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Reports

Data Center Capex Surges 57 Percent in 2025 as AI Deployments Accelerate, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2025. Read here.

Microsoft: Putting communities first: Our decision to end NDAs with local governments. Read here.

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NVIDIA GTC

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI. Read here.

Keynote: Watch here.

Nvidia GTC 2026: CEO Jensen Huang sees $1 trillion in orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through ’27. Read here.

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Europe

Xynteo spin-off ‘PoweringAI’ launches to revolutionise European AI infrastructure through industrial transformation. Read here.

Nebius signs new AI infrastructure agreement with Meta; deal to accelerate growth of Nebius’s core business in AI cloud. Read here.

Nebius Group announces pricing of upsized private offering of $4.0 billion of convertible senior notes. Read here.

Nscale to Deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform in 2027, Bringing 100,000+ GPUs to Europe. Read here.

SEGRO Pure Premier Park Data Centre Limited receives planning committee approval. Read here.

Green light for two data centres at £900m Stevenage life sciences hub. Read here.

Tritax Big Box delays data centre completion as awaits green light. Read here.

Japanese Company Buys £250M London Office And Data Centre Scheme. Read here.

Microsoft is building a new datacenter in Køge (Denmark). Read here.

Gigawatt-scale data center planned for Choczewo, Poland. Read here.

Equinix begins work on new €87m data centre in Dublin. Read here.

Sunly plans to build Baltic region’s largest data center in Estonia. Read here.

Fossefall eyes data center in Rollag, Norway – report. Read here.

Norway’s Østfold Energi targets data center developments south of Oslo. Read here.

T1 Energy Secures 50MW Grid Allocation for Nordic Data Center Asset. Read here.

360MW data center campus planned on Germany’s eastern border. Read here.

40MW data center planned for industrial park near Butzbach, Germany. Read here.

Ark DC enters Spain to build 45MW data center in Barcelona. Read here.

Former paper mill site in Finland targeted for data center use – report. Read here.

Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north. Read here.

Edinburgh Council approves temporary ban on AI data centres. Read here.

UK to Fast‑Track Data Centre Connections as Grid Queue Soars 460%. Read here.

Schneider Electric expands NVIDIA partnership with Vera Rubin reference designs. Read here.

Foresight Raises $25M Series A to Close the Execution Gap in the Global Infrastructure Supercycle. Read here.

Lunar Digital and Asanti Data Centres Form Joint Venture to Expand AI and Edge Infrastructure Across the UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Egypt’s minister discusses Sinai hydrogen project, hyperscale data center with Renergy alliance. Read here.

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APAC

Shinsegae Group and Reflection AI to build 250MW sovereign AI data center in South Korea. Read here.

Digital Edge Secures Indonesia’s Largest Data Center Green Loan of US$665 Million to Advance AI-Ready Hyperscale Campus. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres Plans Major Investment With Global Partners To Strengthen Singapore’s Position As Asia Pacific’s Leading AI Hub. Read here.

GMI Cloud unveils $12 Billion, 1GW sovereign AI infrastructure initiative in Japan. Read here.

Edge data center firm Armada secures 11MW deployment with WinDC in Australia. Read here.

DayOne seeks to double loan to record US$ 7 billion: Bloomberg. Read here.

STT GDC India breaks ground for data center campus in Palava. Read here.

EdgeConneX breaks ground on Osaka data center. Read here.

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North America

Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar to Deliver 1.35GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs at Flagship AI Factory Campus in West Virginia. Read here.

Nscale Acquires American Intelligence & Power Corporation, Creating a Full Stack AI Hyperscaler, Integrated from Energy to Compute. Read here.

Google: We’ve now signed 1 GW of data center demand response with utility partners, harnessing our electricity growth for smarter utilization of U.S. electricity systems. Read here.

Google: Scaling clean energy and reliability in Michigan. Read here.

Google commits $1B to North Carolina data centers as AI demand surges. Read here.

Microsoft to invest $52m in data centers in Medina, Texas. Read here.

AWS files to develop data centers in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

McDuffie County leaders approve $1B Project Azalea data center. Read here.

Canada’s Bell announces 300MW data center campus in Saskatchewan, names CoreWeave & Cerebras as customers. Read here.

Another massive data center project is eyed near Samsung’s factory in Taylor. Read here.

AI infrastructure and cybersecurity company Available Infrastructure has announced Project Qestrel, which is a nationwide network of private edge data centres across the U.S. Read here.

Crusoe Expands NVIDIA Collaboration Across the Full AI Factory Stack, Delivering the Complete Infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era. Read here.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites. Read here.

Ecolab close to buying KKR’s data center cooling company for up to $5 billion, WSJ reports. Read here.

US real estate company Comstock is entering the data center space and partnering on two projects. Read here.

QTS acquires 1,700 acres of land in Pennsylvania for data center development. Read here.

Behind-the-meter data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

648-acre data center could be built in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Read here.

164 acre data center could come to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Read here.

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South America

Data centers in Mexico: energy, costs, and geopolitics reshaping the sector. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Europe’s industrial legacy holds the answer to its digital future. Read here.

Understanding Operational Engineering Skills Shortages in the UK Data Centre Industry: Training Pathways, Leadership Practices and Future Skills Strategies. Read here.

How Data Centers And Utilities Can Work Together To Tackle Grid Constraint And Ensure Energy Resilience. Read here.

Lenders struggle to find insurance cover for mega data centre projects. Read here.

Demand connection reform: How to secure a data centre grid connection. Read here.

Using inexpensive MicroLEDs, Microsoft networking innovation aims to make datacenters more efficient. Read here.

How the red-hot AI data center boom is igniting demand for a new, lucrative career path: Trade workers. Read here.

