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Soluna Acquires 397 Acres in West Texas for Wind-Powered AI Data Center Campus

John Nelson — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

BRISCOE COUNTY, TEXAS — Soluna Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SLNH), a developer of renewable data centers for heavy computing industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin mining, has closed on the purchase of 397 acres in West Texas’ Briscoe County. The site is located adjacent to Briscoe Wind Farm, a 150-megawatt (MW) wind farm that Soluna purchased in April for $53 million. The land is also situated adjacent to Dorothy 1 and Dorothy 2, Soluna’s modular, co-located data center campus that has capacity totaling 50 MW and 48 MW, respectively. The new land will host Dorothy 3, an AI data center computing campus with a potential capacity of 300 MW. All phases of the Project Dorothy campus, which is named after NASA mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, will be powered by the Briscoe Wind Farm substation. “Customers evaluating AI sites want to know how quickly we can get them to power,” says John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna. “Owning this land takes one more variable out of that answer. Dorothy 3 is a site we control end to end, and that is what turns a development project into something a customer can plan around.” The land acquisition exceeds the 300 acres Soluna originally…

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WhiteFiber Agrees to Buy Two Industrial Facilities in North Carolina, Plans Data Center Conversions

John Nelson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:42:32 +0000

YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. — WhiteFiber Inc., a data center owner-operator and cloud solutions provider, has agreed to acquire two industrial facilities in Yadkin County, situated near Winston-Salem at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. WhiteFiber is acquiring the properties via its wholly owned subsidiary Enovum Data Centers Corp. with plans to retrofit both properties into data centers. The agreed purchase price was $60 million for both sites. The two facilities, which will be renamed NC-2 and NC-3, sit approximately 55 miles from NC-1, WhiteFiber’s existing data center campus in Madison, N.C. NC-2 and NC-3 are expected to provide a combined minimum of 60 megawatts (MW) of initial gross utility capacity with the potential to support up to 200 MW of combined utility capacity over time. WhiteFiber expects to close the transaction in the fourth quarter and bring the properties on line in third-quarter 2027.

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OpenAI Signs 20-Year Lease at Nvidia-Backed Data Center Development in Pike County, Ohio

John Nelson — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

PIKE COUNTY, OHIO — OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform best known for ChatGPT, has signed a 20-year lease agreement to be the customer at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, an AI data center redevelopment of the decommissioned Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, located in southern Ohio’s Appalachian region. The size and cost of the campus has not been released, but The New York Times reports that it will be among the world’s largest data centers and that the build-out could cost as much as $500 billion. SB Energy, a data center and power infrastructure company backed by Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp., will build, own and operate the campus. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), a hardware manufacturer of semiconductors and networking systems for AI data centers, will provide the full build-out at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus using its DSX AI factory platform — encompassing all aspects typical to an AI-ready data center, including GPUs (graphics processing units), CPUs (central processing units), servers and infrastructure software. Nvidia has secured land, power and shell (LPS) rights at the Pike County project through a partnership with SB Energy. Nvidia will immediately invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to support the project’s build-out. SB Energy and…

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Brookfield, Partner Coalition Plan $100B Data Center Campus in Western Kentucky

Hayden Spiess — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0000

PADUCAH, KY. — Brookfield (NYSE: BN) has announced plans to develop a $100 billion data center campus in western Kentucky with a partnership coalition. The coalition also includes NextEra Energy Inc. (NYSE: NEE), Big Rivers Electric Power Corp., Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah Power System. The project will redevelop portions of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Paducah Site, which was originally built in the 1950s to produce uranium for nuclear weapons. The facility, which closed in 2013, also went on to produce enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. The AI data center campus will support up to 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of utility capacity and over 1.2 GW of compute capacity at full build-out. The project will be backed by up to 4.6 GW of dedicated generation resources. “This new campus helps secure our nation’s position as a global leader in innovation,” says Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary. “It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of this project.” The DOE first issued a request for offers for redevelopment of the Paducah site in November 2025. Brookfield was selected as the developer and operator for the campus, and NextEra Energy was selected to build and own the energy infrastructure, including up to…

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Meta, BlackRock to Develop $14B Data Center Campus in El Paso

John Nelson — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:41:00 +0000

EL PASO, TEXAS — Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) have formed a joint venture to develop and operate a data center campus in El Paso. The companies project that total development costs for the 1-gigawatt (GW) campus will be approximately $14 billion. Meta will provide construction management, administrative and property management services for the campus and will be its initial sole occupant upon completion. The new data center campus “will play an essential role in bringing Meta’s AI technologies to life,” according to the companies. “Building the infrastructure for superintelligence is key to making sure the benefits of this technology are distributed to everyone,” says Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta. “Our partnership with Larry [Fink] and the team at BlackRock allows us to move faster and at greater scale — pairing our deep expertise in designing and operating world-class data centers with one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors.” Construction is currently underway in El Paso with approximately 2,300 workers onsite, according to Meta. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company estimates that the project will employ 4,000 construction workers at its peak and 300 staffers once fully…

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Lone Star PACE Provides $11.6M C-PACE Loan for Data Center Conversion Project in Irving

Taylor Williams — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:35:00 +0000

IRVING, TEXAS — Lone Star PACE has provided an $11.6 million C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) loan for a data center conversion project in Irving. The project centers on the conversion of the vacant, 113,406-square-foot industrial flex building at 6001 Campus Circle Drive W, which was built on 4.7 acres in 1981, into Vesgro Data Center, a colocation facility with a 45,000-square-foot data hall and 3.0 megawatts of power capacity. The borrower is local data center developer Infrascale Systems. Construction is underway and expected to be complete in September.

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OpenAI Plans $20B Data Center Development Near Savannah, Georgia

Hayden Spiess — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GA. — OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company best known for ChatGPT, has announced plans for a new data center campus in Effingham County, approximately 30 miles northwest of Savannah. Dubbed Project Camellia, the data center campus will cost at least $20 billion to develop in order for OpenAI to receive incentives, according to multiple news outlets. Bloomberg reports that the San Francisco-based company plans to spend as much as $30 billion on the project. The site is located within Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub (SGIH), a master-planned industrial park by Broe Real Estate Group and OmniTRAX spanning 2,700 acres. SGIH is served by both CSX and Norfolk Southern rail lines. OpenAI has entered into a 25-year agreement with utilities provider Georgia Power Co., which will supply 3.2 gigawatts of power to the project. According to the two companies, OpenAI will pay all infrastructure and electric-service costs for the data center campus. Additionally, OpenAI has pledged to provide $80 million in community benefits over the life of the project, as well as $71 million in Codex credits for eligible Georgia students. (Codex is OpenAI’s agentic coding tool that assists in building software and technical projects.) OpenAI also reports…

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Digital Realty Agrees to Buy Blackstone’s Stake in Northern Virginia Data Center Portfolio for $3.5B

Matthew Auchincloss — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

MANASSAS AND STERLING, VA. — Data center firm Digital Realty has agreed to purchase a $3.5 billion equity stake in three data centers located in the Northern Virginia cities of Sterling and Manassas from Blackstone-affiliated funds. The portfolio maintains a gross value of $7.8 billion, reflecting an expected initial stabilized capitalization rate of over 6.5 percent. The portfolio is comprised of three data centers — two in Manassas, one in Sterling — which each contain 96 megawatts of IT capacity. Digital Realty will purchase Blackstone’s 80 percent interest in the Manassas properties and 50 percent interest in the Sterling facility, including assumed debt and remaining capital expenditures to complete the ongoing development. Two of the data centers are expected to stabilize in the first half of 2027 while the third is anticipated to stabilize in 2028. The data centers are all fully leased for 15 years to investment-grade hyperscale customers, and rent will escalate annually by 3.6 percent. The transaction will see Digital Realty pay Blackstone $1.2 billion in cash as well as $2.3 billion in Digital Realty shares for a blended 64 percent equity interest in the properties. Digital Realty was an original partner in the $7 billion joint…

