Weekly Data Centre News – 26th September 2025
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Europe
Nscale raises the largest Series B in European history, at $1.1 billion. Read here.
SAP and OpenAI partner to launch sovereign ‘OpenAI for Germany’. Read here.
Latos announces £100m AI data centre in Stockton-on-Tees. Read here.
AI Pathfinder plans to spend £18.4bn on two UK data centers. Read here.
Firm hails ‘AI powerhouse’ potential as £1bn Basildon data centre edges closer. Read here.
New data centre, AI virtual studio and robotics lab for MediaCity. Read here.
Nearly £12bn in US investment to help develop data centre in Newport. Read here.
Plans for €3bn data centre in Co Kildare are stalled after joint appeal. Read here.
Digital Realty earmarks more than €500m for data centers in Madrid and Barcelona. Read here.
Data center campus planned for Villena, Spain. Read here.
NorthC to build data center in Basel, Switzerland. Read here.
Bahnhof winds down Elementica data centre in Stockholm as work starts on Gothenburg Bunker. Read here.
EcoDataCenter breaks ground on Borlänge, Sweden data center. Read here.
Portus breaks ground on second Munich data center in Germany. Read here.
European data center firm Penta Infra has launched a new facility in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.
Firm moves proposed AI data centre campus plans from Plean to Larbert (Scotland). Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Qatar Investment Authority and Blue Owl Capital Enter Agreement to Establish Digital Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.
APAC
ISPT site to host 1GW data centre in Western Sydney. Read here.
Alibaba Cloud to launch data centers in eight locations in coming year. Read here.
Singapore’s Keppel DC REIT to buy Tokyo data centre for $555 million with parent Keppel. Read here.
Equinix Opens $69M First Phase of Chennai Data Centre as India Network Grows. Read here.
Land, infra ready for proposed G42-led hyperscale data center in Vietnam: Reports. Read here.
Warburg Pincus, DC Connects, and Wide Creek AMC acquire land for 80MW Hyperscale DC in South Korea. Read here.
Blackstone-backed Lumina CloudInfra acquires land for hyperscale DC in Mumbai. Read here.
North America
OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems. Read here.
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites. Read here.
Oracle takes on $18bn in debt ahead of AI data center build-out. Read here.
CoreWeave Expands Agreement with OpenAI by up to $6.5B. Read here.
Cipher Mining Signs 168 MW, 10-Year AI Hosting Agreement with Fluidstack. Read here.
IREN Doubles AI Cloud to 23k GPUs, Raises AI Cloud ARR Target to >$500m. Read here.
Ares Aims to Raise $8 Billion to Back AI-Fueled Data Center Boom. Read here.
Rick Perry’s data center REIT Fermi targets $13 billion valuation in US IPO. Read here.
Fermi America™ and Siemens Energy Execute Letter of Intent for an Additional 1.1 GW. Read here.
Microsoft behind Project Nova data center campus in Caledonia, Wisconsin. Read here.
Rowan Digital Infrastructure secures $1.2bn financing to fund data center build-out. Read here.
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf to raise $3B for Google-backed data center: Report. Read here.
Tech supergiant to invest $1.5B into expanded Alabama data center site. Read here.
Sequitor Edge to build data center on 16-acre land parcel in Kearney, Nebraska. Read here.
Data center operator Edged has launched a data center outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.
Stream files to build 48MW data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.
One of several planned AI data centers that was coming to Wisconsin will no longer be headed to the Badger State, at least, for now. Read here.
Denver company planning $277M data center on San Antonio’s far West Side. Read here.
EdgeCore tops out first phase of Ashburn, Virginia, data center campus. Read here.
Digital Realty signs 500GWh hydropower deal with Current Hydro to power Virginia data centers. Read here.
South America
CloudHQ announces US $4.8B plan to build six data centers in Querétaro. Read here.
Chile AI data centers: Clean power on tap but grid link seen vital. Read here.
Brazil slashes tech taxes to attract billions in data centre investments. Read here.
TikTok pitches $10bn data centre investment to Brazil’s Lula. Read here.
RT-One to Build Latin America’s Largest AI Data Centre. Read here.
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The data centre boom needs a resilient workforce – here’s how to build one. Read here.
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