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KKR, NVIDIA, Kuwait Launch $10B AI Infrastructure Platform

Global + Digital Infrastructure | June 11, 2026

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Switch Upsizes Credit Facilities to Nearly $10 Billion

National + Digital Infrastructure | June 10, 2026

Microsoft Breaks Ground on Long-Planned North San Jose Data Center Site

California + Bay Area + Digital Infrastructure | June 11, 2026

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$1B Fisk Upgrade Includes On-Campus Data Center

Atlanta & Southeast + Southeast + Digital Infrastructure | May 15, 2026

Fisk University unveiled “Quantum Leap,” the most robust campus master plan in its 160-year history, Quantum Leap brings an estimated $1 billion project to North Nashville over the next decade. A core element of Quantum Leap is the new $400 million Innovation Center, a data and technology center touted as eco-friendly and non-intrusive, and housed on five undeveloped …

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Flexential Adding to Atlanta-Area Data Center Footprint

Atlanta & Southeast + Atlanta Metro + Digital Infrastructure | April 17, 2026

Flexential is planning to develop a 48,000-square-foot, 4.5-megawatt (MW) data center. With Atlanta – Norcross 2, Flexential is expanding its ability to deliver colocation, cloud, interconnection and data protection in a region that plays a critical role in national data center and interconnection strategy. Expected to come online in the first half of 2028, Atlanta – …

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Suffolk Unveils AI-Enabled “Jobsite of the Future” Operating Model

Boston & New England + Boston + Digital Infrastructure | June 9, 2026

Boston-based construction management firm on Tuesday launched Jobsite of the Future, which the company described as a first-of-its-kind AI-enabled operating model designed to transform how construction projects are delivered nationwide. It embeds AI Engineers in active project teams to improve decision-making and efficiencies and modernize the construction process. Suffolk’s Jobsite of the Future consists of …

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Gradiant Closes on Series E Financing to Drive Advanced Water Solutions

Boston & New England + Digital Infrastructure | May 18, 2026

Bsoton-based Gradiant on Monday announced the close of Series E financing, valuing the company at $2 billion. The financing was led by Safar Partners and Hostplus Superannuation Fund, with participation from ClearVision Ventures and other global investors. The financing will support Gradiant’s continued global expansion, including strategic acquisitions, accelerated research and development, and investments in operational …

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Microsoft Breaks Ground on Long-Planned North San Jose Data Center Site

California + Bay Area + Digital Infrastructure | June 11, 2026

Nearly a decade after acquiring the site, Microsoft has broken ground on a 48-megawatt data center in north San Jose to support growing demand for cloud services and AI. The 397,205-square-foot, two-building project is planned to be completed in 2028, with HITT serving as the general contractor, reported the Silicon Valley Business Journal. “This building represents critical infrastructure,” …

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Prime Data Centers Breaks Ground on Second Sacramento Facility

California + Digital Infrastructure | May 8, 2026

Prime Data Centers, an international developer and operator of hyperscale and purpose-built data centers, has broken ground on SMF02, the second data center on its Sacramento campus. The 150,000-square-foot facility will deliver 18 megawatts of critical IT load capacity, marking a significant expansion of Prime’s regional presence and continued investment in California. SMF02 will expand …

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Report: Data Center Sector to Double Amid AI Infrastructure Boom

Chicago & Midwest + Downtown + Digital Infrastructure | January 6, 2026

The global data center sector is poised for continued expansion, with capacity expected to nearly double from 103 GW to 200 GW by 2030, according to JLL’s 2026 Global Data Center Outlook. The growth will require up to $3 trillion in total investment over the next five years, including $1.2 trillion in real estate asset …

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Bedrock Completes 12-Story Hudson’s Detroit Building

Chicago & Midwest + Midwest + Digital Infrastructure | October 10, 2025

Bedrock has completed Hudson’s Detroit, a 12-story office building at 1240 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by SHoP Architects, Hudson’s adds more than 400,000 square feet of office space, retail, and a lounge. For decades, the J.L. Hudson Department Store—once the tallest department store in the world—was a landmark for shopping and dining. “Ten …

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D-Wave Quantum Bolts CA for Boca Raton

Florida & Gulf Coast + South Florida + Digital Infrastructure | January 30, 2026

Another prominent business has left California. D-Wave Quantum is moving its facility from Palo Alto to Boca Raton. CP Group along with DRA Advisors signed a lease agreement with D-Wave Quantum Inc. D-Wave will relocate its global headquarters and establish a major U.S. Research and Development facility at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), the historic 1.7-million-square-foot …

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KKR, NVIDIA, Kuwait Launch $10B AI Infrastructure Platform

Global + Digital Infrastructure | June 11, 2026

A consortium led by KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra have launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new company designed to address growing demand for integrated AI infrastructure solutions by combining data center, power and connectivity development under a single platform. Helix launches with more than $10 billion in capital commitments from its founding investors and will …

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DigitalBridge Group to Acquire ArcLight Capital for $1B

