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Reports

BNP Paribas: US AI data center power demand: A multibillion-watt challenge. Read here.

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Europe

Apto announces plans for Italy’s largest data centre campus. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services has unveiled its second facility in France, known as Colt Paris 2. Read here.

Finnish property developer FCDC plans to build a data centre facility in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, with potential power use of up to 500 MW. Read here.

Swedish infrastructure startup Scandinavian Data Centers has secured an investment from real estate group Fastighets AB Balder to fund the construction of its first data centre, ‘ScandiDC I’, in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Read here.

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss. Read here.

The UK government has overturned a decision by a Hertfordshire local council which blocked the development of a huge data centre adjacent to the M25. Read here.

Abbots Langley data centre construction to cost £800m. Read here.

Plans for huge data centre in Wycombe progress as Bucks Council enters new lease. Read here.

Pension Giant USS Backs Blackstone’s Data Centre Megaproject in Blyth, UK. Read here.

London-based startup Zendo Energy raises €2 million to help data centres decarbonise and adapt to AI boom. Read here.

Echelon launches €3.5bn data centre projects in Wicklow. Read here.

Swedish data center firm Bahnhof is developing an underground data center in Gothenburg. Read here.

Merlin Edged launches Barcelona data center, CoreWeave to take 15MW. Read here.

Power connection requests for Italy data centres rise to 42 GW at end-March. Read here.

Samsung bets on data center HVAC with $1.7 bn FläktGroup acquisition. Read here.

Vertiv has been picked by Nordic data centre firm Polar as the primary supplier for its first modular AI-ready data centre in Norway. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Trump and Abu Dhabi ink partnership to build massive AI data center complex in UAE. Read here.

DataVolt Partners with Supermicro for AI Data Center Expansion Backed by $20B Deal. Read here.

OpenAI considers data center in United Arab Emirates – report. Read here.

Saudi Arabian AI venture Humain plans to deploy 500MW of data center compute over the next five years featuring AMD hardware. Read here.

Oracle commits to invest $14bn in Saudi Arabia over next 10 years. Read here.

Moro Hub and DIFC forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation. Read here.

Nebius to build and operate $140m Israeli national supercomputer. Read here.

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APAC

NTT DATA announced the accelerated expansion of its Global Data Centers division, securing land across North America, Europe, and Asia. Read here.

NTT to launch Singapore data centre REIT in US$1.57 billion asset transfer. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure seeks AU$1.3bn for Australia data center buildout. Read here.

Partners Group to buy data centre platform Digital Halo. Read here.

Kakao announces plans for second data center in Gyeonggi, South Korea. Read here.

Equinix opens first Jakarta data centre. Read here.

GIP–BlackRock, local partners plan to invest US$ 3–5 billion in Thailand; focus on Giga Data Centers. Read here.

BDx raises funds for Hong Kong DC. Read here.

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North America

Five Point Infrastructure has committed as much as $1 billion to PowerBridge, a recently formed developer of data-center locations in the Permian Basin. Read here.

King Street-Backed Colovore Closes $925 Million Facility with Blackstone for AI Data Center Platform. Read here.

Blue Owl Capital Announces $7 Billion Final Close for Digital Infrastructure Fund. Read here.

Coreweave signs new $4 bln deal with OpenAI. Read here.

Beacon AI Centers Appoints Josh Schertzer as CEO, Commits to an Initial 4.5 GW Data Center Development in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

Tensorium Announces Launch of Its Largest AI-Optimized Data Center in Montreal, Canada. Read here.

Applied Digital proposes “multi-billion-dollar” data center in South Dakota. Read here.

Potential data center to be built northeast of New Carlisle, Indiana. Read here.

A Shelbyville developer has withdrawn a proposal to rezone 700 acres of Hancock County farmland for an industrial planned unit development that was likely to house a data center. Read here.

Cryptominer Cipher signs 300MW energy deal with Engie in Texas. Read here.

Wyoming intends to approve Microsoft data centers’ emissions permit for 128 backup diesel generators. Read here.

Flexential acquires two leased data centers in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Switch fails in bid to dismiss Tract lawsuit over Nevada data center site. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Patria launches data center platform with initial investment of $1 billion. Read here.

Scala Data Centers has announced authorization from Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy for a 5 GW ramp-up connection of Scala AI City to the National Interconnected System. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Proactive measures for data centres ahead of the new NESO application window. Read here.

Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics. Read here.

Tariff Trouble: Impact of Tariffs on Data Centers. Read here.

A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up. Read here.

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.

Data Center Watch: $64 billion of US data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition. Read here.

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Europe

Data centre the height of three double decker buses planned at Molins site advances. Read here.

Tritax Big Box REIT closes in on hyperscaler letting for data centre development (Heathrow, UK). Read here.

SIN01: Inside Portugal’s new Sustainable AI Data Centre. Read here.

Schneider Electric, Start Campus debut new AI-ready data centre at Sines, Portugal. Read here.

$3 billion data centre investment destined for Spain’s Aragon region. Read here.

Project Clover: €1 Billion Investment in Finland for New Data Center. Read here.

Bulk Infrastructure has added three data halls to its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility in Norway. Read here.

Colocation firm Telehouse has completed a new data center at its campus in Paris, France. Read here.

Beyond.pl, Pure Storage to offer Nvidia Blackwell-powered AI factory platform. Read here.

