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Meta's first Canadian data center in Sturgeon County reveals a broader industry shift: hyperscalers are now securing power generation, transmission capacity, and regulatory approvals years before projects are ever announced.
Prince William County has rejected a second massive data center campus in days, signaling that local political approval has become as critical a site-selection factor as power and fiber availability.
Experts at Cisco Live 2026 warned that AI traffic could triple within three years, making network infrastructure just as critical as GPUs and power in data center planning.
Data center brokers fill a critical gap in a fragmented, technically demanding market where standard real estate tools simply do not apply. Here is how they work and why their role is growing.
QTS withdrew its Digital Gateway campus project in Virginia after years of litigation, signaling that permitting certainty and community opposition now rival power availability as make-or-break factors in AI data center development.
Digital Realty is acquiring Blackstone-managed ownership interests in three Northern Virginia hyperscale facilities, gaining full control of 288 MW of fully leased, AI-ready capacity.
Gigawatt-scale load drops at hyperscale AI campuses triggered multiple grid disturbances in 2025, prompting NERC to issue new modeling guidance and push for a dedicated regulatory category for computational loads.
AI training clusters are leaving Nvidia H100 chips idle more than half the time because switching fabrics cannot keep pace with compute demands. Here is what the industry needs to change.
Planning documents from Georgia Power, Duke Energy, and Dominion Energy reveal three distinct approaches to filtering AI data center demand and prioritizing transmission investments.
The Sijbrandij Foundation has assembled 12 technology and energy partners to create a common framework for powering AI data centers, aiming to cut through the fragmented vendor landscape slowing deployments.
