Crusoe Developing Data Center Campus in Armstrong County, Texas
Crusoe says it is the developer of Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, outside Amarillo. Construction began in June 2025, and Crusoe reports more than 5,500 skilled workers on site daily. The campus connects to an adjacent wind farm that is operating and a second that is under construction.
Aligned Data Centers and Shippingport Community Mark Revitalization of Legacy Energy Site with Groundbreaking of 2 GW “Project Phoenix” Campus
Aligned has broken ground on a three-facility campus at a former industrial site in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The company plans dedicated onsite power and estimates 3,000 construction jobs and 640 ongoing campus roles; these are forecasts, not open positions.
Explicit labor signal · 0-90dThe source explicitly identifies construction jobs or named skilled trades.
Partnership
Palantir and Nebius partner to deliver a complete sovereign AI stack to Palantir customers
Palantir plans to integrate Nebius compute and inference into its sovereign AI offering for commercial customers. The partnership also targets faster capacity delivery through modular data centers at sites with available power.
Vertiv Announces Agreement to Acquire UtilityInnovation Group to Accelerate Time to Power for AI Data Centers
Vertiv agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group to add microgrid controls and onsite power capabilities. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.
Core Scientific secures $600 million in credit facilities
The committed facilities include a $100 million revolving line and a $500 million letter-of-credit facility that can support project obligations under utility agreements.
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Senior secured revolving and letter-of-credit facilities
Kentucky PSC Approves 482 MW Power Agreement for TeraWulf’s Justified Data Campus
TeraWulf reports Kentucky approval of an electric-service agreement for its redevelopment of the former Hawesville aluminum site. The agreement assigns project-specific infrastructure and power-delivery costs to TeraWulf and authorizes Big Rivers and Kenergy to implement its terms. Approval does not establish that the campus is energized.
Power agreement approvedIndustrial-site reuseUtility infrastructure
Nebius Group announces closing of private offering of convertible senior notes, with aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $5.75 billion
The convertible-note offering closed after purchasers exercised their additional allocation options. Nebius intends to use proceeds for data center construction, its AI cloud platform, GPUs and other corporate purposes.
Nebius Group announces pricing of upsized private offering of $5.0 billion of convertible senior notes
Nebius increased the size of its proposed financing and priced two convertible-note series due in 2030 and 2034. At this announcement, settlement was expected on August 24, subject to closing conditions; pricing was not confirmation of completion.
QTS signs 48 MW solar power agreement for Irving, Texas data centers
ENGIE announced a 48 MWac power purchase agreement with QTS for its Irving data center operations, supplied through ABEI Energy's Lubio Solar project in Kaufman County.
The $444 million Polaris DS acquisition adds approximately 440 MW of in-service grid-connected power and supports Core Scientific's plan to scale its Muskogee campus to 1.5 GW of gross power.
Amazon announced a Pecos County campus powered initially by new onsite generation, with a planned transition to grid service; the company says the project is expected to create thousands of new jobs.
CoreWeave Signs Multi-Year Agreement With Solidigm to Strengthen Its Integrated AI Cloud Platform
A multi-year agreement gives CoreWeave priority access to Solidigm enterprise SSD capacity as AI storage demand grows. The arrangement addresses component supply for its cloud platform, rather than announcing a new campus or a local hiring program.
Leidos and CoreWeave collaborate to accelerate delivery of AI capabilities for defense, national security and intelligence missions
CoreWeave and Leidos plan secure AI cloud services for U.S. defense and intelligence workloads. CoreWeave brings its AI platform, while Leidos leads mission integration and secure architecture.
Crusoe and Aalo Atomics form strategic partnership with goal of deploying first nuclear-powered AI factory
The partners target a nuclear-powered Crusoe Spark modular data center proof of concept in 2027, with larger deployments intended by the end of 2029. These are development targets, not evidence of an operating nuclear-powered AI campus.
Nuclear powerModular data centersDevelopment targets
Aligned Data Centers Completes $1.18 Billion Securitization Financing
The asset-backed financing is supported by four Aligned campuses and their customer contracts. Proceeds are intended for the development pipeline, refinancing upcoming debt maturities and required reserves.
A second 15-year, 352 MW IT lease brings contracted capacity at the Nueces County campus to 704 MW. Site preparation is underway and initial energization remains scheduled for Q1 2027.
The 270-acre Texas campus is scheduled to begin construction in Q3 2026, with thousands of construction jobs and more than 100 permanent positions expected.
Hut 8 closes $4.25 billion Beacon Point construction financing
The project-level offering finances Beacon Point and brings Hut 8's cumulative investment-grade construction financing across Beacon Point and River Bend to $7.5 billion.
Explicit labor signal · nowThe project is under construction and is expected to employ approximately 1,000 construction workers at peak.
Project Announcement
Crusoe announces 900 MW Abilene AI campus for Microsoft
The adjacent two-building campus includes dedicated onsite generation. Site preparation is underway and the first building is targeted for mid-2027 energization.
Explicit labor signal · nowSite preparation is underway, with thousands of additional construction jobs expected in the Abilene region.
Contract Award
Meta reports $875 million in Louisiana contracts at Hyperion
One year after groundbreaking, the Richland Parish buildout had supported 3,700 construction workers and was expected to reach a 5,000-worker peak in June 2026.
Crusoe brings the first phase of Stargate Abilene online
The first two buildings were energized within a year of construction beginning, with early training and inference workloads operating on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
