Weekly Data Centre News – 5th September 2025

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Europe

Armenia, Firebird discuss $500 million AI data center project. Read here.

Kao Data plans two new data centers at campus in Harlow, UK. Read here.

Council stalls plans for €1bn data centre for Co Westmeath. Read here.

The Hillingdon Planning Committee has approved the redevelopment of the Union Park site, known as UP4, by Ark UP4 Ltd. Read here.

A major new data centre that will attract investment of £1.8 billion through to 2033 will be built in Gibraltar by Pelagos Data Centres. Read here.

Skanska to Build Data Center in Finland for Approximately SEK 1.1 Billion. Read here.

Helsinki-based AI cloud company DataCrunch is looking to develop a data center in Akaa, Finland. Read here.

Ireland’s Echelon breaks ground at 200MW County Wicklow data center campus outside Dublin. Read here.

Green Mountain and KMW secure 36 MW anchor tenant for FRA-Mainz. Read here.

Data4 signs 40MW nuclear supply deal with EDF to power French data center portfolio. Read here.

Virtus Data Centres Buys Power from UK Offshore Wind Farms. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Khazna Data Centers Unlocks $2.62bn Facility in One of Region’s Largest-Ever Financing Deals. Read here.

UAE AI Campus Looks To Diversify Away From Nvidia. Read here.

iXAfrica obtains Rand Merchant Bank funding to expand Nairobi Data Centre by 20 MW of power. Read here.


APAC

OpenAI plans India data center with at least 1 gigawatt capacity. Read here.

NextDC seeks partner for 850MW data center JV in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Launceston council approves major $2.1 billion AI data centre. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is considering acquiring Yondr Groups assets in Malaysia. Read here.

How Korea is adapting its Data Center infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence. Read here.

Digital Edge breaks ground on 100MW data center campus in Thailand. Read here.

‘Indonesia must simplify rules and offer tax incentives to woo data center investors’: Official. Read here.

Telehouse connects Bangkok data centre to NT’s subsea network. Read here.

MSFusion buys US$62.3 million Johor land for data center. Read here.


North America

Macquarie invests in Fermi America to support development of 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.

ENGIE Collaborates with Prometheus Hyperscale to Co-Develop Next-Generation AI-Ready Data Centers in Texas. Read here.

AVAIO Digital and Schneider Electric Partner to build new AI-optimized data centers in U.S. Read here.

DPO Launches Greenlight Data Centers with New Investor Funding to Accelerate AI Data Center Development. Read here.

T5 gets permission to convert building into data center in Nampa, Idaho. Read here.

Flexential Acquires Prime Property in Hillsboro, Plans New Data Center as Next Phase of Expansion. Read here.

Novva Data Centers buys 205 acres of land in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read here.

A 300-acre data center campus could be coming to Ohio’s Miami Valley. Read here.

HostDime seeks deadline extension for data center in Eatonville, Orlando. Read here.

Data centre firms want clarity on Alberta’s ‘surprise’ AI infrastructure levy. Read here.

$1.6B data center proposed in Menomonie draws strong response from concerned citizens. Read here.

Tensions are rising in Wilsonville, where rumors about a massive data center has sparked public outcry. Read here.

Twiggs County to consider rezoning for proposed data center. Read here.


South America

ODATA secures $1.02bn financing to power sustainable data centre growth. Read here.

Elea Data Centers strengthens capital with R$790 million in debentures issue tied to ESG targets. Read here.

Dataspots pledges new data centers, lines up investments and denies ‘speculation’. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Addressing water consumption in data centres amid AI expansion. Read here.

The World Faces a $2T Data Center Challenge in the Age of AI. Read here.

Why speed to power will define data centres. Read here.

AI boom, AI bust? Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 29th August 2025

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Europe

Green light for QTS Data Centers £10bn data centre prep works in Northumberland. Read here.

Blackstone plans $5 bln expansion of Spanish data centre project. Read here.

Two solar parks and data center to be built near Oulu, Finland. Read here.

Crusoe expands partnership with atNorth. Read here.

Digital Realty Breaks Ground in Rome, Expanding Mediterranean Connectivity. Read here.

City of Hanau, Germany, secures financing for data center. Read here.

Redcentric confirms discussions over sale of data centre business. Read here.

U.K. Data Center Developers Eye National Gas Pipelines to Power Projects Amid Grid Delays. Read here.

Waning demand sees Edinburgh Park swap offices for a data centre. Read here.

Outline planning approved for new data centre in Hemel Hempstead (UK). Read here.


Middle East & Africa

MEEZA Secures QAR 800 Million Dukhan Bank Facility to Expand Qatar’s Data Centre and AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Humain breaks ground two data centers, with first facilities expected to go live in Q2 2026. Read here.

Saudi Arabia Plans Early 2026 Launch For AI Data Centres With US Chips. Read here.

Why Visa plans to open its first African data centre. Read here.


APAC

AirTrunk closes A$16 billion (ex Japan) sustainable financing to accelerate APJ growth and impact. Read here.

EdgeConneX acquires second data centre in Japan. Read here.

GLP secures 2.5 billion yuan for China data centre business. Read here.

