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Data Center Industry Update: Aug. 17, 2026
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Data Center Industry Update: Aug. 17, 2026

Chicago joined a growing list of cities pushing back on data center growth with a mayoral executive order, while Fermi Inc. disclosed a federal subpoena tied to its Texas megacampus. On the markets side, CoreWeave beat Q2 estimates and popped after-hours, then gave up those gains and more by the following week. Nvidia locked in up to $105 billion in financing for an OpenAI data center in Ohio.

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Data Center Industry Update: July 19, 2026
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Data Center Industry Update: July 19, 2026

PJM's latest capacity auction locked in record power costs as data center demand keeps outrunning supply, while Microsoft and 3M announced a materials-and-networking partnership aimed at hyperscale buildouts. Chip stocks slid for most of the week as the US-Iran conflict escalated, even as fresh deal activity in AI computing kept flowing. Job postings data confirms what recruiters have been telling candidates all year: this hiring cycle isn't slowing down.

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Data Center Industry Update: Week of July 6, 2026
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Data Center Industry Update: Week of July 6, 2026

A weekly roundup of what actually happened in data centers and AI infrastructure this week — construction, power, stock moves, and hiring. This edition covers Microsoft's Wisconsin campus going fully operational, a new Virginia electricity tax on data centers, an Anthropic compute deal that's moving IREN's stock, and where the jobs are opening up.

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