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Europe

AVK and Pure DC Deploy Europe’s First Data Centre Microgrid. Read here.

Apto Announces Largest Data Centre Campus in Madrid Cloud Region. Read here.

NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud. Read here.

Nscale Raises $2 Billion in Series C — the Largest in European History. Read here.

Powering AI: Europe switches on its first microgrid-connected data center. Read here.

‘Billions of pounds’ of AI investment could bring hundreds of skilled jobs to North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Spanish renewables firm FRV plans €2.8bn data center in Mérida. Read here.

Polarise Builds Artificial Intelligence Data Center in Amberg – Unterallgäu (Greater Augsburg Area). Read here.

Microsoft breaks ground on data center in Bergheim, Germany. Read here.

Plans in the pipeline for second data centre in Northumberland. Read here.

£1bn data center to be built next to UK studio where James Bond was filmed. Read here.

Pure Data Centres Wants to Triple Capacity With AI Boom. Read here.

Pure Data Centres appoints industry Leader Gary Wojtaszek as Executive Chairman and Interim CEO. Read here.

Pure DC Completes Europe’s First Successful Data Centre Biomethane Proof of Concept. Read here.

Scottish campaigners demand moratorium on hyperscale data centres. Read here.

Karatzis Group to build €240m data center in Boeotia, Greece. Read here.

Construction begins on Telia Lietuva data center in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read here.

Plans for ammonia plant in Norway dropped, company set to target site for data center development. Read here.

€48M deal may turn former Finnish paper mill into huge data hub. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre to generate hundreds of journeys. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

400MW data center could be built in eastern South Africa. Read here.

Humain secures 211 plots of land in Saudi Arabia for data centers. Read here.

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APAC

AI giant Anthropic confirms Australian launch and data centre plans. Read here.

New Zealand’s Datagrid gets approval for 280MW campus near Invercargill. Read here.

Bridge DC plans $3.9 billion Singapore AI investment over coming years. Read here.

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Taps $1.2 Billion Loan To Expand Tokyo Data Center. Read here.

Data centre giant AirTrunk bets big on Singapore, mulling Reit IPO. Read here.

DayOne partners Cortical Labs to develop Singapore’s first biological data center. Read here.

Datagrid secures approval for New Zealand’s first AI factory in Southland. Read here.

Warburg-backed Princeton to raise US$5 billion in debt for data centres. Read here.

Vietnam’s US$2 billion AI data center to start construction in April. Read here.

Macquarie Technology secures AUD 200m to expand sovereign digital infrastructure. Read here.

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North America

Moody’s flags $662 billion risk at the heart of the data center build-out by just 5 companies. Read here.

Microsoft, Meta fuel near $1trn boom in data centre leases. Read here.

Core Scientific Secures Strategic Financing with Morgan Stanley for Up To $1 Billion. Read here.

Crusoe Unveils Crusoe Edge Zones to Deliver High-Performance AI Infrastructure, Powered by Crusoe Spark Modular AI Data Centers. Read here.

Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI’s Stargate skipped – report. Read here.

Nvidia Cloud Ally Nscale in Talks to Buy a Major U.S. Data Center Site Ahead of IPO. Read here.

Applied Digital Announces Pricing of $2.15 Billion of Senior Secured Notes to fund Polaris Forge 2 Campus. Read here.

Stream ups planned investment in New York campus to $19.46 billion. Read here.

AWS likely behind plans for $750m data center in Clinton, Mississippi. Read here.

Penzance to invest $4B for West Virginia data center build. Read here.

InfraPartners and Emerald AI partner to unlock grid capacity and cost-effectiveness for AI data centers. Read here.

Proposal for $20bn data center outside Chicago recommended for approval by local planning commission. Read here.

Stack set to acquire site in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.

New data center construction confirmed in Adams County, Ohio. Read here.

MS regulators approve 41 gas turbines at xAI. Read here.

Underwater data center powered by tidal energy proposed off the coast of Maine. Read here.

Floating Wind Tech Developer Zooms In on AI | Aikido Unveils Data Centre Concept, Selected for NVIDIA Programme. Read here.

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South America

KIO starts construction of 4MW MEX8 data center in Mexico City. Read here.

Brazil’s Serpro to build two data centers to expand processing capacity. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Australian Startup Develops Data Centres Using Human Brain Cells. Read here.

Data Center Developers Battle For Hearts And Minds For Their Projects. Read here.

Survey reveals Gen Z least likely to back data centres in their local area. Read here.

BlackRock is splashing $100 million on training plumbers, electricians, and HVAC technicians as its CEO flags a skilled trade worker shortage. Read here.

Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes (UK), builders warn. Read here.

How are Data Centres Supporting Local Construction Workers? Read here.

The AI boom beneath our feet: How data centres are rewriting mineral demand. Read here.

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Reports

CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H2 2025. Read here.

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Europe

Amazon increases investment in Spain to €33.7 billion to expand data center infrastructure and drive AI innovation across Europe. Read here.

Solaria reaches a new agreement with Merlin for a second data centre (213 MW) powered by a hybrid PPA. Read here.

Digital Realty Enters Portugal, Strengthening Southern Europe’s Digital Backbone. Read here.

New Vinci Energies Portugal chief eyes data centres as key growth driver. Read here.

Å Energi and Bulk Infrastructure have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement in connection with the construction of the Øygard hydropower plant in Åseral, Norway. Read here.

New policy coming on data centres, City Hall (London) says. Read here.

Ada Infrastructure Celebrates Groundbreaking of its 210 Megawatt Docklands Data Center Campus in London. Read here.

Digital Realty Enters Bulgaria with Acquisition of Highly Connected Interconnection Hub in Sofia. Read here.

Construction firm Hochtief has broken ground on a new wooden Edge data center it is building for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. Read here.

Green Mountain partners with Norwegian paper mill company for potential data center development. Read here.

Zeus Data Center plans first data center, Big Nuage, in Saumur, France. Read here.

Boosteroid and DL Invest to build massive data centre in Poland. Read here.

Croatia plans biomass-powered data centre using olive oil industry waste. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre – What we know about development. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre consultation approved by council. Read here.

Greencoat Renewables targets AI data centre boom with infrastructure platform. Read here.

Floating AI data centre set to enter UK waters in 2028. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes. Read here.

Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive. Read here.

Amazon’s Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says. Read here.

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APAC

ByteDance locks in 500MW of Vnet capacity for Doubao buildout: report. Read here.

Macquarie Takes on $410M Korean Hyperscale Data Centre Partnership. Read here.

Taipower forecasts over 5GW new power demand by 2030 amid semiconductor and AI data center expansion. Read here.

Stockland finalises EdgeConneX data centre JV as CEO plots more investment. Read here.

LG launches containerized data center offering, plans 60MW deployment in Busan, South Korea. Read here.

Sydney-Based Iren Orders 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to Supercharge AI Data Center Expansion. Read here.

Firmus secures “multi-billion-dollar” AI contract for Melbourne. Read here.

Goodman breaks ground on 90MW Sydney DC as pipeline reaches AUD 18bn. Read here.

Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU Infrastructure in Vietnam, Enabling Cloud Gaming and AI Services. Read here.

Bridge DC, Concord New Energy assess barge-based hydrogen for data centres. Read here.

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North America

Trump tells AI companies they need ‘PR help’ over data centre backlash. Read here.

Oracle plans to again cut thousands of jobs to free up AI data center cash flow. Read here.

NVIDIA and Coherent Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Optics Technology to Scale Next-Generation Data Center Architecture. Read here.

Blackstone Plans Public Company for AI Data-Center Buying Spree. Read here.

Super Micro Computer Targets Scalable AI Growth With Modular Data Center Push. Read here.

xAI expansion: $659M permit filed for Memphis Colossus 2 site. Read here.

CoreWeave aims to add 5GW more data center capacity by 2030, anticipates capex in 2026 to double. Read here.

Core Scientific Announces Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Results. Read here.

NTT secures four data center leases in US totaling 115MW. Read here.

Amazon has bought a university campus in Virginia and is eventually planning to develop it into a new data center campus. Read here.

Google files for fifth data center at Midlothian campus in Texas. Read here.

Meta signs pre-development agreement for data center in Beloit, Wisconsin. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale details plans for Dallas data center campus. Read here.

Penzance targets 600MW data center campus in West Virginia. Read here.

TransAlta, CPP, Brookfield ink MoU for 230MW Alberta data center project. Read here.

Prologis reveals site plan, begins work on hyperscale data center in Butler County. Read here.

Birmingham City Council votes to pause new data center applications for six months. Read here.

Oregon moves toward 1-year moratorium on some data center tax breaks. Read here.

Data centers propelled Turner to record $29.2B in revenue in 2025. Read here.

GI Partners Acquires Two Baltimore-Area Data Centers. Read here.

Babcock & Wilcox has been cleared to deliver a $2.4 billion gas-fired power project that will supply electricity to Applied Digital’s expanding artificial intelligence data center campuses. Read here.

Harrison Street sells two powered shell data center sites in Maryland. Read here.

HighBrook Investors Closes Inaugural Data Center Fund to Develop 300 MW in Northern Virginia. Read here.

La Caisse invests CAD 240 million to advance Cologix’s AI-ready MTL8 data centre in Montréal. Read here.

Atlantic Energy Selected by Viking Data Centers to Power 380,000 Sq. Ft. Akron Facility, Expandable to 150 MW. Read here.

Tax breaks for an 800MW Nebius data center campus in Independence, Missouri, have been approved. Read here.

$5bn data center project in the works around Columbus, Georgia. Read here.

Proposed Clinton data center will be the largest economic development project in city history. Read here.

Glass-walled Edge data center dubbed the ‘Fish Bowl’ proposed for South Miami-Dade, Florida. Read here.

West Louisville data center approved despite opposition. Read here.

Microsoft hosts open house on proposed data center in Lowell Township. Read here.

New York data mining company to open data center in Grand Island. Read here.

Data center developer withdraws Apex project after community opposition. Read here.

Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Google’s Data Center Buildout Could Top $1 Trillion. Read here.

Data centres in space: less crazy than you think. Read here.

Meta Grants Are Fueling Innovation in Local Data Center Communities. Read here.

How states are trying to keep AI data centers off your power bill. Read here.

Powering the AI Revolution: Why grid stability is the next frontier in sustainable data center growth. Read here.

How Data Centers Became a Casualty of War. Read here.

Resisting the Data Center Boom. Read here.

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Reports

sightline climate: Data center outlook: half of 2026 pipeline may not materialize. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Americas Data Center Update | H2 2025. Read here.

Rider Levett Bucknall’s 2026 Global Annual Report. Read here.

Aecom: Unlocking data centre growth in the UK: four recommendations. Read here.

BCG: Data Centres as Strategic Infrastructure: Unlocking Value for NZ Inc. Read here.

Hyperscaler compute capacity will double over next two years, says Wells Fargo. Read here.

MPs to examine data centres climate impact as Miliband says future demand “inherently uncertain”. Read here.

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Europe

CPP Investments and Equinix join forces to acquire atNorth to further accelerate growth in the Nordics. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres has announced the successful closing of an initial €1.7 billion loan financing provided by Morgan Stanley. Read here.

