Author: Will Colthup

Weekly Update! 19,000 subscribers… Thanks for the continued support, and it was great to see so many of you at Kickstart in Amsterdam. It has been another busy week in the world of data centres.. Busy, it is always busy.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

JLL: North American Data Center Report. Read here.

Data Center 50: The Hottest Data Center Companies Of 2024. Read here.

Colliers: 2024 Data Center Marketplace. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix, Iron Mountain, American Tower, DigitalBridge. Read here.

European data centre market to attain 5.8GW total supply by 2024’s conclusion. Read here.

The North America Data Center Market is set for a significant surge with an expected growth from USD 26.67 billion in 2023 to a remarkable USD 55.83 billion by 2028. Read here.

Global Data Center Construction Market to Reach $371.7 Billion by 2030. Read here.

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Europe

Huge artificial intelligence data centre coming to former Bucks machinery site. Read here.

Microsoft is proposing to develop a new UK data center campus on the site of a decommissioned power station in Eggborough, North Yorkshire. Read here.

AQ Compute launches maiden data center in Hønefoss, Norway. Read here.

Property investor Segro could develop up to 24 data centers across the UK and Europe after raising £900 million n a share issue. Read here.

Post-production firm Dirty Looks has committed to moving all its computing tasks onto Deep Green servers, which heat the pool at a Devon leisure center in the UK. Read here.

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

European data centres grapple with AI-driven demand for space. Read here.

77MW data center proposed for East London, UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Gulf telcos enter MoU to link up Bahrain to the wider region. Read here.

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APAC

Goodman Property Trust is setting up a new NZ$300 million fund to build data centers in Auckland, New Zealand. Read here.

AirTrunk has initiated the construction of its latest data center, AirTrunk OSK1. Read here.

Macquarie Technology Group is looking to expand its data center portfolio on the back of soaring demand for cloud and AI services. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres has expanded its presence by acquiring new land in Selangor for the development of its third data centre, MY02, in Cyberjaya. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., has announced that it is building its latest facility in Chennai. Read here.

Empyrion DC secures S$133m to refinance Singapore data center. Read here.

Telecommunications company Spark New Zealand plans to build a 10MW data center in Auckland’s North Shore. Read here.

Bitera, a world-class data center, officially held its Grand Launching on February 27, 2024. Read here.

DCI Indonesia has opened a new data center in Indonesian capital Jakarta. Read here.

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North America

JK Land Holdings buys 108 acres for data center development in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

Meta announced plans to establish a new $800 million data center campus in Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft has bought more land outside Atlanta in Palmetto, Georgia. Read here.

Continent 8 launched a second data center in West Virginia. Read here.

Georgia Representatives have voted in favor of suspending tax breaks for data centers while a special commission reviews grid capacity in the state. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced two new regional (EMEA & US) Presidents to support further growth. Read here.

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South America

Chile partially pulls Google data center permit. Read here.

ODATA Expands its operations in Mexico with the construction of two new Data Center Campuses. Read here.

Amazon Web Services plans to launch a cloud region in Mexico in early 2025. Read here.

Layer 9’s Project Falcon datacenter ambitions taking flight. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Centers: The Hubs of Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

Are Data Centres a Sustainable Heating Solution? Read here.

Rapidly evolving AI could spark data center innovation. Read here.

What’s next for data center design in 2024. Read here.

AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. Read here.

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green. Read here.

Data centres face tough challenges in meeting evolving needs of the digital age. Read here.

‘A New Era’: What Nvidia’s Rise Means For The Future Of Data Center Development. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

This week I talk Data Centre Club Nights with Paul Hammer. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! In this weeks edition we even have a section for the moon! This sector is out of this world.. (sorry). I will be at Kickstart on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully see some of you at the event.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

Nvidia’s Data Center business is booming. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix. Read here.

DigitalBridge announced $15bn CAPEX for 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Europe Data Centres Figures Q4 2023. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: An in-depth look at data centre development in the Middle East. Read here.

White Paper – How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft to expand its AI infrastructure in Spain with $2.1 billion investment. Read here.

Virtus Data Centres announced a 75MW AI Ready campus in North-west London. Read here.

Global Switch received full planning approval for its third London data centre. Read here.

Mercury has delivered a new data center in Paris, France, to Digital Realty. Read here.

Latham Advises maincubes on Expansion in the Frankfurt Data Center Market. Read here.

University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project. Read here.

