Weekly Data Centre News – 14th November 2025
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Reports
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (UK): Delivering AI Growth Zones. Read here.
Salute: What forces are shaping the AI data centre? Read here.
CBRE: Signings for AI Data Centre Capacity in Europe More Than Treble in First Nine Months of 2025. Read here.
Meta: How Meta’s Data Centers Drive Economic Growth Across the US. Read here.
AWS: Amazon data center communities: Here’s what’s happening near data centers across the US. Read here.
NextDC: Australia’s AI Opportunity: Powering a $142 Billion Transformation . Read here.
Europe
Microsoft makes one of its largest investments in Europe at Start Campus in Portugal. Read here.
Google Announces €5.5 Billion Investment in Germany, including AI Infrastructure, through 2029. Read here.
Nebius Lands $3 Billion Meta Deal After 355% Revenue Surge. Read here.
Data center startup Fossefall launches in Norway, targets 500MW of AI capacity. Read here.
Rumble to acquire cloud firm Northern Data for $767 mln in all-stock deal. Read here.
Microsoft submits planning application for Stourton data centre (UK). Read here.
From soap to surf, former Unilever site earmarked as huge AI data centre (UK). Read here.
New data centre could be constructed in Chapelhall if North Lanarkshire Council grants planning permission. Read here.
Massive data centre plan for Ayrshire is part of £15 billion investment. Read here.
National Grid kicks off Didcot substation upgrade to connect data centres and battery storage. Read here.
Gratte Brothers opens Manchester base with data centre win. Read here.
Fawley Waterside: Plans emerge to build business park instead of homes (UK). Read here.
120MW data center campus proposed in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Read here.
Turkcell partners with Google for 1st hyperscale data center in Türkiye. Read here.
Box2bit plans data center in Calatayud, Spain. Read here.
ACS and BlackRock’s GIP set to seal €23bn data centre partnership. Read here.
Italy’s A2A lifts investment plan to $27 billion on data centre demand. Read here.
RWE’s nine-month profit beats expectation on data centre project sale in Britain. Read here.
Enel ups guidance on 2025 net income, plans data centres. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
NTT Data Eyes Saudi Data Center Buildout to Capture AI Momentum. Read here.
The Cavaleros Group Announces Major Data Centre Campus Developments in Partnership with Knight Frank and Future-Tech. Read here.
APAC
AI data centre startup Firmus valuation trebles to $6 billion in just 8 weeks after raising another $500 million. Read here.
Starwood, Doma, and Telstra plan 62MW data center in Sydney. Read here.
AirTrunk set to buy planned 1GW data center site in Western Sydney, Australia. Read here.
India’s Techno Digital plans to invest $1bn for data center capacity. Read here.
RIL to build 1 GW AI data centre in Andhra, deepen investment footprint. Read here.
India’s data centre boom confronts a looming water challenge. Read here.
Boom in Thailand’s data center sector thanks to BOI: Experts. Read here.
DayOne Data Centers, Amata Corp ink deal to expand campus; create 1GW power platform in Thailand. Read here.
200MW data center campus proposed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Read here.
North America
Anthropic commits $50 billion to U.S. data centers with Fluidstack. Read here.
CoreWeave’s earnings report highlights $56 billion in contracted revenue, but its guidance and share price tick down amid AI infrastructure bubble fears. Read here.
Applied Digital, Cipher Mining, CleanSpark look to raise billions of dollars in senior notes for AI data center build-outs. Read here.
Google details plans for Project Peanut data center development outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.
Meta to spend $600bn on US data centers by 2028. Read here.
Microsoft launched Fairwater Data Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Estate joins US data center race with $15bn build-up. Read here.
AI data centres proposed for Paducah. Read here.
DartPoints announces 10MW data center expansion in South Carolina. Read here.
Microsoft buys 135 acres of land in Mount Pleasant for data center development. Read here.
Meta to invest more than $1B on Beaver Dam data center campus. Read here.
VEIR Successfully Demonstrates 3-Megawatt Superconducting Power Delivery for AI Data Centers, Eliminating Critical Growth Bottleneck. Read here.
New Era plans 7GW AI data center in Lea County, New Mexico, powered by gas and nuclear. Read here.
Janesville moves forward with data center plans for abandoned GM site. Read here.
AI, other data centers are coming to Michigan — and they need a lot of energy and water. Read here.
Lawsuit delays $12B data center in Kansas City as community, environmental group voice concerns. Read here.
Mortenson temporarily pulls plans for Hermantown data center, after lawsuit and local opposition. Read here.
South America
Nvidia denies $1 billion investment in northern Mexico. Read here.
Guyana, Cerebras sign deal for 100MW AI, gas-powered data center. Read here.
AFD and IDB launch $324m subsea fibre and data centre project in Brazil’s Amazon. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Meta’s 30th Data Center: Delivering AI, Creating Community Benefits, and Supporting Wetlands Restoration. Read here.
Beyond the Bubble: Why We Think AI Infrastructure Will Compound Long after the Hype. Read here.
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go. Read here.
Data Center Boom Heads for Silicon Valley’s Backyard. Read here.
AI and cloud boom sparks $7tn global data centre buildout. Read here.
Private Jets, Huge Raises And ‘Man Camps’: How Data Center Builders Are Luring Workers In Short Supply. Read here.
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