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SWI Group Shifts Over 80% of Capital to Digital Infrastructure as GDA Acquisition Completes

Nikitha Valike — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:24:09 +0000

SWI Capital Holding Ltd, listed on Euronext Amsterdam under the ticker SWICH, has confirmed that more than 80% of its capital is now allocated to digital infrastructure following the completion of a controlling stake acquisition in Genesis Digital Assets, a move that marks the culmination of a strategic pivot the group says has been underway for five years.

**Controlling Stake in Genesis Digital Assets Secured
**SWI Group has finalized its acquisition of a controlling stake of over 70% in Genesis Digital Assets, a transaction in which Morgan Stanley and Co LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor.
Genesis Digital Assets will be renamed SWI Digital and will serve as the group's US-focused digital infrastructure platform. The deal was described by the company as pre-announced, and its completion now anchors the group's transatlantic infrastructure strategy, which spans a combined power capacity in excess of 4 gigawatts across European and American markets.

The acquisition was structured through a combination of acquisitions and restructuring and gives SWI Group what it describes as a scaled foothold in the United States, the world's largest and fastest-growing market for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity.

SWI Digital brings with it an energised and grid-connected land bank that the group intends to deploy as part of a broader vertically integrated digital infrastructure strategy.

**A Transatlantic Platform Built Around Two Pillars
**SWI Group's digital infrastructure portfolio is organized around two distinct platforms operating on either side of the Atlantic. The first is AiOnX, the group's European AI infrastructure platform, which is developing a portfolio of hyperscale, AI-ready data center campuses across Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain and Italy. The company disclosed that one site has already been secured by a leading hyperscale tenant, though it did not name the tenant.

The second platform is SWI Digital, the newly renamed GDA entity, which provides the group's US presence. Together, the two platforms comprise the combined 4-gigawatt-plus capacity base that SWI Group is now positioning as the foundation for further expansion. The group has stated its intention to increase digital infrastructure's share of total capital allocation from the current levof el above 80% to above 90% over time.

**Moving Up the Value Chain into AI Compute
**Beyond land, power and data center capacity, SWI Group announced it is developing an in-house proprietary AI cloud platform designed to deliver GPU-accelerated compute services to enterprises, research institutions and AI developers. The group described this move as an effort to advance up the value chain into high-performance computing and GPU-as-a-service offerings.

The platform will leverage the energised sites held by both AiOnX and SWI Digital, combined with a high-performance computing layer to be built using the group's own team and balance sheet.

SWI Group characterized this combination as a vertically integrated digital infrastructure stack, one that the group says will allow it to capture value at each layer of the AI infrastructure chain, from underlying land and power through to compute delivery.

**Polarise Partnership Restructured into a Financing Arrangement
**The group also provided an update on its previously announced partnership with Polarise, disclosing that both parties have mutually agreed not to proceed with the originally proposed transaction structure.

Rather than acquiring a majority ownership stake in Polarise as initially envisioned, SWI Group will instead provide financing to support Polarise's strategic expansion. The two entities will remain separate and pursue their respective growth paths independently.

The company described the revised arrangement as a financial collaboration rather than a structural integration, representing a significant departure from the terms originally announced earlier this year.
**Growth Target Set for 2026
**SWI Group stated that it expects to deliver double-digit balance sheet growth in 2026. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Max-Hervé George said the group's transformation into a listed investment group provided it with what he described as balance sheet firepower and agility to back trends the group believes will define the next decade.

Co-founder Jaume Sabater, who also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Stoneweg, pointed to the group's listing on Euronext Amsterdam as a key enabler of its investment discipline, saying it has positioned the group to capture value at pace and at scale. Sabater described the completion of the controlling stake in Genesis Digital Assets as the clearest demonstration of the strategy to date.

**Diversified Holdings Retained Alongside Digital Focus
**Despite the pronounced tilt toward digital infrastructure, SWI Group confirmed that it continues to maintain a diversified portfolio of investments outside that sector.

These include European industrial and logistics real estate through SERT, an investment-grade vehicle listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, and US multifamily residential exposure through Varia US, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

The group also identified an emerging focus on culture, sport, and entertainment, describing these as sectors where it sees attractive investment opportunities ahead of what it characterized as institutional consensus.

A further component of the portfolio involves an opportunistic, asset-class-agnostic strategy that the group said encompasses distressed situations and financial assets across a range of markets.

SWI Group was formed through the merger of Icona and Stoneweg and is led by co-founders George and Sabater. It deploys capital across digital infrastructure, real estate and other private market opportunities and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam under the ticker SWICH.

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Digital Realty Breaks Ground on ZUR4 Data Center in Switzerland, Europe

Nikitha Valike — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:38:26 +0000

Digital Realty has begun construction on a new data center at its campus in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, marking the latest expansion of what the company describes as the best-connected data center campus in the country.

The facility, designated ZUR4, will provide 15 megawatts of IT capacity across approximately 6,300 square meters of space and is expected to be completed in 2028.

*A Fourth Building for Switzerland's Premier Campus
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ZUR4 will join three existing facilities on the Glattbrugg campus, ZUR1, ZUR2, and ZUR3, forming an expanded cluster that Digital Realty says serves more than 200 customers on-site.

The company's global platform, PlatformDIGITAL, encompasses more than 300 data centers across more than 55 metros in more than 30 countries on six continents, and the Zurich (ZUR) campus is positioned as a gateway to that broader network for customers in Switzerland and the wider European region.

The new building has been designed to accommodate high-density deployments and artificial intelligence workloads. Digital Realty states that state-of-the-art cooling systems and an energy-efficient architecture will allow ZUR4 to meet what the company characterizes as the growing requirements of organizations working in AI and machine learning.

Like the rest of Digital Realty's European portfolio, ZUR4 is planned to operate on 100 percent renewable energy. The existing campus already carries a notable sustainability distinction: ZUR2 has received the first-ever PLATINUM Plus certification awarded by the Swiss Datacenter Efficiency Association, known as the SDEA, a milestone the company describes as significant for sustainable infrastructure and data center operations in Switzerland.

**AI Demand and Data Sovereignty Drive the Investment
**Digital Realty has framed the ZUR4 groundbreaking as part of a broader push across Europe to deliver infrastructure capable of supporting AI-driven workloads while addressing customer requirements around data location and digital sovereignty. The company cited ongoing construction at two other European sites, FRA20 in Frankfurt and VIE13 in Vienna, as part of the same strategic expansion.

Yves Zischek, Managing Director of Digital Realty in Austria and Switzerland, said the continued investments across the region reflect both the strategic importance of Europe and the rising demand for AI-optimized, data-sovereign, and sustainable digital infrastructure. He noted that the Glattbrugg campus expansion will connect more than 200 customers on-site and support the company's network of more than 6,000 customers worldwide.

ZUR4 is also intended to serve customers with specific data residency and resilience requirements, offering locally operated capacity within Switzerland's regulatory and infrastructure environment. Direct cloud connectivity is planned as a feature of the campus, extending access to Digital Realty's global interconnection ecosystem.

Swiss Political Figures Highlight Economic and Sovereignty Dimensions
The groundbreaking drew commentary from two Swiss political representatives, each emphasizing different aspects of the investment's significance for the country.

Barbara Franzen, a Member of the Cantonal Council representing the FDP party in Canton Zurich, said the expansion demonstrates how thoroughly digital infrastructure has become central to the cantonal economy.
She argued that investments of this scale not only secure jobs and innovative capacity but also strengthen what she called the digital self-determination of Zurich as a business location.

Nik Gugger, a Member of the National Council representing the EVP party and serving as President of the Swiss Cyber Security Days, described secure and locally anchored data infrastructure as crucial to Switzerland's digital future. He said ZUR4 would make an important contribution to Switzerland's digital sovereignty as well as to the innovative strength of Canton Zurich.

**Technical Specifications and Campus Connectivity
**The 6,300-square-meter facility will deliver 15 megawatts of IT capacity, with the technical design oriented toward high-density compute environments that AI and machine learning workloads typically require. Digital Realty has stated that the cooling systems and energy architecture are engineered to meet the demands of this type of deployment.

The campus as a whole offer what Digital Realty describes as outstanding connectivity options, and ZUR4's integration into the existing Glattbrugg site is expected to enhance those options further.

The campus functions as a node within PlatformDIGITAL, allowing customers to access Digital Realty's global network of interconnected data center facilities spanning six continents.

**Broader European Expansion Context
**The Switzerland groundbreaking is one of several recent moves by Digital Realty to extend its European footprint. In addition to the Frankfurt and Vienna projects referenced by Zischek, the company has been active in other markets across the continent.

Digital Realty describes itself as the world's largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, and its European buildout reflects the sustained capital investment the sector has seen as demand for AI infrastructure and cloud services continues to grow across the region.

Completion of ZUR4 remains targeted for 2028, at which point the Glattbrugg campus will operate four data center facilities under Digital Realty's management.

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ENERCON Reaches Halfway Point at Sundern Wind Farm in Germany

Nikitha Valike — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:11:45 +0000

Construction of the Sundern wind farm in Germany's Hochsauerland district has reached its halfway mark, with ENERCON announcing the completion of the sixth turbine this month as part of a twelve-turbine first construction phase being developed in collaboration with Trianel Wind and Solar.
**1. Project Scale and Location
**The Sundern wind farm is taking shape as one of the largest wind energy installations in North Rhine-Westphalia. The first construction phase involves the installation of twelve E-160 EP5 E3 turbines, which together will deliver a total capacity of 66.7 megawatts. Beyond the turbines themselves, the project also encompasses the construction of a dedicated substation to connect the facility to the grid.

The development is situated in the Hochsauerland district, a region in the eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia. When complete, the scale of the project will place Sundern among the most significant wind energy developments the state has seen.

**2. Logistics Achievement
**One of the standout accomplishments highlighted by ENERCON is the delivery of all major component transports, including what the company described as complex special logistics, finishing a full month ahead of schedule.

Moving large wind turbine components through road networks presents significant logistical challenges, typically requiring extensive coordination with local authorities, road surveys, and carefully timed convoys of heavy haulage vehicles.

ENERCON attributed the early completion of the transport phase to close collaboration and dedication from all parties involved in the project. The ahead-of-schedule delivery of components to site is a meaningful operational achievement given the size and complexity of the machinery involved in modern utility-scale wind turbine installations.

**3. Turbine Specifications
**The twelve turbines forming the backbone of the first phase are ENERCON's E-160 EP5 E3 model. With a rotor diameter of 160 metres, these are large machines suited to the output requirements of a project of this scale.
The combined rated capacity of 66.7 megawatts across twelve units places the average per-turbine contribution at approximately 5.6 megawatts, consistent with ENERCON's EP5 platform specifications.

The EP5 platform represents ENERCON's current generation of turbine technology, with the E3 designation indicating a specific configuration within that product line.

**4. Second Phase and Final Turbine Models
**Following the completion of the first construction phase, a second phase is planned that will bring the total number of turbines at Sundern to fourteen. The final two turbines to be erected are not E-160 EP5 E3 machines but instead ENERCON's E-175 EP5 E2, which the company describes as its top model. Those two turbines are scheduled to be installed next year.

The E-175 EP5 E2 features a larger rotor diameter of 175 metres compared to the E-160 machines already being installed in phase one, making it one of the larger onshore turbine models in ENERCON's portfolio.
The inclusion of these two machines in the final stage of the project indicates that the Sundern site will ultimately host a mixed fleet drawing from different configurations within the EP5 platform.

**5. Partnership and Delivery Model
**The project is being delivered through a collaboration between ENERCON, one of Germany's most established wind turbine manufacturers, and Trianel Wind and Solar.

Trianel is a municipal utility cooperative with a track record in developing and operating renewable energy assets, and its involvement reflects the continuing role that municipal energy companies play in Germany's energy transition.

ENERCON's role in the project spans both turbine supply and on-site construction delivery, consistent with the company's integrated approach to wind farm development. The management of component logistics, a critical path element in any large wind installation, falls within that scope.

**6. Progress and Timeline
**With the sixth turbine now complete and the halfway point of the first phase reached, construction activity is continuing at the Hochsauerland site. The project team is working toward the completion of the remaining six E-160 EP5 E3 turbines in the current phase before the second phase commences with the erection of the two E-175 EP5 E2 machines next year.

ENERCON's announcement noted the daily commitment of both its own colleagues and its on-site partners as a key factor in the progress achieved so far, and the company extended its thanks to those involved across the project.

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METLEN Signs UK Battery Contract and Secures Italian Financing as European Storage Push Accelerates

Nikitha Valike — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:20:27 +0000

METLEN, the Greek energy and metals company, has announced a series of battery energy storage system milestones spanning the United Kingdom, Italy and Greece as it moves to consolidate its position as a significant player in grid-scale storage infrastructure across the continent.

*UK Contract with Pulse Clean Energy
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The most prominent announcement is a balance of plant contract signed with Pulse Clean Energy for the 129 MW Penn BESS project located in the West Midlands region of England.
The project carries an installed battery capacity of 362 MWh, making it the largest energy storage project METLEN has undertaken in the United Kingdom to date in terms of storage capacity.

Pulse Clean Energy is described as a fast-growing UK developer and operator of battery storage projects. The company currently operates one of the UK's largest battery storage fleets at 400 MWh, with a further 400 MWh under construction and stated ambitions to reach 2 GWh of total capacity by 2030.

METLEN's scope of work on the Penn project extends beyond the battery installation itself and includes grid connection works, which the company described as a crucial element in integrating renewable energy into the electricity network. Energisation of the site is expected by the end of 2027.

The Penn project adds to what has become a substantial portfolio of battery storage delivery for METLEN across the United Kingdom. Across the country, the company has delivered or is currently working on approximately 30 battery storage units, including hybrid and collocated solar and battery projects, representing nearly 2GWh of energy storage capacity in collaboration with what METLEN describes as leading industry partners.

**Italian Project Financing and Operational Milestone
**In Italy, METLEN has secured a USD 21 million long-term financing agreement for a 25 MW and 75 MWh battery energy storage project situated in the Apulia region, specifically in the province of Brindisi. The project has become fully operational within the year and operates under a seven-year physical Tolling Agreement with Dolomiti Energia Group.

METLEN characterised the long-term financing agreement as one of the first of its type in the Italian energy storage market and described it as reflecting a commercial model already well established at a European level.

The company has maintained a presence in Italy since 2017 and has since built what it describes as a diversified portfolio in the country, which now includes around 3GWh of energy storage capacity. The Brindisi project represents the latest development in what has been a steady expansion of METLEN's Italian operations over nearly a decade.

**Greece's Largest Standalone Battery System
**In Greece, METLEN has developed what it describes as the largest standalone battery storage unit planned to date in the country and one of the largest in Europe.

The project was developed in partnership with Karatzis Group of Companies and is located in the Thessaly region. It carries a power capacity of 330 MW with an installed battery capacity of 790 MWh.

The unit's output has been integrated into the national electricity transmission system, which the company described as a key step toward full operational function and participation in grid services.

A separate project has also recently been completed in Polygyros, in the Halkidiki region of Central Macedonia. Known as the Aenaos project, it has a capacity of 48 MW and 96 MWh and was implemented under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, known as Greece 2.0, with funding provided through the European Union's NextGenerationEU programme.

**Storage as a Strategic Priority
**The cluster of announcements reflects a deliberate positioning by METLEN of battery energy storage not as a secondary or supporting technology within its portfolio, but as what the company calls a critical enabler of the energy transition.

In its own framing, battery storage supports renewable energy integration, provides grid flexibility and stabilisation services, strengthens energy security, reduces curtailment and contributes to building a more resilient and reliable power system.

The activity is centred within M RESET, METLEN's energy storage business unit operating under its broader energy sector. The announcements span three distinct national markets within Europe, each at a different stage of development and each structured around different commercial and financing frameworks.

In the UK, the Penn contract follows an established pattern of Balance of Plant delivery for third-party developers. In Italy, the Brindisi project introduces a long-term tolling structure that METLEN suggests is novel for that particular market. In Greece, the Thessaly project represents the largest domestic installation of its kind and is now connected to the national transmission system.

The combined activity across the three countries reflects the scale of ambition METLEN has attached to storage infrastructure as European energy systems continue to absorb larger volumes of renewable generation.
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Digital Realty Wins 50 MW Singapore Data Center Allocation on Jurong Island

Nikitha Valike — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:35:48 +0000

Digital Realty has been selected under Singapore's second Data Center Call for Applications to develop a new 50-megawatt facility on Jurong Island, the company announced, marking a significant expansion of its footprint in one of Asia Pacific's most competitive digital infrastructure markets.

*Selection and Site Details
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The Austin, Texas-based company received a provisional allocation of 50 megawatts of capacity to build a new data center at Jurong Town Corporation's low-carbon data center park on Jurong Island. Digital Realty was chosen through an open competitive process led by the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Infocomm Media Development Authority.

The awarded proposals were recognized for their ability to strengthen Singapore's position as a hub for artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and network connectivity, as well as for their contributions to innovation, economic development, and the country's sustainability objectives.

The new facility will become Digital Realty's fourth data center in Singapore, joining three existing operational sites that together hold approximately 84 megawatts of combined capacity.

Singapore has served as the location of the company's regional Asia Pacific headquarters and its Global Command Center since it established operations in the country in 2010.

**AI and Enterprise Workload Focus
**Digital Realty described the new facility as purpose-built for Singapore's digital economy priorities and designed to support AI inference, high-performance computing, and enterprise digital workloads across the Asia-Pacific region.

The company stated that the site will be AI-ready and is intended to serve the next wave of demand as enterprises move AI from development into production deployment.

The company noted that AI inference workloads require infrastructure to be located closer to end users and enterprise data, supported by strong connectivity, resilience, and security.

Singapore's combination of connectivity, governance frameworks, and its developed digital ecosystem was cited as factors positioning it to support these workloads across the broader region. Sectors highlighted as driving demand include financial services, technology, logistics, and healthcare.

The new campus will be connected globally through Digital Realty's ServiceFabric platform, described as a service orchestration system that links the Singapore campus with other Digital Realty and third-party data centers worldwide to enable connectivity, data exchange, and workload deployment across sites.

**Sustainability Requirements and Commitments
**Under the terms of the DC-CFA2 selection, the new facility must meet best-in-class energy efficiency requirements and power more than 50 percent of its capacity through green energy pathways. Digital Realty said sustainability is central to its operating model and that it is committed to scaling responsibly as demand grows.

The company's existing Singapore operations already achieve 100 percent renewable energy coverage through direct retail energy agreements with Tuas Power.

Digital Realty has also collaborated with the Infocomm Media Development Authority on Singapore's tropical data center standard, which examines whether higher chilled-water operating temperatures can improve energy efficiency without compromising operational resilience.

As part of that initiative, Digital Realty increased operating temperatures by two degrees Celsius across two data halls, reducing overall energy consumption by approximately two to three percent during the pilot period.

The company also uses building management systems to monitor more than 30,000 infrastructure points across its Singapore facilities, including real-time power usage effectiveness readings.

**4. Leadership Remarks
**Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at Digital Realty, described Singapore as a long-standing strategic market for the company and said the selection under DC-CFA2 comes at an important moment for the country's digital future.

"Through DC-CFA2, we plan to expand on Jurong Island with next-generation AI-ready infrastructure," Nah said. "Sustainability is central to how we operate at Digital Realty, and we are committed to scaling responsibly as demand grows. We are grateful to the Singapore Government, lead agencies, our customers and partners for their continued trust and collaboration, and to our employees whose dedication makes this possible."

**5. Platform and Ecosystem Integration
**Once operational, the Jurong Island facility is expected to expand the capacity available for high-value AI and enterprise deployments and connect customers to Digital Realty's global PlatformDIGITAL ecosystem.
The company described PlatformDIGITAL as a global data center platform that provides customers with a secure data meeting place and access to the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions.

Digital Realty said it plans to continue investing in resilient digital infrastructure in Singapore, advancing energy and resource efficiency, and deepening local partnerships that support innovation, talent development, and Singapore's long-term digital competitiveness.

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WhiteFiber Closes Upsized $310 Million Convertible Notes Offering to Fund Data Center Expansion

Nikitha Valike — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:56:00 +0000

WhiteFiber, Inc., the Nasdaq-listed provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure and high-performance computing solutions, has closed a private placement of USD 310.0 million in convertible senior notes, including the full exercise of an overallotment option, as the company accelerates plans to expand its data center footprint and bring more than 100 megawatts of additional capacity online by 2027.

**Deal Structure and Terms
**The offering, which closed on August 21, 2026, consisted of USD 310.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 5.00% convertible senior notes due 2032. The final size reflects the exercise in full of the initial purchasers' option to purchase up to an additional USD 40.0 million in principal amount beyond the originally announced offering amount.

The notes were issued with an initial conversion price of approximately USD 33.84 per share, representing a premium of approximately 25% over the last reported sale price of the company's ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market on August 18, 2026. WhiteFiber trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol WYFI.

After deducting initial purchasers' discounts and estimated offering expenses, the company received net proceeds of approximately USD 298.5 million.

The notes were offered exclusively to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or any state or other jurisdiction's securities laws.

Concurrent Note Exchange Transactions
Alongside the pricing of the new offering, WhiteFiber entered into privately negotiated exchange transactions with certain holders of its existing 4.500% convertible senior notes due 2031.

Under those arrangements, the company exchanged USD 198.15 million in aggregate principal amount of the existing notes for approximately USD 118.5 million in cash, which included accrued and unpaid interest, as well as approximately 6.3 million ordinary shares.

As a result of these transactions, the aggregate principal amount of the existing 4.500% notes outstanding was reduced to approximately USD 31.85 million. WhiteFiber used approximately USD 118.5 million of the net proceeds from the new offering to fund the cash portion of those exchange transactions.

**Use of Remaining Proceeds
**The remaining net proceeds from the offering are earmarked primarily for data center expansion. According to the company, planned uses include partially funding the lease or purchase of additional property or properties on which to build new WhiteFiber data centers, constructing those facilities, entering into additional energy service agreements for each new site, and purchasing related equipment, including GPU servers, to support the company's cloud business.

WhiteFiber also indicated that proceeds may be used for potential acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures related to its infrastructure build-out, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.

**Strategic Rationale and Growth Targets
**Sam Tabar, chief executive officer of WhiteFiber, framed the transaction as a move to strengthen the company's financial position ahead of a significant phase of capacity growth.

Tabar said the deal materially enhances the company's liquidity and provides greater capital certainty as the company completes the first phase of a project identified as NC-1 and prepares for the next phase of its colocation growth.

Tabar also pointed to the anticipated closing of a proposed project-level financing for NC-1, which he noted remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and the satisfaction of customary approvals and closing conditions.

He said the company expects that financing, combined with the proceeds from the convertible notes offering, will position WhiteFiber to initiate site preparation and place long-lead equipment orders on the timetable needed to support a target of bringing more than 100 megawatts of additional capacity online across its development pipeline in 2027.

The chief executive stated that advancing site readiness and procurement now is intended to reduce schedule risk and position the company to execute long-term leases with what he described as high-quality customers for that capacity during the fourth quarter of 2026.

Tabar characterized the transaction as the next step in the company's strategy of converting its development pipeline into contracted, financeable capacity and reinvesting capital to scale the platform.

**Company Background
**WhiteFiber describes itself as a provider of AI infrastructure solutions that owns high-performance computing data centers and provides cloud services to customers.

The company says its vertically integrated model combines specialized colocation, hosting, and cloud services engineered to maximize performance, efficiency, and margin for generative AI workloads.
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Nvidia Takes Minority Stake in Data Center Infrastructure Startup Cloverleaf in Deal Worth Several Hundred Million Dollars

Nikitha Valike — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:11:15 +0000

Nvidia has announced a partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data center development company, in a move that underscores the chipmaker's growing ambition to play a direct role in financing the AI infrastructure buildout that has powered its own financial rise.

**The Cloverleaf Deal
**Nvidia now owns a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, though neither company disclosed the specific financial terms of the arrangement. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia's investment in Cloverleaf will likely total several hundred million dollars. TechCrunch reached out to Nvidia for additional comment.

Cloverleaf Infrastructure was founded in 2024 and raised USD 300 million that same year. The company functions as an intermediary between utility companies and data centers, providing power sources and other critical infrastructure for site development.

That positioning, sitting between the power grid and the facilities that ultimately consume enormous quantities of electricity to run AI workloads, has made it an increasingly relevant player as demand for data center capacity continues to surge.

**Part of a Broader Investment Push
**The Cloverleaf partnership is not an isolated move. Earlier in the same week, Nvidia announced it would invest USD 1.5 billion into SB Energy, an OpenAI-linked data center project based in Ohio.

Taken together, the two deals illustrate a pattern: Nvidia is increasingly using its substantial profits to invest directly in the data centers that purchase its AI systems, effectively financing one side of the transaction that generates revenue on the other.

The strategy represents a notable evolution for a company that built its dominance through hardware. Rather than simply selling graphics processing units and AI chips to whoever is building data centers, Nvidia is now taking financial stakes in the companies and projects doing the building.
The result is a tighter integration between the chipmaker and the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem it supplies.

**Why Infrastructure Financing Matters to Nvidia
**The logic behind Nvidia's investment approach reflects the dynamics of what the company has described as an AI flywheel. Data centers require Nvidia's chips to run AI workloads. Those workloads generate demand for more compute, which requires more data center capacity, which requires more chips.

By investing in the infrastructure layer, Nvidia helps ensure that the construction of new facilities continues at a pace that sustains demand for its products.

Cloverleaf's specific role in that chain is to resolve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in data center development: access to power and the foundational infrastructure needed before a facility can even begin operating.

By acting as a go-between for utility companies and data center operators, the startup addresses a constraint that has slowed the deployment of new AI compute capacity in various markets.

Nvidia's immense profits in recent years, driven by insatiable demand for its AI chips from technology companies, cloud providers, and governments, have given it the financial firepower to pursue this kind of vertical integration into the infrastructure stack.

Rather than waiting for the market to build out sufficient capacity on its own, Nvidia is accelerating the process by putting capital directly into the companies that make it happen.

**Cloverleaf's Position in the Market
**Cloverleaf's founding in 2024 and its USD 300 million fundraise in the same year placed it among a wave of companies that emerged specifically to address the infrastructure demands of the AI era.
The data center development space has attracted significant capital as hyperscalers, AI laboratories, and enterprise customers compete for access to facilities capable of housing the dense, power-hungry clusters of chips required for modern AI training and inference.

The company's intermediary model distinguishes it from data center operators that own and run facilities directly.

Instead, Cloverleaf focuses on the earlier-stage work of securing power agreements with utilities and preparing sites for development, a role that has become increasingly valuable as power availability has emerged as one of the primary constraints on AI infrastructure expansion.

With Nvidia now holding a minority stake, Cloverleaf gains not only capital but also an association with the dominant supplier of AI computing hardware. The partnership could also give Nvidia earlier visibility into where new data center capacity is being developed and what infrastructure requirements those facilities will have.

**Nvidia's Expanding Role in AI Infrastructure
**The back-to-back announcements of the SB Energy investment and the Cloverleaf partnership signal that Nvidia's approach to sustaining its position in the AI market extends well beyond chip design and manufacturing.

The company is now a significant financier of the physical infrastructure that underpins the AI industry, taking stakes in projects and companies across the power and data center development value chain.

The Ohio-based SB Energy project ties Nvidia to OpenAI's infrastructure ambitions, while the Cloverleaf deal gives it exposure to a platform-level infrastructure company working across multiple potential customers and geographies.

Both investments reflect Nvidia's stated goal of using its capital to keep the AI buildout moving at a pace that sustains demand for its core products.

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Horizontal Works Begin on Datagrid's AI Data Center Campus in Makarewa, New Zealand

Nikitha Valike — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:46:34 +0000

Construction has officially commenced on Datagrid's AI data center campus in Makarewa, north of Invercargill, with the company announcing that horizontal works are now underway on the 49-hectare site. The development marks a significant milestone for what the company describes as New Zealand's largest data center project.

**HEB Construction Selected for Initial Works
**Datagrid has appointed New Zealand company HEB Construction, a subsidiary of global construction giant VINCI Construction, to carry out the horizontal works phase of the project. The scope of work covers several critical infrastructure tasks that will lay the physical groundwork for the broader campus development.

Among the tasks underway, HEB Construction is building a new access road that will connect the campus directly to State Highway 98. The company is also upgrading existing roading infrastructure in the area and undertaking significant earthworks, including the excavation and reuse of topsoil from within the site itself. That topsoil will be used to construct a six-metre-high bund around the perimeter of the campus.

The bund is intended to meaningfully reduce the campus's visual and noise footprint, which Datagrid characterised as a specific commitment it has made to residents and the broader Makarewa community. The decision to reuse topsoil from the site itself reflects an effort to manage materials efficiently within the project boundaries.

**Year-End Completion Target for Foundation Infrastructure
**Datagrid has set a timeline for completing foundational platform work by the end of the current year. This includes the foundation platform for the future AI data center facility itself, as well as a cable landing station and a power substation. The completion of these elements is considered a prerequisite for the next phases of the campus build.

The announcement confirms that HEB Construction teams are already on site, signalling that work is progressing against the company's stated project timeline.

**Ambitions Extend Beyond Scale to Sustainability
**Rémi Galasso, CEO of Datagrid New Zealand, framed the project not only in terms of its scale but also its sustainability credentials. In a statement accompanying the announcement, Galasso described the campus as one that aspires to be among the most sustainable data center projects of its scale in the Asia Pacific region.

"Datagrid won't just be the largest data center project in New Zealand, but also one of the most sustainable data center projects of that scale in the Asia Pacific," Galasso said. "We hope to demonstrate that New Zealand has all the ingredients to be a world champion in this industry."
Galasso also credited the partnership with HEB Construction as essential to meeting the company's project timeline, describing the selection as enabling Datagrid to match its ambitious schedule.

**Economic and Community Benefit Cited by Construction Partner
**Mark Evans, CEO of HEB Construction, welcomed the partnership and spoke to the broader significance of the project for the Southland region. Evans described Datagrid's development as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for New Zealand and expressed confidence in the contribution the project would make to both the local economy and the surrounding community.

"We are proud to be working with Datagrid to bring lasting economic and community benefit to the region," Evans said. "Datagrid's project is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for New Zealand, and I'm pleased we are part of enabling it, with our teams already on site."

The involvement of HEB Construction, a domestically based company despite its international parentage through VINCI Construction, aligns with Datagrid's stated intent to utilise New Zealand partners where possible as the project progresses.

**Site Context and Project Scale
**The Makarewa campus sits on a 49-hectare plot to the north of Invercargill in Southland. The scale of the site and the breadth of infrastructure planned—including a cable landing station alongside the data center facility and power substation—indicate a project designed to serve significant connectivity and computing demands.

The reference to a cable landing station is notable in the context of the broader South Island connectivity landscape. A separate announcement linked by Datagrid concerns the Tasman Ring Network, which is described as a project intended to supercharge South Island connectivity and improve the resilience of New Zealand's internet infrastructure, though details of that project were not elaborated upon in the Makarewa campus announcement.

The horizontal works phase now underway represents the beginning of physical construction activity on a project that Datagrid has positioned as transformative not just for Southland but for New Zealand's standing in the global data infrastructure industry.

With foundation platforms for the core campus facilities expected to be complete before the end of the year, the coming months will be closely watched as the project moves from groundwork into its next stages of development.

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VNET Group Strikes Strategic Partnership with Battery Giant CATL to Build Integrated Compute-Energy Infrastructure

Nikitha Valike — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:42:00 +0000

VNET Group, Inc., a carrier- and cloud-neutral internet data center services provider listed on Nasdaq, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, the global battery and new energy technology manufacturer known as CATL, the two companies announced on August 18, 2026.

**1. Partnership Targets Next-Generation Digital Energy Infrastructure
**The agreement brings together two companies operating in adjacent but converging industries, pairing VNET's large-scale computing infrastructure development and operations capabilities with CATL's expertise in zero-carbon new energy technologies. According to the announcement, the stated goal of the partnership is to shape next-generation digital energy infrastructure on a global scale.

CATL trades on both the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code 300750.SZ and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the code 03750.HK. VNET trades on Nasdaq under the ticker VNET and operates in more than 30 cities throughout China, serving a customer base of over 7,000 hosting and related enterprise customers spanning industries that include internet companies, government entities, blue-chip enterprises, and small- to mid-sized businesses.

**2. Three-Layer Compute-Energy Ecosystem at the Core
**The cooperation agreement outlines an ambitious structural framework the two companies plan to develop jointly. Leveraging what they describe as green data center technologies and direct green power connection technologies, VNET and CATL intend to build a three-layer integrated compute-energy ecosystem.

The first layer consists of gigawatt-scale compute-energy facilities. The second is a distributed compute-energy network. The third layer is described as a zero-carbon token ecosystem.
The announcement did not elaborate on the specific technical mechanisms or timeline associated with any of the three layers, nor did it specify geographic targets for initial development beyond a reference to global ambitions.

The companies characterized the partnership as deepening what they called compute-energy integration, a concept that seeks to synergistically combine computing infrastructure at scale with clean energy supply and management.

**3. Executive Commentary Points to Complementary Strengths
**Josh Sheng Chen, Founder and Executive Chairperson of VNET, commented on the agreement in the announcement. "By combining our complementary strengths and deepening cooperation across technology, infrastructure and supply chains, we will jointly advance innovation in integrated compute-energy systems," Chen said. "Together, we aim to contribute to the next generation of digital energy infrastructure in the intelligent era."

The statement underscores the breadth of the intended cooperation, which, according to the announcement, spans technology development, physical infrastructure buildout, and supply chain coordination between the two organizations.

**4. CATL's Role as a Zero-Carbon Technology Provider
**CATL is described in the announcement as a global leader in zero-carbon new energy technology. The company's involvement in the partnership is framed around its capacity to provide the energy technology layer of the combined initiative, complementing VNET's established role in data center construction and operations.

VNET's existing services include internet data center hosting, cloud services, and business virtual private network services. The company's infrastructure allows enterprise customers to locate servers and equipment in its data centers and connect to China's internet backbone.

That existing footprint forms the operational base from which VNET is seeking to expand into the integrated energy and compute model outlined in the new agreement.

**5. Agreement Leaves Room for Further Negotiation
**The announcement makes clear that the strategic cooperation agreement represents an early-stage framework rather than a fully executed operational plan. VNET explicitly flagged in its safe harbor statement that the risks associated with the announcement include the implementation of the contemplated cooperation, the negotiation and execution of definitive agreements for specific cooperation projects, and uncertainty around the timing, scope, and anticipated benefits of the partnership.

In other words, while the strategic cooperation agreement has been signed, the specific projects that will flow from it remain subject to further negotiation and the execution of additional definitive agreements.
The announcement did not disclose financial terms associated with the cooperation agreement, nor did it identify specific capital commitments from either party at this stage.

**6. Broader Context: Data Centers and Energy Demands
**The partnership reflects growing convergence between the data center industry and the energy sector, driven in large part by the substantial power demands of large-scale computing infrastructure, including facilities designed to support artificial intelligence workloads.
VNET's framing of the deal around the concept of an intelligent era suggests that AI infrastructure demand is among the forces motivating the company's push toward tighter integration with energy supply chains and zero-carbon power sources.

CATL's participation positions the battery and new energy technology manufacturer as a potential infrastructure partner for data center operators seeking to address both the scale and the carbon footprint of their power consumption, though the announcement did not specify which CATL product lines or technologies would be deployed under the cooperation framework.

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DayOne, Cortical Labs, and NUS Medicine Launch World's First Biological Data Center Prototype in Singapore

Nikitha Valike — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:18:56 +0000

Singapore has become the site of a landmark moment in computing history, with DayOne Data Centers Limited, Cortical Labs, and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore unveiling what they describe as Singapore's first Biological Data Center Prototype.

The launch, held on August 17, 2026, brings living human neurons grown from stem cells together with silicon hardware inside a functioning research environment, offering what its proponents call a potentially more adaptive and energy-efficient alternative to conventional digital infrastructure.

**What Biological Computing Actually Means
**At the heart of the prototype is a technology that sits at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering. Biological computing uses living neurons grown from stem cells and connects them to silicon hardware to process information.

Those neurons receive electrical signals, respond to them, and adapt over time, enabling the system to carry out certain computing tasks on a fraction of the wattage required by conventional digital computers.

The specific system deployed is Cortical Labs' CL1 biological computing platform, and the prototype features a 20-unit cluster of these systems. According to the parties involved, this constitutes the first independently operated biologically integrated server rack in the world.
The deployment places Cortical Labs' technology inside a live research environment at NUS Medicine, hosted within infrastructure designed and supported by DayOne.

The collaborative arrangement draws on three distinct areas of expertise: NUS Medicine's neurobiology research capabilities, Cortical Labs' hardware and software technology, and DayOne's experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical digital infrastructure. Areas of exploration identified by the partners include neuro-inspired artificial intelligence, biomedical modelling, drug discovery, and neurological disease research.

**A Live Demonstration for Industry and Academia
**The prototype was launched before an audience drawn from the public sector, academia, technology, and digital infrastructure industries. Attendees viewed a live demonstration of the CL1 system and were given the opportunity to tour the NUS laboratory supporting the initiative.

The event featured remarks from Jamie Khoo, Chief Executive Officer of DayOne; Hon Weng Chong, Founder and CEO of Cortical Labs; and Professor Rickie Patani, Professor of Neuroscience at NUS Medicine, Director of the Neurobiology Programme at the NUS Life Sciences Institute, and Chair of the Neuroscience Translational Research Programme at NUS Medicine.

Khoo framed the initiative as part of DayOne's broader commitment to Singapore's digital future. "Our commitment to Singapore goes beyond capacity. We are here to help shape what the next generation of digital infrastructure looks like, and that means investing in approaches that meet Singapore's sustainability ambitions alongside its AI ambitions," he said, adding that the prototype is intended to demonstrate that scaling compute and reducing resource intensity are goals that can be pursued simultaneously.

**From Research to Commercial Application
**For Cortical Labs, the significance of the Singapore prototype lies in its movement beyond purely academic settings. Hon Weng Chong described the deployment as shifting "the conversation from research to commercial application."

He identified several domains where the specific properties of biological computing could offer a meaningful advantage: drug discovery, humanoid robotics, cybersecurity, and fraud detection.

The rationale, as explained by Chong, is that biological computing supplements conventional AI in situations where data is sparse, because the system can learn from far less information and adapt as conditions change.

He framed Singapore as the intended proving ground for a model the company plans to replicate and scale globally, describing it as the innovation hub for Asia's data centre industry.

Professor Patani offered a scientific perspective on what distinguishes the initiative from prior computing research. By growing living human neurons from stem cells and connecting them to engineered systems, the collaboration is not only building an alternative to silicon hardware but also creating a platform designed to illuminate the biological mechanisms of learning and adaptation themselves.

He described this dual purpose as making the collaboration both scientifically generative and sustainable, and said it offers a route to accelerate drug discovery and neurological disease research more rapidly than laboratory work alone could achieve.

**The Broader Stakes for the Region
**The initiative arrives at a point when the Asia Pacific region is navigating competing pressures around artificial intelligence expansion and resource sustainability.

Conventional data centers, which underpin current AI workloads, are power-intensive facilities facing increasing scrutiny from regulators and governments concerned about energy consumption and environmental impact.

The biological computing approach represented by the CL1 system is described by its developers as a lower-power-intensity pathway to scaling AI capacity.

Whether it can ultimately deliver on that promise at commercial scale remains to be established through the research and operational work now underway at NUS Medicine, but the Singapore prototype represents the first attempt to test those claims in a live, independently operated infrastructure environment rather than a laboratory setting alone.

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India Crosses 300 GW Non-Fossil Fuel Power Capacity, Surpassing 60% of Its 2030 Target

Nikitha Valike — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:03:46 +0000

India has crossed a total of 300.50 gigawatts of non-fossil fuel-based installed electricity generation capacity, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced. The milestone places India at more than 60 percent of its stated target of reaching 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030.

**Breakdown by Source
**The 300.50 GW total is distributed across five categories of generation. Solar power leads all sources at 164.59 GW, followed by wind power at 58.14 GW and hydropower, combining large and small installations, at 57.24 GW. Bio-power contributes 11.75 GW, and nuclear power accounts for 8.78 GW.

Non-fossil fuel capacity now represents more than 54 percent of India's total installed electricity generation capacity, which stands at approximately 552 GW across all sources.

**Solar and Wind Lead Decade of Growth
**The government's announcement pointed to solar energy as the primary growth engine behind the overall expansion. Solar capacity has grown from 2.8 GW in 2014 to approximately 165 GW at present, representing a more than fiftyfold increase over roughly twelve years. Wind energy has also expanded significantly during the same period, rising from 21 GW in 2014 to more than 58 GW today.

The fiscal year 2025-26 marked a record period for new installations. During that year alone, India added 55.29 GW of non-fossil fuel-based electricity capacity, with solar power accounting for 44.6 GW of that total and wind power contributing 6 GW.

**Generation Output More Than Doubles Since 2014
**The increase in installed capacity has translated into substantially higher actual electricity generation from renewable sources. Renewable energy generation in the country rose from 190.96 billion units in 2014-15 to 477.79 billion units in 2025-26, according to figures provided by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The increase represents a gain of more than 280 billion units of renewable electricity output over roughly a decade.

**Domestic Manufacturing Scales Alongside Capacity
**The government also highlighted parallel growth in India's domestic solar manufacturing sector as a component of the broader energy transition. The enlisted capacity under the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers, known as ALMM, for Solar PV Modules has crossed 200 GW, up from 2.3 GW in 2014.

The ministry attributed this manufacturing expansion in part to the Production Linked Incentive scheme, which the government has directed toward encouraging the installation of high-efficiency, domestically produced solar modules.

The ALMM framework governs which solar PV modules are approved for use in government-supported projects and serves as a mechanism for promoting indigenous production while managing import dependence in the solar supply chain.

**Policy Framework and National Missions
**The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy described the achievement as the result of policy enablers put in place by the government to drive what it characterized as an "Aatmanirbhar," or self-reliant, energy ecosystem.
The ministry framed the clean energy transition not only as a climate commitment but as central to what it described as India's industrial competitiveness, energy independence, and economic resilience.

Beyond solar and wind, the ministry noted its role in advancing the National Green Hydrogen Mission, which it said is intended to position India as a global hub for the production, use, and export of green hydrogen and its derivatives.

The mission is described as part of a broader effort toward deep industrial decarbonization, though no specific capacity or output figures tied to the hydrogen mission were included in the announcement.
Progress Toward the 2030 Target

India's 500 GW non-fossil fuel target by 2030 forms the central benchmark against which the 300.50 GW milestone is being measured. With approximately four years remaining before that deadline, the country has now crossed three-fifths of the stated goal. The record 55.29 GW added during 2025-26 represents the highest single-year non-fossil fuel installation figure cited in the government's announcement.

The ministry's statement did not provide a specific year-by-year installation trajectory required to meet the remaining roughly 200 GW needed by 2030, nor did it address grid integration, storage, or transmission infrastructure requirements associated with the ongoing expansion.

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Top 5 Upcoming Data Center Projects in New York

Nikitha Valike — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:10:38 +0000

New York is rapidly emerging as one of the most strategic data center markets in the United States driven by the explosive growth of AI and cloud computing. One of the clearest signals of this shift is Anthropic’s USD 50 billion U.S. data center investment plan through its partnership with Fluidstack, with New York selected as one of the first locations for custom-built AI facilities coming online through 2026.

The largest upcoming data centers in New York including the Cayuga Data Campus, the STAMP Data Center in Genesee County, TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner Campus, IBM’s Quantum Data Center (IBM Quantum Starling) in Poughkeepsie, and the large-scale Lysander Data Center in Onondaga County represent a shift toward high-density, power-intensive infrastructure designed to support AI training, quantum computing, and hyperscale cloud workloads.

This article explores the Top 5 Upcoming Data Center Projects in New York, outlining where they are being built, why these locations matter, and how each project fits into the state’s growing role as a data center hub in the United States.

*1.1. Cayuga Data Campus:
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The Cayuga Data Campus is one of the top upcoming data center developments in New York, combining large-scale digital infrastructure with a strong focus on sustainability and community engagement. Located on the former Cayuga Power Plant site in Western New York, the project repurposes a long-standing industrial asset into a modern research and technology hub designed for high-reliability, heavy-duty computing operations.

The redevelopment covers roughly 180 acres, less than half of the total site, and follows a phased buildout plan approved by NYISO. An initial capacity of 50 MW is scheduled to come online in 2026, with expansion to 138 MW by 2028-2029. The location offers a major advantage, drawing power from a regional grid that is approximately 90% zero-carbon and benefits from surplus electricity availability, supporting New York’s broader clean energy goals.

Construction is expected to generate more than 500 jobs during the build phase, while long-term operations will support around 100 permanent skilled positions. The campus is designed to host world-class tenants under long-term agreements of ten years or more, targeting leading global technology companies.

*1.2. STAMP Data Center:
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The STAMP Data Center is a proposed hyperscale data center development by Stream Data Centers at the Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) in Genesee County, New York. The project is planned on a large industrial site within the 1,250-acre STAMP megasite and is designed to support a major Fortune 50 technology tenant.

The facility is expected to span approximately 2.2 million square feet and is designed for high-density, energy-intensive computing workloads. At full buildout, the data center would require up to 500 MW of electricity, making it one of the most power-intensive data center projects proposed in New York State. Power would be supplied through a dedicated 600-MW substation being developed for the STAMP site. Water usage is estimated at around 20,000 gallons per day for cooling and operations.

The project is expected to create around 120 permanent jobs once operational, with additional construction employment during the build phase. Development is subject to regulatory approvals and environmental review, and local economic development authorities are evaluating the project.

*1.3. TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner Campus:
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Lake Mariner Data Center Campus CB-5 expansion is an expansion project by TeraWulf in Lake Mariner, western New York. A former industrial site is being converted to a data center campus with multiple buildings and phased capacity expansions.

Developed by TeraWulf Inc., the project is currently in the development stage with the new building CB-5 expected to be online in H2 of 2026. Fluidstack, an AI firm, announced leasing 200 MW of critical IT load for the project at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York.

This 10-year-long deal was announced in August 2025 and is backed by Google, which holds an 8% stake in Terawulf. The aim is to add a further 160 MW at the Lake Mariner data center project, bringing the total capacity to 360 MW.

*1.4. IBM Quantum Data Center (IBM Quantum Starling):
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IBM announced its plans to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, named IBM Quantum Starling. The data center will be built at a new dedicated IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.

The project was initially announced on 10th June, 2025, and the build-out aimed to support next-generation quantum systems and follow-on processors. The Starling data center is expected to perform 20,000× more operations compared to today’s quantum processors.

The system will employ 200 logical qubits with a fault-tolerant architecture, enabling much larger and more reliable quantum workloads than earlier systems. The Starling project includes a quantum roadmap of intermediate systems slated for 2025-2027, and the project is expected to be fully delivered by 2029.

1.5. Lysander Data Center:

Ranalli Super DC, LLC has announced plans to develop a large-scale
hyperscale data center in Lysander, New York, marking one of the most power-intensive digital infrastructure proposals in the state. The project is planned on 120 acres of vacant land in suburban Lysander and is being led by James Ranalli, a prominent Onondaga County developer and owner of United Auto Supply.

The development has requested a grid interconnection capacity of up to 300 MW from the New York Independent System Operator. At full buildout, the facility’s electricity demand would be comparable to that of approximately 200,000 average households. Currently, the project is in early planning stages.

2. Conclusion:

From hyperscale campuses like STAMP and Lake Mariner to advanced research-driven facilities such as IBM Quantum Starling, these data centers collectively represent billions of dollars in long-term infrastructure investment and hundreds of megawatts of new computing capacity.

The Northeast currently has a USD 6 billion data center construction pipeline scheduled over the next six months, with the New York metro area accounting for a significant share. Long-standing advantages, including dense fiber networks, proximity to financial markets and enterprise customers, established regulatory systems, and expanding power infrastructure, continue to attract hyperscalers and AI-focused operators.

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