Weekly Data Centre News – 29th August 2025
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Europe
Green light for QTS Data Centers £10bn data centre prep works in Northumberland. Read here.
Blackstone plans $5 bln expansion of Spanish data centre project. Read here.
Two solar parks and data center to be built near Oulu, Finland. Read here.
Crusoe expands partnership with atNorth. Read here.
Digital Realty Breaks Ground in Rome, Expanding Mediterranean Connectivity. Read here.
City of Hanau, Germany, secures financing for data center. Read here.
Redcentric confirms discussions over sale of data centre business. Read here.
U.K. Data Center Developers Eye National Gas Pipelines to Power Projects Amid Grid Delays. Read here.
Waning demand sees Edinburgh Park swap offices for a data centre. Read here.
Outline planning approved for new data centre in Hemel Hempstead (UK). Read here.
Middle East & Africa
MEEZA Secures QAR 800 Million Dukhan Bank Facility to Expand Qatar’s Data Centre and AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Humain breaks ground two data centers, with first facilities expected to go live in Q2 2026. Read here.
Saudi Arabia Plans Early 2026 Launch For AI Data Centres With US Chips. Read here.
Why Visa plans to open its first African data centre. Read here.
APAC
AirTrunk closes A$16 billion (ex Japan) sustainable financing to accelerate APJ growth and impact. Read here.
EdgeConneX acquires second data centre in Japan. Read here.
GLP secures 2.5 billion yuan for China data centre business. Read here.
Singapore’s GIC sizes up $69b Goodman Group’s data centre dreams. Read here.
Techno Digital to invest $1 bn in hyperscale, edge data centres nationwide (India). Read here.
Viettel invests US$1 billion in data center, R&D center. Read here.
Chindata to build 1.2GW cluster in Ningxia, north-central China. Read here.
Bain Capital weighs $4.2bn bids for Chindata data centres in China. Read here.
SK AI Data Center Ulsan held a ground breaking ceremony. Read here.
North America
BorderPlex Digital Assets says it plans to spend $165 billion on New Mexico data center campus near El Paso. Read here.
Meta’s planned Louisiana AI data center to cost $50 billion, Trump says. Read here.
Google planning Chesterfield data center as part of $9B expansion in Virginia. Read here.
Kansas City’s largest data center project gets $100B green light. Read here.
Soluna to develop two new data centers in Texas with a combined capacity of 350MW. Read here.
Zenith Volts gets nod for gigawatt-scale data centre in New Mexico. Read here.
Blue Owl to fund build-out of Pennsylvania data center campus set to host CoreWeave. Read here.
The city council of De Soto, Kansas. has approved a $700 million data center. Read here.
Oasis Digital Properties gets greenlight for 1.2GW data center in King George County, Virginia. Read here.
Could the Indianapolis City-County Council vote to stop Google’s $1 billion data center? Read here.
AI data center company holds heated meeting in small-town Harwood. Read here.
Dauphin County golf course will turn into data center after $45.6M sale. Read here.
Data center park developer Diode Ventures has dropped plans to develop a campus outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.
DartPoints Puts New Capital to Work: Launches Multi-Market Expansion to Power HPC, AI and Large Enterprise Growth. Read here.
Alberta introduces levy framework for large-scale AI data centres. Read here.
Fermi, Westinghouse to finalize licensing application for nuclear reactors at 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Dataspots secures grid approval for US$2.8bn trio of data center projects. Read here.
ARSAT plans multi-million-dollar expansion of Buenos Aires data center. Read here.
Thirsty data centres boom in drought-hit Mexico. Read here.
Mexico’s Querétaro State Becomes Data Centre Hub Amid US Power Grid Constraints. Read here.
Other interesting articles
A plea from a data centre owner: Stop vilifying us! Read here.
Water scarcity set to be a growing challenge for European data centres. Read here.
From Cloud to Concrete: How Explosive Data Center Demand is Redefining Commercial Real Estate. Read here.
Microsoft plan to turn wind farms into mini AI data centres: ‘massive power opportunity’. Read here.
Modelling suggests waste heat from AI data centres could power carbon capture and water purification. Read here.
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