Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, while Ryan Companies breaks ground on Aligned Data Centers' new campus. Texas A&M starts construction on its own semiconductor institute, and WRS launches a $1.2 billion mixed-use redevelopment in Maryland. A new $6 billion data center campus has been proposed in Georgia, Green Data Centers pitches a bold 10 GW solar field and McKinsey formally teams up with ALICE Technologies. Let's dive in!

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Meta has committed to an additional $21 billion in AI cloud infrastructure spending with CoreWeave, building on a prior $14.2 billion arrangement. The new deal runs from 2027 to 2032 and signals just how aggressively Meta is scaling its AI ambitions.

CoreWeave operates data centers packed with Nvidia GPUs, serving major players like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Even companies capable of building their own infrastructure keep coming back, something CEO Mike Intrator attributes simply to the quality of what CoreWeave delivers.

The deal helps CoreWeave reduce its heavy reliance on Microsoft, which made up 62% of its 2024 revenue. Going forward, no single customer will exceed 35% of total sales.

For Meta, this is part of a broader infrastructure push, with capital expenditures projected between $115 and $135 billion this year, nearly double what it spent in 2025.


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Aligned Data Centers has broken ground on Project Caprock, a 540 MW campus spanning 313 acres near Abernathy in Hale County, Texas. At full build-out, the site will total 1.65 million square feet across six facilities, with the first building targeting a Q1 2027 service date.

Ryan Companies is serving as general contractor on the mission critical side, with Xcel Energy as the utility partner. Aligned is also funding and building the campus's dedicated electrical infrastructure to protect local ratepayers from added costs.

The campus will run on Aligned's proprietary DeltaFlow liquid cooling technology, paired with a closed-loop system that recirculates water internally, avoiding any draw on the Ogallala Aquifer, a critical resource for regional agriculture and residential use.

Aligned projects the campus will deliver $5 billion in regional economic impact, thousands of construction jobs, and long-term high skill technology roles once operational.

Texas A&M broke ground April 9 on a $226.4 million Semiconductor Institute at its RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas. Funded through the Texas CHIPS Act, the 80,000 square foot facility features an advanced ballroom-style clean room, R&D labs, and a skilled trade workforce lab. Completion is targeted for Q1 2028.

WRS Inc. broke ground April 13 on the $1.2 billion Lakeforest Redevelopment in Gaithersburg, Maryland, replacing the shut Lakeforest Mall across 102 acres. The mixed-use project delivers 1,600 residential units, 470,000 square feet of retail, and 35 acres of green space, projecting $1.7 billion in annual economic output at full buildout.

Premier Data Center Development has filed a Development of Regional Impact application for Project Arrowhead, a proposed 1,000 acre data center campus in Irwin County, Georgia. Spanning five buildings totaling 4.22 million square feet, the campus could reach 1.25 GW of capacity and attract up to $6 billion in investment. Phase 1 could go live as early as 2030, with a full build-out expected by 2034.

Green Data Centers CEO Jason Bak presented a proposal to the Socorro Electric Cooperative board on March 25. The proposal calls for a multi-billion dollar, 2 GW data center campus on 10,000 acres in Socorro, New Mexico. It will be powered by a 10 GW solar installation with battery storage. Construction is targeted to begin this year, pending approvals.

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Vietnam's Trong Dong Stadium is rising on the southern outskirts of Hanoi and will hold 135,000 spectators, making it the second largest stadium in the world by capacity. Developed by Vingroup, construction broke ground in December 2025, with completion targeted for August 2028.

The design is rooted in Vietnamese cultural identity, taking its form from the ancient Dong Son bronze drum, with Lac bird motifs woven into the exterior. Despite its enormous scale, the venue has no athletics track, placing fans closer to the pitch than most stadiums of its size.

Engineering ambitions match the aesthetic ones. The stadium will feature the world's largest automated retractable roof, a pitch that can be turned around in six to ten hours, AI-powered crowd management, and 5G connectivity throughout.

The stadium anchors Vingroup's 9,171-hectare Olympic Sports Urban Area, a $35 billion megaproject spanning 11 communes. The full development is expected to be complete by 2035.

McKinsey and ALICE Technologies have formalized a strategic alliance built on more than five years of collaboration aimed at transforming how large capital projects are planned and delivered. Together, they have worked with more than 35 clients across infrastructure, data centers, energy, mining, and manufacturing.

At the core of the partnership is generative scheduling, a technology that evaluates millions of sequencing and resource loading scenarios by treating labor, equipment, materials, space, and sequence as adjustable variables. The approach has delivered schedule accelerations of up to 20 percent across client engagements.

Results are already tangible. One leading global data center provider used the technology to uncover more than 13 optimization opportunities, ultimately achieving a roughly 40 percent reduction in its baseline construction schedule.

Both firms stress that technology alone is not enough. Lasting impact requires capability building, an integrated operating model, and continuous benchmarking that feeds execution data back into future planning cycles.