North Carolina is one of three sites in three states that will receive part of an investment of over $1 billion by energy and digital connections solutions company Prysmian North America. Georgia ($185 million) and Texas will welcome a combined $200 million investment from Siemens. Coca-Cola Bottling Company refreshes a site in Louisiana.
Skeleton Technologies, headquartered in Estonia just a stone’s skip south of its new “SuperBattery” facility in Finland, is developing power solutions to meet the pressing global demand from data centers and AI computing factories.
When Bristol Myers Squibb last week announced a $2.3 billion, 500-job investment in metro Houston’s Generation Park, that name may have rung a bell. That’s because it’s precisely where Eli Lilly and Company announced its own $6.5 billion project last September. As of earlier this year, the Lilly project was one of around 20 projects to have benefited from retooled incentives under the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation (JETI) Act.
“This success didn’t happen by chance,” writes Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves of the state’s $85 billion in investment since 2020. “It’s the result of our long-term commitment to a dependable business environment.”
The CWL13 data center is located at a campus operated by Vantage Data Centers in Newport, Wales, since 2010.
Photo courtesy of Vantage
Colorado-based Vantage Data Centers and Luxembourg-based AI cloud company Nebius last week announced an agreement to deploy high-density, NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure at Vantage’s CWL1 campus in Newport, Wales. “The deployment represents the first announced commercial capacity commitment in the South Wales AI Growth Zone and will support growing UK demand for domestic AI compute capacity,” the companies announced. CWL1 is part of “Vantage’s multi-billion-pound investment strategy across South Wales, where the company expects to deliver more than 1GW of AI-ready capacity across Newport, Bridgend and Bro Tathan,” the companies’ release stated, noting that South Wales was designated as a UK AI Growth Zone “in recognition of its concentration of digital infrastructure, fiber connectivity to London, high-capacity electricity grid infrastructure and strong industrial base.” The region is also home to the UK’s largest cluster of semiconductor businesses.
“The UK is one of the places where AI is being built, deployed and adopted by startups, enterprises and the public sector,” said Gary Tierney, general manager for EMEA at Nebius. The UK’s AI Growth Zones program was launched last year under the Starmer government and as of early 2026 had declared five such zones, the most recent being located in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Thought to have been created in 1895, this photograph by William Henry Jackson of the harbor at sunset in Dunedin, New Zealand, is part of the World’s Transportation Commission photograph collection at the Library of Congress (LOC). A gift from the Colorado Historical Society, the print was made from Jackson’s vintage glass negative, which was found broken in two pieces that were laid together to digitize around five years ago.
“Railroad publicist Joseph Gladding Pangborn organized the World’s Transportation Commission to gather information about foreign transportation systems, especially railroads, for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago,” the LOC explains. “The U. S. was in the midst of an economic depression when Pangborn’s grand tour began. He intended to win friends for American businesses interested in international markets by gathering information about the faraway lands and providing information about products available from the States.”
The Commission began its tour in Tunis in late 1894 and continued on to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka), India, Oceania, China and Siberia.
