Weekly Data Centre News – 31st July 2026
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Reports
DC Byte: 2026 Global Data Centre Index Report. Read here.
London’s Data Centre Future Growth Forecasts and Strategic Insights. Read here.
Earnings reports
Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results. Read here.
Microsoft Cloud and AI strength fuels fourth quarter results. Read here.
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results. Read here.
Equinix Reports Second-Quarter Results, Raises 2026 Guidance and Long-Term Outlook. Read here.
Europe
EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe’s computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment. Read here.
Orange and Morrison announce plans to create a data centre joint venture to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty. Read here.
Nscale Acquires Anyscale, Enhancing its Full Stack AI Cloud Platform. Read here.
Yondr sells majority stake in UK data centre campus to GLIL. Read here.
Tritax Big Box gains planning consent for Slough data centre. Read here.
Controversial plans to build offices, homes and a data centre near Brick Lane in east London have been approved by the government. Read here.
Peaceful protests planned as company behind massive Fife AI data centre comes to town. Read here.
Microsoft buys North Holland land, applies for data center power. Read here.
UK’s Ofgem proposes grid-connection fee to deter speculative data centre projects. Read here.
A States of Guernsey committee is planning to create a data centre strategy for the island. Read here.
APAC
AirTrunk secures US$2.325b green financing to support sustainable digital infrastructure growth in Malaysia. Read here.
Vantage is said to mull $2 billion data center sale in Malaysia. Read here.
GIC, La Caisse join race for Bridge Data Centres stake – report. Read here.
Malaysia’s Sime Darby Property launches $636 million green sukuk for data centres. Read here.
Thailand’s True IDC seeks US$ 2 billion loan to build new data center. Read here.
NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA expand South Korea AI infrastructure project to 200 MW. Read here.
LG says it will invest additional $910m in 200MW data center near Seoul. Read here.
North America
Nvidia in Talks With OpenAI to Guarantee $250 Billion Financing for Data Center. Read here.
Meta Announces New Strategic Venture with BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso. Read here.
BlackRock Will Own 80% Of Meta’s Massive New AI Data Center In El Paso. Read here.
Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by Google. Read here.
Koch Said to Mull $15 Billion Sale of Data-Center Firm Edged. Read here.
TPG Is Said in Talks to Buy Netrality for Up to $3 Billion. Read here.
Cloud Capital closes US$ 520 million ABS financing deal for data center. Read here.
AMD has signed an agreement with Core Scientific for access to more than 500 megawatts of AI-ready data centre capacity in the US beginning in 2027. Read here.
Brookfield Asset Management and NextEra Energy are developing a $100 billion data center campus in Paducah, Kentucky. Read here.
Nebius is bringing a world-class AI factory campus to Butler Township, Pennsylvania in Schuylkill County’s Highridge Business Park. Read here.
Nexus Data Centers in advanced talks to secure $15B for Google-backed Anthropic data center. Read here.
Galaxy Digital plans 74 MW McGregor data center. Read here.
Residents Concerned over $9bn Project Peanut, Loch, and Skye Data Centers by Google in Chesterfield. Read here.
PowerHouse and Poe target another 550-acre data center campus outside Louisville, Kentucky. Read here.
AI cloud company CoreWeave to fill $440M Cedar Creek data center. Read here.
Gigawatt-scale data center campus planned outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Google files to expand data center campus in LaGrange, Georgia. Read here.
900-acre data center project proposed outside Lexington, Kentucky. Read here.
Flexential acquires 110 acres outside Dallas, Texas, for 108MW data center campus. Read here.
South America
Brazil has a 26GW data centre pipeline. How much of it will actually get built? Read here.
Other interesting articles
Britain is struggling to build data centres. Read here.
Nuclear Momentum Meets the Megawatt Test. Read here.
Data center boom to make Portugal one of Europe’s fastest-growing power markets, EDP says. Read here.
Why energy is now the deciding factor for data centre development in Australia. Read here.
The $1tn AI build-out: Power, capital and contractors under pressure. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
The Data Centre Industry’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Innovation | Tom Babington, Adaptive MDC. Listen here.
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