Pre-planning application submitted for 12MW data centre (Wales). Read here.

Data centre plan strengthens Malaga’s technology position with 279-million-euro investment. Read here.

Slovenia starts construction of 150 mln euro AI data centre. Read here.

Portus expands Munich data centre campus with AI-ready, 5.5MW facility. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria is gearing up for a $1.6bn data centre surge, with capacity set to nearly quadruple in five year. Read here.

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APAC

Bain Capital to sell China data centre business likely valued at over $4 billion, sources say. Read here.

NTT to take NTT Data private in $16.4bn deal. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure looking at $800 million loan for to invest into its Australian data centre presence. Read here.

India may need additional 50 mn sqft real estate for data centres by 2030. Read here.

Microsoft to Launch Data Centers in Malaysia in Q2 2025. Read here.

Google makes another major data centre investment in Malaysia. Read here.

Gamuda sells land for RM455m to Google affiliate, lands RM1b data centre project. Read here.

LG Uplus to invest $441.7m in Paju data center in South Korea. Read here.

South Korea’s own lofty AI data centre plan. Read here.

Equinix completes Phase 2 of KL1 IBX data center. Read here.

PDG switches on $1-B AI-ready data centre in Greater Tokyo. Read here.

RackBank launches AI Data Center Park in Chhattisgarh. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI pitches Stargate beyond US, says it could work with 10 countries. Read here.

Black Chamber Partners raises $2bn for US data centre strategy. Read here.

Prince George’s County backs FifteenFortySeven’s data centre fund. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale to power Wyoming data center with natural gas, will offset through carbon capture. Read here.

Constellation Energy wipes out big losses to surge on AI data center deal hopes. Read here.

Google has signed a strategic agreement with advanced nuclear power developer, Elementl Power, to develop three nuclear energy projects in the US. Read here.

Aligned and Lambda Partner to Power Next-Generation AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Mystery developer plans $1bn data center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.

Amazon acquires 100 acres in Leesburg, Virginia, for potential data center development. Read here.

Tract acquires 1,515 acres outside Austin, Texas, for 2GW data center park. Read here.

Planned Georgia Data Center Would Be Worth At Least $16B. Read here.

Atlas Development plans 2.4 million sq ft data center campus outside Rome, Georgia. Read here.

Edged breaks ground on 13MW data center in Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

ValorC3 announces new 10MW AI-ready data centre in Boise. Read here.

Massive data center proposed along Route 1 in South Brunswick nearing fruition. Read here.

TC Energy approves $900m pipeline expansion in US Midwest to serve data center market. Read here.

Dominion sees no slow down in Northern Virginia data center demand. Read here.

Core Scientific has seen a drop in cryptomining revenue as it pivots to focus on AI colocation. Read here.

Power utility TransAlta expects Alberta data centre deal this year. Read here.

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South America

Amazon to invest $4bn in Chile data center region. Read here.

Argentina hopes to attract Big Tech with nuclear-powered AI data centers. Read here.

Roblox breaks ground on data center in Brazil for early 2026. Read here.

Elea Announces Rio AI City: A Landmark Brazilian Data Center Project With Capacity Up to 3.2 GW of Renewable Energy Supporting AI Growth. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI is draining water from areas that need it most. Read here.

Data Centre Developers Waiting For Next Generation Of Buyers To Emerge. Read here.

AI Expansion Sparks Data Centre Overbuild Fears. Read here.

AI boom, GPU shortage: the complex equation of data centres. Read here.

Blackstone president sees ‘a ton’ of AI data center demand. Read here.

The World’s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas. Watch here.

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Reports

DC Byte: 2025 Global Data Center Index. Read here.

The 1st data center industry survey on the post-AI energy crunch is here. Read here.

KAO Data: The North West. The UK’s next AI Growth Zone. Read here.

iMasons State of the Digital Infrastructure Industry Report – 2025 Edition. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft announces new European digital commitments. Read here.

At its London Summit, AWS unveiled an ambitious plan to create 14,000 jobs annually and contribute $19 billion to the economy by 2028. Read here.

TikTok plans to build 1 bln euro data centre in Finland. Read here.

Nscale looks to raise $2.7bn for AI infrastructure – report. Read here.

EcoDataCenter strengthens focus on large-scale data center campuses through strategic sale to CapMan Infra. Read here.

Data storage centre of ‘regional importance’ to be built in south Wales. Read here.

Global Switch House data centre in Poplar set to expand. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure is selling its European colocation data centers to investment fund Apollo. Read here.

Three arrests in Microsoft data centre build bribery investigation. Read here.

UK data center firms could build gas power plants to expedite projects – report. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Khazna targets 25% of Saudi data centre market in ambitious expansion: report. Read here.

Khazna eyes US expansion. Read here.

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APAC

Khazna to build data center near Ankara, Turkey. Read here.

Spark seeking co-investors for its data centre portfolio. Read here.

GuocoLand mulling data centers in Malaysia. Read here.

Negeri Sembilan’s first two data centers (Malaysia) construction on track. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters to invest Rs 500 crores into DC in central India. Read here.

ESR and STACK break ground on 72MW DC campus in Japan. Read here.

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North America

Meta lifts CapEx to $72bn as AI ambitions fuel data centre push. Read here.

Microsoft rejects data centre pullback talk as AI demand outpaces supply. Read here.

