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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.

Aug 20, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DC BLOX's approved Thunderbird campus in Indianapolis carries a $2 billion headline — but the plan of operation splits it explicitly: $600-700 million of land, site, and building, and $1.2-1.3 billion of tenant servers and networking hardware. Two thirds of the number is computers nobody bids. Eleven low voltage systems and an estimated $45 million in LV work, on a two-building campus that was downsized from three after community opposition.

Aug 12, 2026

Raleigh's $308 million Omni Hotel and Convention Center is 29 stories with 600 guest rooms, a 20,000 square foot ballroom, and 61,000 square feet of meeting space — which makes it two low voltage projects in one building. The guest tower prices per key; the function space prices like assembly. Eight systems, an estimated $21.2 million in LV work, Brasfield & Gorrie building it, opening late 2028.

Aug 11, 2026

Mesa, Arizona is building a $53.9 million public safety communications facility with Willmeng Construction as general contractor — five low voltage systems and an estimated $6.2 million in LV work. The differentiator is not size, it is qualification: radio and dispatch facilities are grounded to Motorola R56 rather than the NEC alone, and the P25 radio system is usually procured separately by the agency, so knowing where your scope ends is half the bid.

Aug 10, 2026

Jacksonville's $11.5 million Florida Theatre renovation lists stage lighting, sound, digital projection, and assistive listening as its lead scope items — meaning the low voltage is not a supporting trade, it is the project. An estimated $2.9 million in LV and AV work inside a 1927 building with restored decorative plaster, funded 50/50 by the city and the theatre's nonprofit, and aimed at a centennial in 2027 that will not move.

Aug 9, 2026

Google has broken ground on Project Pyramid, its first Arkansas data center — five buildings on 1,178 acres off Bollinger Road in West Memphis, backed by a $4 billion commitment through 2027 and up to $10 billion more if conditions align. Ten low voltage systems and an estimated $160 million in LV work, with no GC, electrical prime, or specialty package holder named. The site sits fifteen minutes from Memphis, where LVN covered St. Jude's $810M research tower two weeks ago.

Aug 8, 2026

Micron's ID1 memory fab in Boise carries a $707 million superstructure permit for a 151-foot, H-5 classified fabrication building — and it anchors a $2.89 billion permitted program Signal tracks across 33 permits. The cleanroom already hit blowdown, which changes how every trade works inside it. Five low voltage systems, an estimated $100 million in LV work, union-built under a PLA with IBEW Local 291 dispatching.

Aug 7, 2026

DOE selected Brookfield to develop an AI data center campus on 3,556 acres of the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, with NextEra building up to 2 GW of gas generation and 2.6 GW of battery storage. Eleven low voltage systems and an estimated $600 million in LV work across 1.2 GW of compute — with no tenant named and nothing awarded on the construction side.

Aug 1, 2026