Construction of Microsoft data center in Wieringermeer can go ahead as usual. Read here.

Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. Read here.

Data centres and energy transition projects drive record new orders for Hochtief. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Omantel, in cooperation with Huawei, launched a national cloud. Read here.

Teraco plans to build a 120MW solar farm in the Free State province of South Africa to help power its data centers. Read here.

US Data Center Operator Equinix plans $390 Million Africa build. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Data Center Market poised for growth in 2024. Read here.

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APAC

Vodafone and UAE data center firm Edgnex are to build a new data center in Turkey. Read here.

Korea to build nation’s largest data center cluster. Read here.

The Asia Pacific Data Centre Association announced first board of directors. Read here.

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North America

Prime Data Centers announced they are planning a new facility in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Aligned has been granted a tax abatement for a planned data center campus in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Edged Energy debuts AI-ready data centres in the United States. Read here.

Prologis and Skybox Data Centers have filed new plans for two data center developments in Texas. Read here.

A data center campus has been proposed by Strategic Real Estate Partners outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Microsoft has purchased land from Xcel Energy in Becker for a future data center. Read here.

Investment firms, including KKR and DigitalBridge, are said to be in the running to acquire a minority stake in Airtel’s Nxtra data center unit. Read here.

Bitcoin Data Center coming to Oklahoma’s Port Muskogee. Read here.

Brookfield is mulling new infrastructure fund. Read here.

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The moon

Intuitive Machines lands on the Moon, carrying virtual test data center. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Chinese team’s memory leap shrinks data centre storage capacity into DVD-sized disk. Read here.

Data centres ‘are a good thing’ and should be accommodated. Read here.

AI companies plan to use nuclear energy for their energy-hungry data centers. But should they? Read here.

Is a speedy, scalable and sustainable datacentre too much to ask? Read here.

Europe’s datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with John Shingler of T5 Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! It was a fairly slow week until Thursday, and then everything started happening. The world of data centres was obviously keeping me on my toes. This week Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that sector spend will double to £2tn in the next few years: it’s not slowing down…

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What has happened this week?

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Report

Cushman & Wakefield: APAC Data Centre Update: H2 2023. Read here.

Europe

Microsoft announced a €3.5bn investment in Germany. Read here.

Google has obtained a permit to develop a new campus in Hainaut, Belgium. Read here.

NTT Ltd’s Global Data Centres division will develop and operate its first data centre campus in the Paris market. Read here.

Starwood Capital Group unveiled a strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres. Read here.

Two new data centers with a cumulative power of 40-45 MW are considered by developers to be built in Romania. Read here.

Datacenter One launches new HAM1 data centre in Hamburg. Read here.

Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital plans data centre demolition. Read here.

techUK announced new Data Centres Council for 2024/2026. Read here.

£350m ‘big shed in Stockport’ promises ‘boom time’ for Greater Manchester. Read here.

Stadiums and data centres drive North West (England) construction as reports show positive signs for local economy. Read here.

A former data center in Edinburgh, Scotland is to be converted into flats and commercial space. Read here.

Icelandic operator Borealis Data Centers has acquired a facility in Finland, marking its first international expansion. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi’s Solutions secured a $40mln contract to build data centre infrastructure. Read here.

UAE signs pact with India for data centres. Read here.

Chinese Bitcoin Miners find a new Crypto Haven in Ethiopia. Read here.

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APAC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts data center spend will double to $2 trillion. Read here.

Amazon plans new data centers in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Yondr Group has formed a partnership with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation for the development of data centers in Japan. Read here.

Blackstone puts tentacles out for data centre giant AirTrunk. Read here.

45MW data center proposed next to AirTrunk SYD2 site. Read here.

$80b data centre opportunity lifts Goodman to new high. Read here.

Bangladesh’s first ever data centre ‘Meghna Cloud’ begins operation. Read here.

Indian startup PlanckDot raised $1.6 million for Edge data centers. Read here.

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North America

Surry Council approved a nuclear-powered data center campus that promises more than 1,300 jobs. Read here.

Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Read here.

Yondr Group broke ground on second hyperscale data centre in Northern Virginia. Read here.

Polaris Technologies Inc. is investing $100 million to construct a 200 megawatt data center at Port Muskogee. Read here.

Greenidge Generation Holdings, which runs cryptocurrency data centers and power plants, has raised $6 million to help fund its growth plans. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired hundreds of acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, from Xcel Energy. Read here.