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InterFace: Industrial Developers Are Fielding More Atypical Requirements from Tenants

John Nelson — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

During his keynote address at InterFace I-85 Industrial Corridor, a two-day conference held May 19-20 at the Hilton Uptown Charlotte, Gregg Healy, executive vice president and head of industrial services at Savills, shared a quote from Charles Darwin to end his presentation. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.” Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements about specific events, visit www.interfaceconferencegroup.com/subscribe. Industrial owners and developers have had to be adaptable given the haymakers issued by macroeconomic forces the past several years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they rode the reinvigorated demand wave for e-commerce fulfillment with large-scale developments in key transportation corridors. In the following years, they scaled down their pipelines to focus on smaller, more targeted requirements as construction and capital costs rose significantly. And since Liberation Day, when the Trump administration declared a sweeping package of tariffs for foreign trade partners and specific commodities in April 2025, industrial developers have been building and leasing facilities for domestic and global manufacturers that were nearshoring their investments. Today, owners and…

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Newmark Arranges $975M Financing for Data Center Development in Northern Virginia

John Nelson — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:13:45 +0000

GAINESVILLE, VA. — Newmark has arranged $975 million in financing for Project Helios, a newly delivered data center development in Northern Virginia. According to national media reports, the data center project is situated within the Gainesville Data Center campus in Prince William County. Jordan Roeschlaub, Christopher Kramer, Chris Lozinak, John Caraviello, Ryan Bub, Andrew Warin and Phil O’Bannon of Newmark arranged the financing through Blue Owl Capital on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Affinius Capital and Corscale Data Centers. Project Helios was fully leased at the time of financing to an unnamed cloud service provider under a long-term lease, according to Newmark.

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Cresa Negotiates 249,640 SF Data Center Lease in Carlstadt, New Jersey

Taylor Williams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:15:59 +0000

CARLSTADT, N.J. — Cresa has negotiated a 249,640-square-foot data center lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Carlstadt. The tenant was not disclosed. The deal is for the entirety of the building at 600 Commerce Blvd., which was originally constructed in 2008 for a major banking institution. Michael Morris, Sumner Putnam, Kensey Gawne and Matt Deutsch of Cresa represented the landlord, local owner-operator Russo Development, in the lease negotiations.

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How To Advance Water-Resilient Designs in Texas Data Centers

Taylor Williams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

By Rives Taylor, principal, global resilience research lead, Gensler Texas is experiencing rapid growth in data center development as part of a broader push to support artificial intelligence (AI) ventures that have transformed digital infrastructure into a magnet for capital. As noted in Gensler’s recent Design Forecast, these assets demand abundant land, power and connectivity, making the region a natural fit for long-term growth in digital and industrial real estate. However, these facilities also require reliable access to significant water resources to support cooling systems that are essential for maintaining uninterrupted operations. As development increases, so do the needs for resources, and Texas lacks a consistent policy requiring operators to report essential metrics such as water use, energy consumption or cooling loads. This lack of transparency limits the ability of policymakers, communities and design professionals to fully understand the environmental impact of one of the state’s fastest-growing industrial sectors. With rising pressure on water supplies and power systems, the need for clearer reporting standards and more forward‑looking design approaches is becoming increasingly urgent. A recent white paper by the Houston Area Research Center (HARC), found that “without modernized planning and policy updates, the state faces a collision between finite water…

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Rowan Digital Infrastructure Receives $3B in Construction Financing for Data Center Campus in Temple, Texas

