Weekly Data Centre Digest – 25th October 2024
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Reports
Mckinsey: The role of power in unlocking the European AI revolution. Read here.
Blackstone earnings call: The Blackstone portfolio consists of $70 billion of data centers and over $100 billion in prospective pipeline development, including AirTrunk and facilities under construction. Read here.
Digital Realty earnings call: Reports record leasing volumes and strategic development growth, while addressing supply chain and market challenges. Read here.
Europe
Italy set for single $33bn foreign data centre investment, Minister reveals. Read here.
Maincubes announced they have acquired a 14 hectare site in Nauen (Havelland) on the outskirts of Berlin. Read here.
Goodman receives approval for 100MW data centre in Frankfurt. Read here.
Russian crypto miner BitRiver and state fund announced BRICS data centre plans. Read here.
US tech firm praised for major new Oxfordshire centre plans. Read here.
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure makes Belgian Data Centre Acquisitions. Read here.
Iconic Lloyds Banking Group Data Centre in Calderdale village (Yorkshire, UK) goes on the market ahead of planned closure. Read here.
Northern Data AG considers divesting crypto mining business to focus on AI. Read here.
DataCrunch raises $13m in seed funding for AI infrastructure. Read here.
Dutch grid operators suggest limitation contracts to unlock 880MW capacity. Read here.
European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has appointed Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Raxio plots African growth with data center in Uganda. Read here.
Equinix closes $320M MainOne deal for African expansion. Read here.
Equinix has opened its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in South Africa, in the city of Johannesburg. Read here.
APAC
Global Switch has agreed to sell its Australian assets to investment manager HMC Capital for AU$2.12 billion. Read here.
Keppel to double Data Center capacity to 1.2GW across Asia. Read here.
ByteDance is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia. Read here.
Macquarie Data Centres extends debt financing facility with access to a further AU$450m. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure announced the completion of the first facility on its new 36MW flagship Tokyo campus. Read here.
Ubitus plans nuclear-powered AI data centre in Japan. Read here.
Keppel to develop 80MW data center campus in Taiwan. Read here.
CDC Data Centres announces start of work at data centre campus at Marsden Park. Read here.
China opens the door to foreign-owned data centres under new pilot scheme. Read here.
New investment in Australian Data Centre capacity forecast to top $26 billion by 2030, according to Mandala. Read here.
North America
Sabey completes first data center at Round Rock campus, Texas. Read here.
Microsoft confirms major land purchase in Kent Co. for possible data center. Read here.
Key Decision Near for Proposed Eastern Wash. $5B Data Center. Read here.
Aurum Launches $1B Tokenized Fund for Data Center Investments on XRP Ledger With Zoniqx. Read here.
Cologix Secures $1.5 Billion USD in Capital to Fund New Data Center Development. Read here.
Alaska’s governor has held talks with Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft in a bid to convince the hyperscalers to build data centers in his state. Read here.
TA Realty gets green light for data center outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Part of a US Navy Air Station outside Fresno in California could be turned into a 425MW data center and solar farm complex. Read here.
A.I. cloud startup CoreWeave to build $1 billion data center at Onyx’s NEST campus in Kenilworth. Read here.
CoreWeave to secure 120MW from Core Scientific for GPU cloud. Read here.
Edged topped out the company’s newest state-of-the-art data center in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.
$4.8bn data center campus proposed in Walla Walla, Washington. Read here.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has indefinitely shelved an Amazon data center campus ahead of its October 22 meeting. Read here.
Oregon’s Forest Grove data center gets city council approval. Read here.
AEP Ohio reaches agreement with stakeholders on data center interconnection rules. Read here.
Charter Development LLC seeks to develop area to northwest of Wallingford, Connecticut. Read here.
South America
Atalait plans $100 million investment to expand data center in Metepec, Mexico. Read here.
ODATA Announces $1.3B Expansion in Colombia. Read here.
DigitalBridge is exploring a sale of Scala Data Centers. Read here.
Acronis posts 53% rise in Mexican revenues, doubles data centre capacity. Read here.
Other interesting articles
From growth to gridlock: Why AI and data center capacity demands hinge on talent acquisition. Read here.
How the AI Revolution is Changing Data Center Construction. Read here.
Why global giants are betting on Italy for data centres. Read here.
Accelerating AI Infrastructure: Andy Hayes, CEO of Polar. Read here.
‘A $20 billion opportunity’: HMC Capital’s ambitious data centre punt. Read here.
JPMorgan: Bitcoin miners have nine-month window to get AI data center deals. Read here.
Infrastructure is destiny in the AI era. Read here.
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