AREP’s PowerHouse pushes on with billion-dollar expansion roadmap. Read here.

Equinix expects strong adjusted core earnings on data center demand. Read here.

DataBank has raised $456m to refinance data center debt. Read here.

Loudoun County Planning Commission rejected plans for the Innovation Gateway data center. Read here.

Counties across North Virginia are considering bills that may curb data center developments in the region. Read here.

$576m data center campus is being proposed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Read here.

Northern Data Group-sponsored Ardent Data Centers has finished the acquisition of a data centre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Fifteenfourtyseven Critical Systems Realty is seeking to raise $250m (€232.3m) for its date centre fund. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The changing face of investment in GCC’s data centre market: What’s driving growth? Read here.

Sisk enjoying a surge in growth, with projects across Europe. Read here.

The rise of AI-specific data centres in Australia. Read here.

Azoras big splash in the data center market. Read here.

Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors. Read here.

Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Read here.

AI Data Centers could help bridge rural America’s Digital Divide. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Stijn Grove of Kickstart Europe. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! We pushed over the 18,000 subscriber mark this week!! Another busy week in the world of data centres with new campuses announced, new investment flooding in, and new facilities opening their doors. Data centres never sleep.

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Blackstone in talks to buy data centre construction giant Winthrop. Read here.

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway. Read here.

Azora, Core Capital launch $540m Iberian data centre platform. Read here.

Skanska has secured a data centre project in Telemark, Norway. Read here.

AtlasEdge’s Datacenter One opens Hamburg facility. Read here.

Facebook parent company Meta has rented the data centers of Spanish real estate firm Merlin Properties. Read here.

Monaco Telecom is to build a new data center as part of a residential development in the city-state. Read here.

German private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank has acquired a data center in development in Hamburg. Read here.

Facebook parent company Meta has rented the data centers of Spanish real estate firm Merlin Properties. Read here.

Opera to deploy Nvidia AI cluster at atNorth data center in Iceland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft are to build another data centre in South Africa. Read here.

MedOne to invest $270m in two new data centers in Israel. Read here.

Khazna Data Centers has launched a new data center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read here.

Cisco Duo plans to launch new cloud data center in the UAE. Read here.

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APAC

KKR raises record $6.4bn for Asia fund in infrastructure rush. Read here.

STT GDC is to expand data centre capacity in Tamil Nadu. Read here.

ClickUp announced its expansion in the Asia Pacific region by adding a new data center in Singapore. Read here.

Tencent inaugurated a microgrid at its Cloud Data Center situated in Tianjin. Read here.

AirTrunk and ib vogt forge Malaysia’s first Data Center Renewable Energy Pact. Read here.

Thailand’s state telco National Telecom is seeking approval to develop two data centers as part of a $145 million expansion plan. Read here.

Bangladeshi telco Grameenphone has launched its first ‘Super Core’ data center in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Read here.

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North America

Gigaland pitches new data center complex near Remington. Read here.

Tract announced the acquisition of an additional 517 acres in Storey County, Nevada. Read here.

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US cloud firm CloneCone. Read here.

The Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has repurposed a particle accelerator facility into a scientific data center. Read here.

Soluna Holdings advances green data center projects. Read here.

Cryptocurrency data center business Applied Digital has taken out a loan to help fund its expansion into the high-performance computing sector. Read here.

US firm Switch Inc. is planning to expand its data center footprint in Austin, Texas. Read here.

Duke Energy is in talks to leverage the power from data center generators during peak grid demand. Read here.

US state of Georgia could pause data center tax breaks over power concerns. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Embracing a new European market. Read here.

The AI Paradox: Data Centers, Power, and the Quest for Sustainable Intelligence. Read here.

Japan’s Data Center Boom: Tokyo, Kansai, Hokkaido, and Hiroshima Lead Growth. Read here.

Heating pools with cat videos? How data centres can carve a brave new world. Read here.

Data center design in the age of AI. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Data Centres with Mark Bjornsgaard of Deep Green Technologies. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! The hardest part of my weekly update is thinking of something to put in this intro section. Some weeks I really struggle to come up with anything. At least that is the intro sorted for this week.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

JLL Data Centers 2024 Global Outlook. Read here.

DataCenterHawk – 4Q 2023 Data Center Market Recap. Read here.

AFCOM: AI Boom Fueling Data Center Construction, Design Innovation. Read here.

