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Weekly Data Centre News – 11th September 2026

Posted on September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

Reports

Bitcoin Policy Institute: Data Center Dividends. Read here.

JLL: Australian data centre growth and the impacts on the industrial sector. Read here.

Verdant: The Jobs Mirage of Data Centres: Minimal employment, maximal resource demand. Read here.

Europe

Google Deepens Commitment to Finland with Two-Year €13 Billion investment in AI Infrastructure. Read here.

HSCALE Secures Landmark Strategic Deal With Major US Cloud Provider for Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Spain. Read here.

UAE announces $46.6bn investment in Germany across AI, energy and industry. Read here.

TikTok to expand data center capacity in Finland amid boom in AI infrastructure deals. Read here.

Nscale seeks about $3.5 billion pre-IPO funding, source says. Read here.

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier. Read here.

UK’s Andy Burnham rejects call for data centre moratorium. Read here.

Plea for data centre moratorium sends ‘wrong message’ to investors, MSPs told. Read here.

Apatura CEO: ‘Larbert data centre would bring real, lasting jobs’. Read here.

High Wycombe data centre plans backed despite water concerns. Read here.

Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure to invest €360m in Milan data center. Read here.

Renewable energy firm Friesen Elektra explores data center project in Lower Saxony, Germany. Read here.

S+B Gruppe to build data center in Bucharest, Romania. Read here.

Nostrum’s data center in Badajoz gets the green light for electrical connection. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

UAE revises AI data center plan after Iranian attacks, sources say. Read here.

DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye inaugurate the largest data center in the Aegean region. Read here.

Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava joins Vodafone in $1 billion Egypt data-centre and sovereign AI push. Read here.

US beats China in its AI race to Africa as Egypt inks a $1 billion data center deal with the world’s most valuable company. Read here.

Digital Realty launches 6.4MW data center in Nairobi, Kenya. Read here.

Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM. Read here.

APAC

Firmus surpasses 900 MW contracted capacity, adds OpenAI as anchor customer and expands into Malaysia. Read here.

NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia’s Data Center Ecosystem. Read here.

Nvidia plans major expansion of data centre capacity in Australia to meet AI demand. Read here.

Australian data centre operator NEXTDC to raise $795 mln for AI infrastructure. Read here.

Six new AI data centres proposed for Tasmania, but companies behind them are being kept secret. Read here.

Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create ‘airtight’ requirements for large-scale data centers. Read here.

Fortune to set up ₹60,000 cr hyperscale AI data centre park in Telangana. Read here.

Transgrid warns Sydney data centre demand is stretching grid capacity. Read here.

GLP begins development of 200MW data center in Foshan, China. Read here.

Goodman Group gets green light for 135MW data center in northern Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Zankore secures US$ 3.1 billion loan; targets 1GW AI Factory in Indonesia. Read here.

North America

How Anthropic Clinched $517 Billion in Compute Deals in 11 Months. Read here.

Microsoft plans 38 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.

A data-centre backlash for Oracle. Read here.

Blue Owl Plans Creating Publicly Traded Data Center REIT. Read here.

CoreWeave CEO: America’s data center backlash won’t stop the AI build-out. Read here.

US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says. Read here.

Google, Blackstone cloud venture faces delays at data centre sites. Read here.

Iren delivers first phase of AI capacity to Microsoft in Texas. Read here.

Meta tests robots for data centre operations to manage costs. Read here.

Public hearing date set for 300MW Larbert AI Data Centre proposal. Read here.

Eugene rejects data center at former Hynix site. Read here.

Creekstone Energy Launches Project Oasis: A New Standard for Water Stewardship in Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.

Developers of the ‘largest data center campus in the world’ in Utah say they’ll do something unprecedented — make water. Read here.

JV plans 54MW data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Z Squared lands energized Union County Campus in Paradox Data acquisition. Read here.

Weld County officials vote to approve controversial data center. Read here.

South America

Why Argentina’s Patagonia could become the next mega data centre hotspot. Read here.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Read here.

Space

SpaceX Overhauls Data Center Build-Out, Potentially Slowing Expansion. Read here.

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space unveil US$ 1 billion plan for 50-Satellite AI constellation. Read here.

