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Recent Massachusetts data center news

• Jul 15, 2026

  Quantum Meets the Data Center: Hybrid Systems Take Off

  The article explains a shift in quantum computing toward hybrid quantum-classical infrastructure and cites policy support, vendor roadmaps, and conference remarks rather than a single standalone company announcement.

  • The U.S. Department of Commerce announced more than $2 billion in incentives in May 2026 to accelerate quantum commercialization, including quantum manufacturing and utility-scale, fault-tolerant systems; the White House followed with a June 2026 Executive Order on the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation.
  • The piece also cites vendor and industry developments: IBM outlined quantum-centric supercomputing in March 2026; Nvidia launched NVQLink at GTC 2026; HPE said in June 2026 it is working with multiple partners on hybrid quantum configurations; and AMD said it is working with OQC and JPMorgan Chase on quantum, AI, and HPC workloads.
• Jul 15, 2026

  A Year Later, Trumps OBB Act Caused 468,000 Mostly Green Job Losses, Claims E2 BW Research

  E2 and BW Research have released an analysis claiming that Trump-era clean energy policy reversals and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act caused major project cancellations and job losses in the United States.

  • The report says 216 abandoned projects led to $68.2 billion in foregone capital investment, $48.4 billion in annual operational spending, and 468,000 lost jobs across construction, manufacturing, supply chain, and induced effects.
  • It attributes the fallout to the January 20, 2025 executive order freezing IRA and IIJA disbursements and the OBBA signed on July 4, 2025, and says the lost energy buildout includes about 10 GW solar, 3.75 GW wind, and 9.08 GW battery storage.
  • The article is a commentary-style report summary based on E2/BW Research modeling using IMPLAN and NREL JEDI frameworks, and it references project cancellations involving companies such as GM, Ford-CATL, Toyota, VinFast, Honda, Freyr, Kore Power, Natron, Li-Cycle, NorSun, and Ebon Solar.
• Jul 10, 2026

  Lightpath to provide fiber infrastructure for two new hyperscale data center campuses

  Lightpath has announced it will provide fiber infrastructure and multi-terabit capacity to support two hyperscale data center campuses under construction in the United States.

  • The two campuses are planned to exceed one gigawatt each and are located in Saline, Michigan and Port Washington, Wisconsin.
  • The Saline build is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year, while Port Washington is expected in Q2 2027; both are being delivered with an anchor hyperscale customer that was not named.
  • Chris Morley said Lightpath is partnering with hyperscalers to build new fiber infrastructure for AI-driven demand; Tim Haverkate said the company will deliver route-diverse, multi-terabit capacity across new construction, existing network assets, and partner fiber.
• Jul 9, 2026

  AI tie-in accelerates quantum usefulness, early adopters say

  The article reports that quantum computing is moving toward practical use, with companies and researchers describing hybrid AI-quantum workflows and commercialization timelines.

  • Cleveland Clinic says quantum is already being used with AI and high-performance computing to simulate protein complexes up to 12,635 atoms; Lara Jehi says clinically relevant problems may be possible in one or two years.
  • Mitsubishi Chemical has been experimenting with quantum since 2018 and aims for production use by end-2026 or early 2027; SoftBank Corp. says it has 21 pilot projects underway and is connecting customers to IBM and Quantinuum machines at Riken through its AI data center.
  • The article also cites industry-wide momentum, including 556 pure-play quantum companies, $1.9 billion in 2025 revenue, $12.7 billion in new government funding commitments, and $4.9 billion in new private venture capital investment.
• Jul 7, 2026

  Facebook Billionaire Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin $12 Billion B Capital Raised $500 Million (Final Close) for 3rd Early-Stage Fund (B Capital Ascent Fund III) to Invest in Seed, Series A & Series B Funding in Next Generation Technologies (Healthcare, Enterprise, Energy, Next Frontier) with Focus on Key Innovation Hubs in North America & Asia

  B Capital has announced the final close of its third early-stage fund, Ascent Fund III, at $500 million.

  • The fund closed at its $500 million hard cap and was oversubscribed, nearly doubling the size of Ascent Fund II.
  • It will invest in Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds across healthcare, enterprise, energy, and frontier technologies, with a focus on North America and Asia; the firm says it has already backed more than 20 companies.
  • The article also references earlier B Capital fundraising and hiring announcements, including $307 million for Ascent Fund III in November 2025, but the main item here is the final close announced on 6 July 2026.
• Jul 6, 2026

  How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

  NVIDIA says open models and open AI infrastructure are now foundational to modern AI research, based on papers accepted at ICML 2026.

