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Reports

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 7.5% in 2024. Read here.

Gleeds: Europe Biannual Construction Market Report 3Q/4Q 2024. Read here.

Data center construction costs for 2024. Read here.

Europe

Google is planning to invest up to $2bn on a data centre in Romania. Read here.

AtlasEdge is to build a second data centre in Barcelona. Read here.

CyrusOne has officially broken ground on its newest data center in Germany (FRA7). Read here.

UK colocation firm Liverpool City Region Data Centres has launched a micro data center Edge location in Merseyside, UK. Read here.

Lloyds Banking Group to convert old data and office sites into homes. Read here.

Spain’s Aragon, Europe’s new cloud storage oasis. Read here.

Swedish colocation provider Conapto has announced the launch of its Stockholm 4 South data center. Read here.

Equans has announced the second phase of Digital Realty’s PAR13 data center has been successfully delivered in Paris, France. Read here.

Vantage launched a second data center in Switzerland. Read here.

Waste heat from Penta Infra data center in Amsterdam to warm business park. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Expert forecasts $288.8m growth in Nigeria’s data centre market. Read here.

IXAfrica Data Centres and Schneider Electric have launched what they say is the first AI-ready hyperscale data centre in Kenya. Read here.

APAC

Etix Everywhere is exploring the establishment of a second data center in Thailand to meet growing demand. Read here.

Tokyo residents oppose GLP data center project in Akishima City. Read here.

Data center provider Equinix reportedly is selling a minority stake in its Hong Kong data centers in a deal that could provide the company with $2 billion in cash. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services is reportedly planning a 100MW data center in Mumbai, India. Read here.

China is making waves in the data center industry by constructing the world’s first commercial underwater data center. Read here.

North America

US data center firm PowerHouse has broken ground on a new 800MW campus in Virginia’s Spotsylvania County. Read here.

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

Hanwha Energy to Invest 2 Trillion Won ($1.45bn) in Super-Large AI Data Center in Texas, U.S. Read here.

EdgeCore is expanding in Virginia again with plans for a new 216MW campus in Culpeper County. Read here.

Cryptomine-turned-AI firm Crusoe has confirmed it is building a 200MW GPU-focused data center in Texas. Read here.

$3 billion data center project proposed in West Memphis, Arkansas. Read here.

Bloom Energy will deploy its proprietary fuel cells to generate on-site power for CoreWeave at a high-performance data center owned by Chirisa Technology Parks located in Volo, Illinois. Read here.

CyrusOne announced it secured a $687.1 million Single Asset Single Borrower (SASB) CMBS loan for it’s DFW1 data center. Read here.

Private equity firms NGP and Sandbrook Capital have jointly injected more than USD 300 million into Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a US company developing clean-powered data centre sites. Read here.

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf has received approval for four additional buildings at its Lake Mariner Data Center campus in Somerset, New York state. Read here.

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy has signed deals to place Bitcoin and AI data centers at wind farm sites in Texas. Read here.

Pittsylvania County’s Board of Supervisors has approved a land rezoning request for almost 950 acres for a data center in Virginia. Read here.

Project Mixing Data Centers And Affordable Housing Faces Rejection In Virginia. Read here.

Plans for a data center in the Fort Worth area of Texas have been voted down by local officials. Read here.

Prologis raised annual core FFO forecast on better demand, data center strength. Read here.

Quanta Services acquired specialist contractor Cupertino Electric, Inc. Read here.

Cipher Mining Inc. is exploring a potential sale after receiving takeover interest. Read here.

770,000 sq ft Data center to be built on University of Dallas campus. Read here.

South America

São Paulo city Limeira rejects bill to permit mega datacenter. Read here.

Other interesting articles

The capacity crunch: Addressing spiraling data center demand. Read here.

Google chief scientist Jeff Dean: AI needs ‘algorithmic breakthroughs,’ and AI is not to blame for brunt of data center emissions increase. Read here.

Data center building boom fuels global IT spend growth. Read here.