Start Campus and EDP enter agreement to accelerate renewable-powered Data Center development in Portugal. Read here.

Altarea and Vantage Data Centers Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop AI and Cloud Data Center Campus in France. Read here.

Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group moves into AI compute with majority investment in Polarise. Read here.

Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group expands digital footprint with agreement to acquire significant stake in US Data Center company. Read here.

atNorth confirmed plans to develop a 300MW data center in Sollefteå Municipality, Sweden. Read here.

EdgeConneX Looks to Enter Swedish Market as Part of European Data Center Expansion Strategy. Read here.

500MW data center campus planned for Bełchatów, Poland. Read here.

Yondr Group secures inaugural ABS financing for its London campus. Read here.

Tritax targets data center project in Chelmsford, UK. Read here.

Finland’s YIT plans data center in Kontiolahti. Read here.

Latos Data Centres has launched a public consultation on proposals for a new AI-ready Neural Edge data centre at Bower Street in East Manchester. Read here.

Plans for £1 billion Bucks data centre approved by council. Read here.

Havering Data Centre Row Deepens as Consultation Plans Revealed. Read here.

McLaren secures Docklands data centre shell-and-core job. Read here.

700MW data center could be built at Port of Dunkirk, northern France. Read here.

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects designs structural stone data centre in Sweden. Read here.

Drax flicks switch on data centre plan. Read here.

Sales at Spanish construction group ACS saw its sales rise 19.7% in 2025. Read here.

Equinix committing up to $700M in New Hanley Energy Facility in Dundalk, Creating Hundreds of Skilled Jobs. Read here.

Altibox Carrier and DataVita Announce Strategic Partnership to Connect Scotland to the Nordics via the NO-UK Subsea Cable. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Dalia Energy, a utility firm, has announced plans for a 130MW AI data center outside the city of Ashdod, Israel. Read here.

QST considers cashing in on Saudi business. Read here.

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APAC

Hyundai plans $7.5bn AI data center campus in South Korea – report. Read here.

ESR plans 60MW data center in Mumbai, India. Read here.

An Indian company is set to build a $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s GPUs and go public. Here’s what we know so far. Read here.

Kazakhstan plans Central Asia’s largest data centre campus. Read here.

Macquarie boosts profit as Sydney data centre spend rises. Read here.

Spark NZ completes sale of data center business, unit renamed to TenPeaks. Read here.

Staffing and consulting company Tryfacta signs MoU to develop 1GW Indian data center. Read here.

CDC opens Melbourne campus as Victoria positions for 800 MW. Read here.

Taiwanese whisky company contemplates foray into data centers! Read here.

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North America

Scoop: Trump brings Big Tech to White House to curb power costs amid AI boom. Read here.

Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue. Read here.

Nvidia reports record quarterly data center revenue of $62.3bn, up 75% YoY. Read here.

Coreweave: A Defining Year for The Essential Cloud for AI. Read here.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030. Read here.

Amazon to invest $12 billion in first data center campuses in Louisiana. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Announces Data Center Developments Supporting Economic Growth in Louisiana. Read here.

Amazon looks to build large-scale data center campus next to nuclear plant in Texas. Read here.

Brookfield Launches Radiant as first vertically integrated AI Infrastructure Company Through Merger with Ori Industries. Read here.

MARA Announces Strategic Partnership with Starwood to Accelerate Delivery of Cutting Edge Hyperscale, Enterprise and AI Capable Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

A $10-billion AI data centre races ahead in a rural Alberta town, population 9,679. Read here.

US utility PPL sees data center pipeline swell by 23 percent to 25.2GW. Read here.

Microsoft to start permitting for 1,385-acre data center campus in North Carolina. Read here.

D.C.-based real estate firm investing $4B for new data center development in Berkeley County, WV. Read here.

Plug Power sells New York hydrogen site to data centre developer for $132.5m. Read here.

Lenders committed $121bn to US data center construction in 2025. Read here.

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South America

Why Google is hooking up to Uruguay’s Antel data center. Read here.

What is ReData? Inside Brazil’s new data centre tax scheme. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data centres seek credit ratings to unlock billions in funding for AI push. Read here.

AI data centres risk doubling Britain’s energy use and pushing up bills. Read here.

The AI Backlash Is Real. And It’s Winning. Read here.

‘It seemed to defy the laws of physics’: The everlasting ‘memory crystals’ that could slash data centre emissions. Read here.

US Data Center Construction Fell Amid Permit and Power Delays. Read here.

AI and the Data Center Backlash. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

Can we build Data Centers fast enough? | Episode 3 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Listen here. Watch here.

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: H2 2025 EMEA Data Centre Market Update. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Year-end 2025. Read here.

POLITICO asked 2,000 people about data centers — and made 5 charts. Read here.

Anthropic: Covering electricity price increases from our data centers. Read here.

Oracle: Designing Data Centers for the Communities and Natural Environments Where We Operate. Read here.

Microsoft: We need to act with urgency to address the growing AI divide. Read here.

e-on: Two-thirds of Brits support data centre in their vicinity – provided the waste heat is used efficiently. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale Signs a $1.4bn Delayed Draw Term Loan Backed by GPUs to Finance Multiple Cluster Deployments Across Europe. Read here.

Amazon files to develop tape library data center outside London, UK. Read here.

Plans to build ‘hyperscale’ data centres on Chelmsford fields. Read here.

Proposals submitted for 500MW Data Centre in Somerset (UK). Read here.

AI cloud firm Nebius posts surge in capex on GPU, data center expenses. Read here.

UK MPs fear data centre boom could derail Miliband’s net zero plans. Read here.

Fossefall is looking to develop in Harpefoss in central Norway, while PolarDC is targeting two sites south of Oslo in Drangedal and Porsgrunni. Read here.

