Weekly Data Centre Digest – 15th November 2024
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Reports
Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers By 2027. Read here.
Ensuring U.S. Leadership in AI: Industry Perspective on Data Center Growth. Read here.
Anthropic CEO: AI training data centers to be $10bn in 2026, $100bn from 2027. Read here.
Europe
DTCP announced the launch of a new data center platform, GreenScale. Read here.
Aermont to buy European data centre firm Nabiax from Asterion and Telefónica. Read here.
Construction firm ACS plots 5GW data center investment strategy. Read here.
Portugal’s national grid CEO says group has 2GW of data centre capacity in the making. Read here.
EDPR is exploring locations across Spain and Portugal to build data centers powered by renewable energy. Read here.
Skanska signs additional contract to build a data center in Telemark, Norway. Read here.
Digital Core REIT has announced plans to hold an EGM on December 4, 2024, to discuss its proposed acquisition of an additional interest in a data centre in Germany. Read here.
ING supports Ark Data Centres with the expansion of Union Park data centre campus. Read here.
New data centre platform EdgeNebula has launched its operations with a focus on addressing the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Read here.
Drax Group Plc is exploring options to sell power to a data-center provider in the UK, guaranteeing income for its biomass-fired plant. Read here.
Fighting Abbots Langley (UK) data centre plan cost council £108k. Read here.
Permission for new battery plant and data centre ‘undermines Welsh planning policy’. Read here.
Pretax profits at Irish arm of data centre company Equinix more than halve. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Saudi Arabia launches $100bn AI, digital infrastructure mega investment package. Read here.
Beeah and Khazna sign Sharjah data centre pact. Read here.
Ethiopian natural gas may be used to power data centres. Read here.
Teraco begins construction of 120MW Solar Plant to Power South African Data Centers. Read here.
Africa Data Centres intends to expand its presence across West and North Africa. Read here.
APAC
Australian HMC Capital to launch £2bn data centre IPO. Read here.
Amazon appears to have shelved plans for a 40MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.
Malaysia’s Data Center Bet: New Planning Guidelines Set to Drive Growth. Read here.
Shanghai DC-Science Co., a leading Chinese data center developer and operator, is actively seeking a substantial private debt financing of between $600 million and $700 million. Read here.
Goodman completes third data centre building in Tsuen Wan West, Hong Kong. Read here.
Empyrion Digital Expands into Thailand with a New Data Center. Read here.
State-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited has started work on a $70m Indian Coast Guard’s data center in Mahipalpur, New Delhi. Read here.
Nxtra planning 200 MW data center in Hyderabad. Read here.
STT GDC has broken ground on two facilities in Mumbai, India. Read here.
Tencent Holdings is set to invest $500 million as part of plans to develop a third data center in Indonesia. Read here.
Chinese data center firm Zdata eyes Hong Kong IPO. Read here.
North America
FERC’s Talen Energy-Amazon decision unlikely to impact NuScale data center plans. Read here.
Dataprana Inc. began the construction of its 30-megawatt (MW) data center in La Marque (Texas). Read here.
Bloom Energy has signed a supply agreement with American Electric Power for up to 1GW of its products, the largest commercial procurement of fuel cells in the world to date. Read here.
Meta launched it’s Gallatin Campus. Read here.
Prime Data Centers today announced the opening of its Los Angeles Data Center. Read here.
Why Fluor sees good news in Trump and data centre ‘sweet spot’. Read here.
Turner to build $2bn Ohio Vantage Data Centers campus. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure has filed to build two more data centers outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Patmos to convert Kansas City Star building into a state-of-the-art 100 MW data center. Read here.
Balico LLC is revising plans to develop a 300MW Data Center campus in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.
California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company is to develop three data centers in San Jose totaling 200MW. Read here.
Amazon buys 350-acre parcel in Becker, Minnesota, for data center. Read here.
Stillwater residents vote to approve Data Center Project. Read here.
Ark has broken ground on Green Bay data center expansion in Wisconsin. Read here.
Wichita Falls council approves land rezoning for 300MW data center in Texas. Read here.
Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. Read here.
A 900-acre data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia, has been granted zoning permission. Read here.
Sharon AI plots 90MW natural gas-powered data center in New Mexico. Read here.
Logistix gets planning commission approval for data center project outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Read here.
Talen eyes options for Amazon data center after regulator rejection. Read here.
Canadian power generator TransAlta is in talks with major data center operators interested in building sites in Alberta, Canada. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Modular Data Centers mulls expansion. Read here.
Other interesting articles
It’s not getting any easier to keep data centres cool, warns ABI Research. Read here.
AI takeoff turns data centers into America’s new building boom. Read here.
Texas boffins come up with new cooling material for data centres. Read here.
The data center industry needs a thicker skin. Read here.
These Silicon Valley apartments will get their heat from nearby data centers. Read here.
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