Equinix raises annual revenue, FFO forecasts on robust demand. Read here.

Google is still undersupplied with capacity to meet cloud demand. Read here.

IBM to spend $30bn on quantum & mainframes, as part of $150bn US investment pledge. Read here.

Solaris Energy Infrastructure Q1 2025 slides: Fleet expansion targets data center growth. Read here.

Digital Realty files to develop 400MW data center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read here.

Mystery developer plans $1bn data center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.

Jet.AI has signed a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture with Consensus Core Technologies to pursue development of two hyperscale data-center campuses. Read here.

Dominion to build new high voltage lines to supply proposed 900MW data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.

Decommissioned Kansas City, Kansas, power plant eyed for data center redevelopment. Read here.

Residents voice concerns over Amazon’s plan to fill wetlands for New Carlisle data center. Read here.

NOVA completes a majority investment in DartPoints. Read here.

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South America

Hive Digital completes 100MW Bitcoin data center in Paraguay. Read here.

Brazil to offer tax breaks to lure data center investments, sources say. Read here.

Rio de Janeiro set to host Latin America’s largest data center campus. Read here.

ODATA launches Mexico’s largest data centre with $3bn investment in Querétaro. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Yondr and CBRE launch global data centre apprenticeship scheme. Read here.

AI data center boom isn’t going bust but the ‘pause’ is trending at big tech companies. Read here.

Bursting The AI Data Center Bubble Buildout. Watch here.

Tech firms to prioritise soft skills in 2025 hiring drive. Read here.

What businesses can learn from 15 years of data growth. Read here.

AI Factories, Hyperscalers, and the Path to $1 Trillion. Read here.

Global Data Centre Services Market Surges Amid AI and Cloud Boom. Read here.

Hyperscalers prepare for 1MW racks at OCP EMEA; Google announces new CDU. Read here.

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Europe

A second significant data centre is on the cards for North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Plans to build another new data centre have been put forward on the edge of Bucks near the M25 and Slough. Read here.

Frontier and Ethos Partner on 5GW UK Data Centre Plan. Read here.

Data centres: Scotland is poised to slash the environmental cost of the AI boom. Read here.

Operator Of Planned Ennis Data Centre (Ireland) Claims Project At Risk Due To “Bureaucratic Intertia”. Read here.

Digital boom makes Marseille a global data hub – but at what cost? Read here.

German investment bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank has launched a new data center firm. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Khazna Breaks Ground on Two New AI-Ready Data Centers in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

Dubai’s du signs $544.5mln hyperscale data center deal with Microsoft. Read here.

Saudi Arabia offers data sovereignty to foreign countries with ‘AI hub’ law. Read here.

Israel’s NED DC breaks ground on data center in Tel Aviv. Read here.

Firms submit Jeddah 15MW data centre bids. Read here.

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APAC

Keppel Data Center Fund (III) achieves first closing at US$580 million. Read here.

Adani’s $10B AI Power Play: India’s Data Center Race Leaves the West Behind. Read here.

PLDT opens first hyperscale data centre, second one in the works. Read here.

PDG launches billion-dollar AI-ready data center in Japan. Read here.

Viettel breaks ground on Vietnam’s first hyperscale data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.

SoftBank breaks ground on data center campus in Hokkaido, Japan. Read here.

NEXTDC to start developing SC2 at Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast. Read here.

NTT Data to invest ₹10,500 crore for AI data centre cluster in Hyderabad. Read here.

Data Center Operator Princeton Seeks $400 Million Private Loan. Read here.

Oracle in talks to establish Batam cloud region: Reports. Read here.

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North America

Amazon and Nvidia say AI data center demand is not slowing down. Read here.

Amazon joins Microsoft in pausing global data centre projects. Read here.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its data center footprint into Maryland, and is set to take space in TPG’s Quantum Frederick park. Read here.

Digital Realty Rises With Increased Demand For Data Centers. Read here.

Stonepeak announced the launch of Montera Infrastructure, a new, North American hyperscale-focused data center company, with a $1.5 billion equity commitment. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers Announces 30-Megawatt Capacity Expansion in the Pacific Northwest. Read here.

Designs come in for data centre project in Nanaimo. Read here.

80,000-acre data center campus proposed in West Texas. Read here.

Soluna plans 145MW wind-powered data center campus in Texas. Read here.

Bit Digital’s Enovum buys textile manufacturing site for data center in North Carolina. Read here.

Minnesota firm expands data center footprint with new Albuquerque project. Read here.

775-acre data center campus proposed outside Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

CoreWeave leases another 260MW capacity from Galaxy in Texas. Read here.

QTS files to expand upcoming data center campus in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

How AI data centers can support grid reliability in Texas and across the US. Read here.

Within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200B. Read here.

US tariffs: Impact on data centre construction. Read here.

This is the state of play in the global data centre gold rush. Read here.

Deep Data Center: Neoclouds as the ‘Picks and Shovels’ of the AI Gold Rush. Read here.

Five datacenter concepts to know for Malaysia’s cloud-first transformation. Read here.

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Reports

Deloitte: Nuclear energy’s role in powering data center growth. Read here.

Project Finance International: Unlocking Global Data Center Growth. Read here.

Seagate: The Decarbonizing Data Report. Read here.

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Europe

NorthC acquires six data centers from Colt Technology Services in Germany and the Netherlands. Read here.