The cloud Q4 results are coming in. Read here.

AWS revenue increased 13% to $24.2 billion, with executives saying growth will accelerate this year. Read here.

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Europe

Google announced 700 megawatts of clean energy — including their largest offshore wind projects to date in The Netherlands. Read here.

Construction on a 3D-printed building set to be used as a data center in Heidelberg, Germany, has been completed. Read here.

Ireland’s Data Centre Sector Is Set For A Boom — If It Can Solve Power Quandary. Read here.

Belgian infrastructure investment firm TINC is reportedly looking to divest its stake in local data center firm Datacenter United. Read here.

The Dutch Data Center Association (DDA) has complained about “drastic” new measures from the Municipality of Amsterdam to restrict data centers. Read here.

Amazon has agreed to buy more than half of the power available from the new Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. Read here.

Equinix has signed seven wind power offtake agreements in France with German renewables developer Wpd. Read here.

Nu Quantum is developing a world-first modular, rack-mount and scalable quantum data centre prototype. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Google has launched its first African cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read here.

UAE and Greece have signed a digital infrastructure deal. Read here.

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APAC

DCI begins construction of flagship data center in Seoul. Read here.

STT GDC Shortlists PE Firms for $1 Billion funding. Read here.

Thailand Data Centre Council aims to make Thailand a key DC hub. Read here.

Singtel embarks on AI flavoured data centre push. Read here.

GP launches first ‘Super Core Data Center’. Read here.

Telekom Malaysia is said to be exploring plans to build a new hyperscale data centre. Read here.

Logistics real estate firm ESR has reportedly acquired land previously earmarked for a Digital Realty data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Real estate firm Goodman is planning to develop a new 80MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Goodman Group signalled its plans for a $1.4 billion reworking of the former ABC Studios site in Artarmon. Read here.

STT GDC has broken ground on a third data center campus in Chennai, India. Read here.

True Internet Data Center Company Limited is investing over 10 billion baht to significantly expand its data center and cloud business capabilities in Thailand from 2024 to 2027. Read here.

Melbourne’s data centre growth outstrips Sydney. Read here.

CapitaLand advances construction of state-of-the-art data centre at Madhapur. Read here.

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North America

Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion Empire of Power-Hungry Data Centers. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced the company raised a record $10 billion in incremental debt and equity financing throughout 2023. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired more than 370 acres outside Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

West Virginia project gets $3m to cool data centers with mine water. Read here.

Recently announced Meta data center ‘very significant’ for River Ridge. Read here.

A former AT&T telecoms facility outside Chicago and dating from the Cold War is up for auction. Read here.

Prologis and Skybox are moving ahead with their major data center projects outside of Austin. Read here.

QTS Data Centers plans to build a second data center adjacent to its first one near the AllianceTexas development. Read here.

Switch tees up expansion of data center in Southeast Austin. Read here.

Data Centers Are Booming In Ohio’s Digital Heartland. Read here.

Prince William County responds to lawsuit challenging planned Devlin data center campus. Read here.

Meta will develop its own custom AI chip and deploy them at their local data centres to power their AI tools. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

How can the UK make the most of the data centre boom? Read here.

Breaking Ground: Constructing Data Centers For the AI Revolution. Read here.

Rethinking modern data center design and construction trends. Read here.

Data gold rush: companies once focused on mining cryptocurrency pivot to generative AI. Read here.

AWS, Google Cloud invest in data center expansion, sustainability. Read here.

‘Waterless’ Data Centers Aren’t Always The Most Sustainable Choice. Read here.

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Weekly Update! Some light reading for those of you heading home from PTC.. A lot of news around this week, and some significant new developments announced. AWS leading the way with a $10bn announcement…

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

Data Center Trends 2024 – Soben. Read here.

Global data center electrical usage to double by 2026. Read here.

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Europe

Kao Data announced it has successfully completed a new, £206 million debt raise. Read here.

Bulk Data Centers announced that construction has commenced of a new 42MW data center facility scheduled for completion this year. Read here.

German data center firm Maincubes is expanding its presence in Frankfurt with a new 40MW facility. Read here.

Heat re-use technology to be incorporated in new Manchester data centre. Read here.

Google has acquired a 52 acre site in Essex (UK). Read here.

Two in race for £400m Royal Docks data centre. Read here.

Arcus’ Portus is planning to build a 14MW data center in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.

