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September 26, 2026

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Google Puts BESS and LVDC on Record as the Gigawatt Campus Standard

September 16, 2026

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DataBank CEO: Opposition Is Election-Tier as 24-Mo Texas Deals Still Ship

September 10, 2026

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Selene, Horizon Junction, and Hubbard Stack in One Multi-GW Texas Window

September 7, 2026

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Temple Clears First Readings on Rowan's $4.2B Campus

August 26, 2026

The operative Texas map is concrete: a 1.2 GW Clean Campus in Abilene (Crusoe capacity tied to Stargate), a 1 GW Childress County campus with Crusoe, and a Hall County site near Turkey where QTS will design, build, and operate on a path expected to draw more than $10 billion.

August 11, 2026

Opposition groups from Missouri to New Mexico to Virginia are shifting from harm arguments to procedural suits over notice, zoning, and meeting rules, a track Data Center Watch tied to at least 75 projects stalled in the first three months of 2024; Blackstone's QTS and Compass abandoned a Prince William County, Virginia conversion after a state court faulted public notice.

August 1, 2026

Montgomery County, Maryland voted unanimously July 28 to pause new datacenter permits for 18 months, and in Northern Virginia, QTS withdrew its final appeal on the Prince William Digital Gateway after litigation unwound the approvals over public-notice defects.

July 29, 2026

North Texas developers are already ahead of this, with QTS running closed-loop cooling below five households' monthly use and CyrusOne going fully air-cooled while returning 20 percent of drawn water since 2020.

July 28, 2026

QTS runs closed-loop at its Fort Worth facility with monthly water use below five households combined, with a second phase underway.

July 24, 2026

Virginia's Prince William Digital Gateway, once projected at nearly $25 billion in investment and $400 million in annual tax revenue, is effectively dead after QTS withdrew its remaining Supreme Court petitions in July and Compass exited in April.

July 9, 2026

Cooling forces the tradeoff: Microsoft and QTS committed to zero-water cooling and higher power draw; Amazon cut North American water use 946 million liters in 2024.

July 7, 2026

The out-of-state signal is louder: Kevin O'Leary's Stratos project in Utah shrank from 40,000 acres to just over 20,000 after Governor Cox signed a May 29 executive order requiring state evaluation, and QTS walked from its $30 billion Virginia Digital Gateway after courts invalidated the rezonings on procedural grounds.

June 22, 2026

Vantage's 1.4GW Shackelford County campus, Crusoe's Abilene build, QTS in Dallas, and Microsoft's San Antonio development all sit in that 75MW+ bracket.

May 30, 2026

The developers winning sites right now, QTS in Van Wert with mandatory closed-loop cooling, TeraWulf on brownfield industrial parks, are the ones treating water and power procurement as preconditions, not paperwork.

May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, Blackstone's QTS Fayetteville facility consumed nearly 30 million gallons without payment, exceeding agreed peak limits during Georgia drought conditions.

May 14, 2026

A QTS campus in Fayette County, Georgia and an unnamed Arizona developer were caught drawing water beyond permits this month, surfacing only after residents reported pressure drops.

May 12, 2026

QTS's Fayetteville campus consumed roughly 29 million gallons through two unmetered industrial hookups while Governor Kemp's emergency declaration had residents on conservation orders.

May 11, 2026

Meanwhile in Fayette County, Georgia, QTS's Project Excalibur drew 29 million unmetered gallons over as long as 15 months before residents noticed pressure drops, and the county declined to fine its largest customer.

March 25, 2026

In Wisconsin, QTS abandoned a 1,600-acre site in DeForest after grassroots opposition and is scouting alternatives.

March 16, 2026

QTS filed expansion plans for its Wilmer campus in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, part of an aggressive multi-state push that includes 12 million sq ft targeted in Blakely, Georgia and ongoing builds in Fayetteville and Augusta.