Weekly Data Centre Digest – 20th June 2025
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Reports
Dell’Oro Group: Hyperscale Blackwell and Custom Accelerator Rollouts Drive 53 Percent Capex Growth in 1Q 2025. Read here.
Applied Digital: AI Factory: A Case Study for Total Cost of Ownership. Read here.
Linesight: The energy gap and power constraints: outlook for high-demand sectors. Read here.
Bloom Energy: 2025 Data Center Power Report: Mid-Year Pulse. Read here.
Ember: Grids set to block or unlock economic opportunities in Europe’s AI race. Read here.
Europe
Ochiltree (Scotland) 200MW data centre campus initial plans submitted. Read here.
Campaigners oppose planned data centre near Houghton Regis (Bedfordshire, UK) over environmental concerns. Read here.
Alterations made to plans for Bucks data centre the height of three double decker buses. Read here.
Lack of power could jeopardise data centre development across the South East (UK). Read here.
European Edge data center operator nLighten has signed a renewable supply agreement with Conrad Energy to power its portfolio of UK facilities. Read here.
Germany’s Maincubes tops out latest Frankfurt data center. Read here.
200,000 sqm data center campus planned in Keuruu, Finland. Read here.
Ireland plans legislation for data centers to build and run own power lines – report. Read here.
Norway inaugurates Olivia supercomputer at Lefdal Mine Datacenter. Read here.
Spain’s Box2bit plans data center in Malaga. Read here.
German firms to submit separate EU bids for AI data centre, newspaper reports. Read here.
EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production, developing 20MW data center in Sweden. Read here.
Montenegro to get data center as part of Hungary infrastructure deal. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Naver to Build 500MW AI Data Center in Morocco with NVIDIA. Read here.
Blue Turtle to support two Africa Data Centres facilities in South Africa. Read here.
APAC
Amazon investing AU$20 billion to expand data center infrastructure in Australia. Read here.
Edgnex Data Centers by Damac announces $2.3 billion AI-focused data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.
NextDC secures AU$2.2bn debt finance for Asia expansion. Read here.
SK Group and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will jointly invest “several trillion won” to build a 100-megawatt AI data center in Ulsan, expected to become the largest AI-dedicated data center in Korea. Read here.
Haoyang Data buys land for 300MW Thailand data center. Read here.
Korea rushes to construct AI data centers. Read here.
AirTrunk breaks ground on 40MW expansion at Tokyo data center campus. Read here.
Kazakhstan to Build Central Asia’s First Tier IV Data Center. Read here.
Alibaba to launch 2nd data centre in South Korea to support AI expansion. Read here.
BDx Indonesia secures 30 MVA power deal with PLN to fuel AI data centre growth. Read here.
Aslan Energy partners with JIEP to develop 40MW renewable powered data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.
North America
Cologix has started work on a $1 billion AI data center complex in the Lewis Center area, part of a larger central Ohio expansion for the Denver company. Read here.
5,000 acre plot listed for sale for data center development in the Texas Panhandle. Read here.
$14 billion proposed data center near Birmingham hits another hurdle. Read here.
APR Energy obtains approval for 800-acre natural gas powered data center in Pampa, Texas. Read here.
Chesapeake City Council rejects data center proposal. Read here.
Data center campus is planned for Great Falls. Read here.
Supervisors OK land sale for huge Beale Infrastructure data center complex near Tucson. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers buys property in Conesville Industrial Park. Read here.
Hines acquires industrial data center power facility in Silicon Valley. Read here.
Microsoft secures power supply for data center project in Malaga, Washington. Read here.
County planning officials outside Richmond vote against Tract data center park. Read here.
Advanced nuclear developer TerraPower closes $650m fundraise, with backing from Nvidia. Read here.
Fort Meade City Commission approves zoning change that could yield massive data center. Read here.
A 5,000-acre plot of land in the Texas Panhandle has been put up for sale for potential data center development. Read here.
108MW data center campus granted zoning approval outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
South America
Brazilian telco Century will invest $27m for second data center in Brazil. Read here.
Microsoft has launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country. Read here.
Tecfusions and Chilean organisation Grupo Daeza have signed a letter of intent to develop a 100MW campus in Puente Alto, Chile. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Architecture Firm Unveils ‘First Data Center Designed Entirely by AI’. Read here.
Next-gen AI chips will draw 15,000W each, redefining power, cooling, and data center design. Read here.
‘Cool data centres with treated sewage’ – water firm. Read here.
Land price, energy mix, workforce availability, IT infrastructure are the main advantages of Romania to attract investments in data centers. Read here.
Building Britain: Apprenticeships and the future of critical data infrastructure. Read here.
The True Cost of Data Centers. Read here.
How AWS is helping a Paris startup beat the superbugs. Read here.
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