Weekly Data Centre Digest – 16th August 2024
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Reports
Synergy Identifies the World’s Top 20 Locations for Hyperscale Data Centers. Read here.
CBRE: Europe Data Centre Figures Q2 2024. Read here.
Europe
Yondr Group has secured planning permission for a third building on its London campus in Slough. Read here.
UK’s ‘electricity superhighway’ gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up. Read here.
InfraVia Weighing Sale of €1 Billion Swiss Data Center Operator. Read here.
UK Atomic Energy Authority considers AI data centres for Culham campus. Read here.
Havering Council’s leader said he would not “shy away” from supporting controversial plans for a data centre. Read here.
Havering Council ‘will listen’ to residents over Upminster data centre. Read here.
Investment firm Brookfield is said to be considering a minority sale in European data center operator Data4. Read here.
APAC
Goodman, buoyed by $2b profit, ramps up data centre investments. Read here.
Sydney’s data centres may be constrained by power challenges. Read here.
Australian data center firm NextDC has launched a new 7MW facility in Darwin. Read here.
Equinix invests US$124 million in new HK data centre. Read here.
Princeton Digital acquires Yahoo’s Singapore data centre SG3. Read here.
PLDT, NTT data centre deal collapses, mulls new buyer. Read here.
IDC: Data center power capacity in Apac projected to reach 94.4GW by 2028. Read here.
AWS to expand footprint in Hyderabad. Read here.
South Korea Bets Big on Quantum, AI, and Cloud. Read here.
North America
Billion-dollar Google data center project comes to Midlothian. Read here.
Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center in Pennsylvania. Read here.
Vantage has filed for two data center campuses outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Talen Energy is shifting its focus to meet the growing demand from data center developers. Read here.
Provident Realty has proposed plans for a seven building campus in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Read here.
Microsoft is exploring building a data center in Cherry Valley, Illinois. Read here.
Microsoft data center could bring dozens of jobs to Rockford area. Read here.
Microsoft buys more land in Racine County near data center project. Read here.
Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement to procure the output of two solar farms in the US. Read here.
Data center firm Edged Energy has broken ground on a facility outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.
Tract plans 1,700-acre data center campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.
Server maker Supermicro in June agreed to lease 21MW from a Prime Data Centers facility in Vernon, California. Read here.
US Signal has acquired the Detroit North Data Center, a cutting-edge data center located at Auburn Hills, Michigan. Read here.
Data center development planned for Azalea Flea Market site (Richmond). Read here.
Quinbrook & UPP partner for Rowan Digital Infrastructure co-investment. Read here.
Fiber firm Cogent Communications has completed the conversion of more than 30 former Sprint switching sites in the US into colocation data centers. Read here.
JK Land Holdings, LLC has purchased a two-building site that consists of commercial office and industrial space for $60 million in Virginia. Read here.
Data centers driving Oklo’s nuclear project pipeline. Read here.
South America
Scala opens US$1.1bn expansion of São Paulo datacenter campus. Read here.
Other interesting articles
The AI revolution: Reshaping data centres and the digital landscape. Read here.
Data centers facing opposition over environmental concerns. Read here.
Top 10: Biggest Data Centre Projects. Read here.
How VC’s are helping ween data centres off fossil fuels. Read here.
Energy and supply chain challenges in data centre growth. Read here.
Bigger data centres mean bigger environmental pressures. What are the solutions? Read here.
Get Smart. Get Fast. Get Competitive. Here’s How Data Center Brokers Work In CRE’s Hottest Asset Class. Read here.
The Silent Burden Of AI: Unveiling The Hidden Environmental Costs Of Data Centers By 2030. Read here.
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