Germany’s DCP buys land in Mainz for 40MW data center. Read here.

OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate venture weighs future UK investment. Report. Read here.

Two data centers proposed for Val-de-Marne, France. Read here.

North East (UK) suppliers sought for landmark £10bn data centre project. Read here.

Ofgem approves reforms to speed up UK grid connections and unlock £40bn annual investment. Read here.

Kao Data, which is behind the new £350m data centre in Reddish, will be distributing a total of £30,000 amongst charities, not-for-profit organisations and other beneficial projects. Read here.

Approval granted for construction of data centre in Mayo (Ireland). Read here.

Vantage loses appeal to overturn data center planning permission denial in Dublin. Read here.

nLighten partners with Shell Spain to power Madrid data centre with renewables. Read here.

Dutch data center firm Data Facilities Data Centers has completed the first expansion of its facility in the Hague. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Emirates Group launches world’s largest solar-powered data center. Read here.

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APAC

Google: Our first geothermal energy deal in Asia. Read here.

Railtel partners with NBCC to build data centers. Read here.

Sify inaugurates its largest AI-ready data centre campus in Chennai. Read here.

Billionaire Robert Kuok, Malaysian Tycoons Seek Profit From Data Center Boom. Read here.

Korea’s Kakao Bank plans fifth data center. Read here.

Sime Darby Property aims to build more data centers in Malaysia. Read here.

MOU inked for USD 20 billion project to promote 2 industrial parks in Malaysia; data centers proposed. Read here.

Vietnam’s digital future takes shape with national data centre push. Read here.

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North America

Amazon Chief Jassy Defends AI Spending. Read here.

Northampton Capital Partners invests in Blueprint Data Centers. Read here.

Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers. Read here.

Applied Digital outlines $5B data center expansion plans amid strategic shifts. Read here.

Atlas files for 428-acre technology and data park outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Chesterfield EDA gets Planning Commission support for two new data center projects. Read here.

Oldham County residents balk at proposed $6B data center as developer touts tax benefits. Read here.

Deuel County Commission hears proposal for multi-billion-dollar data center. Read here.

Microsoft Data Center Approved by San Jose Planning Commission. Read here.

Data center proposed for Vancouver Island, Canada. Read here.

Data center drives development for Minnesota city. Read here.

Microsoft delays construction on $1B data center project outside Charlotte. Read here.

Bit Digital has secured the rights to a new data center site in Saint-Jérôme, Québec. Read here.

New Era Helium Initiates Phase 1 of 250MW Data Center Project. Read here.

The on again, off again, on again, off again plan to build a massive data center in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, with a 3,500-megawatt gas-fired power plant is now off again, permanently. Read here.

Nautilus Data Technologies has canceled its planned 60MW data center in Millinocket, Maine. Read here.

Aligned broke ground on data center in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Data center firm Edged has topped out its latest facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Colorado offers 30-year tax breaks to lure hyperscale data centres. Read here.

AI cloud provider Hypertec Cloud has acquired colocation and data center provider 5C Data Centers. Read here.

Mainspring Energy Inc secured $258M to Help Power Data Centers. Read here.

ERCOT: Electricity demand in Texas set to soar to 218GW by 2031 fueled by data center growth. Read here.

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South America

Brazil ministry approves 3 new datacenter projects for São Paulo state. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data centre M&A in 2025. Read here.

Next generation of digital talent discover career paths at Data Centre World. Read here.

What’s the future for Ireland’s data centres? Read here.

Private investors are bullish about data center growth. Here’s why. Read here.

How AI is Revolutionizing Data Center Power and Cooling. Read here.

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Reports

Knight Frank: Data Centres Global Report – 2025. Read here.

IEA: Energy & AI. Read here.

AWS: Letter to shareholders. Read here.

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Europe

EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years. Read here.

European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent. Read here.

Colt DCS Expands German Data Centre Capacity by 117MW. Read here.

Spanish construction firm ACS is planning to develop a data center in Aragon, Spain. Read here.

Start Campus lights up one of the largest private digital infrastructure investments in Europe. Read here.

SG investment firm reportedly eyes UK data center operator deal. Read here.

Yondr Group Brings Second Data Centre Online at 100mw London Campus. Read here.

Bucks plans for another new data centre in green belt. Read here.

Digital Realty launches first data center in Crete, Greece. Read here.

Yorizon and Hochtief break ground on timber Edge data center in Bad Lippspringe, Germany. Read here.

TikTok now using all three data center buildings by Green Mountain in Norway. Read here.

Infrastructure works set to boost Newport (Wales) tech growth. Read here.

Heat from computer data centres will be used to keep 9,000 homes and business – as well as Central Middlesex Hospital – warm. Read here.

UK forms AI Energy Council to balance data centre growth with sustainability. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Awqaf Abu Dhabi considers data centre investment amid push into defensive sectors. Read here.

Lagos State is making major strides in digital infrastructure, with four data centres currently under construction. Read here.

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APAC

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

GreenSquareDC files to upgrade and expand Sydney data center site. Read here.

EPG breaks ground on US$ 80.23 million data center solutions facility (Johor). Read here.

Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power. Read here.

India’s NBCC and RailTel plan to develop data centre projects. Read here.

CapitaLand building AI-ready DC in Chennai. Read here.

GLP sets up RMB 2.6 billion AUM maiden data center fund. Read here.

