meta and BlackRock team up for data center in El Paso, Texas
Will offer 1GW of compute capacity
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Meta starts operations at data center in Temple, Texas
Facility the result of $1.2bn in investment
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Fire at Meta data center construction site in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Fire Department dispatched at 5:37pm, July 19
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Crusoe to develop 1.4GW data center campus in Childress, Texas
Company partners with Lancium again
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Meta expands data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5GW & $50bn
Company will also invest $1bn in local infrastructure improvements
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Meta plans $9.17bn gigawatt-scale data center in Alberta, Canada
Marks social media giant's first data center in the country
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Meta's Sham Parmar joins Anthropic's data center supply chain team
To focus on power and cooling infrastructure for data center buildouts
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Meta inks deal for 168MW of data center space at new Reliance Industries data center in Gujarat, India
Also announced 900MW clean energy purchases
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Data center operators offer potential job opportunities to laid off Meta workers
The industry is booming, but hyperscalers keep cutting jobs
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Real estate developer Panattoni takes over Meta-backed data center proposal in southern Wisconsin
But residents remain unhappy
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Meta breaks ground on data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Will be company's first data center in the state
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Meta files to expand campus in El Paso, Texas, with 12 new buildings
Will invest $289m in the project
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Meta pledges $10bn investment for El Paso, Texas, data center
Project broke ground in 2025
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Oracle/OpenAI drop plans to expand flagship Abilene Stargate site, Meta in talks to pick up Crusoe capacity with Nvidia's help
Financing challenges and Stargate's changing scope end Texas data center expansion plans
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Meta signs pre-development agreement for data center in Beloit, Wisconsin
Project could come to 430 acres near Wisconsin-Illinois border
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Meta announces 1GW data center campus in Indiana
Company starts work in Lebanon
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Trump admin pushes data center companies to commit to pact on energy prices and water usage
Following earlier deal with Microsoft
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Meta purchases additional 1,400 acres for Hyperion mega-data center expansion
Next to the existing 2,250-acre site
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Corning, Meta sign $6bn fiber deal to support US data center boom
Meta wants to ramp up its data center footprint across the US
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13 more detained and released to ICE at Meta data center site in Louisiana
Follows two arrests last week
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Meta buys land adjacent to Los Lunas campus in New Mexico, possible expansion - report
475 acres could be added to existing campus
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Meta DC infrastructure partner purchases $42m land parcel in New Albany, Ohio
The new land is close to its other New Albany site
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Moody’s predicts $3 trillion global data center investment over five years
The staggering sum is required to keep pace with AI-driven capacity growth
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Proposal for Meta-linked data center in Howell Township, Michigan, withdrawn
Meta reportedly backing project
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Meta scopes out site for data center campus in Finland
Plot identified, but investment decision not finalized
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Amazon backs out of Project Blue data center campus in Arizona - report
AWS reportedly drops interest in project after proposed switch form liquid to air cooling - Meta said to be interested