Argo Infrastructure Partners on Powering the AI Gold Rush Through Data Centers. Read here.

New Strategies in Design to Meet the Demands of AI Data Centers. Read here.

Existing nuclear power plants are best behind-the-meter option for data centers: NEI paper. Read here.

Blackstone, Bullish on AI, Charges Into Data Centers. Read here.

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Reports

Global cloud infrastructure spending reached $33bn in Q1 2024: IDC report. Read here.

CapitaLand: APAC Data Centre Investment Strategies in the Age of Digitalisation. Read here.

Data Center Market Insights 2024-2032. Read here.

The big news..

DataX Connect joins the Digital Futures Programme. Read here.

Europe

Digital Realty has acquired a 15MW data center outside London in Slough, UK. Read here.

Abbots Langley data centre headed for inquiry after refusal. Read here.

Thorney Business Park (West London) data centre gets planning permission. Read here.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has stepped-in to have another look at two giant data centre schemes rejected by council planners. Read here.

Digital infrastructure REIT Digital Realty announced significant progress in the construction of Heraklion-1, a data centre situated in Crete’s capital city, Heraklion. Read here.

Start Campus announced two leadership appointments. Read here.

Portland Trust is to develop data center in Bucharest, Romania. Read here.

The Government of Asturias in Northwest Spain has launched a data center unit as it prepares to launch a data center at a former coal mine site. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Why is US alarmed over $1 Billion deal for AI Data Center in Kenya? Read here.

Dubai property giant DAMAC Group has ramped up investment in the buoyant artificial intelligence (AI) sector with a $50m Anthropic deal. Read here.

APAC

Tokyo residents seek to block building of massive data centre. Read here.

Converge ICT Solutions Inc has joined forces with Supermicro, a US tech giant, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Philippines. Read here.

Centuria Industrial REIT has released details of the acquisition of a $39m off-market data centre  in Malaga West Australia. Read here.

PLDT subsidiary Vitro tops off 50MW data center in Sta. Rosa, Philippines. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers opens new facility in Taiwan. Read here.

China is pushing the pedal on developing its computing power, aiming to become a global leader in this crucial field that fuels artificial intelligence (AI) and the booming digital economy. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT has taken a major step towards Asia-Pacific data center dominance by acquiring its first property in Japan. Read here.

Vietnam’s eases data centre ownership rules. Read here.

Etix Everywhere is considering setting up a second data center in Thailand. Read here.

SKS Technologies Group Limited has secured a contract exceeding $90 million to develop a major data centre in Melbourne. Read here.

North America

CyrusOne announced the closing of a $7.9 billion Warehouse Credit Facility. Read here.

Yorkville City Council has approved a CyrusOne data center campus development outside of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Argo Infrastructure Partners, LP announced that it has increased its ownership stake to represent a majority interest in TierPoint. Read here.

Amazon claims that it “matched” its operations’ entire electricity consumption with renewable energy last year. Read here.

xAI, is opting to build its own data centre instead of purchasing chips. Read here.

Data center capacity in the Pacific Northwest could reach 4,000MW in the next five years, pushing the region’s power grid to its limits, a new report has warned. Read here.

Hut 8 has secured land and power for 205MW data center in West Texas. Read here.

Driving surge in demand for power, data centers eye Kentucky. Read here.

Oracle is reportedly set to lease a data center from Crusoe Energy. Read here.

Fort Worth zoning commissioners narrowly voted against a proposal to build a data center across the road from Tarleton State University’s Fort Worth campus. Read here.

The University of Dallas is partnering with a developer in hopes of making an addition to its Irving campus. Read here.

South America

Odata confirms start of operations at 2nd Mexican datacenter. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Recording the Past, Decoding the Future: Building a Data Centre Construction Programme. Read here.

Data center crunch drives up rental costs as vacancy rates plummet. Read here.

What are the key components of the long-term growth potential and digital infrastructure financing? Read here.

A vision for spreading warmth to the community. Read here.