UAE company considers investing in data centres and AI infrastructure in Việt Nam. Read here.

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North America

Meta’s secret Wisconsin data centre project to cost nearly $1bn: report. Read here.

Bloomberg: Meta is the developer behind planned Beaver Dam data center. Read here.

Alphabet committed to spend $75bn on data centre capacity in 2025. Read here.

Judge Dismisses Challenge to Meta’s $10bn Louisiana Data Center. Read here.

Spanish construction firm ACS is looking to develop a five-building data center campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.

Plans filed for 8 million sq ft data center and technology park outside Augusta, Georgia. Read here.

Diode Ventures has been given the green light by local officials for a data center campus outside Boise, Idaho. Read here.

Data center firm CyrusOne has broken ground on a new data center campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.

600MW data center campus proposed outside Kansas City, Kansas. Read here.

900MW data center campus proposed outside Macon, Georgia. Read here.

LS Power eyes 300-MW colocated data center at Virginia power plant. Read here.

DOE looks at Savannah River Site as potential data center location. Read here.

Plans for 300,000 sq ft data center put forward in Conway, Arkansas. Read here.

Firm to transform Bitcoin mining facility in Dickens Co. into AI data center. Read here.

Galaxy Digital pivots from crypto to AI – signs 200MW deal with CoreWeave. Read here.

IREN pausing Bitcoin expansion to focus on AI data center build-out. Read here.

TierPoint raises $500 million for data center growth. Read here.

Bitfarms gets $300m debt facility from Macquarie for Bitcoin and AI expansion. Read here.

US Power Utilities Receive Massive AI Data Centre Requests. Read here.

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South America

Equinix launches ST2 facility expansion in Pudahuel, Chile. Read here.

Sparkle picks KIO’s datacenter in Querétaro for Mexico launch. Read here.

GIC has formed a joint venture with Brazilian asset manager Alianza to invest $328.8 million in data centres in the South American nation. Read here.

Chilean electric power sector player Generadora Metropolitana sees opportunities in the local datacenter segment. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The plans to put data centres in orbit and on the Moon. Read here.

Could data centres ever be built in orbit? Read here.

Data centre delays will cost developers a lot. Read here.

Inside Brussels’ blueprint to triple AI infrastructure across the EU. Read here.

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. Read here.

The geographies of data are changing – here’s how the industry can adapt. Read here.

Goldman Sachs: Data center demand is peaking in 2025. Read here.

Digital Garden Tokyo: Challenges and opportunities for Japan’s digital infrastructure. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft’s $3.2 B UK data centre plans threatened by grid delays. Read here.

Microsoft skirts around rumors that it has cancelled several data center projects worth billions of dollars. Read here.

CyrusOne to develop second data center in Milan, Italy. Read here.

Edgnex by Damac acquires Finnish data center developer Hyperco. Read here.

Telehouse has announced plans to invest €1 billion in four data centres across France. Read here.

PPC Group has presented a multi-billion euro plan to convert former lignite sites in Western Macedonia into a green energy and technology hub for Greece and south eastern Europe. Read here.

Britain risks ‘losing out to France on data centres’. Read here.

Hemiko to develop UK’s first data center waste heat network. Read here.

Pulsant expands UK portfolio with SCC data centre acquisition. Read here.

AI cloud provider Fluidstack is teaming up with Nvidia, Dell, and Borealis Data Center for the deployment of exascale GPU clusters. Read here.

One of Switzerland’s biggest data center operators Green, owned by InfraVia Capital Partners, has attracted initial interest from insurance companies, pension funds and private equity firms. Read here.

The Iliad Group and InfraVia have closed the transaction aimed at developing OpCore into a major European hyperscale data center platform. Reads here.

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Middle East & Africa

MGX, Silver Lake acquire minority stakes in Khazna Data Centers. Read here.

Equinix expands Lagos Data Center amid Africa’s digital boom. Read here.

Raxio Secures $100 Million from IFC to Develop Leading Sub-Saharan African Data Center Platform. Read here.

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APAC

Softbank seeks $16.5 billion loan to fund Stargate Commitments – report. Read here.

Oracle, Blackstone, Amazon and OnlyFans lineup TikTok bids as deadline looms. Read here.

GLP launched maiden data center fund in China with asset under management of $358 million. Read here.

AirTrunk seeks US$1.7bil loan to build Singapore data centres. Read here.

Morgan Stanley trims PT on Goodman Group over data centre caution. Read here.

Japan plans offshore floating green data centre to meet AI boom. Read here.

Metavisio, BKB team up to build data center in South Korea. Read here.

Japanese consortium to build offshore floating green data center. Read here.

Singaporean firm GK Hyperscale Ltd will participate in the construction of two major data processing centers in Kazakhstan’s Akmola and Karaganda regions. Read here.

China’s AI data center boom goes bust: Rush leaves billions of dollars in idle infrastructure. Read here.

NTT breaks ground on data center campus outside Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

China-based data center firm EPG has announced the official groundbreaking of its second factory in Malaysia. Read here.

SUNeVision begins Phase II of ‘Mega IDC’ in Hong Kong. Read here.

DCI Data Centers submits plan for 25MW data center in Canberra, Australia. Read here.

Keppel, JBIC ink MoU to support clean energy and data center development across Asia. Read here.

