Weekly Data Centre News – 28th November 2025
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Reports
Boston Consulting Group: AI Data Centers: An Opportunity in the Middle East. Read here.
AKERLOF: Consumption to contribution The role of data centres in creating sustainable value. Read here.
M3 Property: Data Centre growth in Australia. Read here.
Uptime Institute: Cost Comparisons: Enterprise Data Centers vs Colocation vs Cloud. Read here.
Europe
Digital Realty, Equinix Said to Vie for Nordic Data Center Firm. Read here.
Echelon Iberdrola Digital Infra is created to invest more than 2 billion euros in data centres in Spain. Read here.
Pure Data Centres Secures Approval for €400m Madrid Campus. Read here.
Nscale and Aker buy land in Fauske, Norway, for data center. Read here.
Major Equinix data centre (Slough) plan approved by councillors. Read here.
The edge of the visible: Cambois data centre. Read here.
UK data centres approved by parliament as ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’. Read here.
UK’s Blackpool Council looking for provider to develop £300m data center after granting planning permission for project. Read here.
Microsoft facing ‘painful’ delays over Leeds data centre plans. Read here.
BGO plans €2bn European value-add fund. Read here.
GTR begins construction of first Swiss data center. Read here.
Thésée Datacenter launches €500M data center campus in Aubergenville. Read here.
Digita Group Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by GI Partners. Read here.
atNorth to supply waste heat from DEN01 data center to district heating network in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Qatar poised as regional powerhouse for AI and quantum computing. Read here.
UAE to invest $1bn in AI infrastructure across Africa. Read here.
Oracle deploys the Middle East’s first AI supercluster to power sovereign AI in Abu Dhabi. Read here.
APAC
Vantage Data Centers Completes $1.6B Investment in APAC Platform from GIC and ADIA; Closes Acquisition of Yondr’s 300MW+ Hyperscale Campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.
Core AI Holdings claims $5bn AI data center plan for Malaysia and Uzbekistan. Read here.
Macquarie Technology explores JV, capital recycling for $3bn data centre. Read here.
Go-ahead for giant $3.1b data centre in Sydney suburb. Read here.
NEXTDC helps launch Data Centres Australia: Marking a new era for the nation’s digital infrastructure. Read here.
‘Ruthless’ Allen govt chases data centre boom (Australia). Read here.
AIMS Data Centre triples capacity as Malaysia’s digital infrastructure demand surges. Read here.
Digital Connexion to Invest $11 Billion in 1GW AI-Ready Data Centre Campus in Andhra Pradesh. Read here.
Reliance Industries & US-Based Digital Realty Co-Steer Joint Venture To Invest ₹98,000 Crore To Build 1 Gigawatt Data Centres In Andhra Pradesh. Read here.
Tillman Global Holdings to develop a 300 MW hyperscale DC campus in Visakhapatnam. Read here.
DigitalBridge, KT team up for gigawatt scale AI data centres in Korea. Read here.
Overwatch Capital and Japan’s Idemitsu to develop 1GW data centers in the US. Read here.
North America
CME trading halt due to fault at Data Center disrupts global markets. Read here.
Hyperscaler borrowing closes in on $100 billion to fund AI infrastructure build out. Read here.
Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees. Read here.
Amazon to invest $15 billion in Indiana to boost data center infrastructure. Read here.
$21B data center proposal aims to become one of Georgia’s largest. Read here.
Serverfarm targets 135-acre data center campus in Arkansas. Read here.
OpenAI must find $207bn to meet AI data center spending commitments – HSBC. Read here.
OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions. Read here.
Banks in talks to lend $38 billion to fund sites for OpenAI, FT reports. Read here.
AWS Commits US$50bn to New Federal AI Data Centres in the US. Read here.
Amazon Data Services gains approval for data center on 56 acres in Gilroy, California. Read here.
In Minnesota farm country, a plan for a $4 billion data center takes root with vast wind, solar and battery projects. Read here.
CleanArc Data Centers Breaks Ground on 900MW Flagship Hyperscale Campus in Virginia. Read here.
Serverfarm seeks ABS funding to the tune of $589m. Read here.
Data center proposed for 500-acre site in Page, Arizona. Read here.
Equinix plans $835 million data center in west Dallas. Read here.
Turner Construction doubles data center revenue in 2025 with major AI-infrastructure projects. Read here.
South America
Brazilian company plans solar-powered data centre in Paraguay. Read here.
BNDES approves 200mn reais for Scala to acquire machinery and equipment for data centers. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Top 10: Data Centre LinkedIn Voices. Read here.
Lease Structure Key To Liquidity As Investors Maintain Data Centre Appetite. Read here.
Is the race to build data centres in space a planet-saver or pie in the sky? Read here.
The hyperscalers’ building programmes: How enterprises are affected. Read here.
New industrial era or early signs of an AI bubble – what does the UAE data centre industry think? Read here.
Autumn Budget 2025: How the UK plans to scale AI data centres. Read here.
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