Singapore’s GIC sizes up $69b Goodman Group’s data centre dreams. Read here.

Techno Digital to invest $1 bn in hyperscale, edge data centres nationwide (India). Read here.

Viettel invests US$1 billion in data center, R&D center. Read here.

Chindata to build 1.2GW cluster in Ningxia, north-central China. Read here.

Bain Capital weighs $4.2bn bids for Chindata data centres in China. Read here.

SK AI Data Center Ulsan held a ground breaking ceremony. Read here.


North America

BorderPlex Digital Assets says it plans to spend $165 billion on New Mexico data center campus near El Paso. Read here.

Meta’s planned Louisiana AI data center to cost $50 billion, Trump says. Read here.

Google planning Chesterfield data center as part of $9B expansion in Virginia. Read here.

Kansas City’s largest data center project gets $100B green light. Read here.

Soluna to develop two new data centers in Texas with a combined capacity of 350MW. Read here.

Zenith Volts gets nod for gigawatt-scale data centre in New Mexico. Read here.

Blue Owl to fund build-out of Pennsylvania data center campus set to host CoreWeave. Read here.

The city council of De Soto, Kansas. has approved a $700 million data center. Read here.

Oasis Digital Properties gets greenlight for 1.2GW data center in King George County, Virginia. Read here.

Could the Indianapolis City-County Council vote to stop Google’s $1 billion data center? Read here.

AI data center company holds heated meeting in small-town Harwood. Read here.

Dauphin County golf course will turn into data center after $45.6M sale. Read here.

Data center park developer Diode Ventures has dropped plans to develop a campus outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

DartPoints Puts New Capital to Work: Launches Multi-Market Expansion to Power HPC, AI and Large Enterprise Growth. Read here.

Alberta introduces levy framework for large-scale AI data centres. Read here.

Fermi, Westinghouse to finalize licensing application for nuclear reactors at 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.


South America

Brazil’s Dataspots secures grid approval for US$2.8bn trio of data center projects. Read here.

ARSAT plans multi-million-dollar expansion of Buenos Aires data center. Read here.

Thirsty data centres boom in drought-hit Mexico. Read here.

Mexico’s Querétaro State Becomes Data Centre Hub Amid US Power Grid Constraints. Read here.


Other interesting articles

A plea from a data centre owner: Stop vilifying us! Read here.

Water scarcity set to be a growing challenge for European data centres. Read here.

From Cloud to Concrete: How Explosive Data Center Demand is Redefining Commercial Real Estate. Read here.

Microsoft plan to turn wind farms into mini AI data centres: ‘massive power opportunity’. Read here.

Modelling suggests waste heat from AI data centres could power carbon capture and water purification. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 22nd August 2025

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Europe

Plans in for phase one of 6m sq ft Cambois data centre (UK). Read here.

500MW solar park and AI campus planned in Weida-Land, Germany. Read here.

€3 billion Kildare data centre plan faces fresh objections. Read here.

Kildare County Council gives green light for €3 billion ‘next generation’ data campus. Read here.

Billion dollar data center project proposed in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Read here.

E-Werk and Leitwerk plans data center in Lahr, Germany. Read here.

Google finally ramps up plans for Austrian data center – 17 years after buying land. Read here.

QTS plans data center in Forssa, Finland. Read here.

Goodman Group launches European data centre partnership. Read here.

Rayner faces legal challenge over AI data centre on green belt (UK). Read here.

Foxglove launches UK’s first legal challenge against the construction of a hyperscale data centre and to defend our power, water and environment. Read here.

Consultation launched on £2bn AI data centre plans for Plean. Read here.

Construction of Green Mountain’s Hamar Data Center Generates Significant Economic Impact. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Ooredoo has announced the launch of the Salalah Data center and Submarine Cable Landing Station (Oman). Read here.

Oman Data Park taps local developer for 1.4MW onsite solar project at data center. Read here.

Digital Realty launches third data centre in Lagos. Read here.

Madari Space to launch first orbital data centre in 2026. Read here.


APAC

Data centres drive Goodman’s $15b global pipeline. Read here.

Equinix issues US$ 505 million Singapore green bonds for global total of US$ 9.5 billion. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure to invest US$ 1.66 billion in data center in Johor: Zafrul. Read here.

Prestige Group to develop data center in Navi Mumbai. Read here.


North America

Sam Altman: OpenAI Will Spend ‘Trillions’ On Data Centres Despite AI Bubble. Read here.

OpenAI Weighs Letting Other Companies Tap Its Data Centers. Read here.

Meta signs $10bn+ cloud deal with Google – report. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Unveils Plans for “Frontier,” a $25B Mega-campus in Texas to Meet Unprecedented AI Demand. Read here.

JPMorgan, MUFG Lead $23 Billion Loan for Data-Center Campus. Read here.

Mint plans 600-MW Bitcoin mining, AI data centre powered by renewables. Read here.

Yondr Group accelerates US growth with 550MW Dallas campus. Read here.

Avaio targets $6bn Mississippi data center campus outside Jackson. Read here.

EdgeConneX and Lambda To Build AI Factory In Chicago With Industry-Leading High-Density Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.

Controversial $14 billion data center proposal delayed again by Bessemer council. Read here.

