Weekly Data Centre News – 30th October 2026
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Reports
Entelligencia: The AI Bubble Myth. Read here.
Politico: Poll: Data center backlash builds as midterms near. Read here.
Synergy: Cloud Market Growth Rate Surges to Well Over 50% per Year; Q3 Revenues Reach $168 Billion. Read here.
Earnings
Microsoft: Earnings Release FY27 Q1. Read here.
Google: Q3 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO. Read here.
Equinix Reports Third-Quarter Results and Raises 2026 Guidance. Read here.
Europe
Kao Data launches ‘Data Centres Explained’, a central hub answering the public’s questions about data centres, in partnership with techUK and the DCA. Read here.
CommonAI selects Kao Data to host the UK’s Scaling Inference Lab – providing a national testbed for next-generation AI infrastructure. Read here.
Core Stack JV adds more data centers to €1bn Italy network. Read here.
Bull and CRA join forces to build the Czech AI Gigafactory for Central and Eastern Europe. Read here.
Generative Bionics plans AI data center and humanoid robotics factory in Italy. Read here.
CoreWeave Expands Global AI Cloud Platform With New Capacity in Denmark and First Global AI Network Backbone. Read here.
TPG pursues $5 billion acquisition of British data centre group Ark, FT reports. Read here.
Nvidia to prop up British AI giant as data centre boom unwinds. Read here.
Renewable energy developer Innova has launched plans for a “campus-style data centre” for 60 hectares of land in the Spodegreen area, just south of Lymm Road and on the outskirts of Altrincham. Read here.
Volta Data Centres acquires the Reynolds House Manchester data centre. Read here.
UK’s Healey offers faster grid access for key data centres in AI push. Read here.
UK Budget 2026: data centre covenant will inform development consent applications. Read here.
New data centres must bring ‘local benefits’ (UK). Read here.
Data center mooted in Glasgow by Scottish automotive firm. Read here.
Telehouse closes acquisition of Docklands office campus in UK, plans 65MW data center. Read here.
Spain relaxes initial proposal for data-center rules. Read here.
G42, Greek partners explore AI factory development in Greece. Read here.
‘Devon is not an AI growth zone’: Hundreds gather to oppose 850 acre North Devon data centre. Read here.
Google buys 56 hectares in Hamina, Finland, amid ongoing issues over Muhos tree-felling. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Little-known firm plans Africa’s biggest data centre at Coega. Read here.
APAC
SoftBank eyes $50 billion AI, data centre investment in Malaysia, PM says. Read here.
ARC Cloud and Compal sign MOU eyeing 100 MW of AI data center capacity. Read here.
45,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs Cleared for Kazakhstan Data Center. Read here.
Energy-efficient inference chip developer FuriosaAI raises $620M to solve the data center power bottleneck. Read here.
Kansai emerges as key data center hub as other regions vie for share. Read here.
Anant Raj inks Haryana data center MOU as quarterly revenue hits US$ 69.46 million. Read here.
A gigawatt-scale data center and energy project is being proposed outside Adelaide in South Australia. Read here.
Brookfield Seals $9B AI Data Centre Deal With Naver and More APAC Real Estate Headlines. Read here.
NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments. Read here.
Cortex DC to develop 2 GW of AI-ready data centre capacity in India. Read here.
DayOne, Sembcorp collaborate on energy solutions for DayOne’s Asian data centers. Read here.
India’s L&T breaks ground on second Chennai data center. Read here.
North America
Microsoft blames data centre delays for lower capital expenditure. Read here.
CoreWeave Builds the First Global Backbone Network Purpose-Built for AI. Read here.
General Compute Raises $100M Series A. Read here.
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure Completes $521 Million ABS Financing. Read here.
ServerDome Provides Crucial Updates on $15bn Hueco Ranch Data Center despite Fierce Pushback. Read here.
Google data center vote postponed in Hermantown following two hours of protests. Read here.
TerraWatt unveils Riverbend Technology Center plan at Alton data center open house. Read here.
Charlotte City Council extends data center moratorium for nearly a year. Read here.
Microsoft acquires 37 acres in Licking County, Ohio. Read here.
AWS plans to expand data center footprint in Montgomery County, Missouri. Read here.
520MW data center planned in Eatonton, Georgia. Read here.
700MW data center project proposed outside Lansing, Michigan. Read here.
AIB plans 50MW AI data center at former Spartanburg cryptomine to serve Nebius. Read here.
UPS CEO sees $15 billion annual revenue opportunity from data center boom. Read here.
South America
Crusoe and Araico to build 280 MW AI data center near Paraguay’s Itaipú Dam. Read here.
Leftover 5G cash could fund Brazil’s US$310mn data center, TV 3.0 plans. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Slough has become the data centre capital of Europe. Now it wants its reward. Read here.
We studied 1,584 data centers – and found the buildings full of machines are tied to modest local job growth. Read here.
Data center gear is being hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions. Read here.
The Data-Center Rebellion Is Just Beginning. Read here.
Almost a quarter of data center staff could retire over the next decade — so who will be taking over? Read here.
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