AI Infrastructure Daily — June 22, 2026

Meta announces $10B Indiana AI data center. Japan's Sakura Internet expands Hokkaido AI campus. Council of Europe AI Convention nears ratification threshold.

Meta Announces $10B Indiana AI Data Center

Meta Platforms announced a $10 billion AI data center in Jeffersonville, Indiana — one of the company's largest single-campus investments to date. The facility will support Llama model training and Reality Labs AI workloads.

This brings Meta's announced AI datacenter investment total to over $40 billion across 2025-2026, including the Richland Parish Louisiana campus ($10B), Temple Texas ($800M), and existing campus expansions in Eagle Mountain UT, DeKalb IL, and Sarpy County NE.

Meta's 2025 capital expenditure of $60-65 billion is primarily directed at AI infrastructure, making it one of the largest infrastructure spenders globally alongside Microsoft ($80B) and Amazon ($100B+).

Sakura Internet Expands Hokkaido AI Campus

Japan's Sakura Internet is expanding its Ishikari AI campus in Hokkaido, leveraging the region's cool climate and renewable energy mix. Phase 2 expansion will add 50MW of capacity, bringing the campus total to 100MW with H100, H200, and GB200 clusters.

Sakura Internet has positioned itself as Japan's leading AI cloud provider, benefiting from the Japanese government's AI infrastructure push and the country's focus on energy-efficient datacenter siting.

The expansion aligns with Japan's voluntary AI Guidelines approach, which avoids hard regulation while promoting human-centric, safe AI development.

Council of Europe AI Convention Nears Ratification

The Council of Europe's Framework Convention on AI — the world's first international treaty on AI — is approaching its ratification threshold of three signatories. Signed by multiple countries in September 2024, the convention requires ratifications to enter into force.

The convention binds ratifying parties to protect human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in AI development and deployment. It's open to non-European countries, making it a potential global standard alongside the OECD AI Principles and UNESCO AI Ethics Recommendation.

Entry into force is expected in early 2026, establishing the first binding international AI governance mechanism.

Energy Update: Dominion Virginia Grid Expansion for AI

Dominion Energy is undertaking a $5B+ grid expansion in Northern Virginia's data center alley to meet surging AI demand. The plan includes 5GW of new transmission and substation capacity by 2030, serving AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Meta facilities.

Northern Virginia remains the world's largest data center cluster, but power constraints are pushing new AI facilities to other regions — including Texas (Oracle, xAI), Louisiana (Meta), and the Pacific Northwest (Google, Microsoft, Amazon).

The grid expansion highlights the infrastructure bottleneck facing AI growth: data center power demand is projected to double by 2030, requiring unprecedented utility investment.