Blue Origin to develop communications network around Mars for NASA. Read here.

Other interesting articles

The Next Big Opportunity in Data Centers: Insuring Them. Read here.

AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash. Read here.

AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up. Read here.

Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project? Read here.

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center. Read here.

Stonepeak CEO on Data Centre Investment Outlook. Watch here.

Masterplanning a 1.4 GW UK data centre campus. Read here.

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Data Centre Marketing Club: Strategy, Storytelling and Changing the Industry Narrative | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.

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2026 Data Centre Salaries

Posted on September 14, 2026September 16, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

The new 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey by DataX Connect reveals nearly 40% of data centre professionals in Europe and the US plan to change jobs within a year
41.7% of European respondents worked in energy or in semiconductor and pharmaceutical roles before entering data centres, and in the US, 36.9% came from energy or military backgrounds.
46.4% of women surveyed in Europe said their gender had affected their compensation or career progression negatively, compared with 1.7% of men

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Southampton, September 2026 – DataX Connect, the world’s leading, global data centre recruitment specialist, has today released the results of its 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey, drawing on insights from 1,700+ data centre professionals across the UK, Europe and the United States.

The findings reveal a highly mobile talent market, where competitive pay remains one of the most important considerations, but career development, benefits and progression are increasingly shaping people’s decisions to stay or move.

The research also identifies a growing disparity between genders, with more than 46% of women surveyed in Europe stating their gender had affected their compensation or career progression negatively. Almost four in ten professionals in permanent roles in both Europe and the US plan to change companies in the next 12 months, despite 65% of European and 71% of US respondents receiving a salary increase over the past year. In Europe, career development is now the single biggest reason for moving; in the US, salary still leads, with career development close behind. Pay is opening doors, but it is no longer keeping them shut.

Key findings

Pay rises don’t guarantee retention: 38.8% of permanent professionals in Europe and 37.8% in the US plan to change companies in the next 12 months. In Europe, career development is the biggest reason for considering a move, cited by 36.0%, while in the US salary leads at 31.4%, closely followed by career development at 29.5%.
Nearly half of women say their gender has affected their pay or career progression, and for 97% of them, the impact was negative. The issue is even more pronounced regionally, with 46.4% of women in Europe and 51.4% in the US saying gender has affected their compensation or career progression, compared with just 1.7% and 2.2% of men respectively.
New talent could be closer than we think: 41.7% of European respondents worked in energy or semiconductor/pharmaceutical roles before entering data centres. In the US, 36.9% came from energy or military backgrounds. For employers struggling to find experienced people, adjacent industries offer an important pool of transferable skills.
The right benefits depend on where you’re hiring: In Europe, shares, stocks or equity are the most requested additional benefit, selected by 30.3% of respondents. In the US, car or fuel allowance tops the list at 38.1%, showing why a one-size-fits-all approach to compensation may miss what people actually value in different markets.

Looking ahead

The findings of the DataX Connect 2026 Salary Survey show an industry with significant opportunities for both employers and professionals, but also a talent market that is becoming more nuanced with more requests for competitive benefits such as shares, and clear career progression.

Salaries, for example, still matter, but businesses that understand what people value, why those values are important to them, and those that create clearer routes for progression and look beyond traditional data centre backgrounds will be better placed to find and retain the skills they need.

“The biggest takeaway from this year’s Salary Survey is that there isn’t one simple answer to the talent challenge. Pay is important, but so is career progression, the benefits people value and, increasingly, where the skills we need actually exist,” said Andy Davis, Director, DataX Connect and Data eXec, and host of the Inside Data Centre Podcast.

“The challenge now is turning that insight into better decisions around where we recruit, how we attract people and how we retain them. Nearly half of women in our survey say their gender has affected their pay or career progression, and one of the clearest drivers is the lack of visible female role models in senior data centre roles. If people can’t see a path for themselves, they’re far less likely to stick around and carve one out. Closing that gap, and the gender pay gap alongside it, is vital to the future of this industry.”

The full 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey reports for Europe and the United States are available for download from the DataX Connect website.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 4th September 2026

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

Reports

PWC: Global investment in AI infrastructure to hit US$31.6 trillion through 2050. Read here.

