Cipher Digital Extends Barber Lake Data Center Lease to 20 Years
Cipher Digital has extended the lease on its Barber Lake AI data center in Texas from 10 to 20 years, pushing total contracted revenue at the site from $3.8 billion to over $9 billion.
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Cipher Digital has extended the lease on its Barber Lake AI data center in Texas from 10 to 20 years, pushing total contracted revenue at the site from $3.8 billion to over $9 billion.

Microsoft says it will invest more than $10 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait through 2030.

Oracle sent a force majeure notice over its Project Jupiter AI data center in New Mexico, seeking the right to delay payments if the site misses its 2028 opening after repeated pipeline permit denials.
IonQ will install its Superion 256 quantum computer at Nvidia's Accelerated Quantum Research Center next year, linking it to an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 system.
Schneider Electric has launched a new Motivair coolant distribution unit that combines liquid and air cooling in one system for high-density AI data centers.

BDx Data Centers has broken ground on a 640MW AI campus near Jatiluhur, Indonesia, backed by 845MVA of secured grid power from state utility PLN.

Molex has introduced VersaBeam Mini, a compact 16-fiber optical connector aimed at easing space and maintenance bottlenecks in high-density AI data center networks.

Prysmian and Rio Tinto will supply an Amazon data center in Ohio with electrical cables made from low-carbon aluminum, marking the first use of the material inside a data center.

Spanish operator Nabiax has started construction on an approximately €800 million, 100MW data center in Alcalá de Henares that will push its Spanish IT capacity to 135MW.

Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors voted 7-1-1 to pause new data center and substation applications for up to a year while it rewrites its rules for the facilities.

Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22, rolling out a statewide data center accountability framework covering transparency, environmental standards, energy costs and clean power.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission blocked Duke Energy's $584 million gas turbine expansion near Hamlet, saying the utility hadn't proven the project was needed or that customers would be protected from its costs.

London-based AI infrastructure company Nscale has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed U.S. IPO, seeking to list on the NYSE under the ticker NSCL.

Oslo-listed developer Magnora has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Sunly's Risti Kampus data center project in western Estonia, targeting 180MW in its first phase and up to 400MW eventually.

Microsoft is scaling a biomimicry-based approach to data center design, first piloted in the Netherlands, to more than 20 sites in the US and Germany and making it standard for new US projects.