Weekly Data Centre Digest – 21st March 2025
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Reports
Synergy: Hyperscale Data Center Count Hits 1,136. Read here.
RLB: 2025 Data Center trends report. Read here.
Dell’Oro Group: Data Center Capex Surged 51 Percent to $455 Billion in 2024. Read here.
Europe
Oracle to invest $5bn in UK cloud infrastructure. Read here.
Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe. Read here.
New UK data center firm SUB1 secures investment from Boultbee Brooks. Read here.
Clean Energy Capital plans solar farm directly connected to IBM data center in Hursley, UK. Read here.
Drax handed boost in biomass plant data centre plans (Yorkshire, UK). Read here.
Telehouse inks 10-year PPA with RWE to power London Docklands data hub. Read here.
‘Small number’ of redundancies at Meta data centre in Co Meath. Read here.
Spain’s grid operator gives Solaria green light for two more data center projects totaling 130MW. Read here.
Solaria consolidates 1 GW of demand to connect data centers in Spain. Read here.
Portugal eyes $13bn investment in data centres. Read here.
AtlasEdge and Colt join forces to drive Portugal’s digital and sustainable future. Read here.
Sesterce to invest $500 million in AI data centre in France. Read here.
Data centre boom to boost role of gas in Italy. Read here.
Schneider Electric Collaborates with NVIDIA on Designs for AI Data Centers. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Laing O’Rourke achieves major milestone for Pure Data Centres in Abu Dhabi. Read here.
Alfanar Global Development is planning to spend $1.4 billion on developing data centers in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Wingu.Africa breaks grounds on data center expansion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read here.
The Algerian government has broken ground on an AI data center in Oran, Algeria. Read here.
APAC
Microsoft Malaysia to launch three data centres in Q2 2025. Read here.
Thailand has reportedly approved an estimated US$2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services from both local and foreign firms. Read here.
DayOne breaks ground on hyperscale data center pioneering Thailand’s digital future. Read here.
Bridge Data Centres secures record US$ 2.8 billion senior secured bank financing to fuel expansion. Read here.
NTT announces 500MW NAV2 data center in Navi Mumbai, India. Read here.
Currenc to construct hyperscale AI data centre in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.
Digital Realty forms JV with BDIA to play in Indonesia’s data centre space. Read here.
Equinix issues $370m green bonds in Singapore market debut. Read here.
Beeinfotech PH HIVE Hybrid Data Center opens in Manila. Read here.
L&T to invest Rs 3,600 crores to build three new DCs in India. Read here.
Asia Pacific Cloud Park to be developed in South Korea. Read here.
North America
Nvidia & xAI Join Big Tech in AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.
STACK Infrastructure Secures $4 Billion in Green Financing. Read here.
Microsoft chose not to exercise $12 billion Coreweave option. Read here.
Microsoft stops some construction work on massive data center in Mount Pleasant. Read here.
Microsoft is building more data centers outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.
Chevron advances plans to develop US data centers with power generation. Read here.
Goodman Group breaks ground on 49.5 MW data center LAX01 in Vernon, California. Read here.
Crusoe has begun construction on the second phase of its data center conglomeration on the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas. Read here.
Diode Ventures files for 515-acre data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.
Hut 8 secures 592 acres for 300MW Bitcoin and AI data center. Read here.
Core Scientific plans new AI data centers in Dalton, Georgia. Read here.
Data center campus of 6.2m sq ft proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Details emerge around Beacon AI’s planned 400MW Alberta data center campuses. Read here.
Reno approves first evaporative cooling data center. Read here.
QTS has leased a 756,000 sq ft building near Kansas City for a new data center development. Read here.
Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators. Read here.
South America
ODATA announced a new 48MW Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.
Growth of data centre investments in Brazil. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Nearly Half of All UK Data Centres to Be Used for AI by 2030. Read here.
Footballer, rockstar, data center engineer? The industry’s battle to recruit. Read here.
Fixing the 8% problem: Solving the data centre industry’s gender imbalance. Read here.
Near Misses Instill Fears Over Widespread Data Center-Induced Blackouts. Read here.
The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages? Read here.
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