Natural gas companies will benefit from US AI data center boom – Wells Fargo. Read here.

Data center demand continues despite supply bottlenecks. Read here.

Colocation Data Center Trends, Predictions, and Opportunities for H2 2024. Read here.

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Reports

Soben’s Data Centre Trends 2024 – Mid-Year Report. Read here.

Western Europe Data Center Construction Market Outlook Report 2024. Read here.

Europe

Planning permission has been granted for a Microsoft data centre in Newport, Wales. Read here.

Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers. Read here.

Swedes fear Northvolt site will become a data centre. Read here.

Industrial real estate firm Segro has announced plans to build a data center and warehouse in Marseille, France. Read here.

McLaren is understood to be set to sign a contract to build what will be one of the biggest data centres in London. Read here.

KKR’s GTR delivers second phase of Slough data center campus. Read here.

An Bord Pleanála has rejected a call for it to stage an oral hearing into plans by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to construct three new data centres in north Dublin. Read here.

Spanish IT services firm DataRush has launched a new data center in Spain. Read here.

AQ Compute has broken ground on its 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain. Read here.

Kao Data event celebrates Stockport’s role in tech and AI revolution. Read here.

Red tape threatens Labour plans to build data centres (UK), warns Amazon. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Paix Data Centres expands capacity in Ghana to 1.2MW. Read here.

Freshworks launched a new Data Center in UAE. Read here.

Gulf Data Hub’s minority stake sale draws Private Equity firms. Read here.

MTN is planning the construction of its largest West African data centre. Read here.

Israel to build supercomputer to keep pace in global AI race. Read here.

APAC

Natural Environment Solutions (NES) has announced that it has launched a 5 MW data centre in Pune, India. Read here.

Amazon to build high-security data center for Australia. Read here.

Oracle opened a second Cloud Region in Singapore. Read here.

AirTrunk plans huge expansion of Melbourne campus. Read here.

Japanese data center operator At Tokyo Corporation, known as @Tokyo, has officially launched its latest facility. Read here.

Vietnamese telecoms provider CMC Corporation has launched a data center company. Read here.

Bain Capital has set plans to bring in new investors to invest in Chindata Group to raise funds and expand the data center company. Read here.

Bids to acquire the Australian operations of data center operator Global Switch have reportedly failed to meet expectations. Read here.

PDG delivers first phase of Johor data center campus in Malaysia. Read here.

Malaysian real estate firm Equalbase is planning to develop a data center campus in Johor. Read here.

North America

Meta has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read here.

Northern Data plots $16bn US IPO for Ardent and Taiga units. Read here.

Crusoe Energy, a company best known for mining cryptocurrencies via flared gas, is to start building permanent data centers for AI customers. Read here.

Talen asks US regulators to reject challenge to Amazon data center deal. Read here.

AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions. Read here.

Microsoft has broken ground on its data center project in Palmetto, Georgia. Read here.

Lawmakers in Virginia’s Loudoun County have voted in favor of removing data centers as a by-right use on all properties in all zones. Read here.

County planners in Culpeper County, Northern Virginia, have denied a data center application in Brandy Station. Read here.

2.4m sq ft data center campus proposed in New Jersey. Read here.

CBRE Investment Management has received city approval for its data center expansion in Chandler, Arizona. Read here.

Lambda Labs is reportedly seeking $800m in funding for its GPU cloud offering. Read here.

South America

Brazilian data center firm Elea has acquired two data centers from IT services firm DXC Technology. Read here.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has obtained approval for a second data center in Santiago, Chile. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers-owned Odata has broken ground on its fifth Brazilian data center in the São Paulo metropolitan region. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Ways to marry data centre design with the sustainability imperative. Read here.

Data centre boom reveals AI hype’s physical limits. Read here.

Behind-the-meter projects could be a way to avoid grid connection queues. Read here.

Rising Land Prices Spell Trouble For Some Data Center Developers. Read here.

Extreme heat is raising concerns about the durability of our tech infrastructure. Read here.

