Weekly Data Centre News – 17th October 2025
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Reports
Knight Frank: Data Centres: The EMEA Report – 2025. Read here.
Synergy Research Group: Neoclouds Currently Growing by Over 200% per Year; Will Reach $180 Billion in Revenues by 2030. Read here.
World Economic Forum: The $3.3 trillion climate question: Can data centres take the heat? Read here.
S&P Global: Data center grid-power demand to rise 22% in 2025, nearly triple by 2030. Read here.
Europe
Start Campus Hosts the EU’s First NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for Microsoft with Nscale. Read here.
Nscale Contracts Approximately 200,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with Microsoft to Deliver NVIDIA AI Infrastructure Across Europe and the U.S. Read here.
UK data centre start-up Nscale strikes $14bn Microsoft deal in push for IPO. Read here.
Major data centre public inquiry starts (Slough, UK). Read here.
Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns (Ireland). Read here.
Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. Read here.
New wave of UK data centres to run on gas engine and CCS microgrid. Read here.
Glesys to acquire Verne’s managed private cloud operations and two data centers in Finland. Read here.
Cellnex to sell French data centre business to Vauban for €391m. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Alibaba’s cloud business launches second data centre in Dubai. Read here.
Khazna announces 1GW data center expansion plans. Read here.
AI Boom Sparks Billion-Dollar Data Center Race in Nigeria. Read here.
Congo pitches world’s largest hydro site as power source for AI data centres. Read here.
Morocco plants flag on AI development with $60m data centre plan. Read here.
APAC
Firmus Technologies is heading to mainland Australia with a $73.3 billion plan in partnership with CDC Data Centres and Nvidia to build four more AI data centres in capital cities. Read here.
Google to invest $15bn to build AI data hub in India. Read here.
Data centre operator DayOne aims to raise over $1 billion, sources say. Read here.
OpenAI courts Australia in its $771b global infrastructure push. Read here.
ESR and Colt DCS Partner on Sustainable Data Centre in Japan. Read here.
Tata plans 1GW data center build-out in India. Read here.
Blackstone mulls selling AirTrunk’s Johor data center. Read here.
North America
AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to Acquire All Equity in Aligned Data Centers. Read here.
Macquarie confident in AI, data centre future after $40 billion Aligned sale. Read here.
Meta, Blue Owl Seal $30 Billion Private Capital Deal for AI. Read here.
Breaking Ground on Our (Meta) New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso. Read here.
How Google is investing in South Carolina to expand AI infrastructure and support local workforce programs. Read here.
AI startup Poolside teams up with CoreWeave on 2GW data center in Texas. Read here.
OpenAI and Oracle to deploy 450,000 GB200 GPUs at Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas. Read here.
Fermi secures natural gas pipeline connection for up to 11GW data center project in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.
Brookfield and Bloom Energy Announce $5 Billion Strategic AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.
QumulusAI Secures $500M Blockchain-Backed Facility to Scale AI Compute Infrastructure. Read here.
Sabey Data Centers Expands Power Availability Across Key Campuses. Read here.
Google purchases 950 acres for potential data center in Monroe County, Georgia. Read here.
Vantage files to build another data center in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.
ABB to develop next-generation AI data centers with NVIDIA. Read here.
Former cannabis farm in Saskatoon, Canada, could be turned into data center. Read here.
Mixed-use 284-acre development in Georgia to include data center. Read here.
Real estate firm Penzance has broken ground on a data center in Chantilly, Virginia. Read here.
A plan to convert a former psychiatric hospital near Philadelphia into a data center could be held up by new regulations. Read here.
DC BLOX will add capacity for five new subsea cables at its Myrtle Beach data centre campus, boosting international connectivity across the US Southeast. Read here.
South America
Brazil to begin construction on TikTok data center in six months, minister says. Read here.
OpenAI plans 500MW data center in Argentina. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Measuring risk in the AI financing boom. Read here.
What the datacenter boom means for America’s environment – and electricity bills. Read here.
Business Insights | The Impact of AI on Europe’s Data Centre Market. Read here.
Why women are leading the next chapter of data centers. Read here.
‘Overlooked’ Fibre Planning Stalls 82% of Data Centre Builds. Read here.
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