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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across New Hampshire — updated daily.
Recent New Hampshire data center news
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Patented: Cardio Voyage Innovations’ Dual Heart Valve Device and 172 More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Innovates reports that Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 in U.S. patent production for the week of June 23, 2026, with 173 patents granted.
- 173 patents granted across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area; the region ranked No. 8 among 250 metros for the week of June 23, 2026.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on granted patents, not a first-time product or funding announcement; it highlights patents spanning medical devices, AI, transportation, energy, HVAC, networking, and manufacturing.
- No contact emails or phone numbers are provided in the text.
- The story references multiple local inventors and assignees, including Cardio Voyage Innovations, DFW International Airport Board, BNSF Railway, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Halliburton, and Lennox.
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10 Reasons You Cannot Afford to Miss DCF Trends Summit 2026
Data Center Frontier has announced the 2026 Data Center Frontier Trends Summit, a three-day event focused on AI infrastructure execution, to be held August 4–6 at the Hyatt Regency Reston.
- The summit will cover power, site selection, design, density, liquid cooling, investment, supply chains, commissioning, and community acceptance across sessions, roundtables, and tours.
- Featured participants include leaders from EdgeCore, Schneider Electric, Motivair, Digital Realty, Compass Datacenters, NVIDIA, Meta, Open Compute Project, Equinix, Dominion Energy, Vantage Data Centers, NTT Global Data Centers, and Sabey Data Centers.
- The article is a conference announcement and promotional overview, not a report on a completed project or deal.
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Time to Power: Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff on Geothermal’s AI Infrastructure Moment
Data Center Frontier published an interview-style article in which Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, argues that next-generation geothermal can help meet AI data center power demand.
- Taff says the industry has shifted from focusing on low emissions to securing enough energy and that time to power is now the most important metric for AI data centers.
- She says Sage’s hot dry rock geothermal approach could be built where needed, and that a 5 GW geothermal buildout would require about 500 wells annually, compared with roughly 30,000 wells per year drilled by the U.S. oil and gas industry.
- The piece frames geothermal as a dispatchable, firm baseload resource and notes that AI campuses may increasingly rely on behind-the-meter generation, storage, and dedicated infrastructure.
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The AI Infrastructure Split Screen: Capital Rush Meets Community Resistance
Data Center Frontier has published an analysis of the mid-July AI infrastructure market, combining public-market activity, project announcements, financing moves, and local permitting disputes.
- Capital markets: Csquare priced 50 million shares at $21 to raise about $1.05 billion and implied an equity value of roughly $3.2 billion; Switch was linked to a potential $10 billion IPO and near $80 billion valuation including debt; Databricks signed a term sheet for a financing at a $188 billion valuation with the Wall Street Journal reporting about $3 billion in new investment.
- Project and policy developments: Meta said its Hyperion expansion in Louisiana could reach 5 GW and more than $50 billion; Google was tied to a 2.7 GW Project Tembo in Wyoming; New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered an up-to-one-year pause on discretionary environmental permitting for certain hyperscale data centers; Palm Beach County commissioners rejected Project Tango by 5–1 after a roughly 12-hour hearing.
- The article is a broad market commentary and synthesis, not a single original company announcement. It references multiple first-reported deals and filings, while also citing local opposition, power constraints, and community consent as central themes.
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New York becomes first US state to impose data center moratorium
New York has announced a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers.
- Governor Kathy Hochul signed the order into law, immediately pausing environmental permits for projects of 50MW or more while a regulatory framework is developed.
- The framework will include a Generic Environmental Impact Statement on energy demand, water use and quality, and air quality, and local entities will receive guidance within 60 days on community benefits negotiations; the order also directs consideration of a New York Grid Acceleration Fund.
- The article also references earlier and proposed legislation, including S.9144 introduced by Elizabeth Krueger and a proposed national moratorium, the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, introduced by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in March 2026.
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DCF Poll: How Much of the AI Data Center Pipeline Will Actually Get Built?
Data Center Frontier is posing a question about how much of today’s announced AI data center capacity will actually be operating by 2030.
- The article frames the issue as an industry poll/vote prompt, not a project announcement, asking readers to judge how much of the announced AI data center capacity will be built by 2030.
- It says future outcomes depend on securing land, power, permits, equipment, financing and community support, and notes that some projects may be delayed, redesigned, relocated or abandoned.
- The piece includes an editorial note that elements were created with help from OpenAI’s GPT5, and promotes Data Center Frontier’s social channels and newsletter.
- Contact information is provided for Matt Vincent at Data Center Frontier, including an email address and LinkedIn profile.
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Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026 Preview
Data Center Frontier has announced a preview of the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit 2026, a conference focused on AI infrastructure execution, taking place August 4–6 in Reston, Virginia.
- The episode features Matt Vincent speaking with Bill Kleyman of Apolo to preview the summit and its themes, including power-first site selection, liquid cooling, behind-the-meter generation, supply chain execution, and community acceptance.
- The article says the industry has shifted from projection to execution and that announced megawatts are not the same as energized megawatts; it also highlights summit sessions and keynotes involving Rich Miller, Lee Kestler, NVIDIA, Meta, and the Open Compute Project.
- The content is a podcast/article preview and commentary, not a new project announcement; it references the summit agenda and speakers, with the conference set for August 4–6, 2026 in Reston, Virginia.
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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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Construction employment rises in 30 states over past year, AGC reports
The Associated General Contractors of America reported that construction employment increased in 30 states and the District of Columbia between May 2025 and May 2026.
- Main announcement: AGC reported state construction employment increased in 30 states and D.C. between May 2025 and May 2026; Texas added 18,700 jobs (2.1%), North Carolina added 13,600, Wisconsin added 9,000, and Wisconsin posted the largest percentage increase (6.2%); California recorded the largest annual decline at 13,100 jobs (−1.5%).
- Monthly detail and risks: From April to May, construction employment increased in 23 states and D.C., declined in 22 states, and was unchanged in 5 states; monthly leaders included Texas (+3,600) and Wisconsin (+2,900). AGC officials Ken Simonson and Jeffrey D. Shoaf cautioned that opposition to data center projects and uncertainty over federal transportation funding pose threats to future construction job growth.