Iron Mountain Data Centers takes over Web Werks. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft pulls back on data Centres from Chicago to Jakarta. Read here.

Elon Musk combines xAI and X, valuing social media platform at $33bn. Read here.

Google in talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell GPUs from CoreWeave – report. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure unveils workforce development program. Read here.

133-acre data center approved in Hampton, Georgia. Read here.

Northwest Fort Worth could soon be home to a $2.1 billion data center. Read here.

Data farm proposed near Salton Sea could be first major development in Lithium Valley. Read here.

Apple data center in Maiden to get $175 million expansion. Read here.

Minnesota developer plans to build data center north of Austin. Read here.

$6 billion data center proposal draws mixed reactions in Oldham County. Read here.

Developer Terra Ventures has proposed a two-building data center complex in San Jose Alviso district. Read here.

Real estate firm NorthPoint Development is looking to develop a data center park outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read here.

PhoenixNAP set to build its second Valley data center. Read here.

Application filed for 8.6 million sq ft data center project outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

New data center in Fort Worth could be $2 billion investment. Read here.

Developer pitches $12B data center near Kansas Speedway. Read here.

$6B data center project proposed for Oldham County. Read here.

Plans filed for 2.55 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta. Read here.

Huge AI Data Center Planned for Pennsylvania Coal Plant Site. Read here.

US energy department invites AI data centre development at Los Alamos and other federal lands. Read here.

NTT acquires 173-acre planned data center park in Mesa, Arizona, for $300m. Read here.

Hut 8 and Eric Trump Launch American Bitcoin to Set a New Standard in Bitcoin Mining. Read here.

Mawson Infrastructure Group signs 64MW crypto colocation deal with Canaan. Read here.

Hyperscale Data announced it has entered into an agreement for up to $50 million in new equity financing from a single, unaffiliated institutional investor. Read here.

PGIM Real Estate has closed a $2 billion fund to back data center developments around the world. Read here.

Northstar Technologies acquires Compass’ Quantum Edge data center unit. Read here.

1547 and Harrison Street acquire Hawaii’s DRFortress from GI Partners. Read here.

Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks. Read here.

Trump tariffs could end Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree. Read here.

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South America

Equinix’s services ‘operating normally’ after fire in São Paulo datacenter. Read here.

Takoda Data Centers advances sale process with Itaú, Citizens Bank. Read here.

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Top 10: Data Centre Influencers. Read here.

What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you. Read here.

Global colocation market shift: Emerging metros poised for high growth. Read here.

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday. Read here.

Trump Tariffs: Will the Data Centre Industry be Impacted? Read here.

How Tariffs Could Impact Data Centers, AI, and Energy Amid Supply Chain Shifts. Read here.

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Europe

A new £1 billion data centre at Park Royal ‘will power London’s digital growth’. Read here.

SEGRO and Pure Data Centres Group announce joint venture to develop a c.£1bn fully fitted data centre. Read here.

UK pledges £13bn to boost infrastructure projects. Read here.

Greek PPC unveils EUR 5 billion plan for data centers. Read here.

Art Data Centres Ennis campus judicial review gets dismissed. Read here.

Iliad plots European data centre leadership with eye on sovereignty needs. Read here.

Planned €2bn sale of Energia reignited following data centre planning approval (Ireland). Read here.

Start Campus to start work on second €8bn building at Sines Data Centre in June. Read here.

Nscale to expand Glomfjord data center in Norway with 30MW building. Read here.

Nscale, InfraPartners to launch 60MW AI data centre in Norway. Read here.

Digital Realty has launched a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Eurazeo, through its newly launched fund EZORE, announces a €100 million strategic partnership with Metrobloks, a US-based developer and operator of highly connected data centers in metropolitan areas. Read here.

GreenScale, a new leader in sustainable digital infrastructure, announced a strategic partnership with Soben. Read here.

Arcadis completed the acquisition of KUA Group, strengthening its position across the European data center market. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Cassava Technologies to build Africa’s first AI factory powered by NVIDIA. Read here.

Rack Centre launches 12MW AI-ready data centre in Nigeria. Read here.

Emirates Group co-locates to world’s largest solar-powered data centre. Read here.

MGX buys stake in Dubai’s Khazna Data Centers. Read here.

Enlight Renewable Energy announced that it won an Israel Land Authority tender to develop a state-of-the-art $1.1bn integrated data center and renewable energy complex on a 50-acre site in Ashalim, southern Israel. Read here.

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APAC

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd chairman Joe Tsai warned of a potential bubble forming in data center construction. Read here.

Proposal Lodged by Goodman for ‘Project Apollo’ Macquarie Park Data Centre (Australia). Read here.

Nvidia’s Asian suppliers sink on data center oversupply doubts. Read here.

A consortium consisting of NYK Line, NTT Facilities, Eurus Energy Holdings, MUFG Bank, and the city of Yokohama has signed a memorandum of understanding to build an offshore floating green data center. Read here.

Empyrion Digital enters Thailand with BOI approval for 12MW data center. Read here.

Metavisio Thomson Computing and BKB Energy to build 260 MW data center in South Korea. Read here.

South Korean cloud firm Okestro plans 40MW data center in Sejong. Read here.

TECO buys 80% stake in Malaysian MEP engineering firm to service data centers. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft pulls back from more data center leases in US and Europe. Read here.