Plans for Meta data center at Lebanon Leap District advance. Read here.

Microsoft breaks ground on data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read here.

Metropolitan Development Commission approves Google Data Center in Franklin Township. Read here.

Thor Equities acquires Ohio site for 500MW data centre development. Read here.

530-plus acres of new data centers planned in Lancaster. Read here.

Crusoe Aims for $10 Billion Valuation in New Round, Buys GPU Startup. Read here.

Blackstone Credit & Insurance and Aligned Data Centers Expand Financing Partnership, Surpassing $1 Billion in Commitments. Read here.

Atmosphere Data Centers Secures Strategic Growth Investment from AGC Equity Partners. Read here.

Galaxy Digital closes $1.4bn debt facility for Helios data center campus in Texas. Read here.

GI Partners Closes Continuation Vehicle and Strategic Investment from GI Data Infrastructure in Flexential. Read here.

Data center owners urge US Treasury to keep renewable energy subsidy rules. Read here.

Aalo Atomics raises $100M to build a microreactor and data center together. Read here.


South America

Elea Signs MoU With Oracle and Rio de Janeiro City Hall to Advance Data Center Project. Read here.

Brazil’s communications ministry launches consultation on major data center plan. Read here.

PEC Energia eyes data center project at Serra das Vacas wind farm. Read here.

Elea Data Centers wins major Petrobras tender with US$420mn bid. Read here.

LATAM data centre market could triple in size in 12 months. Read here.

Data Center Growth (Mexico) Needs More Generation Capacity. Read here.

MTP launches second phase of Edge data center in Merida, Mexico. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Gearing Up for the Gigawatt Data Center Age. Read here.

From inside the house: Data centres tackle public perception and sustainability progress. Read here.

Could Water-Free Data Centers Move from Concept to Reality? Read here.

Building for energy independence: Accelerating data center construction with alternatives to utility power. Read here.

The economic pros and cons of building more and more data centres in the UK. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 15th August 2025

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Europe

AVAIO Digital Achieves Major Development Milestone at the Fully Powered, AI-Ready Algete Data Hub in Madrid, Spain. Read here.

Redcar and Cleveland Council (UK) granted outline permission for a 500,000-square-metre campus at the Teesworks site, a former steelworks billed as Europe’s largest brownfield redevelopment. Read here.

Edgemode and Vertical Data Announce Strategic Collaboration to Deliver 20 MW AI-Optimized Data Center in Sweden. Read here.

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount. Read here.

Google plans for sprawling data centre campus on designated wildlife site (Thurrock, UK). Read here.

Data center campus planned for former oil rig factory in Dunoon, Scotland. Read here.

Scotland’s AI-Ready Zones: Three Locations with Grid and Land to Spare. Read here.

New DayOne data centre in Finland to drive hyperscale development. Read here.

Belgium to invest €1 billion in military data centres. Read here.

Algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets has signed an agreement with YIT Corporation for the construction of a second data center at XTX’s campus in Kajaani, Finland. Read here.

Irish government reveals date new state-of-the-art data centre set to open. Read here.

Will Finland’s move to cut data centre tax breaks damage investment? Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Gabon breaks ground for data center near capital. Read here.

Teraco finalizes JB4 hyperscale data center expansion. Read here.

Abu Dhabi’s Zero Two invests in APAC data center firm Evolution. Read here.

Saudi’s center3 targets 1GW of data center capacity by 2030. Read here.


APAC

CDC Data Centres plans WA’s largest AI and advanced technology campus. Read here.

Macquarie Data Centres partners Dell to introduce AI Factories. Read here.

Goodman secures data center financing from Aareal Bank. Read here.

South Korea’s LG CNS to develop hyperscale AI data centre in Vietnam. Read here.

Sime Darby Seeks Loan to Build Malaysian Data Center for Google. Read here.

Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters in the Pacific island nation Vanuatu. Read here.

ST Telemedia is mulling sale of its stake in GDS data center operator: Reports. Read here.

NEXTDC Secures A$6.4 Billion in Debt Facilities to Expand Data Center Operations. Read here.

New Zealand’s Spark has this week confirmed that it is spinning off its data centre arm and selling a majority stake to Sydney-based private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners. Read here.

CapitaLand to invest $2.2 billion in India across business parks, data centres, and more. Read here.


North America

DCBLOX Secures $1.15 Billion Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center Campus Development. Read here.

Blackstone’s QTS Raises $1.65 Billion of Debt for Data Centers. Read here.

Rumble plans $1.2 billion takeover of Northern Data. Read here.

Google announces new investments in Oklahoma data centers. Read here.

Cryptominer TeraWulf secures 200MW lease with Fluidstack, Google to take stake in company. Read here.

Barrio Energy announces two data center developments in Texas. Read here.

Related pitches 575-acre data center campus outside Detroit, Michigan. Read here.

Data center developer backs off $30 billion plans for Dale Earnhardt widow’s property. Read here.

World’s largest data center campus could be coming to central Utah. Read here.

The long-proposed Digital Gateway data center project in Virginia’s Prince William County has seen its zoning authorization revoked after a lawsuit by local residents. Read here.