Plans advance for 50MW data center in Certosa di Pavia, Italy. Read here.

Mediterra arrives in Catalonia, plans Barcelona data center. Read here.

Large data centre investment in Germany totals more than €1 billion in 2025. Read here.

Data center planned on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Khazna launches DC skills development graduate program. Read here.

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APAC

Sharon AI Announces Nasdaq Listing and Pricing of $125 Million U.S. Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Indian data center firm Yotta to build $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips. Read here.

Adani Group to Invest $100 Billion in Renewable-Powered AI Data Centres by 2035. Read here.

Introducing OpenAI for India. Read here.

Tata Group and OpenAI Form Partnership, to Develop AI Data Centers. Read here.

Reliance to invest $110bn in AI as India’s data center sector heats up. Read here.

AirTrunk fires starting pistol as AI bond bonanza reaches Down Under. Read here.

Blackstone Leads $1.2B Funding Round for India AI Data Centre Startup Neysa. Read here.

Govt. approves 601.40 acres of land for Google data centre in Vizag. Read here.

Macquarie boosts loan to fund Sydney AI data centre. Read here.

Goodman tilts pipeline towards data centres as power bank reaches 6GW. Read here.

Equinix inks 121 MW data center solar deal in Japan. Read here.

Blackstone leads $1.2 billion funding for India’s AI infra platform Neysa. Read here.

DigiCo will triple size of flagship data centre, despite scepticism. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in “global south”. Read here.

O’Leary Digital Forms Joint Venture to Advance 7.5 GW Wonder Valley Utah Campus; Alberta Permitting Underway. Read here.

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs. Read here.

Anthropic cloud spend expected to reach $80bn through 2029. Read here.

Fleet Data Centers Announces Pricing of $3.8 Billion of Senior Secured Notes for Hyperscale Facility in Rapidly Growing Reno Hub. Read here.

Rowan Secures $550 Million of Construction Financing for 300 MW Cinco Project in Texas. Read here.

Mortenson, Turner win $10B Meta data center in Indiana. Read here.

Turner Selected as One of the Contractors for $10 Billion Meta Data Center Campus in Indiana. Read here.

$3bn Data center one step closer to reality after Spartanburg County Council approval. Read here.

New US platform, Prime Power Inc, launches to deliver low-carbon energy to data centres. Read here.

Data centres consider backing uranium projects, NexGen CEO says. Read here.

CBRE hits record revenue with boost from data centers. Read here.

1606 Corp to acquire plot of land in Texas for AI data center development. Read here.

900 acre expansion to Alabama’s “Project Marvel” receives recommendation from planning commission. Read here.

Maricopa County greenlights massive AI data center project amid development boom. Read here.

US operator Skybox Datacenters has secured permission to develop a new facility around Austin, Texas. Read here.

Zeo Energy to supply 280MW of power for Creekstone Energy’s up to 10GW data center campus in Millard County, Utah. Read here.

San Marcos leaders reject plans to build controversial data center. Read here.

Zeo, Creekstone Plan 280 MW Behind-the-Meter Power for Utah AI Data Center. Read here.

4 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Granger meeting draws crowd for update on large Microsoft data center planned. Read here.

Moratorium on large AI data centers in Maine under consideration. Read here.

‘A Big F*ck You to Big Tech’: New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center. Read here.

Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center. Read here.

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South America

Microsoft brings two data halls online in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.

Mexico Data Centers Face Talent Gap, Threatening Growth. Read here.

Terranova launches in Mexico with its first data center campus. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Global Technology Leaders to Launch Trusted Tech Alliance. Read here.

Land Grab for Data Centers Is One More Obstacle to Much-Needed Housing. Read here.

Will rapid data center growth help Arizona? Examining the pros and cons. Read here.

Meet 16 Data Center Executives Leading the AI Buildout. Read here.

Elon Musk is pushing to build data centers in space. But they won’t solve AI’s power problems anytime soon. Read here.

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Read here.

New Hyperscaler Self-Build Capacity Growth to Outpace Colocation Supply Growth in Europe. Read here.

Land, labour and lead times: The hard limits on the AI datacentre boom. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

How are European Data Center markets evolving? | Episode 2 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Listen here. Watch here.

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Reports

AI Boom Drives Data Center Capex to $1.7 Trillion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market to Surpass $80 Billion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

Synergy Research Group: GenAI Helps Drive Quarterly Cloud Revenues to $119 Billion as Growth Rate Jumped Yet Again in Q4. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre H2 2025 Update. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale Signs a $1.4bn Delayed Draw Term Loan Backed by GPUs to Finance Multiple Cluster Deployments Across Europe. Read here.

Elite UK REIT has secured planning consent for a major data center development in Blackpool. Read here.

Mistral AI and EcoDataCenter Partner to Build AI-focused Data Center in Sweden. Read here.

AtNorth files to expand planned data center campus in Kouvola, Finland. Read here.

Magnora has secured attractive land for a new 100 MW data center development project. Read here.

Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France. Read here.

Former sugar refinery near Caen, France, could become AI data center. Read here.

Plans approved for £250m data centre. Read here.

Pulsant injects £10m into Milton Keynes data centre. Read here.

CyrusOne tops out latest Frankfurt data center in Germany. Read here.

Merlin abandons plans to build data centers in Andalusia due to lack of guaranteed power supply. Read here.

Glencar tipped for latest London data centre. Read here.

Cisco to build data center in Krakow, Poland. Read here.

GIC Weighs Selling Stake in European Data Center JV for Up to €1 Billion. Read here.

Croatia plans biomass-powered data center using olive oil industry waste. Read here.

Vantage denied permission for data center outside Frankfurt. Read here.

