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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WestDulles' Iron Horse campus has an approved Ashland portion and a pending 77.62-acre Hanover request, with explicit fiber, security, substation, utility, backup-power, and controls signals ahead of an August 20 hearing.

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

AWS is building a 438,500-square-foot Gilroy data-center campus with Skanska, a dedicated 98 MW PG&E connection, active permit work, and a December 2026 Phase I target.

Aug 11, 2026

Omaha, Nebraska is now live on LVN Signal. Low voltage contractors in the Omaha metro now have real-time construction intelligence covering 559 active projects, built on grading and sitework permits that surface work 6-18 months before a building permit ever posts.

Aug 10, 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

Western Oregon University is bidding a 17,000-to-30,000-square-foot Computer Solutions Hub with a 0.25 MW tier 3 data hall, new campus fiber core, security, controls, AV, and commissioning scope.

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