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Blackstone scraps plans for would-be 'world's largest' data center campus in Virginia

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

NIMBY battles usually involve housing or highways — but the hottest fight in Virginia right now is over data centers. And on Thursday, the data centers lost one.

Blackstone-owned QTS announced it is pulling the plug on the “Digital Gateway” project in Prince William County, Virginia — a massive 850-hectare campus that had been marketed as the world’s largest data center facility. The company said it has withdrawn all permit applications and will not move forward with construction.

A Rare Bacteria in Meta's Data Center Wastewater Shut Down a City's Water System

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, spent months tracking down the source of a mystery contaminant in its reclaimed water system. The culprit turned out to be a rare bacteria — and it came from Meta’s data center construction site.

On July 2, Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) confirmed that Goat Systems LLC, a contractor working on Meta’s data center, was the source of industrial wastewater that had contaminated the city’s reclaimed water system. The discovery has prompted the city to suspend all wastewater intake from data center-related construction operations indefinitely.

Australian cloud startup Firmus to deploy 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs in Indonesian AI factory

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The global AI infrastructure race just found another gear. Australian cloud provider Firmus is building a 360MW AI data center on the Indonesian island of Batam — and it plans to fill it with 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs.