Weekly Data Centre Digest – 12th July 2024
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Reports
Global cloud infrastructure spending reached $33bn in Q1 2024: IDC report. Read here.
CapitaLand: APAC Data Centre Investment Strategies in the Age of Digitalisation. Read here.
Data Center Market Insights 2024-2032. Read here.
The big news..
DataX Connect joins the Digital Futures Programme. Read here.
Europe
Digital Realty has acquired a 15MW data center outside London in Slough, UK. Read here.
Abbots Langley data centre headed for inquiry after refusal. Read here.
Thorney Business Park (West London) data centre gets planning permission. Read here.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has stepped-in to have another look at two giant data centre schemes rejected by council planners. Read here.
Digital infrastructure REIT Digital Realty announced significant progress in the construction of Heraklion-1, a data centre situated in Crete’s capital city, Heraklion. Read here.
Start Campus announced two leadership appointments. Read here.
Portland Trust is to develop data center in Bucharest, Romania. Read here.
The Government of Asturias in Northwest Spain has launched a data center unit as it prepares to launch a data center at a former coal mine site. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Why is US alarmed over $1 Billion deal for AI Data Center in Kenya? Read here.
Dubai property giant DAMAC Group has ramped up investment in the buoyant artificial intelligence (AI) sector with a $50m Anthropic deal. Read here.
APAC
Tokyo residents seek to block building of massive data centre. Read here.
Converge ICT Solutions Inc has joined forces with Supermicro, a US tech giant, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Philippines. Read here.
Centuria Industrial REIT has released details of the acquisition of a $39m off-market data centre in Malaga West Australia. Read here.
PLDT subsidiary Vitro tops off 50MW data center in Sta. Rosa, Philippines. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers opens new facility in Taiwan. Read here.
China is pushing the pedal on developing its computing power, aiming to become a global leader in this crucial field that fuels artificial intelligence (AI) and the booming digital economy. Read here.
Keppel DC REIT has taken a major step towards Asia-Pacific data center dominance by acquiring its first property in Japan. Read here.
Vietnam’s eases data centre ownership rules. Read here.
Etix Everywhere is considering setting up a second data center in Thailand. Read here.
SKS Technologies Group Limited has secured a contract exceeding $90 million to develop a major data centre in Melbourne. Read here.
North America
CyrusOne announced the closing of a $7.9 billion Warehouse Credit Facility. Read here.
Yorkville City Council has approved a CyrusOne data center campus development outside of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.
Argo Infrastructure Partners, LP announced that it has increased its ownership stake to represent a majority interest in TierPoint. Read here.
Amazon claims that it “matched” its operations’ entire electricity consumption with renewable energy last year. Read here.
xAI, is opting to build its own data centre instead of purchasing chips. Read here.
Data center capacity in the Pacific Northwest could reach 4,000MW in the next five years, pushing the region’s power grid to its limits, a new report has warned. Read here.
Hut 8 has secured land and power for 205MW data center in West Texas. Read here.
Driving surge in demand for power, data centers eye Kentucky. Read here.
Oracle is reportedly set to lease a data center from Crusoe Energy. Read here.
Fort Worth zoning commissioners narrowly voted against a proposal to build a data center across the road from Tarleton State University’s Fort Worth campus. Read here.
The University of Dallas is partnering with a developer in hopes of making an addition to its Irving campus. Read here.
South America
Odata confirms start of operations at 2nd Mexican datacenter. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Recording the Past, Decoding the Future: Building a Data Centre Construction Programme. Read here.
Data center crunch drives up rental costs as vacancy rates plummet. Read here.
What are the key components of the long-term growth potential and digital infrastructure financing? Read here.
A vision for spreading warmth to the community. Read here.
Natural gas companies will benefit from US AI data center boom – Wells Fargo. Read here.
Data center demand continues despite supply bottlenecks. Read here.
Colocation Data Center Trends, Predictions, and Opportunities for H2 2024. Read here.
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