Weekly Data Centre News – 4th September 2026
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Reports
PWC: Global investment in AI infrastructure to hit US$31.6 trillion through 2050. Read here.
PWC: Where $31.6 trillion of capex flows in the era-defining AI build-out. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: Data Center Development Cost Guide. Read here.
DC Byte: LATAM Data Center Market Spotlight. Read here.
Data Center Hawk: 2Q 2026 Global Data Center Market Report. Read here.
Europe
Nscale and Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI. Read here.
CPP Investments and Equinix complete atNorth acquisition. Read here.
Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland Announce New 165 MW AI Data Centre in Mikkeli, Finland. Read here.
Green Mountain Global Signs Contract with Major Neocloud Operator at LON-East Campus. Read here.
atNorth signs contract with YIT for additional data center building at campus in Finland. Read here.
DataVita submits plans for DV4, its third data centre at Chapelhall. Read here.
Scottish council issues statement on £2 billion AI data centre. Read here.
Plans have been submitted to transform part of Greenock’s former IBM site into a major data centre development. Read here.
John Swinney declines opportunity to commit to AI data centre pause (Scotland). Read here.
Controversial Avonmouth AI data centre would have ‘minimal water needs’. Read here.
Data center proposal approved by local council in suburb of Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.
Could Shetland host a data centre in the future? Read here.
Thousands sign petition against proposed data centre near Reading. Read here.
Welsh ministers urged to take over decision on controversial data centre plans. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Microsoft Announces That Saudi Arabia East Datacenter Region Will Be Available in November 2026. Read here.
AWS and Humain commit to bringing 50MW online at Saudi AI Zone by 2028. Read here.
Saudi AI firms Humain, DataVolt partner for data center on kingdom’s Red Sea coast. Read here.
Leap’s first two days bring in a string of data center agreements. Read here.
PIF-Backed Humain Eyes $2.5 Billion For Saudi Data Centers. Read here.
World’s largest oilfield-services company with 100 African locations spends $4.1 billion to chase AI data-centre boom. Read here.
Saudi company launches fund to build two data centres. Read here.
APAC
Firmus and SUBCO announce major Trans-Pacific AI connectivity agreement. Read here.
Bitdeer AI Announces Sell-out of its 9.5MW A102 Malaysia Data Center with Total Expected AI Cloud Revenue of Over $800 million. Read here.
Goodman wins approval for 135MW Macquarie Park data centre. Read here.
IFC approves US$ 170 million financing to Philippines data center firm YCO Cloud. Read here.
ByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia, source says. Read here.
Firmus proposes third data center project in Tasmania. Read here.
DayOne, TNB to explore onsite power up to 1.5GW for Greater Kuala Lumpur data center. Read here.
Keppel DC REIT to acquire stakes in two Tokyo data centers for US$ 1.05 billion. Read here.
North America
Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal Backed by Nvidia. Read here.
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation. Read here.
SB Energy Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering. Read here.
Vertiv announces agreement to acquire UtilityInnovation Group to accelerate time to power for AI data centers. Read here.
ChronoScale and Microsoft partner on 50MW deployment in North America. Read here.
Trump says data centre critics ‘want to end up backwards and poor’. Read here.
New 400MW AI data center planned for Algoma in Ontario, Canada. Read here.
Northampton Capital Partners Forms Joint Venture with Provident Data Centers, Announces Initial Data Center Development in the Dallas Metropolitan Market. Read here.
Site of proposed Wonder Valley data centre in northern Alberta gets special industrial zone designation. Read here.
Hyperscale Data ends cryptomining operations at Michigan data center. Read here.
Salute announces agreement to acquire T5 Operations. Read here.
South America
Cuasar Capital, part of the Spanish group EOSOL, and KA URBE IT have formed a partnership to jointly market the Cuasar Data Center campus in Durango. Read here.
Brazil’s special data center regime approved: what’s next. Read here.
With own and two third-party data centers, AWS nears Chile cloud region launch. Read here.
Yamna secures Porto do Açu land for 250MW AI data center campus. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Power-hungry data centers are expanding in Europe. So is the resistance. Read here.
The country music stars taking on data centres. Read here.
The moral panic over data centres is foolish. Read here.
The Data-Center Dividend for Workers. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
Datacloud Global Congress 2026: Growth, Deals and the Future of the Industry | Live in Cannes. Listen here.
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