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Reports

CBRE: Global Data Center Trends 2024. Read here.

Europe

Ada Infrastructure has received the go-ahead for its 210MW data center campus in East London’s Royal Docks in the UK. Read here.

Plan for huge data centre in Iver Buckinghamshire (UK) near M25 refused. Read here.

Microsoft data centre plans for power station site in Leeds (UK) following £106.6m deal. Read here.

Google is planning to extend its data centre operations in Ireland, with an expansion of its existing centre in Dublin. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has launched a scholarship program for female students at universities in the UK. Read here.

An application has been submitted to demolish the former Ford engine plant at Waterton Industrial Estate in Bridgend. The site was recently purchased by Vantage Data Centers. Read here.

Europe wants to send data centers into space — study says it’s possible. Read here.

Real estate firm Spring this month announced Peakside Capital Advisors AG has sold a commercial and office property in Schiphol-Rijk to a “global data center operator and investor” for development. Read here.

CBRE Investment Management has bought a data centre building close to Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands from Abrdn for £48.65 million. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Freshworks has announced the launch of its new data center, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the UAE. Read here.

APAC

Spark secures resource consent for data centre in world-first sustainable development in Auckland. Read here.

Apple is reportedly looking to develop a data center in Taiwan. Read here.

NTT DATA to launch Japan’s first domestic Data Center REIT. Read here.

Thailand to trial system for data centres to buy green power. Read here.

India will require an additional data centre capacity of 1.7-3.6 Gigawatt: Read here.

ST Engineering to invest $120m in new sustainable data centre at Jalan Boon Lay. Read here.

Malaysia is in discussions with potential Chinese investors to establish data centres in the Southeast Asian nation to attract “high quality” investments.. Read here.

Thai Energy Billionaire steps up Data Center push to Tap AI Boom. Read here.

EDGNEX Data Centres by DAMAC, has announced its latest expansion in the APAC region with the development of a cutting-edge data center in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, a prominent player in the Indian data center market, has unveiled major plans for expanding its Indian footprint. Read here.

North America

CyrusOne has received approval for its application to rezone land for a data center campus in Kendall County, outside Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

CyrusOne announced it has broken ground on its fifth data center campus at the Texas Research Park in San Antonio. Read here.

DataBank is planning to build a $256 million 40,000 sqm data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Stream Data Centers announced its ground breaking of a new 135-acre hyperscale campus in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft has secured an agreement for its planned data center campus in Licking County, Ohio. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is planning a $185 million data center development in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

Google has filed final plans for its data center construction plan in Northland, Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Data center firm Switch Inc. has raised $1.7 billion via securitized financing. Read here.

Slow data center expansion could impact chip sales, Nvidia CEO reportedly concerned. Read here.

Cryptomine firm Hut 8 has raised $150 million from investment firm Coatue to fund its expansion into serving AI customers. Read here.

CoreWeave signed another 70MW hosting deal with Core Scientific. Read here.

Metrobloks raised $5.2 mn seed round to build data centers in metro markets. Read here.

Microsoft will no longer explore underwater data centres. Read here.

Google and CME to build new facility to move trading into Cloud. Read here.

Telco Segra has completed the expansion of its $10 million data center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read here.

More than 3.5GW of data center capacity is due to come online in California between now and 2029. Read here.

GiantLeap Capital Invests in Vantage Data Centers. Read here.

IPI Partners data centre fund secure additional US pension capital. Read here.

South America

Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development has approved financing worth $7.5m for Um Telecom to deploy the first Tier III data centre in the State of Pernambuco. Read here.

Brazilian data center operator Scala has broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza. Read here.

Other interesting articles

AWS can help reduce the carbon footprint of AI workloads by up to 99%. Here’s how. Read here.

Southeast Asia data centre boom powering the AI age with big bucks. Read here.

AI’s appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030. Read here.

AWS flexes data center muscles as AI workloads increase cloud use. Read here.

Are Quality Concerns Impeding Data Center Construction? Read here.

AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload. Read here.