Telecoms firm Vodafone has launched a new data center on the Spanish island of Majorca. Read here.

Data centre pressure on Irish grid to double by 2026. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Oracle has just signed a partnership framework with du, a telecom major in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read here.

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APAC

Goodman Group has stepped up its push into data centres with an agreement to deliver up to 1GW of power in Japan and has kicked off construction of a new 50MW data centre in Hong Kong SAR. Read here.

Thailand’s NT submits US$145m expansion plan for approval. Read here.

Major data center service providers in Thailand joined forces to officially establish the Thailand Data Centre Council (TDCC). Read here.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry has formed a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Investment of the United Arab Emirates to to develop data centres in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

PowerHouse Data Centers announced plans to develop a 800MW Campus in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Read here.

PowerHouse Data Centers announced it has closed on the site of “PowerHouse Reno,” a three-building, 900,000 square foot powered shell data center campus being developed in Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Meta is to build a new data center campus in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Read here.

AWS plans to invest $10 billion in Mississippi. Read here.

Mississippi lawmakers will meet Thursday morning for a special session to potentially finalize $294 million in financial incentives for a $10 billion Data Center Campus project in Canton and Madison County. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 140 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. Read here.

Quantum Loophole in active negotiations for new sites. Read here.

Google confirmed it is behind a major data center campus proposal in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft and Caterpillar power data center for 48 hours using hydrogen fuel cells. Read here.

Silicon Ranch inks deal to integrate renewables into data centres in Nevada and Utah. Read here.

Ardent Data Centers has closed on a deal to acquire a data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read here.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has voted to approve the rezoning of a 12-acre parcel of land in Chantilly, Virginia, for a 110-ft tall data center. Read here.

Meta expects to field a fleet of 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024. Read here.

Data center absorption in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) market in Texas reached record levels in 2023 according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. Read here.

Elon Musk’s social media firm X has been granted a tax break to keep data center hardware in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

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South America

Angola Cables is to build a new data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Global tech market spending to touch $5 trillion in 2024. Read here.

Five Trends Driving The Booming Data Center Economy In 2024 (And Why Investors Are Taking Notice). Read here.

Electricity demand from data centres set to double by 2026. Read here.

AI, crypto drive spike in data-center energy demands. Read here.

Hong Kong’s industrial property segment seeing pick up amid rising demand for data centres. Read here.

Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Data Centre perception with Damien Wells of Spa Communications, and Ambrose McNevin of Tech Marketing Content. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! Data Centres have been all over the news this week. Major investments have been announced in a number of regions, and we all know there is much more to come.

Safe travels to everyone going to PTC, enjoy the event (and the social events as we know that is why you are going…)..

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Google has commenced construction on a $1bn campus in Waltham Cross, UK. Read here.

A £1bn data centre campus in the UK has been recommended for refusal. Read here.

Three “suitors” for the construction of Microsoft’s data centers (Greece). Read here.

Octopus Energy announced a £200m investment in Deep Green. Read here.

Germany-based investment group Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is set to grow its data centre portfolio during 2024 and beyond. Read here.

NorthC announced its plan to enter the Frankfurt data center market. Read here.

The UK government wants to boost the nation’s data center infrastructure as part of a plan to make Britain more attractive to scale-up companies. Read here.

Data center operator Green Mountain could be heading for the London Stock Exchange. Read here.

UK data center module provider Sonic Edge has delivered an immersion cooling pod to Castrol’s Berkshire research site in the UK. Read here.

Lunar Digital has commenced a multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

UAE, Kazakhstan to invest in data centre and AI projects. Read here.

Aramco Digital and Intel have announced plans to build Saudi Arabia’s inaugural Open RAN (Radio Access Network) development center. Read here.

Oracle intends to open a second data center in Israel, which will be located nine floors below ground level to ensure it is safe from security threats. Read here.

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APAC

Adani Group to invest $6bn in Indian data centers. Read here.

The Maharashtra government has signed a memorandum of understanding worth Rs 10,000 crore with Web Werks for investment in a mega IT/ITES data centre in the state in the next five years. Read here.

AWS to invest over $15 bn in Japan to expand data centres. Read here.

Stonepeak has invested $200m in Guam telco GTA. Read here.

Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres announced it has received state significant development application (DA) approval to build its next data centre, IC3 Super West, in Sydney. Read here.

CapitaLand to invest over US$ 500 Million to build Data Center, Tech Park in Chennai. Read here.