Taylor Williams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

TEMPLE, TEXAS — Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a Denver-based data center owner-operator backed by Blackstone (NYSE: BX), has received $3 billion in construction financing for a new, 700-acre hyperscale campus in the Central Texas city of Temple. The facility could account for the creation of approximately 600 construction jobs and up to 40 permanent jobs. Rowan broke ground on the first phase of the 300-megawatt (MW) project earlier this year and expects construction to last 12 to 18 months. The names of the debt providers were not disclosed, but local media outlet KDH News reports that the deal represents “the largest financing transaction in the company’s history” since its founding in late 2020. According to the Temple Daily Telegram, the campus is located at 1855 Bob White Road on the city’s east side and has a Phase I price tag of $700 million. The local publication also reports that the site will not require the development of additional electrical infrastructure and that the facility will have a water recirculation system that will reduce stress on the regional water supply. “Securing this financing is a major moment for Rowan and reflects a significant level of trust from the industry’s largest capital providers,” says…

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Google Unveils $15B Infrastructure Investment in New Florence, Missouri

Kristin Harlow — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:32:55 +0000

NEW FLORENCE, MO. — Google has unveiled plans to invest $15 billion in building infrastructure in New Florence, about 75 miles west of St. Louis. The data center project will create thousands of construction jobs over the build period and hundreds of direct operational roles once the facility is up and running. Google is collaborating with the Construction Laborers and Contractors Joint Training Fund of Eastern Missouri to support the Laborers and Contractors Training Center. The project will enable the center to train more than 2,300 construction laborers, including 1,500 apprentices, over the next two years. In accordance with Missouri’s consumer protections in Senate Bill 4, which Gov. Kehoe signed into law in 2025, Google will continue to pay for 100 percent of the power the data center uses and any new infrastructure costs that are directly driven by its operations. To date, Google has contracted to bring more than one gigawatt of new generation capacity to Missouri, and through its partnership with Ameren, the company is supporting the development of more than 500 megawatts of additional capacity. To further address energy affordability, Google has also announced a $20 million Energy Impact Fund to support programs that drive down monthly…

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Prime Data Centers Breaks Ground on Three Buildings at $3B Metro Phoenix Campus

John Nelson — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

AVONDALE, ARIZ. — Prime Data Centers, a Dallas-based developer and operator of hyperscale and purpose-built data centers, has broken ground on the first three facilities at PHX01, a five-building data center campus in Avondale. The 66.5-acre park sits roughly 19 miles west of Phoenix via I-10. Each data center at PHX01 will span 267,000 square feet and offer 48 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load capacity. The 1.3 million-square-foot campus will offer 240MW of total critical power upon completion. “Breaking ground on PHX01’s first three buildings is a defining moment for Prime’s partnership with Avondale and for the greater Phoenix region,” says Michael Wall, executive vice president of product delivery at Prime Data Centers. “This first phase represents the beginning of a long-term investment in Avondale, and the infrastructure we are putting in place today is built to scale alongside the demands of our customers for years to come.” An undisclosed hyperscale user has committed to leasing the first three buildings for which construction is underway at PHX01. Prime Data Centers is marketing Buildings 4 and 5 to single or multi-tenant hyperscale users. “This more than $3 billion investment by Prime with its customers investing an average 2X more represents a…

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Beale Infrastructure Unveils Plans for $3B Data Center Campus in De Soto, Kansas

Taylor Williams — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:01:00 +0000

DE SOTO, KAN. — Beale Infrastructure, a San Francisco-based owner-operator of data centers and other tech infrastructural properties, has unveiled plans for Project Pilot, a $3 billion data center campus in De Soto, about 30 miles west of Kansas City. Construction of the first phase is set to begin in May. According to Beale, the project, which is ultimately planned to feature four buildings totaling approximately 1 million square feet, represents the first hyperscale data center to be announced in the state of Kansas. The company also stated that the project would add “hundreds” of construction jobs and 50 permanent operational roles to the local economy. Beale has partnered with local utility provider Evergy to provide power for the campus and facilitate infrastructural development. An end user was not announced, but Beale said that upon completion, the campus would “host a large technology company contracted via a long-term lease.” According to Data Center Dynamics (DCD), affiliates of Beale first purchased the 290-acre site last fall, around the same time that the City of De Soto approved construction. DCD also reports that the city “approved property tax and sales tax exemptions on up to $50 billion in industrial revenue bonds, which…

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Related Digital Secures Financing for $16B Oracle Data Center Project in Michigan

Hayden Spiess — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:06:00 +0000

SALINE TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Data center development and investment platform Related Digital has secured financing for Oracle’s $16 billion project in Saline Township, roughly 50 miles southwest of Detroit. Originally announced in October 2025, the development is being built for Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) as part of its partnership with OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research firm and operator best known for ChatGPT. In September 2025, OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank announced plans for the development of five new data centers as part of a $500 billion Stargate initiative. Financing for the project includes equity from Related Digital and funds affiliated with Blackstone (NYSE: BX), as well as fixed-rate, long-term financing from PIMCO (Pacific Management Investment Co.)-managed funds and accounts. Bank of America served as the structuring agent and financial advisor, and Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo are acting as advisors to Related Digital. According to Related Digital, the new Michigan data center will create 2,500 construction jobs, as well as 450 permanent onsite positions and 1,500 permanent jobs throughout the county. The project will also preserve 750 acres of open space, farmlands and wetlands. DTE Energy is fully supplying power for the project, using existing resources and a new battery storage investment financed entirely by…

Metrobloks, Lincoln to Develop 568,000 SF Data Center Campus in Metro Kansas City

Kristin Harlow — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:45:27 +0000

LIBERTY, MO. — Metrobloks, a developer of AI-ready, low-latency data center infrastructure in major metropolitan markets, has formed a joint venture with Lincoln Property Co., a full-service real estate firm with an established data center platform. The partnership will focus on the co-development of a high-performance data center campus in Liberty within metro Kansas City. The newly acquired site totals 30 acres and is already zoned and powered for data center use. It sits within 10 miles of the GPC Missouri Internet Exchange Point. Plans call for a multi-phase, 568,000-square-foot campus designed to support hyperscale, AI and enterprise data center workloads, with flexibility to scale over time beyond the initial 150MW total utility power.

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Penzance to Develop $4B Data Center Campus in Bedington, West Virginia

John Nelson — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:01:18 +0000

BEDINGTON, W.VA. — Penzance plans to develop a $4 billion data center campus in Bedington, a city in Berkeley County on the east side of West Virginia. The 600-megawatt (MW) hyperscale campus will be situated on 548 acres and will span 1.9 million square feet at full build-out, with the ability to scale further to meet future demand. Penzance made the announcement last week in the West Virginia State Capitol with Gov. Patrick Morrisey and other state and local government staffers. The Berkeley County site marks the first high-impact data center project approved under West Virginia’s House Bill 2014. Penzance plans to begin construction before the end of the year, with delivery of the first megawatts of capacity targeted for the end of 2028. In addition to the Bedington project, Penzance recently broke ground on a 45 MW, 240,000-square-foot data center in Chantilly, Va.

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George Washington University Sells Virginia Science and Technology Campus to Amazon for $427M

Kristin Harlow — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

ASHBURN, VA. — The George Washington University (GW) has sold the Viginia Science and Technology Campus (VSTC) in Ashburn, about 30 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. Amazon Data Services, a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services, purchased the property for $427 million, according to local media reports. Amazon plans to develop the 122-acre site into a data center, according to The GW Hatchet, the university’s student newspaper. Ashburn is situated in Loudoun County, which is dubbed locally as “data center alley.” The transaction agreement ensures that the university has the option to keep programs at VSTC for up to five years. Launched in 1991, VSTC supports research in engineering, physics and chemistry and is home to both academic programs and administrative services. GW’s School of Nursing, the Earthquake Engineering and Structures Laboratory and the Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center are all housed on the campus. “As stewards of the university’s mission, we must continually assess how best to use our resources in service of our community and future generations of GW revolutionaries,” wrote Ellen Granberg, president of GW, in a letter regarding the sale. “This includes our real estate portfolio, a critical asset that supports our academic mission, the…

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