April 8, 2026
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Texas Built Its Tax Break for Yesterday's Data Center Market
In Sangamon County, Illinois, Dallas-based CyrusOne won a narrow 17-10 zoning vote for a $500 million, 600-megawatt facility after a contentious hearing where law enforcement escorted out upset attendees.
April 6, 2026
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When Military Strikes Take Down Cloud Regions, Location Becomes Strategy
CyrusOne's $500 million Sangamon County, Illinois project offers a contrast: its closed-loop cooling system circulates water internally without daily top-ups, and non-cooling wastewater flows to a septic field equivalent to about 15 households.
March 28, 2026
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Texas Built the Datacenter Boom. Now It's Auditing the Deal.
The U.S. Army conditionally selected Carlyle for a hyperscaled data center at Fort Bliss, Texas (1,384 acres) and CyrusOne for Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, under the Enhanced Use Lease program, with no upfront taxpayer cost and initial operating capability targeted for FY2027 at Fort Bliss.
March 24, 2026
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Texas Invited the AI Boom. The $14B Transmission Bill Is the Invoice.
In Illinois, Sangamon County's board voted 15-13 to table CyrusOne's $500 million project, with opponents demanding a moratorium pending potential state-level rules.
March 22, 2026
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SoftBank Just Priced the Self-Sufficient Datacenter. It's $33 Billion.
Meanwhile, Constellation's Calpine unit signed over 1,100 MW of power purchase agreements with CyrusOne across two Texas sites, Freestone Energy Center and Thad Hill Energy Center, packaging generation, land, and grid connectivity as a bundled "Powered Land" offering.
March 20, 2026
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Developers Stopped Waiting for the Grid. Now They're Building Around It.
Logan County imposed a 60-day moratorium on Hut 8's $5B, 500-MW proposal after the company claimed $65 million in annual property tax revenue, roughly 10x CyrusOne's competing estimate for similar capacity in neighboring Sangamon County.
March 10, 2026
26 Cancellations Later, the Rules of Site Selection Have ChangedCyrusOne topped out DFW10, a $750 million, 250,000 sq ft building at its new 400+ MW campus in Bosque County, Texas, adjacent to Calpine's 250 MW Thad Hill Energy Center.
March 5, 2026
**When Public Markets Blink, Private Capital Buys the Grid**CyrusOne's 634 MW, $500 million facility cleared ZBA approval 5-0 but faces that final board vote the same day.
February 28, 2026
Self-Supplied Power Is Table Stakes. Six States Are Already Closing the Door.CyrusOne is planning a 144 MW, $600M-$2B campus on 300 acres straddling the Jack/Wise County line, powered directly by the adjacent Wise County Power Station natural gas plant.
February 15, 2026
Developers Face a Choice: Disclose or Lose the Next $46 BillionCyrusOne SVP Gene Alessandrini acknowledged the scale problem: "Our facilities are getting so large that they are being noticed."
February 11, 2026
1.5 GW in a Day: Three Power Models Converge on One GridConstellation Energy and CyrusOne have announced a 380 MW power deal to support a new datacenter facility at the Freestone Energy Center, a 1,045 MW natural gas combined-cycle plant in Freestone County, Texas, one of the clearest examples yet of a generator monetizing an existing dispatchable asset for co-located datacenter load.
February 10, 2026
Behind the Fence: Texas Gigawatts Stack Up Faster Than Rules Can FollowCyrusOne and Constellation Energy have struck a 380-MW power deal to build a massive data center campus adjacent to Calpine's Freestone Energy Center in Freestone County, Texas, the latest and one of the largest behind-the-meter gas-plant pairings in ERCOT.