National + Global + Digital Infrastructure | May 27, 2026

DigitalBridge Group, Inc, a global alternative asset manager dedicated to digital infrastructure, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, one of North America’s leading specialist investors in power and electric infrastructure, for a total transaction value of up to $1.05 billion. The combination forms a leading alternative asset manager with assets …

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Switch Upsizes Credit Facilities to Nearly $10 Billion

National + Digital Infrastructure | June 10, 2026

Las Vegas-based Switch, a provider of AI, cloud and enterprise data center infrastructure, said Wednesday it has extended and upsized its existing Corporate Revolving Credit Facility to more than $6 billion and expanded its existing Syndicated Uncommitted Performance Letter of Credit Facility to $3.5 billion. Together, the expanded facilities provide nearly $10 billion of liquidity …

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Broadcom Teams with Apollo, Blackstone on AI Infrastructure Platform

National + Digital Infrastructure | June 9, 2026

Broadcom Inc. said Tuesday it has established the AI XPV Platform with Apollo and Blackstone’s Credit & Insurance Business as initial anchor investors. The platform, which launches with an initial tranche of $35 billion led by Apollo and Blackstone, is designed to enable more than 20 gigawatts of compute capacity using Broadcom’s XPUs and networking …

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Comptroller Levine Warns of Possible AI Disruption to NYC Economy

New York & Tri-State + Downtown New York + Digital Infrastructure | May 27, 2026

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine reported that the possible impacts artificial intelligence (AI) could have on New York City’s economy range from boom to bust, providing the first local assessment of how the rapidly advancing technology could profoundly impact jobs, wages, tax revenue, and key industries. He called on the city to boost its rainy-day fund to 16% of tax revenues. The five scenarios Levine proposed are based on Moody’s Analytics reports and on original …

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Using Automation to Win Deals: Q&A with Henry AI’s Sammy Greenwall

New York & Tri-State + Downtown New York + Digital Infrastructure | May 8, 2026

A broker’s success is based largely on interpersonal skills, yet those skills can be undercut by the time and effort required to complete the manual tasks that are essential to getting a deal done. The dynamic is similar for sponsors looking to bring in limited partners and finding that the hours it takes to put together deal decks are hours that could be better spent …

Latest Phoenix & Southwest Digital Infrastructure Stories

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Microsoft Adds to Goodyear Data Center Property Locations

Phoenix & Southwest + Phoenix + Digital Infrastructure | June 8, 2026

Microsoft spent over $130 million for a 100-acre site in Goodyear. The Phoenix Business Journal reports the property, owned by Industrial Realty Trust, is adjacent to an additional 150 acres the company bought back in 2019 for $39 million. The overall site, now spanning nearly 250 acres, is where Microsoft is building out one of its …

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$3B Data Center Venture Slated for Avondale

Phoenix & Southwest + Phoenix + Digital Infrastructure | May 26, 2026

Prime Data Centers has broken ground on three data centers in the first phase of its $3 billion, 1.3 million-square-foot, hyperscale campus in Avondale, Ariz., near Phoenix. Commercial Search reports five buildings are planned for the 66.5-acre, 240-megawatt campus called PHX01. Three buildings have been leased; two remain available. Each building is a 267,000-square-foot facility …

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Data Center Developer to Unveil Plans to Bastrop County Residents

Texas + Austin + Digital Infrastructure | June 10, 2026

Bastrop County residents and stakeholders will be given the opportunity to ask questions about three planned Cedar Creek data center campuses spanning nearly 1,500 acres. Construction on one center is underway. Two are in the planning stages. The investment of the three totals over $2 billion. Community Impact reports the three EdgeConneX campus projects are …

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Rowan Closes on 3rd Temple Data Center Deal

Texas + Austin + Digital Infrastructure | May 27, 2026

Rowan Digital secured $3 billion in debt financing to help build a 300-megawatt data center campus in Temple. It’s the first of three planned data center campuses in the town north of Austin. The company earlier this year broke ground on the 707-acre campus. It’s located northeast of the intersection of Bob White Road and Lorraine Avenue. The …

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Ares Pays $700M for Two Data Center Sites in Northern Virginia

Washington DC & Mid-Atlantic + Virginia + Digital Infrastructure | December 19, 2025

Ares Management Corporation completed two significant data center transactions in the U.S. by Ares Real Assets funds. Ares did not disclose acquisition prices, but Bloomberg reported the company paid a combined $700 million for the two sites. Ares secured a 314-acre site along I-95 South in Northern Virginia’s Spotsylvania County, which will include two data center buildings with …

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Sansone Group Enters Data Center Sector with Maryland Acquisition

Washington DC & Mid-Atlantic + DC Metro + Digital Infrastructure | August 15, 2025

Sansone Group, in partnership with Priseda, acquired a 214,000-square-foot Tier 4 data center located in Silver Spring, MD for an undisclosed sum. The off-market acquisition represents a milestone in Sansone Group’s efforts to diversify its national investment portfolio and enter one of the most dynamic asset classes in commercial real estate. Sansone partnered with Priseda, a …

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