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Recent Texas data center news

• Jan 6, 2026

  DataBank CFO Kevin Ooley on Financing for Scale in the AI Era

  DataBank expanded its development credit facility from $725 million to $1.6 billion to fund prioritized data center growth in the AI era.

  • Main announcement & structure: DataBank upsized its primary development credit facility to $1.6 billion (original target $1.2–$1.3 billion; bank appetite reached nearly $2 billion). The facility is a pooled, revolving “Devco facility” led by TD Bank with commitments from 14 original banks plus 6 new lenders, designed to fund multiple projects across stages and free capacity by refinancing stabilized assets into ABS securitizations.
  • Background & project details: The company raised roughly $2 billion in equity in late 2024, has nearly 20 projects underway across 2025–2026 concentrated in priority U.S. markets (Northern Virginia, Dallas, Atlanta), including a 40-megawatt facility in Dallas and a 20-megawatt fully pre-leased deployment in Northern Virginia; equity and debt drawdowns are scheduled to align with construction timelines.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting, published a monthly roundup of current data center job openings on its jobs board.

  • Monthly jobs roundup: The post lists roughly 15–18 open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Senior Electrical Engineer, Production Architect, Strategic Sales Account Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, Electrical Superintendent, Project Executive, MEP Construction Project Manager, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) with locations across the United States including Impact, TX; Ashburn, VA; Dallas, TX; Atlanta, GA; Reading, PA; Allentown, PA; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Lyndhurst, NJ; Boulder, CO; Richmond, VA; Austin, TX.
  • Role and employer context: Positions are listed with mission-critical data center providers, engineering design and commissioning firms, A/E/C architecture firms, equipment rental providers, electrical contractors and general contractors; listings repeatedly cite energy efficiency, sustainable design, and AI infrastructure support, and several technician roles explicitly note acceptance of Navy Nuke / military veterans.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Cipher Welcomes Industry Veterans Lee Bratcher and Drew Armstrong

  Cipher Mining Inc. announced two senior hires: Lee Bratcher as Head of Policy and Government Affairs and Drew Armstrong as Head of Strategic Initiatives.

  • Main announcement: Cipher appointed Lee Bratcher (Head of Policy and Government Affairs) to lead the company’s energy policy strategy, represent Cipher in its ERCOT membership, and bolster regulatory and community engagement; Drew Armstrong (Head of Strategic Initiatives) will lead strategic projects to support Cipher’s expansion into the HPC industry and its intersection of compute and power. Both report to Cipher’s Co-Presidents (Bratcher to Will Iwaschuk; Armstrong to Patrick Kelly).
  • Background & details:Bratcher is former President and Founder of the Texas Blockchain Council and contributed to legislation in the 87th and 88th Texas Legislative Sessions; Armstrong was previously President/COO/Chairman of Cathedra Bitcoin, a founding member of Galaxy Digital‘s bitcoin mining unit, and began his career at Barclays where he worked on securitized esoteric product origination (including the first U.S. data center asset-backed security offering).
• Jan 6, 2026

  AWS hikes prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks amid soaring GPU demand

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has raised prices for some EC2 Capacity Blocks for machine learning workloads. These Capacity Blocks reserve accelerated GPU/Trainium inventory for future start dates and are used to guarantee cluster access for ML training.

  • Main announcement: AWS increased Capacity Blocks pricing by approximately 15% for certain P5 Capacity Block SKUs; example changes include p5e.48xlarge (US East - Ohio) from $34.608 to $39.799 per effective hourly rate per instance (per accelerator) and p5en.48xlarge from $36.184 to $41.612. Regional exceptions include US West (N. California) where p5e.48xlarge moved to $49.749 (from $43.26) and p5en.48xlarge to $52.015 (from $45.23). The P6e / p4d.24xlarge entry remains at $761.904 for 72 B200 accelerators in Dallas Local Zone.

  • Background and details: AWS Capacity Blocks let customers reserve clusters (1–64 instances, up to 512 GPUs or 1024 Trainium chips) for up to six months with reservations allowed up to eight weeks in advance. Analysts attribute the change to GPU supply/demand dynamics and a scarcity premium on guaranteed inventory; competing providers (Google Cloud, Microsoft/Azure) offer different reservation/scheduling models and trade-offs between pricing segmentation and scheduling flexibility.

• Jan 6, 2026

  AMD launches on-prem AI chip, previews higher-end systems at CES

  AMD announced new AI infrastructure products and a multi-year roadmap at CES 2026, led by the on-premises Instinct MI440X GPU and the Helios rack-scale platform.

  • Main announcement: AMD introduced the Instinct MI440X GPU targeting on-premises enterprise AI (compact eight-GPU configuration) and previewed Helios, a rack-scale blueprint claiming up to three AI exaflops per rack, powered by MI455X accelerators, AMD EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs, and Pensando ‘Vulcano’ NICs; the company emphasized open AMD ROCm software integration. CES 2026 was the event for these announcements.
  • Background and roadmap details: AMD positioned MI440X for regulated, latency-sensitive, on-prem deployments and expanded the MI400 series (including MI430X); it said MI500 GPUs (2027) aim for up to 1,000x AI performance versus MI300X using CDNA 6, 2nm process, and HBM4E, while analysts warned about HBM sourcing and supply-chain constraints and questioned headline figures.
• Jan 6, 2026

  Hyperscalers in 2026: What’s Next for the World’s Largest Data Center Operators?

