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AI & Data Centers
WhiteFiber signed a $60 million agreement for two Yadkinville industrial sites planned as the NC-2 and NC-3 AI data-center campuses, with power, parcels, approvals, customers, and construction awards still conditional.
Aug 22, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Project Avalon near Buffalo, West Virginia, is an eight-building Google data-center plan with state air and federal waters applications, named civil and permitting firms, and major power, fiber, security, controls, and commissioning packages still undisclosed.
Aug 21, 2026
Project Spotlights
Amazon Web Services built a $2 billion data center in Gilroy, California with no council vote and no public hearing, under 45-year-old industrial zoning. Thirteen low voltage systems - the longest list Signal has produced - including VESDA and EPMS as separate line items, and an estimated $49M to $59M in LV work.
AI & Data Centers
OpenAI contracted for approximately 8 IT-GW at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus, with first capacity expected in 2028, a six-year buildout, 35,000 projected construction jobs, and major delivery and low-voltage packages still undisclosed.
Aug 18, 2026
Industry News
Boise, Idaho is now live on LVN Signal. Low voltage contractors in the Treasure Valley now have real-time construction intelligence covering 1,351 active projects worth $4.29B+, led by Micron's multi-billion-dollar semiconductor campus and St. Luke's North Tower.
Aug 20, 2026
AI & Data Centers
A Brookwood, Alabama permit identifies an Applied Digital site with a roughly two-million-square-foot building and 136.89 acres of initial disturbance, while the final site decision, power capacity, tenant, delivery team, and specialty contractors remain undisclosed.
Aug 20, 2026
Project Spotlights
Brightview Senior Living is building 170 independent living, assisted living and memory care residences on the Notre Dame of Maryland University campus — the first senior living community to break ground on a college campus in Maryland. Five low voltage systems, an estimated $2.4M-$3.0M, and two occupancy classifications that decide the entire design.
Aug 19, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Amazon is advancing a 380-acre, nine-building AI data-center campus near McAdoo, Pennsylvania, with the first building anticipated in 2028 and major design, electrical, fiber, security, fire, controls, and commissioning awards still undisclosed.
Aug 19, 2026
Project Spotlights
OpenAI confirmed on August 17 that it has taken roughly 8 IT-gigawatts at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus on a former Cold War uranium enrichment site in Pike County, Ohio. SB Energy builds, owns and operates it. Eleven low voltage systems, a six-year buildout to 2032, and the largest low voltage opportunity we have ever scored.
Aug 18, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
Project Spotlights
Lincoln Public Schools is building a 47,000 sq ft alternative high school for students who have been expelled, suspended, or need behavioral support. Scheele-Kayton Construction holds a $19,569,000 contract. Five low voltage systems, an estimated $1.1M-$1.3M in LV work, and a security design that has almost nothing to do with the school-security conversation you are used to.
Aug 17, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Yondr and Cerberus acquired 40 acres for a planned 72 MW Manassas data-center campus targeting 2029, with the parcel, utility, design team, GC, and specialty low-voltage awards still unresolved.
Aug 17, 2026
Project Spotlights
Applied Digital is building Delta Forge 1, a $3.6B AI factory campus near Boyce, Louisiana — 300 MW of critical IT load, under construction since January, initial operations mid-2027. Ten low voltage systems, roughly $150M in LV work, and a rare case where two completely different pricing methods land on the same number.
Aug 16, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Monticello Tech's revised Minnesota filing outlines a planned 547-acre, $1 billion-plus data-center campus with Xcel 345 kV studies, a future substation, explicit diverse-fiber requirements, and major construction awards still unresolved.
Aug 16, 2026
Project Spotlights
The City of Irvine is adding a third 50-meter competition pool, covered bleachers, a splash pad and a NinjaCross obstacle course at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center — while hosting the 2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on the same site this week. Seven low voltage systems, an estimated $2.2M-$2.5M in LV work, and a code article most commercial contractors have never opened.
Aug 15, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Beacon Indus is a planned four-hall Alberta AI campus with 1,200 MW of proposed supply, an August 18 AUC hearing, named design and power partners, and major fibre, security, controls, fire, and commissioning packages still unresolved.
Aug 15, 2026
Project Spotlights
Serverfarm is building a four-building, 135-acre AI data center campus in Clarksville, Arkansas for an unnamed Fortune 10 hyperscaler. Nabholz has bid packages out at 60 percent drawings for Buildings 1 through 3 right now. Eleven low voltage systems, an estimated $144M to $264M in LV work campus-wide, and a town of 9,000 people that has to build it.
Aug 14, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Serverfarm's $6.6 billion Clarksville campus is under construction with Nabholz leading the build, first-building packages in motion, and major fiber, security, fire, controls, utility, and commissioning lanes still requiring award checks.
Aug 14, 2026
Project Spotlights
Detroit PBS is converting a century-old former General Motors engineering building in Milwaukee Junction into a television and radio campus — seven video production locations up from two, a 300-seat theater-style studio, and a performance space that works indoors and outdoors. Five low voltage systems and an estimated $1.4 million in LV work, on a job where SMPTE ST 2110, PTP timing, and technical grounding matter more than conference room AV experience.
Aug 13, 2026
AI & Data Centers
Edged US's three-building Project Atlas returns to South Whitehall review August 13 with about 1.48 million square feet, a reported 725 MW plan, a tentative four-year buildout, and major fiber, security, controls, fire, substation, and commissioning lanes still unawarded.
Aug 13, 2026
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