Weekly Data Centre News – 19th September 2025
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Europe
Google Opens Waltham Cross Data Centre as Part of Two-year £5 Billion Investment in the UK to Help Power its AI Economy. Read here.
Microsoft invests $30 billion in UK to power AI future. Read here.
Introducing Stargate UK. Read here.
Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI. Read here.
North East England set for billions in investment and thousands of jobs as UK and US ink tech partnership. Read here.
Two sites in North East become ‘AI growth zone’. Read here.
AI industrial park in Irvine ‘could bring £15bn investment’. Read here.
New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss. Read here.
CoreWeave ups UK AI data centre investment to £2.5bn. Read here.
DataVita and CoreWeave to launch AI infrastructure in Scotland, powered by renewable energy, as part of £1.5bn investment. Read here.
US AI firm makes £1.5 billion investment in Scottish data centre. Read here.
Plans for £1bn data centre recommended for approval. Read here.
Google rumours swirl Teesworks (UK). Read here.
AI Pathfinder, a UK-based company, has announced its ‘mission’ to deliver up to 2GW of sovereign AI supercomputing capacity at its AI Factories in the UK starting in Northants. Read here.
Lords call for government to produce national (UK) AI energy efficiency strategy in next 18 months. Read here.
Microsoft to build data center in Elsdorf, Germany. Read here.
EdgeMode to Acquire Spanish Data Center Portfolio, Targeting 1.5 GW of Sustainable AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers Announces Opening of Second London Campus with Landmark Public Art Installation. Read here.
Vantage enters Spain, to invest €3.2 billion in Zaragoza data center campus. Read here.
Spain’s Templus to expand Madrid data center to 20MW. Read here.
Digital Realty completes buildout of data center campus in northern Paris. Read here.
Data4 breaks ground on data center project in Hanau, Germany. Read here.
First YEXIO Data Centre in Heiligenhaus enters Operation. Read here.
Galaxy Data Centers and Zendo Partner to Deliver Traceable Clean Energy to London Data Centre. Read here.
DWS embarks on $2 billion sale of data centre business. Read here.
EQT puts GlobalConnect up for sale with €8bn price tag – report. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
MTN Group is in advanced talks with American and European technology firms over plans to roll out a new generation of data centres across Africa.. Read here.
Saudi Arabia eyes private equity capital for data center buildouts. Read here.
Iraq partners with Nokia to build first state-owned data centers in Baghdad. Read here.
$1trn Adia fund shifts to more data-driven strategy. Read here.
G42 signs 200MW Stargate data centre construction deal. Read here.
APAC
Indonesia sovereign wealth fund INA targets data centres, AI in healthcare, renewables. Read here.
Gorilla Technology and Singaporean Freyr sign $1.4bn AI data centre deal. Read here.
Keppel inks deal with Dell to develop data centers, AI platforms in Asia. Read here.
Malaysia signs MoUs in journey towards AI nation status. Read here.
Equinix Opens First AI-Ready Data Center in Chennai. Read here.
North America
Made in Wisconsin: The world’s most powerful AI datacenter. Read here.
Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter. Read here.
Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners are set to approve a $165 billion incentive project for a data center to be built in Santa Teresa. Read here.
CleanArc gets green light for 600MW data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.
Avaio Digital Partners breaks ground on $6bn data center in Mississippi. Read here.
OQC and Digital Realty Launch New York’s First Quantum‑AI Data Centre. Read here.
CyrusOne breaks ground on New Albany, Ohio data center. Read here.
AWS seeks permit for another data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia. Read here.
Meta emptied five live data centers to make one large AI cluster. Read here.
Prince William County votes against Stack Infrastructure’s campus expansion. Read here.
Tract acquires 1,000 acres in Nevada for 1.6GW data center park. Read here.
Statesville City Council approved a rezoning request to allow construction of a data center on farmland. Read here.
Prince George’s County moves to put data center development on pause. Read here.
Kalkaska considers Data Centre development. Read here.
Generate Capital extends $100 million line of credit to Soluna to develop green data centers. Read here.
South America
Roblox data center in Brazil goes live ahead of schedule. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Datacloud USA keynote – Quantum is coming: Why data centres can’t afford to ignore it. Read here.
When Data centers trigger billion-dollar utility projects that push higher bills onto the public. Read here.
xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World. Read here.
Can small nuclear reactors create real impact for the data centre industry? Read here.
Bridging the Skills Gap in Data Centre Teams: Training, Retention, and Change. Read here.
OpenAI and Oracle’s $300B Stargate Deal: Building AI’s National-Scale Infrastructure. Read here.
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