OpenAI could build dedicated storage data center to host ‘billions of dollars’ of hardware. Read here.

Related Companies announced the formal launch and capitalization of Related Digital. With a near-term $45 billion development pipeline. Read here.

Critical Data House plans $10B data center in Williston North Dakota. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Announces New 36MW Data Center in Chicago. Read here.

Crusoe Energy sells bitcoin mining unit to focus on ‘huge opportunity’ in AI. Read here.

Apple Joins AI Data Center Race After Siri Mess. Read here.

Data center firm Serverfarm has filed to build two new data centers at sites in Texas that it acquired last year. Read here.

T5 plans 36MW data center in Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Frasier Cole Announces New 190-Acre Data Center Site in Glen Rose, Texas. Read here.

700-acre data center in Bessemer, Alabama, approved despite opposition. Read here.

Lincolnshire-based developer Scott Greenberg is moving forward with data center plans in the Near South Side region of the city. Read here.

Up to 5GW data center with behind-the-meter hydrogen power promised for Laredo, Texas. Read here.

Four-building data center campus proposed in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

Two data center campuses totaling 38 buildings proposed in Yorkville, Illinois. Read here.

The US government is trying to gauge industry interest in developing a 500MW+ commercial data center on an Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona. Read here.

A data center planned for Hobart, Indiana, has been given the green light by the city’s council. Read here.

DataOne USA and Northeast Precast Forge Strategic Partnership. Read here.

Data center operator Sabey raises another $435 million. Read here.

US data center operator Switch has raised $3.5 billion, which it will use to refinance its existing debt. Read here.

Norges Bank Takes $3.86 Billion Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Read here.

Soluna Holdings Secures Financing with Galaxy Digital to Accelerate Data Center Expansion. Read here.

Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure. Read here.

Oklo boosts Aurora reactor capacity to 75MW to power AI data centers. Read here.

Deep Atomic Begins Pre-Application Process for Data Centre Nuclear Reactors. Read here.

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South America

Brazil aims to attract $350bn in data centre investments over next decade. Read here.

The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) announced the approval of a line of credit, initially worth R$180 million, for Scala Data Centers. Read here.

250MW natural gas-powered data center campus announced in Durango, Mexico. Read here.

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Planning for the Future: Navigating the UK’s Data Center Development Maze. Read here.

Building Data Centers for Tomorrow’s AI Era. Read here.

Constructing the digital future: Legal challenges in data centre projects. Read here.

The Power Play: How Data Centers and Utilities Are Reinventing Energy Strategies. Read here.

Breaking the AI Bottleneck: The Future of High-Density Data Centers. Read here.

Data: UK women lead in STEM roles, but BAME inclusion lags. Read here.

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Reports

Synergy: Hyperscale Data Center Count Hits 1,136. Read here.

RLB: 2025 Data Center trends report. Read here.

Dell’Oro Group: Data Center Capex Surged 51 Percent to $455 Billion in 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Oracle to invest $5bn in UK cloud infrastructure. Read here.

Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe. Read here.

New UK data center firm SUB1 secures investment from Boultbee Brooks. Read here.

Clean Energy Capital plans solar farm directly connected to IBM data center in Hursley, UK. Read here.

Drax handed boost in biomass plant data centre plans (Yorkshire, UK). Read here.

Telehouse inks 10-year PPA with RWE to power London Docklands data hub. Read here.

‘Small number’ of redundancies at Meta data centre in Co Meath. Read here.

Spain’s grid operator gives Solaria green light for two more data center projects totaling 130MW. Read here.

Solaria consolidates 1 GW of demand to connect data centers in Spain. Read here.

Portugal eyes $13bn investment in data centres. Read here.

AtlasEdge and Colt join forces to drive Portugal’s digital and sustainable future. Read here.

Sesterce to invest $500 million in AI data centre in France. Read here.

Data centre boom to boost role of gas in Italy. Read here.

Schneider Electric Collaborates with NVIDIA on Designs for AI Data Centers. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Laing O’Rourke achieves major milestone for Pure Data Centres in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

Alfanar Global Development is planning to spend $1.4 billion on developing data centers in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Wingu.Africa breaks grounds on data center expansion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read here.

The Algerian government has broken ground on an AI data center in Oran, Algeria. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft Malaysia to launch three data centres in Q2 2025. Read here.

Thailand has reportedly approved an estimated US$2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services from both local and foreign firms. Read here.

DayOne breaks ground on hyperscale data center pioneering Thailand’s digital future. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres secures record US$ 2.8 billion senior secured bank financing to fuel expansion. Read here.

NTT announces 500MW NAV2 data center in Navi Mumbai, India. Read here.

Currenc to construct hyperscale AI data centre in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Digital Realty forms JV with BDIA to play in Indonesia’s data centre space. Read here.

Equinix issues $370m green bonds in Singapore market debut. Read here.

Beeinfotech PH HIVE Hybrid Data Center opens in Manila. Read here.

L&T to invest Rs 3,600 crores to build three new DCs in India. Read here.

Asia Pacific Cloud Park to be developed in South Korea. Read here.

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North America

Nvidia & xAI Join Big Tech in AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Secures $4 Billion in Green Financing. Read here.

Microsoft chose not to exercise $12 billion Coreweave option. Read here.

Microsoft stops some construction work on massive data center in Mount Pleasant. Read here.

Microsoft is building more data centers outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

Chevron advances plans to develop US data centers with power generation. Read here.