  • 74 papers were accepted at ICML 2026 from NVIDIA, and about 2,000 accepted papers cite NVIDIA GPUs while 145 cite NVIDIA Nemotron as a foundation for research.
  • The article highlights use of Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, BioNeMo, NeMo Curator, and other open model families across robotics, autonomous vehicles, synthetic data generation, and biomedical research; it also notes KiloCode reporting token cost reductions of up to 90%.
  • This is a commentary/analysis-style NVIDIA blog post, not a third-party report, and it references multiple recent research uses and ecosystem adopters rather than announcing a single new commercial deal.
• Jul 3, 2026

  Heat Adds to Strains on Areas With Data Centers, Raising the Temperature on AI Debates

  AP reports on community concerns in Lowell, Massachusetts, about a nearby data center’s impact during extreme heat. - Eileen Castle, 82, said she will not fill her swimming pool because of concerns about air quality and water effects from the data center behind her house.

  • The article says hot weather increases electricity demand for data centers, adding strain to power grids and worsening air quality in surrounding neighborhoods like Sacred Heart in Lowell.
  • This is a news report and commentary on the effects of existing data-center operations; it does not describe a new announcement or deal.
• Jul 1, 2026

  The Internet Dispersed Power. The Supreme Court is Concentrating It

  Broadband Breakfast hosted a BroadbandLive webinar in which Reed Hundt, Vint Cerf, Lawrence Lessig, and Shane Greenstein responded to the Supreme Court’s Slaughter v. Trump decision.

  • Main announcement/action: Reed Hundt sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s Slaughter v. Trump ruling, saying the Court has effectively decided that “the president can kick any commissioner out of a multi-member agency,” a change that discourages bipartisan decision-making and undermines the multimember-commission model used at agencies like the FCC and FTC. The panel discussed that the ruling permits summary firing of minority commissioners and that a commission that “serves at the president’s pleasure cannot play that role.”
  • Background and other details: The remarks were given during the third of three BroadbandLive events tied to America250 / Telecom150 (in-person event scheduled October 1, 2026 at the National Press Club). Panelists including Vint Cerf and Lawrence Lessig praised the Internet’s evolvable architecture, cited the 1997 WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications (negotiated with U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and 69 countries), and noted fragmented AI oversight—more than 50 federal agencies and more than a dozen congressional committees have roles; Hundt also offered a plan for regulatory predictability for construction of data centers (see BroadbandBreakfast link).
• Jul 1, 2026

  Against the Wind: Inside the Completion of America’s Largest Offshore Wind Plant

  Dominion Energy has announced that the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project delivered first power to the Virginia grid in March 2026.

  • Project milestone and status: CVOW achieved a first power milestone in March 2026 while turbine installation and commissioning continue across the 176-turbine commercial array (Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD). The project is a 2.6 GW regulated, utility-owned asset with an updated budget of about $11.4 billion and an expected service (COD) mid-2027 per NextEra; Dominion previously sold a 50% noncontrolling stake to Stonepeak in 2024 (transaction closed Oct 2024, generating about $2.6 billion for Dominion).
  • Permitting, risks, and permits: CVOW cleared the federal permitting stack (BOEM final EIS Sept 2023; ROD Oct 2023; Construction and Operations Plan and Army Corps permit Jan 2024; EPA OCS air preconstruction permit Apr 2024) and completed FAST-41 coordination, survived a 90-day DOI stop-work order (Dec 22, 2025) and obtained a preliminary injunction (Jan 16, 2026) to resume work. Dominion also holds a separate CVOW-South BOEM lease won Aug 14, 2024 for $17.7 million (approx. 176,505 acres) that could support ~800 MW in the 2030s.
• Jun 30, 2026

  MIT student teams win top honors in NASA competition

  MIT teams have been awarded five prizes at NASA’s 2026 RASC-AL Forum for integrated moon-base infrastructure designs.

  • Main announcement: MIT student teams ECLIPSE, MELIORA, and CHEESEBURGER won a total of five awards at NASA’s 2026 RASC-AL competition — including first and second overall — for designs of a lunar power grid, communications/positioning constellation, and regolith-to-resource processing pipeline. ECLIPSE delivered a reference grid sized for an initial 120 kilowatts, featuring buried 20 kW CARROT microreactors and a target availability of >99.995% (fewer than 27 minutes downtime per year); MELIORA scales from 3 to 23 satellites, returns >100 megabits per second via free-space optical links and provides ~10 m positioning; CHEESEBURGER proposes five robotic payloads (SWISS, BRIOCHES, BACON, GRILLED MEAT, AVOCADO) to produce oxygen, metals, and bricks from regolith.
  • Context and details: The projects were developed by ~35 students across eight MIT departments and Wellesley College since fall 2025, advised by faculty including Olivier de Weck, Kerri Cahoy, and Jeffrey Hoffman, supported in part by NASA, Massachusetts Space Grant, MIT AeroAstro, and the MIT Space Resources Workshop, and framed to validate designs on the Moon before extension to Mars; NASA plans to begin landing first base elements in 2027 and expects months-long lunar surface stays by the early 2030s.