Weekly Data Centre News – 23rd October 2026
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Reports
Microsoft: British bosses bullish on AI, but less than half the workforce confident in UK’s ability to become leading AI economy | Microsoft research. Read here.
Turner & Townsend: Data centre construction cost index 2026-27. Read here.
UN Environment Programme: Data Centres and AI Services Sector Brief. Read here.
JLL: U.S. Industrial Market Dynamics, Q3 2026. Read here.
Colliers: Data Center Snapshot, Iberian Region | April 2026 – Sept 2026. Read here.
Europe
Nebius secures $3.5 billion financing facility with Citi. Read here.
Heim Datacenter partners with Omnes Capital to build a European data center platform. Read here.
Polar Expands Partnership with Crusoe in Norway with New 40MW AI Infrastructure Development. Read here.
Microsoft still committed to £22bn UK investment despite data centre withdrawal. Read here.
Microsoft pulls out of UK’s largest AI data centre. Read here.
Jensen Huang At GTC Berlin: Nvidia Showcases A Full Stack. Read here.
Amazon announces plan to invest €16 billion in Germany in 2027. Read here.
1GW data center proposed alongside solar farm in Norfolk, UK. Read here.
Era4 reveals details of hyperscale data center planned for former steelworks in Newport, Wales. Read here.
Plans submitted for AI data centre on Unilever Warrington site. Read here.
Questions over £12m data centre bid under hotel. Read here.
The developer of a proposed data centre in Cardiff has said it is also seeking permission to build a gas power plant to get it up and running. Read here.
Local communities are being urged to have their say on the growing use of artificial intelligence and the expansion of data centres across Wales. Read here.
VINCI wins a contract for a data center in the Iberian Peninsula. Read here.
Segro lines up data centre prelet and adds £70 million of rents. Read here.
Half of OVHcloud capacity is available, AI model launching in early 2027, CEO says. Read here.
NorthC breaks ground on data center in Geneva, Switzerland. Read here.
atNorth tops out latest data center in Espoo, Finland. Read here.
Europe’s data centre boom puts power grids under financial strain, Moody’s warns. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
HUMAIN and DataVolt sign framework agreement with Nebius for large-scale campus in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Oman, UK seal £1bn AI data centre deal, expand investment and security ties. Read here.
Israel to cap capacity of new data centers at 200MW – report. Read here.
APAC
NEXTDC: M3 Melbourne Power Delay & Revised FY27 Guidance. Read here.
Nvidia Moves to Back GPU Cloud Provider Firmus After Investors Balk at Its IPO. Read here.
DayOne Supports NVIDIA DSX POD Reference Design, Advancing Standardized Infrastructure for AI. Read here.
South Korean data centre builder tumbles 32% on trading debut. Read here.
DayOne Said to Weigh Options for US IPO After Data Center Rout. Read here.
GreenSquare SYD1 now operational following adaptive reuse of 1995 data centre. Read here.
Thailand moves to finalise data center rules amid trillion baht investment pipeline. Read here.
Aolani commits to 500MW of AI data centre capacity in Malaysia in 2027. Read here.
InterContinental Energy targets up to 300MW AI campus at WA renewable energy hub. Read here.
Thailand moves to finalise data center rules amid trillion baht investment pipeline. Read here.
Aolani inks Malaysia deal for 500MW AI capacity; projects 580MW commitment by 2027. Read here.
SC Capital and NeoAI cloud partner on South Korea AI data center project. Read here.
Keppel DC REIT Closes $1.1B Tokyo Data Centre Buy. Read here.
SK Group’s data center unit seeks funding for $350 bln AI buildout – Bloomberg. Read here.
Gingerah seeks anchor tenant for up to 1GW data centre in Western Australia. Read here.
North America
Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second $45bn deal – report. Read here.
Nvidia Backs $164.5 Billion Of AI Data Centers To Keep GPUs Selling. Read here.
Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era. Read here.
Google are working with Voltus to build a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant. Read here.
Blackstone Announces $8.7 Billion Final Close for Blackstone Energy Transition Partners V. Read here.
CBRE Expands Critical Infrastructure Capabilities in Europe and Asia Pacific with Onnec Acquisition. Read here.
EverWind plans US$ 7 billion Nova Scotia data center campus with Anthropic as tenant. Read here.
400MW data center eyed at old Navy cyber site in San Diego, California. Read here.
Lowndes County Commission sued over approval of hyperscale data center. Read here.
Data center developer goes back to the drawing board for the sixth time. Read here.
Soluna, Applied Digital plan 50-MW wind-powered data centre in Texas. Read here.
Stack files for second building at Lancaster campus, Texas. Read here.
Google explores data center site in Roanoke County, Virginia. Read here.
Canadian government eyes up to US$ 1.3 billion for 60 MW data center. Read here.
LightEdge eyes data center project outside Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.
Alcoa sells New York aluminum smelter to data center developer for $315 million. Read here.
NiSource announces long-term agreement with Microsoft. Read here.
San Francisco shopping mall targeted for potential data center. Read here.
Microsoft files for data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia. Read here.
Other interesting articles
DCD Studio: The data center workforce challenge with Andy Davis, Data eXec. Watch here.
Datacenters 2027: The Year of Acceleration, +50GW in a single year. Read here.
Ken Griffin Says AI Is “Almost Certainly” A Bubble As Corporate America Opens Its Anthropic And OpenAI Bills. Read here.
Don’t let data centres become a national pariah. One day, they might save us all. Read here.
BlackRock’s Fink Sees Inflation Risk in Slow Data-Center Buildout. Watch here.
Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices. Read here.
Where does all the hardware go? The hidden environmental footprint of AI data centres. Read here.
Most Americans say AI is bad for society, oppose more data centers: ABC/Post/Ipsos poll. Read here.
The data centre water myth: why AI infrastructure doesn’t have to be thirsty. Read here.
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