Submer acquires Radian Arc to provide full-stack AI infrastructure, from core datacenters to edge compute. Read here.

AEW enters German data center sector with Nuremberg acquisition. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft Confirms Saudi Arabia Datacenter Region Available for Customers to Run Cloud Workloads from Q4 2026. Read here.

Middle East’s AI and data centre surge spotlighted at Datacloud market address. Read here.

Henox and CloudOne AI sign strategic partnership to enable 50MW AI-driven data centre infrastructure. Read here.

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APAC

Firmus Secures US$10 Billion Financing led by Blackstone and Coatue to Scale Energy-Efficient AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Abu Dhabi’s G42 Leads $1 Billion Data Center Project in Vietnam. Read here.

OpenAI, Samsung SDS and SK Telecom set to start building data centres in Korea in March, minister says. Read here.

New York funds giant to pour $1.2b into Melbourne data centre. Read here.

Sharjah signs tripartite MoU to develop data centers and AI infrastructure. Read here.

Nxera opens 58MW green data center in Singapore. Read here.

Stack breaks ground on second Tokyo data center. Read here.

NTT buys land in Bangkok, Thailand, for new data center. Read here.

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North America

Meta breaks ground on $10bn data centre campus in Lebanon, Indiana. Read here.

Meta purchases additional 1,400 acres for Hyperion mega-data center expansion. Read here.

Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity costs. Read here.

Equinix forecasts 10-11% revenue growth in 2026 amid AI demand. Read here.

Google secures nearly $32bn in debt following major data center capex commitment. Read here.

Google Backs TeraWulf Shift From Bitcoin Mining To AI Data Centers. Read here.

Energy Vault and Crusoe Announce Strategic Framework Agreement for Deployment of Crusoe Spark Modular AI Factory Units to Deliver Crusoe Cloud. Read here.

Ares Arranges $2.4 Billion Debt Facility to Vantage Data Centers. Read here.

White House eyes data center agreements amid energy price spikes. Read here.

CyrusOne partners with Constellation for 760MW data center campus in Texas. Read here.

CleanArc Data Centers Selected to Lead Development and Leasing for Crow Holdings’ 245MW Flagship Campus in Central Dallas. Read here.

New York moves toward data centre moratorium as energy fears grow. Read here.

Google enlists TotalEnergies for solar power at Texas data centre. Read here.

Telecom giant Bell Canada plans to build an “AI data centre campus” south of Regina, according to documents filed with the Rural Municipality of Sherwood. Read here.

Data center coming to Rapid City: Sequitor Edge plans facility in industrial park on south side. Read here.

AWS likely behind $4.8bn data center in Walla Walla, Washington. Read here.

Data center developer Stack to expand Hillsboro campus by 121MW. Read here.

Cologix acquires land in Ashburn, Virginia, for data center. Read here.

Global AI set to develop data center outside Denver, Colorado. Read here.

Intersect Power files to develop data center in Texas. Read here.

‘AI factory’ being proposed along Lakeshore Parkway in Birmingham. Read here.

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South America

Millicom, NJJ Holding secure $1.2bn acquisition of Telefónica’s Chilean unit. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Here’s a way to use the data center boom to build a new economy in some communities. Read here.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I. Read here.

The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’. Read here.

Anthropic’s Data Center Ambition—and the Ex-Google Execs Who Could Make It Happen. Read here.

Can high-temperature superconductors transform the power infrastructure of datacenters? Read here.

AI Data Center Expansion Poses High Risk of Child Labor Issues. Read here.

Europe risks losing ground in AI race as data centre demand outpaces power and policy. Read here.

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AI, Frankfurt & the future of Europe’s Data Centres | Episode 1 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Watch here.

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Reports

DWS: Hunger games: The data centre race for power, land and water. Read here.

AI and Data Centres: Climate and nature risks for investors. Read here.

AECOM: Inflation and labour shortages continue to hamper increasingly competitive London construction market, according to new AECOM report. Read here.

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Europe

Armada and Nscale Sign Letter of Intent to Accelerate Sovereign AI Through Global Hyperscale and Edge Deployments. Read here.

Nvidia-backed UK AI firm Nscale hires banks for IPO, sources say. Read here.

Council rejects proposal for huge Scottish AI data centre. Read here.

Microsoft starts construction of data center in Bornasco, Italy. Read here.

900-space park and ride site in Cardiff could be transformed into data centre. Read here.

Campaigners fight to ‘save Brick Lane’ amid proposals for data centre on historic site. Read here.

Bucks council green lights major Equinix data centre. Read here.

Watford Mercure hotel data centre plan met with objections. Read here.

Government framework to build nuclear reactors to power Nottinghamshire data centre. Read here.

Court ruling tests Britain’s £1bn data centre power plans – and energy policy. Read here.

Infineon to invest €500m to meet ‘dynamic’ AI data centre demand. Read here.

Danish investors back Thylander Data Centers to expand national platform. Read here.

32MW, Israeli-backed data center coming to Albania. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Yellow Tulip announces Cleanwatts Mozambique to develop renewable-powered data centers in Southern Africa. Read here.

Dubai-based firm bets $1.6 billion on Africa’s AI data centres and farmland. Read here.

Saudi’s Neom megaproject review may focus on data centres. Read here.

STANLIB wins approval for Cassava Africa Data Centres acquisition. Read here.

Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon. Read here.

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APAC

KKR-Led Consortium with Singtel Group to Fully Acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at S$13.8 Billion Enterprise Value. Read here.

Blackstone is finalising a $3.5bn private credit loan to support the expansion of Australian data-centre operator Firmus Technologies. Read here.

South Korea’s SGC Energy to build 300MW data center in North Jeolla. Read here.

