QTS plans $10B campus in Ohio

QTS and the City of Van Wert have announced plans for a major data center campus in Van Wert, Ohio. The project is expected to bring approximately $10 billion in capital investment. The planned 902-acre campus will include up to seven data center buildings, create more than 1,500 construction jobs, and support around 200 full-time positions once operational. Riot Platforms has filed a construction permit with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a new 335,430-square-foot, two-story data center building at its Corsicana, Texas campus. The project, known internally as Project Ditto, carries an estimated construction cost of $400 million and is scheduled to be built between April 2026 and 2028. Plans submitted in Clinton Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, outline a proposed 682-acre industrial data center campus featuring 20 data center buildings, each measuring approximately 118,000 square feet. The proposed campus would include nearly 2.4 million square feet of data center space along with two on-site power generation facilities, two customer substations, a water treatment building, and supporting infrastructure. It is expected to be served by Pennsylvania-American Water Company and the Lackawanna River Basin Sewer Authority. Amazon Web Services has implemented a new resilient network graph architecture designed to improve data center performance while reducing infrastructure and energy requirements. The architecture uses a quasi-random network topology and a proprietary optical device called ShuffleBox, which automatically reconfigures connections between routers. The design requires 69 percent fewer routers and switches, increases network throughput by 33 percent, reduces energy consumption by 40 percent, and lowers operational costs by 27 percent compared with traditional data center network architectures.