PWC: Where $31.6 trillion of capex flows in the era-defining AI build-out. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Data Center Development Cost Guide. Read here.

DC Byte: LATAM Data Center Market Spotlight. Read here.

Data Center Hawk: 2Q 2026 Global Data Center Market Report. Read here.

Europe

Nscale and Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI. Read here.

CPP Investments and Equinix complete atNorth acquisition. Read here.

Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland Announce New 165 MW AI Data Centre in Mikkeli, Finland. Read here.

Green Mountain Global Signs Contract with Major Neocloud Operator at LON-East Campus. Read here.

atNorth signs contract with YIT for additional data center building at campus in Finland. Read here.

DataVita submits plans for DV4, its third data centre at Chapelhall. Read here.

Scottish council issues statement on £2 billion AI data centre. Read here.

Plans have been submitted to transform part of Greenock’s former IBM site into a major data centre development. Read here.

John Swinney declines opportunity to commit to AI data centre pause (Scotland). Read here.

Controversial Avonmouth AI data centre would have ‘minimal water needs’. Read here.

Data center proposal approved by local council in suburb of Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Could Shetland host a data centre in the future? Read here.

Thousands sign petition against proposed data centre near Reading. Read here.

Welsh ministers urged to take over decision on controversial data centre plans. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Microsoft Announces That Saudi Arabia East Datacenter Region Will Be Available in November 2026. Read here.

AWS and Humain commit to bringing 50MW online at Saudi AI Zone by 2028. Read here.

Saudi AI firms Humain, DataVolt partner for data center on kingdom’s Red Sea coast. Read here.

Leap’s first two days bring in a string of data center agreements. Read here.

PIF-Backed Humain Eyes $2.5 Billion For Saudi Data Centers. Read here.

World’s largest oilfield-services company with 100 African locations spends $4.1 billion to chase AI data-centre boom. Read here.

Saudi company launches fund to build two data centres. Read here.

APAC

Firmus and SUBCO announce major Trans-Pacific AI connectivity agreement. Read here.

Bitdeer AI Announces Sell-out of its 9.5MW A102 Malaysia Data Center with Total Expected AI Cloud Revenue of Over $800 million. Read here.

Goodman wins approval for 135MW Macquarie Park data centre. Read here.

IFC approves US$ 170 million financing to Philippines data center firm YCO Cloud. Read here.

ByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia, source says. Read here.

Firmus proposes third data center project in Tasmania. Read here.

DayOne, TNB to explore onsite power up to 1.5GW for Greater Kuala Lumpur data center. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT to acquire stakes in two Tokyo data centers for US$ 1.05 billion. Read here.

North America

Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal Backed by Nvidia. Read here.

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation. Read here.

SB Energy Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Vertiv announces agreement to acquire UtilityInnovation Group to accelerate time to power for AI data centers. Read here.

ChronoScale and Microsoft partner on 50MW deployment in North America. Read here.

Trump says data centre critics ‘want to end up backwards and poor’. Read here.

New 400MW AI data center planned for Algoma in Ontario, Canada. Read here.

Northampton Capital Partners Forms Joint Venture with Provident Data Centers, Announces Initial Data Center Development in the Dallas Metropolitan Market. Read here.

Site of proposed Wonder Valley data centre in northern Alberta gets special industrial zone designation. Read here.

Hyperscale Data ends cryptomining operations at Michigan data center. Read here.

Salute announces agreement to acquire T5 Operations. Read here.

South America

Cuasar Capital, part of the Spanish group EOSOL, and KA URBE IT have formed a partnership to jointly market the Cuasar Data Center campus in Durango. Read here.

Brazil’s special data center regime approved: what’s next. Read here.

With own and two third-party data centers, AWS nears Chile cloud region launch. Read here.

Yamna secures Porto do Açu land for 250MW AI data center campus. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Power-hungry data centers are expanding in Europe. So is the resistance. Read here.

The country music stars taking on data centres. Read here.

The moral panic over data centres is foolish. Read here.

The Data-Center Dividend for Workers. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

Datacloud Global Congress 2026: Growth, Deals and the Future of the Industry | Live in Cannes. Listen here.

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