Equinix partners with leading alternative energy providers, including nuclear providers Oklo, Radiant, ULC-Energy, Stellaria and fuel cell provider Bloom Energy, to power AI-ready data centre growth. Read here.

US-based New Era Helium will rebrand to New Era Energy & Digital, reflecting a shift from being a pure helium and natural gas company to a vertically integrated energy and digital infrastructure platform. Read here.

CoreWeave expects capex in Q4 2025 to exceed previous three quarters combined. Read here.

CoreWeave shares slide after bigger than expected losses. Read here.

DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation or under construction. Read here.

Vantage investor Silver Lake launches new powered land firm targeting data centers. Read here.

Rogers to Sell Nine Business Data Centres to InfraRed Capital Partners. Read here.


South America

Scala Data Centers secures funds for three data centers and a power substation in Chile. Read here.

Odata expands in Mexico with fourth hyperscale data center launch. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Nuclear power or windmills? The data centre industry is looking for a plan B to power AI. Read here.

Data centre construction failing to keep up with demand. Read here.

The data center balance: How US states can navigate the opportunities and challenges. Read here.

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 8th August 2025

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Reports

Data Center Capex to Grow at 21 Percent CAGR Through 2029, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

CBRE: 2025 Global Data Center Investor Intentions Survey. Read here.


Europe

Permission Granted for Massive Teesworks Data Centre Despite Objection From BP Hydrogen Scheme. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers has secured approval for another major data centre project in Wales. Read here.

Deutsche Telekom partnering with Nvida, Brookfield on AI data centre -CEO. Read here.

maincubes to Begin Development of ‘mainHub Berlin’ Data Centre Campus in Nauen. Read here.

Vesper Infrastructure agrees to invest in Terakraft, building one of the most cost competitive and fully-sustainable Data Centres in Europe. Read here.

OpCore to develop data center on EDF-owned land outside Paris. Read here.

CRA announces major data centre project in Czech capital. Read here.

Planned data center could overlap with golf course in Rauma, Finland. Read here.

Ireland’s National Trust appeals against data center project in County Louth, Ireland. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Alpha Dhabi ‘exploring’ building UAE data centres amid AI boom. Read here.

Saudi’s center3 unveils plans for 1 Gigawatt of data centre capacity by 2030. Read here.

Airtel Nigeria to Build 38MW Hyperscale Data Centre in Eko Atlantic. Read here.


APAC

Singapore’s Keppel raises $4.9 billion in private funds for education and data centre assets. Read here.

Thailand data center investments hit US$16.1 billion from 28 projects in 1H 2025. Read here.

Southeast Asia data center market projected to double to USD 30.47 billion by 2030: Report. Read here.

Sify data center unit planning to IPO in India. Read here.

Bridge DC to use wastewater for data center cooling in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

DCI & Koramco to develop 40MW data centre in South Korea. Read here.

Galaxy Data Center Announces Thailand Expansion in Landmark Meeting with Acting Prime Minister, Paving Way for Green Digital Hub. Read here.


North America

Quantica Infrastructure unveiled its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure, a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus outside Billings, Montana. Read here.

Apollo Funds to Acquire Majority Stake in Stream Data Centers, Forming a Scaled Digital Infrastructure Leader. Read here.

Meta taps PIMCO, Blue Owl for $29 billion data center expansion project, source says. Read here.

Tallvine Partners Acquires TRG Datacenters and Launches Digital Infrastructure Platform. Read here.

Bitfarms Announces Partnership with T5 Data Centers to Advance HPC/AI Development at Panther Creek Campus. Read here.

CoreWeave buys New Jersey data centre site in $322 million deal. Read here.

Amazon acquires 1,000 acres of land outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Tucson says no to Project Blue, but Amazon’s controversial data center isn’t going away. Read here.

Riot Platforms acquires additional 238 acres at Corsicana, Texas, campus. Read here.

New York-based real estate developer Mag Partners may build data centers on a 235-acre development in Baltimore. Read here.

US data center firm Centra has broken ground on a new facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.

Google to develop new cable landing stations in Azores and Hawaii for upcoming subsea cable systems. Read here.

Hyundai to deliver nuclear power to Fermi America’s 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.

We Energies strives to meet 2027 deadline for Port Washington data center project. Read here.

Michigan utility Consumers Energy is set to provide 1GW of new power load to a planned hyperscale data center. Read here.

PPL Electric’s data center pipeline soars to 14GW. Read here.

Jacobs cashes in on data center, AI boom despite tariff uncertainty. Read here.

Brookfield Asset Management to launch dedicated strategy for AI data centers. Read here.

CPP Investments to provide $225 million in funding for Ontario data centre. Read here.


South America

Inside RT-One’s plans for its LatAm data center rollout. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Google: How we’re making data centers more flexible to benefit power grids. Read here.

How tech giants are transforming old European power plants into data centers. Read here.

AI Supercharges Hyperscale: Capacity, Geography, and Design Are Being Redrawn. Read here.

How more efficient data centres could unlock the AI boom. Read here.

Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy. Read here.

Why utilities should bring water into the data center energy conversation. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 1st August 2025

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Reports

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey Results 2025. Read here.

