Weekly Data Centre News – 11th September 2026
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Reports
Bitcoin Policy Institute: Data Center Dividends. Read here.
JLL: Australian data centre growth and the impacts on the industrial sector. Read here.
Verdant: The Jobs Mirage of Data Centres: Minimal employment, maximal resource demand. Read here.
Europe
Google Deepens Commitment to Finland with Two-Year €13 Billion investment in AI Infrastructure. Read here.
HSCALE Secures Landmark Strategic Deal With Major US Cloud Provider for Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Spain. Read here.
UAE announces $46.6bn investment in Germany across AI, energy and industry. Read here.
TikTok to expand data center capacity in Finland amid boom in AI infrastructure deals. Read here.
Nscale seeks about $3.5 billion pre-IPO funding, source says. Read here.
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier. Read here.
UK’s Andy Burnham rejects call for data centre moratorium. Read here.
Plea for data centre moratorium sends ‘wrong message’ to investors, MSPs told. Read here.
Apatura CEO: ‘Larbert data centre would bring real, lasting jobs’. Read here.
High Wycombe data centre plans backed despite water concerns. Read here.
Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure to invest €360m in Milan data center. Read here.
Renewable energy firm Friesen Elektra explores data center project in Lower Saxony, Germany. Read here.
S+B Gruppe to build data center in Bucharest, Romania. Read here.
Nostrum’s data center in Badajoz gets the green light for electrical connection. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
UAE revises AI data center plan after Iranian attacks, sources say. Read here.
DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye inaugurate the largest data center in the Aegean region. Read here.
Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava joins Vodafone in $1 billion Egypt data-centre and sovereign AI push. Read here.
US beats China in its AI race to Africa as Egypt inks a $1 billion data center deal with the world’s most valuable company. Read here.
Digital Realty launches 6.4MW data center in Nairobi, Kenya. Read here.
Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM. Read here.
APAC
Firmus surpasses 900 MW contracted capacity, adds OpenAI as anchor customer and expands into Malaysia. Read here.
NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia’s Data Center Ecosystem. Read here.
Nvidia plans major expansion of data centre capacity in Australia to meet AI demand. Read here.
Australian data centre operator NEXTDC to raise $795 mln for AI infrastructure. Read here.
Six new AI data centres proposed for Tasmania, but companies behind them are being kept secret. Read here.
Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create ‘airtight’ requirements for large-scale data centers. Read here.
Fortune to set up ₹60,000 cr hyperscale AI data centre park in Telangana. Read here.
Transgrid warns Sydney data centre demand is stretching grid capacity. Read here.
GLP begins development of 200MW data center in Foshan, China. Read here.
Goodman Group gets green light for 135MW data center in northern Sydney, Australia. Read here.
Zankore secures US$ 3.1 billion loan; targets 1GW AI Factory in Indonesia. Read here.
North America
How Anthropic Clinched $517 Billion in Compute Deals in 11 Months. Read here.
Microsoft plans 38 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.
A data-centre backlash for Oracle. Read here.
Blue Owl Plans Creating Publicly Traded Data Center REIT. Read here.
CoreWeave CEO: America’s data center backlash won’t stop the AI build-out. Read here.
US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says. Read here.
Google, Blackstone cloud venture faces delays at data centre sites. Read here.
Iren delivers first phase of AI capacity to Microsoft in Texas. Read here.
Meta tests robots for data centre operations to manage costs. Read here.
Public hearing date set for 300MW Larbert AI Data Centre proposal. Read here.
Eugene rejects data center at former Hynix site. Read here.
Creekstone Energy Launches Project Oasis: A New Standard for Water Stewardship in Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.
Developers of the ‘largest data center campus in the world’ in Utah say they’ll do something unprecedented — make water. Read here.
JV plans 54MW data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.
Z Squared lands energized Union County Campus in Paradox Data acquisition. Read here.
Weld County officials vote to approve controversial data center. Read here.
South America
Why Argentina’s Patagonia could become the next mega data centre hotspot. Read here.
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Read here.
Space
SpaceX Overhauls Data Center Build-Out, Potentially Slowing Expansion. Read here.
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space unveil US$ 1 billion plan for 50-Satellite AI constellation. Read here.
Blue Origin to develop communications network around Mars for NASA. Read here.
Other interesting articles
The Next Big Opportunity in Data Centers: Insuring Them. Read here.
AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash. Read here.
AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up. Read here.
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project? Read here.
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center. Read here.
Stonepeak CEO on Data Centre Investment Outlook. Watch here.
Masterplanning a 1.4 GW UK data centre campus. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
Data Centre Marketing Club: Strategy, Storytelling and Changing the Industry Narrative | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.
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