Weekly Data Centre News – 24th October 2025
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Reports
Uptime Institute:Data Center Staffing and Hiring Survey. Read here.
Bain & Company: AI Data Center Forecast: From Scramble to Strategy. Read here.
Bain & Company: Solving for AI’s Data Center Construction Crunch. Read here.
Bain & Company: Can the US Energy Grid Keep Up with AI Data Centers? Read here.
AON: Securing Power: Global Strategies for Data Center Energy Resilience. Read here.
Europe
Apatura changes location of planned 300MW data center campus in Scotland. Read here.
Build of hyperscale data centre eyed at Cockenzie (Scotland). Read here.
Aker Nscale Planning Another AI Data Center in Northern Norway. Read here.
UK data centre spend to soar to £10 billion a year – Barbour ABI. Read here.
UK Government upgrading planning status of data centres, large labs and gigafactories. Read here.
Google puts plans for Finnish data centre expansion on ice. Read here.
Belgium mulls energy limits for power-hungry data centres as AI demand surges. Read here.
Mastercard announces three new data centers in France. Read here.
Vantage plots second Italian data center campus in Milan. Read here.
Conapto expands Stockholm 4 South Data Center with 8 MW extension. Read here.
Telehouse Begins £275m Build for Green London Data Centre. Read here.
Redcentric plans to sell its data center business to Stellanor. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Microsoft flags skills gaps as AI could unlock 230 million digital jobs in Africa by 2030. Read here.
Humain signs connectivity deal with Saudi’s Center3. Read here.
APAC
World’s first underwater data center fueled by wind power completed in China. Read here.
Bridge Data Centres inks water deal for its data center in Thailand. Read here.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Maharashtra, to develop data center campuses in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Pune. Read here.
Datavault and T4 expand DC operations in New Zealand. Read here.
Hong Kong Tests Developers’ Data Centre Appetites with Mega-Site Tender. Read here.
STACK Infrastructure Secures $260M Green Financing for Tokyo Data Center Expansion. Read here.
BlackRock-owned Vena Group to invest $14 billion in South Korea’s clean energy and AI projects. Read here.
3,000-acre Sarawak tech park to host AI data centers. Read here.
North America
US data center capacity leasing in Q3 exceeds entirety of 2024. Read here.
Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars. Read here.
Record $38 Billion Debt Sale Nears for Oracle-Tied Data Centers. Read here.
Pimco books $2bn gain on $27bn Meta data centre debt as AI financing boom accelerates. Read here.
OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage plan Stargate Wisconsin data center, expected to be ‘close to a gigawatt’. Read here.
Meta and Blue Owl, the private-credit firm, raised $27 billion to finance the buildout of a Louisiana data center. Read here.
Applied Digital Announces $5 Billion AI Factory Lease with U.S. Based Investment Grade Hyperscaler at Polaris Forge 2 ND Campus. Read here.
Crusoe raises $1.4bn as investors pile in to AI data centres. Read here.
Terawulf completes $3.2 billion senior secured notes offering for data center expansion. Read here.
Prologis buys 141 acres for Greater Cincinnati data center. Read here.
Peterson Co. files for 16-building data center campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Read here.
Nearly $500M data center project could be coming to Sangamon County. Read here.
Massive data center, one of the world’s largest, proposed in rural Treasure Coast. Read here.
Menlo Digital Breaks Ground on 48MW Data Center in Herndon Virginia. Read here.
$500M data center proposed in Richland. Read here.
Google behind 390-acre data center development in Morgan County, Indiana. Read here.
The Air Force wants to put private AI data centers on its bases, raising security, land-use fears. Read here.
Data center to be built at former Air Force base in Aroostook County, Maine. Read here.
482-acre data center campus planned for Pine Island, Minnesota. Read here.
Plans for a data center have been greenlit by the city council of Jarell, Texas. Read here.
Conshohocken-area residents push back against proposed data center. Read here.
Fortune 50 company gets greenlight for data center campus in Hermantown, Minnesota. Read here.
Spiritus Announces $500M Partnership to Deliver 1.5 GW of Carbon-Negative Power for Data Center Campus. Read here.
BGO raises $800m US Industrial Fund with a data center allocation. Read here.
CBRE sees strong growth, led by record Q3 leasing and data center expansion. Read here.
Digital Realty’s $1.6 billion Q3 revenue beats forecasts as core FFO reaches record level. Read here.
South America
Tecto cuts ribbon on sixth data center, announces five new sites under US$1bn capex. Read here.
Data center firm Equinix expands in Brazil, sees it as a priority market. Read here.
HIVE Digital to build 100 MW hydroelectric data center in Paraguay. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Building the future: How datacenters are innovating with sustainability in mind. Read here.
Data centers turn to old jet engines to power AI’s soaring energy demands. Read here.
Inside ‘data centre alley’ – the biggest story in economics right now. Read here.
How to set up an AI data center in 90 days. Read here.
Data Centre in a Mine Located in The Alps. What’s Next for Underground Data Centres? Read here.
Capacity Europe 2025: Europe’s data centres confront the AI era. Read here.
How Data Centers Actually Work. Read here.
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