Weekly Data Centre News – 9th October 2026
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Reports
Heatmap: Exclusive: Data Center Cancellations Top $260 Billion in 2026. Read here.
Debunking the Biggest Data Center Myths. Read here.
Europe
atNorth to develop new data center in Salo, Finland. Read here.
Applied Digital Secures Up to 1 GW of Potential Power Capacity in Finland, Marking First International Development in the Nordics. Read here.
Sesterce Plans a €10 Billion AI Campus in Jämsä, Finland. Read here.
Housing or data centre? London’s land-use dilemma. Read here.
Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres. Read here.
Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres. Read here.
Plans to demolish Microsoft HQ to build £200m data centre in Reading. Read here.
AI data center planned for Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Read here.
Work on major Wiltshire data centre starts after legal agreements signed. Read here.
Plans for data centre on outskirts of Norwich submitted. Read here.
1,000-year-old Scottish castle could be destroyed to make way for hyperscale data center. Read here.
Former Fawley Power Station outside Southampton could host data centers. Read here.
Fast-track permits turn Spain’s Aragon into a $70 billion data centre magnet. At what cost? Read here.
Wärtsilä to supply 282 MW onsite power solution for a U.S. data center as AI growth intensifies demand for reliable power. Read here.
Nordic sustainable data centre firm Asp eyes public market – report. Read here.
Spain, Portugal data centre boom spurs clean power, storage build. Read here.
Russia’s Yandex says it is unclear whether data centre can be restored after drone strike. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Continent 8 Technologies launches data center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read here.
Intro Group to invest $270m in Egypt’s Kemet Data Center. Read here.
FiveNines Group joins US$ 1.2 billion Nexus AI Factory project in Morocco. Read here.
APAC
DayOne Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering. Read here.
Nvidia-backed Firmus scraps $5 billion Australia IPO amid growing AI scrutiny. Read here.
Macquarie Capital invests in Zerra to support Asia-Pacific expansion. Read here.
CoreWeave Enters India, Expanding AI Cloud Platform With AdaniConneX. Read here.
Monash rejects Centuria data centre plans as Victoria tightens planning rules. Read here.
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk to invest $1 billion in Japan data centre campus. Read here.
KT Cloud to Build 50MW AI Data Center in South Korea’s Incheon Cheongna. Read here.
Trentar signs MoU for US$ 3.3 billion, 500 MW data center in Maharashtra. Read here.
SoftBank, Grab, PETROS ink deal to explore AI infrastructure in Sarawak, Malaysia. Read here.
Digital Realty breaks ground on 24 MW KIX15 data center in Osaka. Read here.
Stockland wins approval for 49MW, 10-storey Macquarie Park data centre. Read here.
Andhra Pradesh High Court lets Vizag hyperscale campus proceed at developer’s own risk. Read here.
North America
Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX Seek Blockbuster Debt Deals to Pay for AI Chips. Read here.
Oracle Announces $10 Million Partnership with the Nashville Symphony. Read here.
Goldman sees US data center growth intact despite opposition. Read here.
The U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Republic of Korea Announce Project Star, a $22.3B Energy Infrastructure Campus in Texas, being developed by Related Companies and NextEra Energy with Lewis Energy Group. Read here.
Google and Constellation Announce Landmark Agreement to Bring 890 MW of New Nuclear Capacity to PJM Grid as Part of Long-Term Power Deal. Read here.
Sabey Data Center Properties Secures Additional Investment from Ares to Support Continued Growth. Read here.
VEIR Raises $110 Million Series C to Accelerate Commercialization of Superconducting Power Delivery Technology for AI Data Centers. Read here.
Brookwood City Council backs $3.2 billion Applied Digital data center project. Read here.
AWS plans 36-building data center campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Read here.
Raleigh pauses data centers while it writes new rules. Read here.
New LandGate Analysis Identifies North Dakota as Emerging AI Data Center Hotspot Driven by Low Power Costs and Grid Capacity. Read here.
Former IBM research campus in Silicon Valley set to be acquired by data center firm. Read here.
TeraWulf Expands Contracted Power Capacity at its Muskie Data Campus to 1 GW. Read here.
Applied Digital Brings an Additional 75 MW of AI Infrastructure Online at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.
Axe Compute acquires full ownership of AI cluster in Columbus, Georgia. Read here.
Investment firm Forum Markets partners with Edge Node for US compute roll-out. Read here.
Developer behind Perry County data center proposes multi-million-dollar community agreement. Read here.
Other interesting articles
This week we looked at the future of data-centre design. Read here.
America’s data center fight is a preview of what’s to come for the rest of the world. Read here.
What made the unfriendly data centres fall on Slough? Read here.
A Data-Center Crunch is Coming. Read here.
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