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Reports

JLL: Data Centres: The Malaysian Perspective. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: International construction market survey 2024. Read here.

Europe

Amazon announces cloud, logistics and research & development investments. Read here.

Oracle plans to open a $1 billion data centre in Madrid. Read here.

€50m Investment for new Equinix Data Centre in Lisbon. Read here.

IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data centre in Munich, Germany. Read here.

Plans to build more data centres continue to enter the UK’s planning system and are set to boost the construction industry over the coming months and years. Read here.

Ada Infrastructure has secured planning permission from the Newham Strategic Development Committee to develop a data centre campus in London’s Royal Docks. Read here.

Residents in rural areas of north Thurrock (UK) have joined forces with neighbours on the outskirts of havering in opposing plans to create ‘Europe’s largest data centre’. Read here.

What we learned at Datacloud Global Congress 2024. Read here.

McLaren Construction is gearing up for an expected surge in data centre work in the North and Midlands (UK). Read here.

Finnish state-owned energy company Fortum is planning to develop a data center in Central Finland. Read here.

Penta Infra & Photon Capital have acquired the Nexus Data Centre in Brussels, from Ghelamco. Read here.

NTT is to connect one of its data center campuses to a local district heating network in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Africa Data Centres secured R2 Billion funding to expand capacity in South Africa. Read here.

Middle East Data Center Construction Market to grow to USD 4.39 Billion by 2029. Read here.

APAC

Singtel and KKR will invest US$1.3 billion for a minority stake in ST Telemedia GDC. Read here.

New Zealand headquartered infrastructure investor Infratil has raised NZ$1150 million to fund further investment into data centre operator CDC Group. Read here.

Sustainable infrastructure investor Actis has announced the launch of Epoch Digital, a data centre platform in Asia. Read here.

GIP, Blackstone, DigitalBridge, and others make bids for AirTrunk. Read here.

Telekom Malaysia and Singtel’s regional data center arm Nxera have announced a joint venture to develop data centers in Malaysia. Read here.

Thailand’s board of investment has approved a number of developments, including data centers. Read here.

Huawei is reportedly considering a cloud region in Vietnam when the time is right. Read here.

Equinix has invested AU$240 Million in Data Centre expansion to support AI adoption in Australia. Read here.

Equinix has launched its fourth data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

North America

Google to invest another $2.3 billion into Ohio data centers. Read here.

Tract acquires 8,590 acres in Reno, Nevada, for data center park. Read here.

Real estate services firm CBRE has acquired Direct Line Global, a provider of mission-critical data center infrastructure. Read here.

Fengate Asset Management acquired Canada’s eStruxture Data Centers in CA$1.8bn deal. Read here.

ECL Unveils World’s First Off-Grid, Hydrogen-Powered AI Data Center. Read here.

Amazon cancels plans to tap natural gas pipeline for data center. Read here.

American Football team the Washington Commanders have filed a plan to allow data centers to be built on the site of its training facility in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

A data center for an unnamed Fortune 500 company has been proposed in Perry Township, Ohio. Read here.

5C Data Centers has announced plans to develop a 200MW data center campus, CMH01, in the Columbus, Ohio region, following the acquisition of a live data center. Read here.

Virginia’s Culpeper County Board of Supervisors has tabled the Red Ace Data Center Campus application. Read here.

Cryptomine data center firm CleanSpark has acquired five cryptomine facilities in Georgia. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Chip Fabs, Data Centers Propping Up Construction. Read here.

11 data centre energy startups to watch. Read here.

EU Policy. Mistral AI warns of lack of data centres and training capacity in Europe. Read here.

After A Crisis Of Confidence, Data Center Developers Again Put Their Faith In Small Nuclear Reactors. Read here.

AI Power Consumption: Rapidly Becoming Mission-Critical. Read here.

The dramatic growth of data centres. Read here.

Partner Insight: 10 trends driving the global data centre market. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft to Invest $7.16 Billion in New Data Centres in Northeastern Spain. Read here.