I Squared weighing up sale of BDX. Read here.

Telangana signs MoU with the UPC–Volt JV to build 100 MW AI data center. Read here.

Ubitus partners with Maizuru City, Kyoto to launch AI data center project in Japan. Read here.

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North America

Google parent boosts data center spending with doubling of capital expenditure plans. Read here.

Amazon plans $200 billion capex in 2026 as AWS ramps capacity. Read here.

SpaceX to join with xAI in $1.25 trillion Musk merger. Read here.

Musk, Zuckerberg Accelerate Data Center Spending, Reveal Competing AI Visions. Read here.

Nvidia, Prologis, EPRI, InfraPartners target prefab data centers at substation sites. Read here.

Developer lands $3 billion to finance North American data center pipeline. Read here.

High-volume rail terminal opens to support construction of Meta AI data centre. Read here.

TA Realty sells first hyperscale data centre buildings in Northern Virginia campus deal. Read here.

Tennessee utility TVA projects data center load to double across service area by 2030. Read here.

UK-based powered land developer Eneus Energy is looking to develop a 2GW data center on a site in Cameron County, Texas. Read here.

PowerHouse files to develop second phase of Spotsylvania data center campus in Virginia. Read here.

$10B data center campus proposed for former Bruce Mansfield site. Read here.

Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center. Read here.

Bitfarms files to convert cryptomine into AI data center. Read here.

900MW data center campus plan withdrawn in Hanover County, Virginia. Read here.

AI data center planned on 1,000+ acres at former Southland Paper Mill site. Read here.

QumulusAI gets approval for modular data center in Denton, Texas. Read here.

Investment firm Novacap and H5 Data Centers have launched a new data center venture and acquired three carrier hotels in the US from 365. Read here.

1,600-acre data center approved by local authorities in Forsyth, Georgia. Read here.

Igneo acquires 75MW US data centre platform from Northleaf, CVC DIF. Read here.

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Space

Musk’s SpaceX applies to launch a million satellites into orbit. Read here.

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Can AI De‑Risk Breakneck Data Centre Builds? Read here.

Why is Slough full of data centres? Read here.

Why the AI boom is different than the dot-com bubble. Read here.

Turning waste heat into value. Read here.

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Reports

Knight Frank: Data Centres Global Forecast Report – 2026. Read here.

Lockton: Data Centre Market Update: Q1 2026. Read here.

Data centre heat could warm more than 3.5 million UK homes. Read here.

Brookings: Why community benefit agreements are necessary for data centers. Read here.

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Europe

Powering Britain’s AI Future: DataVita’s North Lanarkshire Site Named a UK AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Lanarkshire to become ‘one of the world’s most advanced AI sites’. Read here.

Google finally commits to much-anticipated Austria data centre. Read here.

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. Read here.

250MW data center planned for Bordeaux, France, to boost national AI capabilities. Read here.

atnorth announce new 30MW metro data center in Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

Romania preparing to build giant AI hub, data centers. Read here.

Bill Gates organizes Madrid utility summit to support data center buildout in Spain and Portugal. Read here.

Retelit to sell data center portfolio for $830 million – report. Read here.

Investec seeks buyer for £15.35m Trafford data centre. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

iXAfrica Data Centres Collaborates with Oracle to Deliver Kenya’s First Public Cloud Region. Read here.

Charles Russell Speechlys advises Qareeb Data Centres on strategic partnership to deliver Bahrain’s first edge data centre. Read here.

Tencent Cloud plans to boost Middle East data centre footprint. Read here.

Planned Saudi megacity ‘The Line’, designed for 9 million people across 170km, could be redesigned as a far smaller data center. Read here.

Active Energy explores UAE joint venture for data infrastructure, bitcoin mining. Read here.

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APAC

Digital Edge to Build $4.5 Billion Data Center Campus in Indonesia. Read here.

Spark completes sale of 75% stake in data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners. Read here.

WinDC and Megaport partner on renewable-powered sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.

Blackstone plans Rs 10,000 crore data center park in Chennai. Read here.

Goodman files plans for 500 MW Sydney campus as expansion continues. Read here.

Singapore’s EPG raises nearly $100 million in Series B for modular AI data centres. Read here.

NeutraDC, Japan’s Ishikari data centre partner to link Hokkaido with Singapore, Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

Meta, Microsoft execs defend move to double down on record data center spending. Read here.

Microsoft Cloud and AI strength drives second quarter results. Read here.

Meta estimates 2026 capex to be between $115-135bn, as data center spend grows. Read here.

Elon Musk’s Tesla to invest $2bn in Musk’s xAI, which is considering merging with Musk’s SpaceX ahead of IPO. Read here.

Nvidia invests $2bn in CoreWeave in new data centre push. Read here.

NVIDIA and CoreWeave Strengthen Collaboration to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories. Read here.

Meta Announces Up to $6 Billion Agreement With Corning to Support US Manufacturing. Read here.

Blackstone reports record results, powered by data center investments. Read here.

SoftBank pauses talks to acquire data center operator Switch: report. Read here.

SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, source says. Read here.

EdgeMode Expands Joint Venture with BAIF, Adding Approximately 2GW of New AI Data Center Development Projects. Read here.

NextEra Energy targets 15GW of new generation for data center hubs by 2035. Read here.

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt launches arm to power data centers with clean energy. Read here.

CleanSpark Texas Land Move Puts AI Data Center Ambitions In Focus. Read here.

A $10B data centre is being proposed in Olds, among Canada’s largest. Read here.

1GW data center campus proposed in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

Mount Pleasant village board approves Microsoft data center expansion. Read here.

Oracle revealed as tenant of Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico. Read here.

$3.9bn data center approved for construction in Spalding County, Georgia. Read here.

