Weekly Data Centre Digest – 17th January 2025
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Reports
Synergy Research Group: It’s Official – Data Center M&A Deals Broke All Records in 2024. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre Construction Cost Guide. Read here.
Barclays: AI revolution: Meeting massive AI infrastructure demands. Read here.
JLL: 2025 Global Data Center Outlook. Read here.
Europe
UK Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI. Read here.
AI hyperscaler Nscale to invest £2 billion in the UK data centre industry. Read here.
Plans for £2bn AI centre in Essex will create 750 jobs. Read here.
Data center projects worth £14bn announced with new UK government AI plan. Read here.
UK Will Explore Nuclear Power for New AI Data Center Plan. Read here.
Data centre planning applications (UK) jumped 40% in 2024 amid surge in AI. Read here.
Caineal LLP Wickford (UK) data centre to cost £500million to build. Read here.
CoreWeave announces data centers hosting NVIDIA Hopper GPUs now operational in the UK. Read here.
Scotland’s DataVita to double data center capacity to 40MW. Read here.
Spanish AI firm Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo. Read here.
MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced a partnership with Spanish regional Government of Extremadura to build two Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Center Campuses. Read here.
iGenius expects to complete $1 bln data centre project with Nvidia in the summer. Read here.
New data center planned in Erkrath, Germany. Read here.
Italy’s data centres to add 10 bln euros investments in 2025-26. Read here.
CyrusOne completes shell and core of FRA5 in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.
Cordiant gets thumbs up for Belgian data centre acquisition. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Abu Dhabi seeks bidders for unified data centre project. Read here.
KKR and Dubai’s Gulf Data Hub to invest more than $5bn to grow region’s data centre capacity. Read here.
Keystone submits application for two data centers in Israel. Read here.
NVIDIA Unveils $500 Million AI Data Center Expansion in Israel. Read here.
APAC
STACK Infrastructure has announced plans to build a new 220MW data center campus in Malaysia. Read here.
EdgeConneX prepares to break ground in Japan with 140MW AI data centre project. Read here.
CloudHQ and ESR Partner to Develop $2 Billion Data Center Campus in Japan. Read here.
ByteDance Expands AI Infrastructure with New Datacenter in Shanxi. Read here.
South Korea’s Woori Financial Group has invested $150million in two US data centers. Read here.
CapitaLand signs hyperscaler in India for 125 MW data centre capacity. Read here.
North America
Biden signs executive order to ensure power for AI data centers. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers Completes $12+ Billion Capital Raise. Read here.
Applied Digital Agrees to Build a Partnership with Macquarie Asset Management for Funding of up to $5.0 Billion to Drive HPC Growth. Read here.
TECfusions announced the acquisition of 1395 acres in Upper Burrell, PA, for a groundbreaking data center project. Read here.
US hyperscaler planning 20+ Edge data centers. Read here.
Stack secures $900m in green financing for 200MW Virginia campus. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure announced its largest flagship development to date: the 1+GW Stafford Technology Campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Read here.
Prime Data Centers looks to expand at McClellan Business Park (California). Read here.
US operator H5 Data Centers and private equity firm Novacap are partnering to develop facilities across North America. Read here.
Black Mountain filed to rezone 141 acres in Forth Worth to allow for data center development. Read here.
BlackChamber secures $1.2bn funding for 740MW data centre expansion. Read here.
Bitcoin miner and artificial intelligence data center developer Gryphon Digital Mining is to develop a natural-gas powered facility in Canada. Read here.
Clayco launches Clayco Compute for data centres construction. Read here.
Alberta First Nation voices ‘grave concern’ over Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70B AI data centre. Read here.
J.P.Morgan forecasts spending on data centers could boost US GDP by 20 basis points in 2025-26. Read here.
Amazon Web Services has filed to add 322 acres to its planned tech park in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has purchased a parcel of land for its $2 billion data center campus in Sunbury, Ohio. Read here.
South America
AWS launches $5bn cloud region in Mexico. Read here.
Brazil’s Um Telecom launches data center arm. Read here.
200MW data center campus planned in Leopoldina, Brazil. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Grid constraints risk delaying data centre growth: report. Read here.
How data centres can make better neighbours. Read here.
Data eXec launches to redefine data centre leadership. Read here.
How Big Tech builds data centres. Read here.
The Global AI Arms Race Hinges on Access to Data Centers. Read here.
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