Plans to build a huge data centre in Havering (UK) have sparked opposition among residents. Read here.

A data centre development that will be joint-funded by asset management firm Legal and General and Goldacre is being proposed for London. Read here.

The developers behind a massive 600MW data center campus being planned for east London, UK, say it could house a hydrogen fuel cell energy generation plant. Read here.

Parish council to hold crunch meeting on Friday over £2.2bn data centre in North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Labour is planning to override local councils to build data centres on the green belt (if they win the election – UK). Read here.

Slough Borough Council has authorised, property investment firm, Segro, to build two additional data centres in the area. Read here.

Is Stockport the UK’s next Silicon Valley? Read here.

Controversial plans for a €1.2 billion data centre campus in Co Clare are under threat.. Read here.

Asset and investment management firm, BlackRock, is acquiring 50.1% in a German data centre development company, Mainova WebHouse. Read here.

Colt DCS started work on third Frankfurt data center. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Digital Parks Africa expands Samrand data centre. Read here.

Africa Data Centres has partnered with Onix Data Centres to build its proposed data center in Accra, Ghana. Read here.

UAE telco Du is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read here.

APAC

TikTok owner ByteDance to expand Malaysia data center footprint in $2.1bn AI deal. Read here.

Microsoft acquires another 123 acres of land in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

A data centre campus, Narra Technology Park, is being planned in the Philippines, with a launch date for the first phase of the development taking place in late 2025. Read here.

NeutraDC Nxera Batam broke ground on a sustainable, AI-Powered Data Center in Batam. Read here.

CIMIC Group company Leighton Asia has been selected by a multinational technology corporation to fit out a data centre in Hyderabad, India. Read here.

Macquarie Data Centres started construction on its latest AI and cloud data centre. Read here.

Amazon Web Services announced it will launch a dedicated cloud infrastructure region in Taiwan by early 2025. Read here.

Johor, the Malaysian city located just north of Singapore, is continuing to attract attention from data center developers. Read here.

PLDT confirms move to sell data centre unit. Read here.

Kakao Corp. unveiled its first independent data center. Read here.

Singtel in talks to build data centre in Johor. Read here.

North America

Vantage Data Centers completed $9.2 Billion equity investment led by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake. Read here.

Applied Digital secured $200m debt facility for North Dakota data center project. Read here.

Skybox Datacenters has started work on a new 300MW campus in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Prologis Inc. has filed for special exceptions to convert warehouses into data centers in Sterling, Virginia. Read here.

Compass Datacenters commenced the project to transform the former Sears Headquarter site into a hyperscale data center campus. Read here.

Compass Datacenters has acquired land in the El Mirage area of Phoenix, Arizona, and plans to develop a new 108MW data center campus. Read here.

Why Apple’s Big AI push could change where Data Centers are built. Read here.

CyrusOne is looking to retrofit a building in Richardson, Texas, for a new data center. Read here.

Google has partnered with NV Energy to use geothermal energy to create more sustainable data centres. Read here.

Provident Realty Advisors has withdrawn its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana. Read here.

Google to announce new central Ohio investment on June 18th. Read here.

Cedar Rapids council advances projects for proposed Google data center. Read here.

New Silicon Valley Data Centers will ramp up electricity use. Read here.

Prince William County approves 64-acre data center project. Read here.

Hensel Phelps wins Meta’s Alabama data-centre build. Read here.

Prime Data Centers has topped out the first data center building at its new Chicago campus in Illinois. Read here.

Data Center Developers still betting Big on Dallas-Fort Worth. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Why Communities Are Protesting Data Centers – And How the Industry Can Respond. Read here.

Investment in data centres surges, ABS gaining traction. Read here.

Does the EU’s approach to regulating data centres make sense? Read here.

Cost model: how construction can meet the data centre challenge. Read here.

Data Centers, Entertainment Venues Fuel Revenue Growth at Top Architecture Firms. Read here.

Kestler’s run: EdgeCore CEO on building a hyperscale wholesaler. Read here.

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