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On Oct. 14, 2026, the Mount Pleasant, Wis., Plan Commission unanimously backed Microsoft's amended site plan for 12023 Durand Avenue, which shows seven data center buildings instead of nine, with more than a dozen conditions, WPR reported. The plan still goes to the Village Board for a vote.
Read the story →The Anne Arundel County, Md., Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 5, 2026, to pass amended Bill 63-26, replacing a proposed ban on new data centers with a moratorium that WMAR-2 News reports runs to Jan. 31, 2028, and repealing a personal property tax assessment reduction for the facilities.
Microsoft on Oct. 12, 2026 introduced its Azure Maia 300 AI accelerator, describing 96-chip, 167-kW racks in which liquid cooling removes more than 80% of the thermal load, fed by a 50-V busbar. It said it plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments starting in 2027 but did not name any sites.
The Open Compute Project published v1.0.0 of the Mt. Diablo disaggregated power rack spec, written by Microsoft, Meta and Google and scalable "from 800kW to 1MW+," as Meta, Nvidia and others showed liquid-cooled hardware at the Oct. 12-15 OCP Global Summit.
NiSource's GenCo signed a 20-year supply deal with Microsoft for its planned La Porte, Ind., campus, which adds about 1,100 MW starting in 2028, and disclosed a $2.2 billion, 600 MWac / 2,400 MWh battery tolling agreement in an 8-K.
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