LeanResearch: Data Center Market Outlook 2030: AI Capex, Power Constraints, and Regional Growth Leaders. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: Q2 2025 UK market intelligence. Read here.


Europe

Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway. Read here.

Introducing Stargate Norway. Read here.

Iberdrola and Echelon create a joint venture to develop data centres in Spain. Read here.

Switch Datacenters Secures Land and Permits for New 100MW Data Center in Warsaw, Poland, Expanding European Footprint. Read here.

Microsoft will open datacenter region in Austria. Read here.

UK data centre development accelerates amid ongoing confidence and regional growth. Read here.

Eclipse and Carlton Power agree joint development agreement for data centre (Manchester, UK). Read here.

Energy giant plots UK wood-fuelled data centre. Read here.

Europe sets its sights on multi-billion-euro gigawatt factories as it plays catch-up on AI. Read here.

Water company Anglian Water has called on North Lincolnshire Council to oppose the planning application for the country’s largest data centre, Elsham Tech Park. Read here.

Data centre planned for site on outskirts of Bradford city centre. Read here.

NTT and Mistral AI Target Sovereign European AI Data Centres. Read here.

Germany’s Max Planck Society eyes new data center in Munich. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Madari Space contemplates building data centers in space. Read here.

Northern Data nears deal to provide data center capacity to Abu Dhabi’s G42 – Bloomberg. Read here.


APAC

Google to invest $6 billion in southern India data centre. Read here.

iPhone maker Foxconn joins $1 trillion AI data center market with new alliance. Read here.

YTL inks $2.36 billion deal with Nvidia; Malaysia to create own LLM. Read here.

Yondr Group to exit EverYondr joint venture; sells stake back to Everstone Group. Read here.

FLOW Digital Infrastructure announces new data center in Central Tokyo. Read here.

A 300MW data center will be built in Uzbekistan with China’s Linkwise. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group secures $160 million Green Loan for Mumbai DC campus. Read here.

DayOne and Gaw Capital break ground on phase one of their new hyperscale data centre campus in Tokyo. Read here.

KKR considers acquiring ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at $5bn valuation. Read here.

DayOne breaks ground on 20MW data center in Singapore. Read here.

Submer to deploy ‘up to’ 1GW of liquid cooled data centers in Madhya Pradesh, India. Read here.

China Plans to Build a Mega Data Center with 115,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Read here.


North America

$33 billion data center development planned for Pinal County. Read here.

Blueprint Projects gets greenlight for data center in Taylor, Texas. Read here.

New Era Helium’s JV Closes on 235-Acre AI Data Center Site in Permian Basin. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers Announces Launch of Austin Building B, Expanding Presence in Key Technology Hub. Read here.

Texas Critical Data Centers closes 235-acre land acquisition for AI data center in Ector County, Texas. Read here.

QScale wants to build a multi-billion-dollar AI data centre near Toronto. Read here.

Energy Capital Partners (ECP) and global investment firm KKR have announced the development of a 190MW hyperscale data centre campus in Bosque County, Texas. Read here.

Data center powered land provider Cloverleaf is developing a campus in Georgia. Read here.

Proposal for data center in Leesburg, Virginia, approved. Read here.

A $1.4 billion data center campus in Cedar Creek could soon start construction. Read here.

Microsoft Adds 2GW Data Centre Capacity as Azure Use Soars. Read here.

EnCap Investments launches US data centre business. Read here.

Snowhawk and Nuveen Make Strategic Investment in Prime Data Centers. Read here.

eStruxture Data Centers, a Fengate portfolio company, announces C$1.35 billion financing and first Canadian data center sector asset-backed securities. Read here.

Hyperscale Data Enters into an Agreement for a Financing of up to $100 Million. Read here.

CyrusOne signs 190MW deal with Calpine Energy to power data center in Bosque County, Texas. Read here.

Helion Energy starts construction on nuclear fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers. Read here.

Detroit-based utility DTE Energy is in talks with data centers representing up to 7GW of potential new capacity around Michigan. Read here.

Exelon says potential data center demand is more than 30 gigawatts. Read here.

PG&E Data Center Demand Pipeline Swells to 10 Gigawatts with Potential to Unlock Billions in Benefits for California. Read here.


South America

Scala Data Centers taps Chile for sustainable infrastructure push. Read here.

Argentina free trade zone plans to attract data center investments. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Industry reaction to US AI Action Plan. Read here.

The UK’s growing ‘compute gap’ threatens AI ambitions. Read here.

How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power. Read here.

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity. Read here.

The Gulf bets big on AI as it seeks the ‘new oil’. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 25th July 2025

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Reports

McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025. Read here.

Anthropic: Build AI in America. Read here.

The economic impact of data centres to the Malaysian economy. Read here.


Europe

Major 500,000 sqm AI data centre planned at Teesworks sparks governance, sustainability tension. Read here.

UK government eyes Teesside as second AI data center hub – report. Read here.

New UK compute roadmap says country needs 6GW of AI-capable data center capacity by 2030. Read here.

UK grid operator: “High uncertainty” on data center growth makes forecasting hard, could range from 30-71TWh by 2050. Read here.

AtlasEdge expands German footprint with state-of-the-art data centre. Read here.

