Germany Seeks Doubling of AI Data Centers by 2030 March 18, 2026 Germany plans to encourage investments in data centers to at least double domestic capacity and to boost artificial intelligence data...
AI Hyperscalers’ Shadow Borrowing Bolsters Private Credit Risks March 17, 2026 By Esteban Duarte Investment in AI infrastructure via off-balance sheet debt is increasing the exposure of insurers and private credit funds to hyperscalers,...
A Backlash Against Data Centers Is Spilling Into French Municipal Election Races March 16, 2026 By Layli Foroudi and Forrest Crellin In the town of Le Bourget outside Paris, Sofiane Milous, a candidate in France’s municipal elections, is vowing to reverse...
Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center March 10, 2026 By Brody Ford, Ed Ludlow and Dina Bass Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged...
AI ‘Man Camps’ Offer Golf, Free Steaks to Lure Workers in Texas March 6, 2026 By Joe Lovinger, Brooke Sutherland and Riley Griffin Companies competing for workers to build data centers are finding that a motel room with sluggish Wi-Fi isn’t much of...
AI Gives Unloved Downtown Buildings New Life as Data Centers March 4, 2026 By Miranda Davis and Olivia Fletcher The Kansas City Star built a $200 million complex to house a state-of-the-art printing press in 2006. Less than 15...
Local Regulators Deny Rezoning Request for Pennsylvania Data Center Development February 11, 2026 By Laila Kearney A county commission in Pennsylvania on Tuesday denied a request by Talen Energy to rezone hundreds of acres of land...
Texas Data Centers to Rely on Gas Power Plants February 3, 2026 By Dylan Baddour Texas’ environmental regulator last week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of...
The $3 Trillion AI Data Center Build-Out Becomes All-Consuming for Debt Markets February 3, 2026 By Paula Seligson More than $3 trillion. That’s the staggering price tag to build the data centers needed to prepare for the artificial...
Data Center Boom Offers Organic Growth Opportunities for Brokers Like Aon, Marsh February 3, 2026 By L.S. Howard The global boom in the construction of data centers – driven by the growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and...