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New Data Center Developments: September 2025
DataCenterKnowledge published a curated roundup of recent global data center project announcements and large power and financing deals.
- Key development summary: The roundup details multiple major projects and deals, including Equinix’s new partnerships with Radiant, ULC-Energy, and Stellaria for next-gen nuclear power and expanded solid-oxide fuel cell use with Bloom Energy; Caterpillar agreed with Joule Capital Partners to provide 4 GW of CHP power for a planned Utah campus (target launch sometime next year); Meta’s Hyperion Louisiana campus is expected to consume up to 5 GW; CoreWeave bought a 102-acre campus for $322 million; Vantage revealed plans to invest over $25 billion in a 1.4 GW / 1,200-acre Texas campus; EdgeConneX and Lambda are developing a 30+ MW dual-city AI data center in Chicago and Atlanta; Oracle / Elea / Rio de Janeiro target 1.5 GW by 2027 (expandable to 3.2 GW by 2032) for ‘Rio AI City’.
- Background and technical/financial details: The article frames projects against record-breaking demand and grid limitations; it notes energy and cooling approaches such as CHP and captured waste heat, solid-oxide fuel cells, high-voltage battery storage, and CDC Australia’s proposed 200 MW campus with a closed-loop zero-water primary cooling system. It also lists financing and deal figures: QTS announcing a $10 billion campus, STACK investing $1.66 billion in Johor, NEXTDC adding A$3.5 billion new debt within A$6.4 billion total facilities, and Keppel raising $4.9 billion this year toward a $150 billion funds target by 2030.
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Powering the AI Future: New Industry Event Tackles Data Center Energy Challenges
Data Center World POWER will bring together utilities, data center operators, technology providers and policymakers to develop actionable solutions for severe power constraints facing data center expansion.
- Event announcement & purpose: Data Center World POWER is scheduled for September 29–October 1, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa, San Antonio, Texas, convening stakeholders to address the data center power availability crisis; the show proper begins with keynotes on September 30 (Chris Crosby of Compass Data Centers and Woody Rickerson of ERCOT), with additional keynotes (Mike Dunleavy; David Holmes of Dell; Michael McNamara of Lancium) and panels on power sourcing, energy efficiency, grid constraints, and tech innovation.
- Background facts & metrics: The article cites almost 3 GW of new US data center capacity deployed in 2024 and ~11 GW expected over the next two years (Knight Frank); more than 12,000 active projects are seeking grid interconnection (AFCOM); Boston Consulting Group estimates a potential power shortage of more than 45 GW. Concrete session items include a SwRI lab tour (hydrogen, PV, battery testing, liquid hydrogen, supercritical CO2 systems), a pre-event golf outing, and sessions on microgrids, natural gas generation, SMRs, hydrogen fuel cells, and on-site/bring-your-own power options.
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Engie, Prometheus to Co-Locate Data Centers and Renewable Energy in Texas
Engie North America announced a new agreement with Prometheus Hyperscale to co-locate Prometheus’ liquid-cooled data center infrastructure at ENGIE renewable and battery storage facilities along the Texas I-35 corridor.
- Main announcement: Under the agreement, Prometheus Hyperscale will deploy its high-efficiency, proprietary liquid-cooled data center infrastructure alongside ENGIE’s wind, solar, and battery storage assets along the Texas I-35 corridor; the first co-located sites are anticipated to go live in 2026, with additional locations planned from 2027 onward.
- Background and details:Prometheus launched last year and aims to power its data centers with 100% renewable energy; its liquid cooling reportedly reduces facility energy consumption by up to 50% and eliminates water consumption. Bernard Looney was appointed Chairman of Prometheus’ Board in November 2024. ENGIE will provide integrated energy solutions leveraging its wind, solar, battery storage, commercial/industrial supply capabilities, and trading expertise.
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Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
Nature (author Amy Luers) argues that widespread AI deployment is needed to realise net zero by 2050 and outlines five actions to capture AI’s mitigation potential.
- Main announcement/action: The article calls for targeted investment and deployment of AI for climate to accelerate decarbonization, citing that AI climate-technology raised US$6 billion in 2024, and urging focus on underfunded areas such as grid integration, materials discovery and carbon removal; it lists five priority actions to realise this potential.