  Hyperscale cloud operators announced aggressive expansion to meet AI demand, with global hyperscaler capital expenditure projected to exceed $600 billion in 2026. The report highlights capacity growth, project delays, and sustainability challenges tied to power and cooling.

  • Main announcement/action: Hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, Alibaba) are expanding aggressively for AI and cloud services; projected capex > $600 billion in 2026, and Data Center Watch reported >36 projects worth $162 billion blocked or delayed as of June 2025. Specific planned investments include AWS Saudi Arabia ($5.3 billion), AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany (€7.8 billion through 2040), AWS Chile (>$4 billion), Google $2 billion 10-year Turkey commitment, Meta’s Louisiana Hyperion ($27 billion JV with Blue Owl Capital), and Oracle Stargate I (1.2 GW initial capacity, planning for ~450,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs).
  • Background and other details:Microsoft is deploying Fairwater AI campuses (Atlanta operational Oct 2025; Wisconsin expected early 2026) with closed-loop liquid cooling and custom Azure Maia accelerators; Google expanded regions (Sweden, South Africa, Mexico) and is expanding in Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand; analyst insights from Synergy Research Group, Dell’Oro, and GlobalData note a shift from redundancy to AI-optimized, high-density facilities, tens of gigawatts of additional power demand over the next 2–3 years, and a focus on renewable energy adoption and innovative cooling to address grid pressure.
• Jan 5, 2026

  Dell Uplevels AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA at CES

  Dell Technologies has announced next-generation AI infrastructure solutions built with NVIDIA’s latest Rubin (Vera Rubin) platform at Dell Technologies World 2025.

  • Main announcement: Dell will expand its PowerEdge server line with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform delivering 3.6 exaflops of AI performance, 75TB of memory, and systems using the Vera Arm-based CPU (88 Custom Olympus cores, 176 threads, 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth). Dell will also support HGX Rubin NVL8 configurations (~400 petaflops), with 2.3 TB HBM4, 176 TB/s memory bandwidth, 800 Gb/s ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, and BlueField-4 DPUs for AI factories; these announcements were made at Dell Technologies World 2025.
  • Background and product details: The update extends Dell’s existing PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 work (first delivery to CoreWeave). Networking advances include PowerSwitch with NVIDIA Spectrum-6 delivering 102.4 Tb/s switching capacity and support for up to 512 ports of 800G with co-packaged optics (CPO) offering stated 5x power efficiency and 10x reliability gains. Source/context includes Dell blog/press materials and an IDC infrastructure tracker citation.
• Jan 5, 2026

  Google acquires data centre and energy developer Intersect for US$4.75 billion

  Alphabet has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Intersect Power for US$4.75 billion in cash.

  • Deal details and timeline: Alphabet (Google) will acquire Intersect Power for US$4.75 billion in cash, with the transaction expected to close in the first half of 2026. Intersect will continue to operate as a standalone business under CEO Sheldon Kimber and will work closely with Google’s technical infrastructure team on existing and new joint projects, including a co-located data centre and power site under construction in Haskell County, Texas.
  • Assets and investors excluded / background: Intersect’s operating assets in Texas and its operating and in-development assets in California are excluded from the transaction and will remain under independent ownership, backed by existing investors TPG Rise Climate, Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, and Greenbelt Capital Partners. The announcement was first published on PV Tech (link provided).
• Jan 5, 2026

  Vertiv Places $1B Bet on Liquid Cooling with PurgeRite Purchase

  Vertiv has completed the $1 billion acquisition of PurgeRite, a Houston-based mechanical flushing, purging, and filtration services firm for data centers.

  • Main announcement: Vertiv completed the $1 billion purchase of PurgeRite to enhance its thermal management and liquid cooling services for data centers, targeting high-density computing and AI applications; the acquisition was presented as completed by Vertiv (Ohio-based).
  • Background and details: PurgeRite has strong relationships with hyperscalers and Tier 1 colocation firms; market research cited includes Grand View Research forecasting a liquid cooling market of USD 17.7 billion by 2030 (21.6% CAGR, with North America 39% share) and Dell’Oro Group projecting a USD 15 billion opportunity by 2028.
• Jan 5, 2026

  Inside MAGA’s worldwide campaign to undermine climate science

  DeSmog reports that MAGA-aligned actors and allies of the Trump administration enacted a coordinated anti-climate and pro-fossil-fuel agenda in 2025 that reached into US regulatory policy, European politics, Big Tech, and data-centre expansion.

  • Main action: The report documents concrete moves including the U.S. DOE convening climate-skeptic panels and producing a report that experts called “junk science”, the EPA launching an effort to rescind its CO2 “endangerment finding”, and legislative changes such as the “Big Beautiful Bill” removing tax credits for wind and solar (efforts credited in part to Alex Epstein and Americans for Prosperity). Key named actors include Chris Wright (U.S. Energy Secretary), the Heritage Foundation / Project 2025, and tech leaders interacting with the administration.

  • Background and specifics: The article cites corporate and financial actions and ties: a claimed $500 million transition loan offered to Alberta separatists (as claimed by Dennis Modry), and Blackstone’s $13.4 billion (£10 billion) AI data-centre project in the UK (reported to include a fleet of backup diesel generators). It also documents Big Tech and AI industry engagement (Google, OpenAI, Nvidia) with administration figures and the linkage between data-centre growth and new fossil-fuel plants in U.S. states (e.g., over 100 gas plants in Texas linked to AI demand).