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North America

Yondr Group announced a target to achieve net zero by 2030 for scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions. Read here.

US data center provider DC Blox has filed for its planned campus in Conyers, Rockdale County. Read here.

Tract announced that it has completed the acquisition of more than 668 acres of land in Eagle Mountain, UT, for the development of a 400MW campus. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers launched a new liquid cooling system – DeltaFlow. Read here.

The proposal of the Niagara Digital Campus, a $1.5 billion data center, allows the city to compete with the big cities in the world of big tech and AI advancements. Read here.

1547 Unveils Green Data Center Hub in Chester County. Read here.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing on Jan. 23 on a huge data center in Chantilly. Read here.

Starwood Capital Group launched Starwood Digital Ventures. Read here.

US firm LightEdge has acquired a data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.

Brookfield completed its $775m purchase of Cyxtera. Read here.

TA Realty appointed industry veteran Tim Shaheen to lead digital infrastructure development team. Read here.

Microsoft has hired Erin Henderson as the director of nuclear development acceleration. Read here.

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South America

Google Plans First Direct Subsea Cable Linking South America to Asia-Pacific. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The challenge of creating greener data centres during a data centre crunch. Read here.

Grading 2023’s top data center and tech predictions. Read here.

Turner Studying Effects of Rising Temperatures on Construction Workers. Read here.

Tech companies spending billions to meet data centre demand. Read here.

Cloud providers take the plunge with underwater data centers. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I talk data centres with Svante Horn, CEO & Co-Founder of Scandinavian Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! I have had a lot of positive conversations this week around the forecasted growth in 2024. Significant demand but not enough capacity. It is looking like we are in for another busy year… If we can secure the power.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

I have collated some of my podcast conversations into an eBook. Download here.

Global data centre CAPEX to rebound in 2024. Read here.

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Europe

MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced agreements with Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS), Exa and Axent for their new state-of-the-art, carbon neutral data center located in Barcelona, Spain. Read here.

KAO Data appointed Doug Loewe as it’s new CEO. Read here.

Data centre group Echelon ‘frustrated’ at slow pace of grid connection. Read here.

New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a data center in Marseille. Read here.

New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a data center in Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

European data center firm NorthC is to expand its presence in Germany with a new facility in Frankfurt. Read here.

CyrusOne has appointed a new European director of Public Policy. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel Nigeria, will build one of Africa’s largest data centres in Nigeria. Read here.

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North America

Vantage Data Centers announced a $6.4bn investment to fuel further growth. Read here.

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has been granted permission for a 253MW campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Read here.

DigitalBridge divests controlling interest of Vantage SDC. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced a new 72MW data center campus in Leesburg, Virginia. Read here.

US colocation firm DataBank is expanding its data center outside Salt Lake City, Utah, again. Read here.

Officials in King George County, Virginia, have voted to renegotiate an agreement with Amazon needed for the tech giant to move forward with a planned 869-acre data center campus. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 111 acres in West Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

Google has acquired 500 acres in Kansas City’s Northland. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 430 acres of land outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Amazon has been granted zoning approval for a data center development in the Round Rock area of Austin, Texas. Read here.

Plans by Digital Realty to build a data center in downtown LA have moved forward. Read here.

Holder Construction secured $1.9B Edgecore Digital Infrastructure data center project in Arizona. Read here.

Tierpoint announced the acquisition of a new, multi-megawatt data center in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.

Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to further move the data center company into hyperscale data center development. Read here.

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APAC

A joint venture of Indosat, BDx Data Centers, backed by I Squared Capital and Lintasarta – has agreed to acquire a portfolio of data centres in Indonesia for IDR2.63bn (€154m). Read here.

NTT announced the launch of its new data centre campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data centre. Read here.

Reliance Industries has partnered with Canada’s Brookfield asset management and US-based Digital Reality to set up a data centre in Chennai. Read here.

Yotta Data Services launched its new cloud data center in GIFT City, India. Read here.

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South America

Brazilian technology firm Soluti has launched a new 4,500sqm data center in Goiânia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Center Leaders Make 2024 Predictions. Read here.

Ranked: Top 50 Data Center Markets by Power Consumption. Read here.

How 2024 GenAI investment will transform data centers. Read here.

Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I discuss Data Centers in Australia & New Zealand with Ben Crowe of Vertiv. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! The start of another year. This update covers news over the last few weeks so still quite a lot to catch up on. I have no doubt that 2024 is going to be the busiest year yet..