- Background and details: Key factual points include global temperature in 2024 exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, data centres ≈1.5% of global electricity (IEA), US data centres currently ~4.4% of US electricity and could reach 6.7–12% by 2028, and estimated mitigation potential of 1.4 GtCO2/yr by 2035 (IEA) or 3.2–5.4 GtCO2/yr by 2035 (Stern et al.); the article also documents local resource stresses (water, grid capacity) and technology examples (dynamic line ratings, AI-led materials discovery at MIT).
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Meta, Silicon Ranch partner on solar farm for South Carolina data center
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Data center vacancies plummet amid power supply constraints
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Phoenix cooling lab showcases hybrid data center cooling capabilities
Aligned Data Centers has unveiled an Advanced Cooling Lab in Phoenix to test advanced cooling technologies for high-powered AI chips and hybrid air/liquid cooling systems.
Confirmed action: Aligned opened the Advanced Cooling Lab in Phoenix showcasing its modular, hybrid infrastructure that supports both air and liquid cooling, including the Delta Cube air-cooling system (supports 1 kW to 50 kW rack densities) and the DeltaFlow~ liquid cooling system with a flooded room design, microchannel coils, a robust structural ceiling grid, and [megawatt]-scale liquid cooling loops. The company also maintains an “auto-replenished pool” of prefabricated power and cooling equipment for rapid deployment.
Planned initiatives & partnerships: The lab uses controls developed by Divcon Controls (technology deployed across 100 North American data centers) to test liquid- and hybrid-cooled system governance that Divcon says can reduce end-user energy consumption by 15% on average; Divcon’s stated goal is to enable next-generation, high-density AI data centers to operate efficiently and reliably.
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The data center balance: How US states can navigate the opportunities and challenges
The article by McKinsey authors analyzes the rapid growth and investment in data center infrastructure driven by AI and cloud computing demand in the United States.
- $7 trillion global investment by 2030, with over 40% in the US; Northern Virginia holds 13% of global capacity, demonstrating strategic regional growth.
- Challenges include power supply strain (460 TWh increase by 2030), water scarcity, resource bottlenecks, and community pushback; Ohio’s $10B+ AWS expansion and AEP’s $2.82B transmission build-out exemplify coordinated infrastructure and workforce initiatives.
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Potential Energy: Is BESS the Answer to Data Centers’ Gridlocked Future?
De Gaulle Fleurance hosted a webinar on the evolving role of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Europe’s decarbonization efforts.
- Confirmed facts & project data: The webinar featured legal and energy experts from France, Belgium, Poland, and the UK; RTE projects renewable output could reach 320 TWh by 2035; battery capacity grew from <50 MW to 1.07 GW in five years, with >7 GW of projects holding grid access rights; the EU added 11.9 GW of BESS last year and the U.S. reported a 34% storage increase as of March 2024; identified vendors include ZincFive, Schneider Electric, Eaton, EPC Power, and Vertiv; U.S. states with SGIPs: California, New York, Maryland, New Jersey and other supportive states include Virginia, Oregon, Iowa, Texas.
- Costs, policies & planned initiatives: Reported average BESS cost $400–$600 per kWh (Exenell); U.S. is on track to install ~15 GW in 2025 (~25% increase over 2024) (projection); NESO’s connections reform is expected/hopecasting to unlock £40 billion ($53 billion) per year (anticipated); regulatory milestones cited include FERC Order No. 841 (2020) allowing batteries in wholesale markets and EU measures like VAT exemptions and tariff waivers; distinctions noted between confirmed deployments (installed GW) and planned/projection figures (15 GW in 2025, NESO investment expectations).
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Scaling bigger, faster, cheaper data centers with smarter designs
McKinsey has announced a comprehensive analysis and recommendations for scaling data centers to meet the surging demand driven by AI and digital transformation.
- Global capital expenditures on data center infrastructure are projected to exceed $1.7 trillion by 2030, with the US needing to triple power capacity from 25 GW in 2024 to over 80 GW by 2030.
- The report identifies key challenges including power supply constraints, cooling technology choices, skilled labor shortages, and supply chain issues, and proposes six focus areas such as scalable reference designs, integrated delivery models, rethinking redundancy, modular construction, cooling technology bets, and collaborative contracting to improve efficiency and reduce costs by up to $250 billion.