Macquarie Asset Management raises $2.7 billion for European infrastructure debt strategy. Read here.

EDP to supply Portuguese data centre campus with clean energy. Read here.

Wortmann AG expands Terra Cloud data center in Hüllhorst, Germany. Read here.

Nostrum seeks investment partner for 400MW+ Spanish data center portfolio. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Morocco Partners with France’s Onepoint to Build AI and Data Center of Excellence. Read here.

Visa opens first Africa data centre in Johannesburg. Read here.


APAC

Stack secures AU$1.3bn green financing in Australia to fund Melbourne campus. Read here.

China plans national network to sell excess data centre capacity: report. Read here.

TECO scores 2 major hyperscale data center MEP projects in Malaysia. Read here.

Madhya Pradesh plans to build 1GW AI-ready data center. Read here.

Indonesia to unveil national AI strategy as investment race heats up. Read here.

Digital Core REIT grows in Japan as occupancy hits 98%. Read here.

China tests submerged AI data centres powered by offshore wind. Read here.


North America

Google increases Capex forecast to $85bn. Read here.

Stargate advances with 4.5 GW partnership with Oracle. Read here.

Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips as Startup Burns Through Cash. Read here.

US corporations unleash $92 billion AI and energy blitz to outpace China in tech race. Read here.

US AI Action Plan promises grid reform, streamlined permitting for data centres. Read here.

DOE Announces Site Selection for AI Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Development on Federal Lands. Read here.

Trump’s AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here’s how it may affect energy in the U.S. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers Expands in Ohio with New Mega-Scale AI Campus. Read here.

Enbridge to invest $900M US on solar project supporting Meta’s data centres. Read here.

Menlo Equities Furthers its Commitment to Data Centers with the Formation of Menlo Digital, a Dedicated Operating Platform Focused on Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

Cologix Closes $525 Million USD Asset-Backed Securitization to Support AI Infrastructure, Interconnection and Growth. Read here.

ACS, through its US subsidiary Turner, wins contract for data centres in US worth over €5 billion. Read here.

Hypertech’s 5C secures $835m from Brookfield and Deutsche Bank to fuel data center build-out. Read here.

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure Completes $235 Million ABS Financing. Read here.

Partnership pays $44M to lock down land for data center in Cumberland County. Read here.

Vantage tops out fifth building of 206MW data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

Virginia’s Loudoun County Planning Commission recommends approval for Prologis data center. Read here.

Amazon named as company behind 290-acre data center campus in Tuscson, Arizona. Read here.

BlackRock Raises £1B For Fund Targeting Living, Logistics And Data Centres. Read here.

Oracle to deploy Bloom Energy fuel cells at “select” US data centers. Read here.

Soluna Holdings Secures £16m Funding for Texas Data Centre. Read here.


South America

Elea submits data center connection request for Rio AI City project. Read here.

Scala closes $328 million deal to expand in Chile. Read here.


Other interesting articles

UK plays catch-up in data centre race. Read here.

What opportunities are there for young people in the data centre sector? Read here.

The Pharaohs Built Pyramids—We Build Data Centers. Read here.

Powering tomorrow: key considerations in data centre financing. Read here.

AI geopolitics and data centres in the age of technological rivalry. Read here.

30 years shaping the Data Center industry: Guy Willner’s journey. Watch here.

What happens inside a Data Center? Watch here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 18th July 2025

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Reports

Unlocking Portugal’s Digital Potential: The €26 Billion Opportunity. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: EMEA Data Centre Market Update H1 2025. Read here.

Engines of AI primed to accelerate new breakthroughs, economic growth, and transform the UK into an AI maker. Read here.


Europe

Ireland’s Red Admiral to submit plans for 600-acre data center in Westmeath. Read here.

QTS invests €1.4 billion in Dutch data center. Read here.

Oracle to Invest U.S. $2 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure in Germany. Read here.

Oracle to Invest U.S. $1 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure in the Netherlands. Read here.

Secretary of State (UK) allows appeal for Hyperscale Data Centre within the Green Belt. Read here.

New UK compute roadmap says country needs 6GW of AI-capable data center capacity by 2030. Read here.

Apatura files for 300MW data center campus in Scotland. Read here.

Wales could get billions in AI investment as growth zone announced. Read here.

New supercomputing centre announced for Edinburgh as government publishes AI strategy. Read here.

One thousand objections lodged against Corsham data centre application. Read here.

InfraVia to exit Green Datacenter in €1bn deal with IFM Investors. Read here.

Google pulls plug on planned data center in Berlin, Germany. Read here.

Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. Read here.

AllianzGI takes minority stake in Yondr alongside DigitalBridge and La Caisse. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Morocco plans to build 500MW renewable energy data center. Read here.

Elon Musk’s xAI in talks to lease data centre capacity in Saudi Arabia: Report. Read here.

XDS and ICS Arabia ink 15-year deal for 10MW data centres in Saudi Arabia. Read here.


APAC

NTT data center unit to invest $3 billion amid AI computing boom. Read here.

Stonepeak Invests $1.3 Billion In Warburg Pincus-Backed Data Center Operator Princeton Digital. Read here.

Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres plans new 150MW campus in Sydney. Read here.

CapitaLand partners with Alibaba Cloud to boost AI in China ops. Read here.

Gamuda, IJM and Sunway top contenders for US$ 2.35 billion data center jobs. Read here.

Vietnam’s CMC Corp to build US$ 250 million hyperscale data center. Read here.

Edgnex Data Centers by DAMAC builds $2.3-B data centre in Jakarta. Read here.

AI OS company claims it will build quantum data center in Indonesia. Read here.


North America

Meta’s Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push. Read here.

Trump Hails $90 Billion in A.I. Infrastructure Investments at Pennsylvania Summit. Read here.

Google to invest $25 billion in data centers and AI infrastructure across largest U.S. electric grid. Read here.

Amazon accelerates US’ leadership in AI with $20bn data centre investment. Read here.

CoreWeave commits $6 billion to Pennsylvania data center amid Trump AI push. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Invests $3 Billion to Deliver AI Campus in Growing Nevada Market. Read here.

Powerhouse forms JV with new data centre firm for 1.35GW Pennsylvania deployment. Read here.

Woodland Cree First Nation to develop 650MW data center in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

Developer looks to build 30-plus data centers in North Pocono. Read here.

No plans to pursue $832m ‘Project Maize’ data center, says Michigan City Mayor. Read here.

Google confirmed to be behind ‘Project Flo’ Indianapolis, Indiana, data center proposal. Read here.

QTS plans 15-building data center campus in Madison, Wisconsin. Read here.

Westbridge Renewables starts work on maiden data center in Colorado. Read here.

Edged eyes second Dallas-Fort Worth campus. Read here.

Canada’s Maple 8 are pouring billions into AI data centres. Read here.

University of Michigan tells residents $1.2bn data center won’t impact water supply or energy costs. Read here.

City officials in Wisconsin are hoping to find a partner to turn a former car manufacturing site into a new data center campus. Read here.


South America

RT-One Sets Sights on Brazil with US$1.2bn Data Centre. Read here.

Chateau, Odata receive approvals for new Brazil data center projects. Read here.


Other interesting articles

AI giants made ‘epic mistake’ trusting grid power says $300bn ‘Trump’ plan tycoon. Read here.

There aren’t enough AI chips to support data center projections, report says. Read here.

How Construction Robots Are Helping GCs Meet Unprecedented Demand. Read here.

Seven fascinating sustainable data-centre projects. Read here.

Data centre boom helps push US contractors’ backlogs further out. Read here.

British astronaut Tim Peake wants to ‘put the data centers into space’: Here’s why. Read here.


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Shaping Future Talent at UTC Swindon

Activate Learning Education Trust (ALET) are wrapping up the academic year with a series of high-energy Challenge Days, one of which was at UTC Swindon. With industry mentors from LMG, CNet Training, CBRE, and ARK Data Centres (all part of the Digital Futures Programme) alongside prospective partners Power Harvest and T.E. Connectivity, students in Years 10 and 12 were given a unique opportunity to step into the shoes of industry professionals.

Challenge Days at UTCs like the one in Swindon are all about bridging the gap between education and employment. Students work in mixed groups to tackle real-world projects that mirror the kind of challenges they could face in industry – and this one was no exception.

“Another Challenge Day and another chance to admire the enthusiasm, energy and commitment of students, this time with UTC Swindon. Ark’s partnership with the Digital Futures Programme is in recognition of what is needed to encourage an engineering generation of the future, so critical to the data centre sector. But it doesn’t stop there and we take immense pride in giving something back, both as a company and on a individual basis.” – Allan Bosley, Ark Data Centres


The challenge: from coal power to smart city

The brief? To redevelop the recently decommissioned Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station into a self-sufficient, smart city that includes housing, office space, retail, leisure, and a dedicated data centre.

Across three themed challenges – repurposing the site, designing a safe and connected smart city, and ensuring sustainable, self-sufficient energy – students were guided by employer mentors who shared their industry knowledge, career journeys, and practical advice throughout the day.

Over 200 students participated across multiple classrooms, with each group supported by employers who offered guidance on project feasibility, team collaboration, communication, and innovation.

At the end of the day, each team presented their ideas to their mentors, who judged the solutions based on creativity, practicality, costings, design and presentation – and awarded certificates and prizes to their winning team.

“It was really encouraging to see the students working together to tackle complex questions around financing, security, planning, and sustainability. At Phi, we’re committed to nurturing emerging British talent and supporting the next generation as they prepare to lead our industry forward. The Digital Futures Programme gives them a chance to apply their skills in real-world scenarios, which is exactly what our sector needs more of. We see real potential in initiatives like the DFP and are actively exploring further ways to get involved.” – Sydney Bennett-Miller, Power Harvest Infrastructure


How to get involved 

For employers, Challenge Days offer far more than just a feel-good opportunity to give back. They’re a chance to:

  • Support diversity and inclusion – be part of a programme that’s widening access and awareness of your sector among young people from a variety of backgrounds.
  • Connect directly with future talent – engage with over 1,000 enthusiastic, work-ready students who are eager to learn about careers in data centres and beyond. ALET have had great success with the Digital Futures Programme so far, with three students from this year’s cohort (so far) starting apprenticeships at firms like Vertiv and LMG.
  • Collaborate with others in the industry – from DFP members to new partners, these events foster meaningful connections between companies across the data centre ecosystem. It’s a chance come together to discuss challenges in the industry while helping inspire a new wave of data centre talent.

