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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across Indiana — updated daily.
Recent Indiana data center news
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Prologis files to build 99MW data center in San Jose, California
Prologis has announced plans to develop a new data center at 5977 Silver Creek Valley Road in San Jose, California.
- The proposed project is a three-story, 516,000 sq ft facility on about 15 acres, with 99MW of capacity and an on-site substation.
- Prologis said construction would take around two years and that it will cover the costs of transmission upgrades; the site was previously acquired by Duke Realty for $40.2 million in 2021 and later transferred to Prologis through the $23 billion Duke Realty acquisition in 2022.
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322-acre data center could be built in White County, Indiana
Blue Ladder Development has proposed a 322-acre data center campus in White County, Indiana.
- The site plan calls for four data center buildings of 327,612 sq ft each, plus two substations, a warehouse, and an office building on land south of US Highway 24 and next to N 1100 W.
- Blue Ladder says the campus would use a closed-loop cooling system and that it will pay for its own power and bring its own capacity; however, the company has not yet acquired the land or secured an end user.
- Blue Ladder is holding a second community forum on Tuesday, July 14, after an initial forum on Monday, June 29; the company previously bought and zoned land for data center development in Forney, Texas in 2021 but did not build there.
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Ares invests in Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors have announced that Ares Management Corporation’s Secondaries funds have made a minority equity investment in Sabey Data Center Properties (SDCP).
- No transaction terms were disclosed; Ares’ capital is intended to support future expansion across Sabey’s existing campuses and new opportunities in key data center markets.
- SDCP operates 251MW across about 4 million sq ft and could triple capacity by 2036 on existing landholdings, according to its owners; the announcement also notes Sabey sites in Quincy, Seattle, East Wenatchee, New York City, Austin, Umatilla, Indianapolis, and Ashburn.
- The announcement quotes Tim Mirick (SDCP president) and Jeffrey Kanne (National Real Estate Advisors president and CEO); Evercore and Citizens Capital Markets & Advisory advised SDCP on the transaction.
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2MW telco data center on sale in Cincinnati, Ohio
A 2MW telecom data center and office campus in Cincinnati, Ohio has been listed for sale on Crexi.
- The 65,000 sq fti74 Wired business campus at 2300 Montana Avenue went on the market on Sunday for $85 per sq ft, totaling $5.5 million.
- The property includes backup generators and fiber connectivity, and also contains a co-working space; it was formerly the headquarters of Cincom and was relaunched as i74 Wired around 2016.
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The Hidden $15B Market Powering the Modern Internet
Escrow.com published one of the first comprehensive public looks at the IPv4 secondary market.
- Market overview: Escrow.com’s report profiles a now $15 billion global secondary market for IPv4 addresses, noting the global IPv4 pool exhaustion in 2011, continued acquisition by major holders, and that AWS alone acquired roughly 191 million IPv4 addresses (inventory valued at $7–8 billion) before shifting strategy in 2023.
- Market mechanics and participants: The article highlights Brander Group’s role (facilitating 50–80 transfers per month, ~$1 billion cumulative transaction volume, and a single ~$89 million transaction), the critical role of secure escrow (Escrow.com) in enabling cross-border deals, and the involvement of registries ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/LACNIC and buyers such as cloud providers, ISPs, hosting companies, AI platforms, broadband operators, and enterprise networks.
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Why a Calmer Summer Outlook Hasn’t Settled the Capacity Question
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released its 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment finding adequate anticipated resources across most regions, driven by about 58 GW of new resources but flagging elevated risk in parts of New England, the Northwest, Saskatchewan, and Far West Texas.
- Main announcement/action: NERC’s 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment reports ~58 GW of year-on-year new resources (including 30.5 GW solar and 14.7 GW battery storage), upgraded reserves across much of the continent, and identifies local elevated risk areas; the article is a journalistic report synthesizing NERC’s assessment and remarks from EEI 2026 rather than a new primary policy filing. Important concrete figures: 58 GW new capacity, 30.5 GW solar, 14.7 GW battery on-peak capability, Meta $10 billion AI data center (mentioned), NextEra–Dominion $420 billion enterprise value (proposed merger), and Siemens Energy’s >$1 billion U.S. production commitment.
- Context and details: The piece summarizes reporting and industry commentary from EEI 2026 and analyst interviews, noting deferred data center load expected in 2–3 years, a projected >85 GW incremental gas capacity entering service 2026–2030 (S&P Global projection), workforce and supply-chain constraints, and political/affordability pressures (transmission cost growth, capacity market strains). It is a synthesized industry analysis and not a primary regulatory filing or single-entity press release.