Details on proposed $3 billion data center in Spartanburg made public. Read here.

QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin, amid opposition from local officials. Read here.

Atlas Development files for 12-building data center campus in Temple, Georgia. Read here.

TigerDC announces $3 billion data center, new jobs in Spartanburg County. Read here.

Archbald Council hears from data center developer eyeing 500-acre site, possible mine water use. Read here.

2 million-square-foot data center proposed for Florida village. Read here.

Cloverleaf Infrastructure proposes data center campus near St. Louis, Missouri. Read here.

180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. Read here.

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South America

Engemon tapped to build AI data center in Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

UK data centres: How to close the delivery gap. Read here.

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers. Read here.

Execution, Not Demand, Is Now Defining Data Center Growth. Read here.

When AI Meets The Grid: Designing Data Centers For The Real World. Read here.

Why Portugal Is Becoming Southern Europe’s Next Data Centre Hub. Read here.

Australia’s data centre gold rush is coming — and 2026 looks like the starting gun. Read here.

2026 US Data Centers and Energy: Key Trends Shaping Power Demand. Read here.

Construction in 2026: A boon for data centers, but uncertainty elsewhere. Read here.

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Reports

CBRE: 2026 European Real Estate Market Outlook. Read here.

Heatmap: Amid Rising Local Pushback, U.S. Data Center Cancellations Surged in 2025. Read here.

OpenAI: Stargate Community. Read here.

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Europe

DayOne plans major 560 MW data centre near Helsinki. Read here.

Meins surpasses 11 GW as it expands across Europe’s hydrogen and data centre markets. Read here.

UpCloud opens data center at former NATO munitions bunker in Norway. Read here.

Sovereign AI Selects Accenture and Palantir to Help Build Next Generation AI Infrastructure Across EMEA. Read here.

Azur Datacenter is set to turn a former solar panel factory in Lyon, France, into a data center. Read here.

Norway’s ASP acquires land for 25MW data center project in Suldal. Read here.

UK Government admits “serious error” in forcing through hyperscale data centre without environment protections. Read here.

Octopus Energy and the Emirati state-owned renewables firm Masdar have announced a collaboration which they claim will “power the next generation of data centres” in the UK. Read here.

Mace Construct partners with Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) on sustainable AI data centres. Read here.

Global Switch signs Welsh wind power deal for AI hub. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia’s Humain to expand AI with $1.2B deal. Read here.

VivoPower International PLC announced the execution of an agreement to acquire, develop, build, operate, and own an initial 25MW data center facility in the United Arab Emirates. Read here.

Ooredoo’s Syntys buys Q Data to expand Qatar data centre portfolio. Read here.

Dubai’s DAMAC Secures Capacity Worth $12 Billion for U.S. AI Data Centres. Read here.

Data centres and energy at centre of $30bn New Gaza plan. Read here.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer reviews construction progress at Moro Hub’s new Green Data Centre in Warsan. Read here.

DEWA approves expansion of green data centre in Dubai. Read here.

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APAC

$25 billion, 1 GW, and fully green: AM Green Group to build massive AI data centre in Uttar Pradesh. Read here.

State Gives NextDC Green Light for $2bn M4 Data Centre. Read here.

Aware Super invests $300M in Skyline JV data center business. Read here.

Digital Realty acquires Malaysian data centre owner. Read here.

Larsen & Toubro Vyoma marked a milestone in India’s digital evolution with the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony for its upcoming 40 MW green, AI-ready data centre at Mahape in Navi Mumbai. Read here.

UPC Volt to set up 100 MW AI-ready data centre in Telangana’s Bharat Future City. Read here.

Goodman files to develop 90MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Dongyang to build AI data centers in South Korea. Read here.

Google launches cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

‘First-of-its-kind’ 50MW SMR-powered data center planned in Uzbekistan. Read here.

Digital Halo secures US$ 46.9 million financing to expand Manila data center. Read here.

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North America

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal. Read here.

Galaxy Secures ERCOT Approval to Double Power Capacity at Helios Data Center Campus. Read here.

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on Delta Forge 1, a 430 MW AI Factory Campus in a Southern U.S. State. Read here.

Riot Announces Fee Simple Acquisition of Land and First Data Center Lease with AMD at the Rockdale Site. Read here.

Tech giant Google behind $1 billion Little Rock data center. Read here.

Canada’s government puts out call for firms to build 100MW+ AI data centers. Read here.

OpenAI unveils plan to keep data-center energy costs in check. Read here.

Infrakey, City of Lacy Lakeview unveil 925MW data center district in McLennan County, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft proposes adding 15 data centers to Mount Pleasant project. Read here.

Mount Pleasant commission approves Microsoft’s plans for data center expansion. Read here.

Naperville residents pack meeting as city council considers controversial plan for large data center. Read here.

$10 Billion Data Centre Proposed For Morwell. Read here.

Switch buys 176 acres at Apex Industrial Park, Las Vegas. Read here.

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South America

V.tal plans US-Brazil subsea cable plus new data centre in Porto Alegre. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

‘Largest Infrastructure Buildout in Human History’: Jensen Huang on AI’s ‘Five-Layer Cake’ at Davos. Read here.

The AI Data Center Gold Rush Is Leaving The Landlords Behind. Read here.

Moody’s: $3 Trillion Data Center Investment by 2030 Amid Power Challenges. Read here.

Adapting Data Centers for the AI Era: From Speed to Agility. Read here.

Why tech billionaires dream of servers in the sky. Read here.

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Create Jobs for Electricians and Plumbers. Read here.

2025 Data Center M&A in review. Read here.

America’s aircraft Boneyard could end up powering the data centre boom. Read here.

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