UTC Swindon and the Digital Futures Programme are creating a genuine pipeline of early careers talent for data centre employers, by equipping students with the skills, confidence, and industry knowledge they need to succeed – and they can’t do it without their partners.

If you’re interested in getting involved in future Challenge Days or learning more about how your company can benefit from becoming a Digital Futures Programme partner, the team would love to hear from you.



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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 11th July 2025

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Reports

BCS Consultancy: 2025 Summer report. Read here.

LSE: Uncertainty and upward bias are inherent in Data Center electricity demand projections. Read here.


Europe

Plans to be lodged for €1bn data centre campus in Westmeath. Read here.

More clean energy pledged for proposed €3bn data center campus in County Kildaire, Ireland. Read here.

Sovereign European cloud Evroc launches. Read here.

Real estate investment management firm BentallGreenOak (BGO) has launched its own data center platform. Read here.

Logistics real estate firm Panattoni forms dedicated European data center team. Read here.

Groq leases space at Equinix data center in Helsinki, Finland. Read here.

Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has teamed up with IT services provider Edora to establish a data centre within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. Read here.

France poised to become a data centre powerhouse as electricity demand surges 74% by 2050. Read here.

New company claims plans for three data center campuses in Italy. Read here.

Eni, Khazna to build 500 MW AI data center campus in Italy. Read here.

Plans for a major new digital ‘green data’ campus on farmland in Coldstream (Scotland) have moved closer to reality. Read here.

Detailed plans unveiled for £1bn Data Centre at Pinewood. Read here.

Residents of two villages near Corsham are mustering to fight proposals for the construction of a sixth data centre near their homes. Read here.

Former Lloyds data centre in Pudsey set to be transformed into 124 homes. Read here.

Yondr Powers Up 40MW Frankfurt Data Centre as European Growth Accelerates. Read here.

The Schwarz Group, a German-based retailer which owns the supermarket chain Lidl, plans to lead the development of a major data center for AI. Read here.

Winthrop Technologies revenue surges past €1.5bn amid European expansion. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

XDS Datacentres and ICS Arabia partner to launch landmark 10MW immersion cooled data center in KSA. Read here.

Ooredoo taps Syntys for AI cloud data centres in Qatar. Read here.

Morocco to Build 500MW Renewable-Powered Data Centre. Read here.

KSA construction market thrives as data centres and diversification drive Middle East demand. Read here.

DataVolt seeks firms for Riyadh 70MW data centre. Read here.


APAC

China wants 115,000 Nvidia chips to power Data Centre in the desert. Read here.

Singapore data centre NTT DC REIT to raise around $773 million from IPO. Read here.

MOL and Karpowership Plan to Convert Car Carriers to Floating Data Centers. Read here.

Digital Edge secures US$582 million data centre green loan. Read here.

Consortium proposes $2 billion hyperscale data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.

Goodman Group forms AU$4.1bn fund for Hong Kong data centers. Read here.

NeutraDC Nxera Batam inks MOU with Medco Power to power its AI data center with renewables. Read here.

Empyrion Digital opens KR1 Gangnam data center. Read here.


North America

AI data centre group CoreWeave strikes $9bn deal to buy rival Core Scientific. Read here.

Westbridge Renewable Energy Announces Launch of First Data Centre Project: Fontus, a 380+ MW Strategic Hub in Colorado. Read here.

Why Google’s $75 Billion Data Center Bet is a Masterstroke in the AI Race. Read here.

Switch building “AI factories” in Las Vegas. Read here.

Starwood files to develop 1.2GW, 11-building data center campus in Delaware. Read here.

Energy Campus accelerates Alberta’s low-carbon data centre infrastructure. Read here.

Rainbow Energy plans data center powered by North Dakota’s largest coal plant – report. Read here.

BluSky AI Inc. Secures First Site with 9.3MW to Launch Flagship Data Center in Central, Utah. Read here.

Novva Data Centers Announces the Launch of Tahoe Reno Data Center. Read here.

NuQuest Energy II presents high-value data center and battery storage portfolio. Read here.

Denver Company To Build 263,000 Sq. Ft. Data Center At Busse & Howard. Read here.

Two data centers proposed for vacant lot in San Jose, California. Read here.

Developer lets slip who’s behind Indianapolis data center, and it’s a name you know. Read here.

EdgeConneX plans to develop more than 1 million sq ft of data center space outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.


South America

Patria Investments partners with Casa dos Ventos for data center project in Ceará, Brazil. Read here.

Ascenty plans more data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.


Other interesting articles

The AI energy crunch: Meeting the data center surge. Read here.

Majority of top data centre hubs face climate change risks. Read here.

2025 AI infrastructure: What the data is telling leaders now. Read here.

Minister cautions that water demand represents ‘very large issue for data centres’. Read here.

Data centre colocation market to double, driven by AI demand. Read here.

AI data centres could be key to reducing billions in electricity constraint costs. Read here.


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