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Emergence Water and Nimbus: Water Joins Power as AI Infrastructure's Next Critical Constraint
Emergence Water and Nimbus announced a partnership and discussed their combined approach to reduce municipal water dependence for AI data centers on a Data Center Frontier podcast episode published June 30, 2026.
- Partnership and technical details: Emergence Water is pairing modular containerized atmospheric water generation (AWG) units (roughly 1,200 gallons per day per unit; ~410,000 gallons annually estimated for Wichita Falls, TX) with Nimbus’ highly water-efficient adiabatic cooling (Nimbus operates primarily in dry mode and uses water only during high ambient temperatures). The firms claim the adiabatic approach can reduce electrical consumption by 50%–60% versus purely dry cooling and the pairing aims to remove dependence on municipal supply for both construction and operations.
- Context, regulatory and planning implications: The discussion was delivered as a podcast interview (Data Center Frontier Show, June 30, 2026) and emphasized long-term planning horizons (10–15 years) for water availability, noted a regulatory example (Southern Nevada prohibition on evaporative cooling), and highlighted construction-phase water demand (example: ~1 million gallons per data hall for filling/flushing liquid cooling loops at a Texas AI campus).
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Q2 Executive Roundtable Recap
Data Center Frontier convened an Executive Roundtable in Q2 2026 to examine production-scale challenges for AI-era data centre infrastructure, moderated by Editor in Chief Matt Vincent.
- Main announcement/action: Data Center Frontier hosted an Executive Roundtable (Second Quarter 2026) featuring panelists Steve Altizer (Compu Dynamics), Joe Capes (Trane Technologies / Head of LiquidStack), and Robert Danforth (Rehlko) to discuss the Deployment Reality Gap, integrated power/cooling/facility operations, and scaling beyond prototype. The session is published as three themed Q&A pieces: “Building the AI Factory,” “AI Means Integrated Infrastructure,” and “Beyond the AI Prototype,” with individual panelist summaries linked from the roundtable.
- Background and details: The discussion focused on concrete operational issues: power availability, cooling architecture, facility operations, supply chains, commissioning, and workforce readiness as interconnected disciplines; the content is a Q&A transcript/summary (not a regulatory filing or contract announcement) and is dated to the Executive Roundtable for Q2 2026, with published article links and individual panelist Q&A pages.
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Executive Roundtable: The Rise of Integrated Infrastructure
Data Center Frontier hosted an Executive Roundtable with industry leaders (Compu Dynamics, Trane Technologies/LiquidStack, Rehlko) urging that power, cooling, and facility operations be designed as an integrated system to support next-generation AI deployments.
- Main announcement/action: The panel recommended that integration be foundational, beginning at the first planning conversation and extending from the utility backbone to the IT rack, favoring modular or hybrid campus approaches (standardize utility feeds, central cooling, network pathways while allowing IT/cooling components to evolve). Panelists named Compu Dynamics, Trane/LiquidStack, and Rehlko as contributors to the discussion and emphasized simulation/digital twin use for pre-deployment validation.
- Background and additional details: The discussion cites rising rack densities into the hundreds of kilowatts, liquid cooling becoming mainstream, and the emergence of POD-scale platforms; advocates include standardizing backbone infrastructure at the campus level, coordinating utility power, central cooling, and network pathways, and using digital twins to model interactions before buildout.
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Building the AI Factory: Power, Cooling, and Execution at Scale Meets the Deployment Reality Gap - Q2 Executive Roundtable
Data Center Frontier convened an Executive Roundtable for Q2 2026 to examine the operational challenges of deploying AI infrastructure at scale with senior leaders from Compu Dynamics, Trane Technologies/LiquidStack, and Rehlko.
- Main announcement: Data Center Frontier hosted a Q2 2026 Executive Roundtable to discuss the shift from AI infrastructure planning to execution, with panelists Steve Altizer (Compu Dynamics), Joe Capes (Trane Technologies / LiquidStack), and Robert Danforth (Rehlko); panelists highlighted rack densities reaching hundreds of kilowatts per rack, growing mainstream adoption of liquid cooling, and hardware roadmaps that can shift every six to twelve months.
- Background/details: The discussion emphasized concrete deployment constraints: power availability (grid/interconnects/transformer lead times), thermal management and liquid cooling integration, supply chain and construction execution, and the need for simulation/modeling, commissioning, and integrated systems engineering to move from prototypes to industrial-scale AI factories.