Weekly Data Centre Digest – 16th May 2025
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Reports
BNP Paribas: US AI data center power demand: A multibillion-watt challenge. Read here.
Europe
Apto announces plans for Italy’s largest data centre campus. Read here.
Colt Data Centre Services has unveiled its second facility in France, known as Colt Paris 2. Read here.
Finnish property developer FCDC plans to build a data centre facility in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, with potential power use of up to 500 MW. Read here.
Swedish infrastructure startup Scandinavian Data Centers has secured an investment from real estate group Fastighets AB Balder to fund the construction of its first data centre, ‘ScandiDC I’, in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Read here.
UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss. Read here.
The UK government has overturned a decision by a Hertfordshire local council which blocked the development of a huge data centre adjacent to the M25. Read here.
Abbots Langley data centre construction to cost £800m. Read here.
Plans for huge data centre in Wycombe progress as Bucks Council enters new lease. Read here.
Pension Giant USS Backs Blackstone’s Data Centre Megaproject in Blyth, UK. Read here.
London-based startup Zendo Energy raises €2 million to help data centres decarbonise and adapt to AI boom. Read here.
Echelon launches €3.5bn data centre projects in Wicklow. Read here.
Swedish data center firm Bahnhof is developing an underground data center in Gothenburg. Read here.
Merlin Edged launches Barcelona data center, CoreWeave to take 15MW. Read here.
Power connection requests for Italy data centres rise to 42 GW at end-March. Read here.
Samsung bets on data center HVAC with $1.7 bn FläktGroup acquisition. Read here.
Vertiv has been picked by Nordic data centre firm Polar as the primary supplier for its first modular AI-ready data centre in Norway. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Trump and Abu Dhabi ink partnership to build massive AI data center complex in UAE. Read here.
DataVolt Partners with Supermicro for AI Data Center Expansion Backed by $20B Deal. Read here.
OpenAI considers data center in United Arab Emirates – report. Read here.
Saudi Arabian AI venture Humain plans to deploy 500MW of data center compute over the next five years featuring AMD hardware. Read here.
Oracle commits to invest $14bn in Saudi Arabia over next 10 years. Read here.
Moro Hub and DIFC forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation. Read here.
Nebius to build and operate $140m Israeli national supercomputer. Read here.
APAC
NTT DATA announced the accelerated expansion of its Global Data Centers division, securing land across North America, Europe, and Asia. Read here.
NTT to launch Singapore data centre REIT in US$1.57 billion asset transfer. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure seeks AU$1.3bn for Australia data center buildout. Read here.
Partners Group to buy data centre platform Digital Halo. Read here.
Kakao announces plans for second data center in Gyeonggi, South Korea. Read here.
Equinix opens first Jakarta data centre. Read here.
GIP–BlackRock, local partners plan to invest US$ 3–5 billion in Thailand; focus on Giga Data Centers. Read here.
BDx raises funds for Hong Kong DC. Read here.
North America
Five Point Infrastructure has committed as much as $1 billion to PowerBridge, a recently formed developer of data-center locations in the Permian Basin. Read here.
King Street-Backed Colovore Closes $925 Million Facility with Blackstone for AI Data Center Platform. Read here.
Blue Owl Capital Announces $7 Billion Final Close for Digital Infrastructure Fund. Read here.
Coreweave signs new $4 bln deal with OpenAI. Read here.
Beacon AI Centers Appoints Josh Schertzer as CEO, Commits to an Initial 4.5 GW Data Center Development in Alberta, Canada. Read here.
Tensorium Announces Launch of Its Largest AI-Optimized Data Center in Montreal, Canada. Read here.
Applied Digital proposes “multi-billion-dollar” data center in South Dakota. Read here.
Potential data center to be built northeast of New Carlisle, Indiana. Read here.
A Shelbyville developer has withdrawn a proposal to rezone 700 acres of Hancock County farmland for an industrial planned unit development that was likely to house a data center. Read here.
Cryptominer Cipher signs 300MW energy deal with Engie in Texas. Read here.
Wyoming intends to approve Microsoft data centers’ emissions permit for 128 backup diesel generators. Read here.
Flexential acquires two leased data centers in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Switch fails in bid to dismiss Tract lawsuit over Nevada data center site. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Patria launches data center platform with initial investment of $1 billion. Read here.
Scala Data Centers has announced authorization from Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy for a 5 GW ramp-up connection of Scala AI City to the National Interconnected System. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Proactive measures for data centres ahead of the new NESO application window. Read here.
Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics. Read here.
Tariff Trouble: Impact of Tariffs on Data Centers. Read here.
A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up. Read here.
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