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Europe

‘Huge vote of confidence’ as data centre giant announces £4bn British investment. Read here.

AI data center firm Volt launches, targets deployments in Netherlands, US, and UAE. Read here.

Mercure Hotel could be demolished for £2bn data centre (UK). Read here.

Amazon plans major new data centre in Buckinghamshire. Read here.

UK’s first sovereign data centre powered by renewable energy to be built in Scotland. Read here.

SAMCA Group plans 300MW data center campus in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres seeks planning permission for data center in Kilmeaden, Ireland. Read here.

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom to build data center in Munich, Germany – report. Read here.

Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres. Read here.

Data center development planned for 180-hectare plot in Isojoki, Finland. Read here.

IFM Global Infrastructure Fund has acquired Green Group AG. Read here.

AtlasEdge secures €253 million in green financing for Lisbon campus expansion. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi AI firm HUMAIN unveils 6 gigawatt data center plan and new AI operating system. Read here.

Blackstone’s AirTrunk partners with Saudi Arabia’s Humain in US$3bn data centre deal as Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds invest in AI infrastructure. Read here.

Qatar’s Meeza signs 6MW hosting deal with unnamed hyperscaler. Read here.

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APAC

Singapore to build 700MW data centre park on Jurong Island, pilot biomethane imports: Tan See Leng. Read here.

Amazon subsidiary to invest $5 billion in South Korea, presidential office says. Read here.

Centuria plans 40MW data center in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.

NeutraDC Nxera Batam tops off new Tier III hyperscale data center. Read here.

Equinix tops out second data center in Johor. Read here.

Taiwan’s MediaTek targets billions in AI accelerator chip revenue by 2027. Read here.

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North America

GOOGL, MSFT and META Reiterate Enormous Spending in AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Microsoft to Double Data Center Footprint in Two Years. Read here.

AWS activates Project Rainier: One of the world’s largest AI compute clusters comes online. Read here.

Core Scientific shareholders reject CoreWeave takeover bid. Read here.

OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan. Read here.

AEP raises capital spending plan to meet data center power demand. Read here.

DTE inks first data center deal to grow electric load 25%. Read here.

Crusoe taps Blue Energy to supply nuclear power for up to 1.5GW data center in Port of Victoria, Texas. Read here.

CleanSpark Selects Submer as Its First Strategic Partner for AI Data Center Expansion in North America. Read here.

CleanSpark Enters Texas Market with Land and Large-Scale Power Acquisition to Rapidly Deploy an AI Data Center in Greater Houston. Read here.

Lambda Doubles Down on Midwest Expansion, To Build AI Factory in Kansas City, MO. Read here.

TeraWulf and Fluidstack to develop Texas data center in Google-backed deal. Read here.

HydraVault secures permit to build downtown Chicago AI data centre. Read here.

QTS Data Centers looks to build another facility near Madison, Wisconsin. Read here.

Calgary, Texas companies propose data centre for Saint John industrial park. