Western Data Center Pulse

Northern Nevada draws data center developers with climate, fiber and tax advantages, yet suitability for land, energy and water demands requires...

Global colocation capacity stands at 63.8GW with $151.9B revenue in 2026, scaling rapidly alongside AI infrastructure to reach 213.1GW and $458.7B by...

North America's data center construction market is forecast to surge from $85.23 billion in 2025 to $158.20 billion by 2031 at a 10.86% CAGR, fueled...

NDAs shielded negotiations for Applied Digital's $3.6 billion Delta Forge 1 campus in Boyce, Louisiana, leaving residents without details on power,...

Nvidia's data center revenue hit $89 billion, with roughly half now from enterprises, neoclouds, and sovereign customers rather than just...

Amazon outbid Puget Sound Energy for the shovel-ready Sunstone Solar and Storage project, committing roughly $3 billion to own and operate 1.2 GW of...

• A Prince William County resident recounts local civic meetings opposing industrial-scale data centers in the world's largest market
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Prometheus Hyperscale is pressing ahead with county approvals and workforce training for its Evanston project.

• Legal hurdle cleared: Judge...

Oregon data center jobs split between Portland suburbs and smaller high-desert towns east of the Cascades, where hyperscale campuses are driving local...

The near-doubling of planned gas capacity for U.S. data centers to over 189 GW by mid-2026 stems directly from grid constraints pushing...

Public opposition to data center expansion is reshaping the political landscape, putting Republicans on the defensive while forcing Democrats to...

Local leaders in the West are joining a growing wave of resistance to new data center builds.

• Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai is...

• Fast-track conversion: Keel is turning an 18-MW former Bitcoin mining site in Moses Lake into an AI/HPC facility, with demolition complete,...

The secretive approval of a Nevada data center on federal land is triggering the exact resistance FiberLight CEO Major predicted will force industry...

Prometheus Hyperscale plans a 1.5 GW data center in Reeves County that bypasses ERCOT entirely with private natural-gas generation, aiming for 100-150...

• Hyperscalers routed over $120 billion in data-center debt through project entities by late 2025, keeping construction costs off corporate balance...

Nvidia is extending its AI-infrastructure strategy upstream by taking an undisclosed minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a 2024-founded...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says data center developers "dug their own grave" by skipping local community support, prompting new rules requiring approvals...

Opposition to data centers has escalated into a potent political force, reshaping midterm races and prompting officials to reverse course.

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NVIDIA's minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure lets the chipmaker fund power and site development for AI factories, potentially bypassing...