Goodman Group breaks ground on 49.5 MW data center LAX01 in Vernon, California. Read here.

Crusoe has begun construction on the second phase of its data center conglomeration on the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas. Read here.

Diode Ventures files for 515-acre data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Hut 8 secures 592 acres for 300MW Bitcoin and AI data center. Read here.

Core Scientific plans new AI data centers in Dalton, Georgia. Read here.

Data center campus of 6.2m sq ft proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Details emerge around Beacon AI’s planned 400MW Alberta data center campuses. Read here.

Reno approves first evaporative cooling data center. Read here.

QTS has leased a 756,000 sq ft building near Kansas City for a new data center development. Read here.

Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators. Read here.

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South America

ODATA announced a new 48MW Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.

Growth of data centre investments in Brazil. Read here.

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Nearly Half of All UK Data Centres to Be Used for AI by 2030. Read here.

Footballer, rockstar, data center engineer? The industry’s battle to recruit. Read here.

Fixing the 8% problem: Solving the data centre industry’s gender imbalance. Read here.

Near Misses Instill Fears Over Widespread Data Center-Induced Blackouts. Read here.

The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages? Read here.

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Reports

Colliers: 2025 Data Center Marketplace. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Year-end 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Azora announced they are to invest €2bn developing a data center in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

CoreWeave partners with Bulk Infrastructure for one of the largest NVIDIA AI deployments in Europe. Read here.

Verne Strikes 10MW Deal with Nebius to Further Expand Europe’s AI Capacity. Read here.

Pinewood Studios (UK) puts data centre at heart of revised expansion plans. Read here.

Hillingdon Council has granted planning permission for the construction of a large data centre in Hayes. Read here.

Kao Data launches high-density AI data centre with liquid cooling in Harlow. Read here.

Data4 and Westinghouse to evaluate AP300 for data centre deployment. Read here.

Spanish data center firm Templus has announced plans to expand into Portugal. Read here.

firstcolo builds new data center in Rosbach (Germany). Read here.

Vodafone Spain targets 100 Edge data centers by year-end. Read here.

UK rips up planning rules to slash grid connection waits by 7 years. Read here.

Soben to become part of Accenture. Read here.

Digital Realty is to host a quantum computer at one of its colocation data centers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read here.

Portugal positioned to capture significant share of data centre investment. Read here.

The revised NPPF recognizes that data centres are integral to economic growth (UK). Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Ooredoo spin-off Syntys enters growing MENA data centre market. Read here.

Riyadh emerges as Middle East’s fastest-growing market for data centers. Read here.

JLL has announced it has secured a landmark facilities management contract with Pure Data Centres for a data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Read here.

Attacq And Vantage To Develop R628M “Dark Shell” Data Centre. Read here.

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APAC

Chinese data center operator GDS Holdings is selling some of its data centers to a private real estate investment trust. Read here.

SM+ begins construction on Jakarta AI-ready data centre. Read here.

CapitaLand Investment to develop its first data center in Japan. Read here.

Mitsui & Co. Asset Management Holdings Ltd has announced plans to acquire, via a holding company, an operational 20MW hyperscale data center in Japan. Read here.

SoftBank and OpenAI to develop AI data center at former Sharp plant – Nikkei. Read here.

TECON Signs THB16 Billion Construction Contract for Google’s Data Center. Read here.

Oracle mulls data center investment in Indonesia’s Batam Island. Read here.

2MW data center planned in Armenia. Read here.

Asia data centre developer and operator Princeton Digital Group has converted a US$105 million loan into green financing for its JC2 data centre campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

CoreWeave inks $11.9 billion contract with OpenAI ahead of IPO. Read here.

Microsoft is open to using natural gas to power AI data centers to keep up with demand. Read here.

Super Micro CEO Charles Liang said he teamed up with Elon Musk’s xAI to build the Colossus data center in just 122 days. Read here.

Crypto and AI data center firm IREN is planning to develop a 75MW AI data center in Texas. Read here.

Amazon Web Services has received the green light for its planned data center campus in Marysville, Ohio. Read here.

xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center. Read here.

An unnamed developer plans to build a $2.1 billion data center campus in Archbald, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Armbrust & Brown PLLC on behalf of Highlander SM One LLC have proposed a data center project for 199 acres of land in San Marcos, Texas. Read here.

1.5 million sq ft technology campus proposed in LaGrange, Georgia. Read here.

RadiusDC announces 12MW Nashville data center in Tennessee. Read here.

Energy trio, Diversified Energy, FuelCell Energy, and TESIAC, wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on. Read here.

Eaton to buy Fibrebond in $1.4 billion deal to boost data center market presence. Read here.

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From Billions to Trillions: Data Centers’ New Scale of Investment. Read here.

Steel shock: How Trump’s 25% tariffs could delay data centres and tower builds. Read here.

Nordics’ efficient energy infrastructure ideal for Microsoft’s data centre expansion. Read here.

Is The Data Center REIT Honeymoon Period Over? Read here.

Banks Are Putting Big Money Behind Data Centers, Sending Land Prices Soaring. Read here.

Delays, costs, and the role of AI in data centre construction. Read here.

The impact of AI on power and cooling in the data center. Read here.

Data center pipeline capacity exceeds 92 GW by end of 2024, says Wood Mackenzie. Read here.

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