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Plans revealed for new data centre on existing Ark Data Centre’ campus in Corsham, Wiltshire. Read here.

Abbots Langley data centre: developer (Greystoke Lane) shares video ‘tour’. Read here.

Fingal County Council has refused planning permission for a data centre in north Dublin. Read here.

German data center provider NewTelco has opened a new data center in Karlstein am Main, Germany. Read here.

Telehouse, is extending its reach across Europe by launching its fifth data centre at its Frankfurt campus in Germany. Read here.

A HUGE 100-acre piece of green belt land next to the A127 (UK) could be transformed into a 24-hour data centre. Read here.

European firm Penta Infra has acquired a KPN data center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read here.

ISG won the second phase on a Slough datacentre contract. Read here.

Spanish telco Avatel has reportedly sold its data center business to funds operated by Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and Teras Capital. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Zambia gets ready to build a tier 3 data centre. Read here.

UAE and Egypt ministries have signed a MoU for 1GW of data center projects. Read here.

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APAC

VNET announced $299m strategic investment milestone. Read here.

Adani Group’s data centre joint venture with EdgeConneX is reportedly in talks with a group of global lenders to raise as much as US$400 million via an offshore loan. Read here.

Honda and Mitsubishi are planning to test a small data center that runs on hydrogen from an industrial electrolysis plant run by Tokuyama Corporation. Read here.

Chinese data center provider GDS has promised to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers readies for AI demand in Southeast Asia. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft is looking to acquire more than 200 acres of land in Licking County, Ohio for more data centers. Read here.

Edgecore announced the completion of a $1.9 billion debt financing transaction to fund scalable development on its data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. Read here.

Data center operator Arkon Energy nabs $110M in fresh funding. Read here.

Iron Mountain is reportedly close to finally breaking ground on a new data center site in Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia, have filed a lawsuit against the Board of County Supervisors over a data center development. Read here.

Cipher Mining announced a 60 MW expansion development. Read here.

Involta announced the acquisition of a 24.5-acre site housing an existing data center in the Green Bay region. Read here.

Virginia’s Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has adopted a set of guidelines designed to curb data center developments. Read here.

Amazon buys $27M parcel for latest Northern Virginia Data Center project. Read here.

Wells Fargo have sold an office and data center West Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

Microsoft’s $70 million data center investment will transform Wisconsin. Read here.

West Virginia’s Raleigh County Commission has indefinitely suspended a data center proposal. Read here.

A new data center efficiency bill has been proposed in the Virginia House of Delegates. Read here.

Data centre developer and operator Digital Power Optimization (DPO) has struck a power purchase agreement covering up to 100MW. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Elea invites investment in its sustainable data centre goals. Read here.

Scala Data Centers unveiled a new HyperEdge data centre in Porto Alegre city. Read here.

Scala uses giant inflatable tent on São Paulo building site. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Asia’s data center landscape is red hot — and increasingly complex. Read here.

Why thirsty data centres risk plunging the world into crisis. Read here.

Slough Trading Estate’s data warehouses: A look inside a data centre. Read here.

Space: The final data center frontier. Read here.

The biggest data center stories of 2023. Read here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! This isn’t a weekly news update, this is simply a thank you from me. As 2023 draws to a close I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the readers of this weekly newsletter. Without you this newsletter wouldn’t exist, or it would simply be me writing to myself..

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The first newsletter was published at the start of 2022, meaning in a few weeks this newsletter will be 2 years old. In that time I have released 97 weekly updates and the subscribers has grown from zero to a massive 16,229 (as I write this).

Every time the readership hits another milestone I think that it has peaked and then before I know it we are racing towards another. 15,000 was my punchy goal for 2023, that has now been knocked out of the park. 20,000 now seems achievable?!

Every release day the newsletter is read by in excess of 5000 of you, every newsletter is achieving over 7000 reads in the first week. That doesn’t include all of those people that are sent the newsletter, and the readers on other platforms.

In 2024 I will be looking to create other mediums to share industry news, and I hope to be able to include some of you in these new developments.

Data Centre Club will become an integral part of the new developments so please join the club if you are not yet a community member. Join here.

The data centre sector never sleeps, and neither shall we…

2024 is going to be exciting… But before then, sit back, enjoy time with friends and family, eat more cheese, and be thankful for what 2023 has given us.

See you on the other side..

Have a great week!