Weekly Data Centre News – 17th April 2026
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Reports
Switch Data Centers sustainability report 2025. Read here.
Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? Read here.
IEA: Data centre electricity use surged in 2025, even with tightening bottlenecks driving a scramble for solutions. Read here.
Synergy Research Group: U.S. Hyperscale Investment Shifts Decisively Inland. Read here.
Savills: Are data centres a competitor or catalyst for industrial and logistics space? Read here.
Europe
Nscale announces expanded deal with Microsoft in Norway. Read here.
Microsoft Takes Over Stargate Norway Data Center From OpenAI. Read here.
OpenAI pauses UK data centre deal over energy costs and regulation. Read here.
Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK – report. Read here.
‘Energy efficient’ data centre planned for former steel site. Read here.
Volt announces ‘AI Gigafactory’ of up to 800MW in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Read here.
Google presses ahead with plans for first data center in France. Read here.
Portugal Approves National Data Center Plan. Read here.
Pure DC buys land in Seinäjoki, Finland, for data center campus. Read here.
Plans announced for 260MW data center in Konin, Poland. Read here.
Construction begins on Virtus Data Centers 204MW data center campus outside Berlin, Germany. Read here.
AtlasEdge boosts German footprint with new Leverkusen data centre build. Read here.
SANY Group to build giant hybrid power complex in Romania with data center. Read here.
Construction completed on underground data center in the Dolomites, Italy. Read here.
20MW data center proposed at former Eon office site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Read here.
A decision on whether to grant planning permission for an eight-building data center campus in Oxfordshire, UK, has been delayed. Read here.
Delska Launches One of the Baltics’ Most Advanced and Sustainable Data Centers in Riga. Read here.
APAC
Amazon Australia signs nine new renewable energy deals taking Australian capacity to nearly 1GW. Read here.
Amazon Data Services India is seeking environmental clearance for a planned data centre project near Taloja, in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. Read here.
Singtel’s Nxera tops out Johor data centre project. Read here.
Why Singapore is building data centers on Jurong Island. Read here.
Pi Data Centers launches new DC in Mumbai, plans 23 MW expansion across India. Read here.
Malaysia’s Privasia to develop 10MW data center in Perak. Read here.
Iron Mountain tops out Chennai data center, India. Read here.
North America
Microsoft announces intent to expand datacenter operations in Cheyenne, accelerating innovation and economic growth. Read here.
Metrobloks and Lincoln Property Company Announce Joint Venture to Develop AI-Ready Data Centers, Launching in Kansas City Metro. Read here.
Jane Street Signs $6 Billion AI Cloud Agreement with CoreWeave. Read here.
CoreWeave Announces Multi-Year Agreement With Anthropic. Read here.
Blackstone Files for IPO of Data Center Acquisition Firm. Read here.
AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report. Read here.
Switch Raises $768 Million in Latest Data Center ABS Issuance. Read here.
Bloom Energy and Oracle Expand Strategic Partnership to Deploy up to 2.8 GW to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Build-Out. Read here.
AWS launches “Project Houdini” to speed up data center construction – report. Read here.
NiSource signs long-term power deal with Alphabet, expands Amazon agreement. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers Breaks Ground on “Project Caprock,” a Sustainable 540 MW Next-Generation Data Center Campus in Northwest Texas. Read here.
Maine Legislature passes first in the nation ban on data centers. Read here.
EdgeConneX affiliate proposes 430MW natural gas plant to power data center campus in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.
Flexential Adding Fifth Atlanta-Area Data Center as Demand Accelerates Across the Southeast. Read here.
US Air Force eyes Alaska bases for AI data centres. Read here.
2GW data center could come to Socorro, New Mexico. Read here.
Former coke plant near Buffalo eyed for 300MW data center. Read here.
Developers looking to expand site of proposed data center in Chester Co. Read here.
Two-building data center campus proposed in northeast Pennsylvania. Read here.
Two data center buildings proposed on 87-acre site in Loudoun County. Read here.
160-acre Project Baccara is recommended for approval in Maricopa County, Arizona. Read here.
1.2GW data center campus proposed in Irwin County, Georgia. Read here.
Canadian telco Bell has started work on a new data center in Kamloops, British Columbia. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data Centre Cooling Trade-offs: Water, Energy and Trust. Read here.
The grey belt was made for big techBut Labour can’t explain why. Read here.
US contractors ‘unphased’ by price rises as data centre boom continues. Read here.
Data Center Protests Are Growing. How Should the Industry Respond? Read here.
Most new data centers in the U.S. are coming to rural areas. Read here.
AI, Climate and the Data Centre Dilemma. Read here.
AI Rejected: Tracking The Great Data Center Revolt. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
Data Centre News & GPU’s – Episode 4. Listen here.
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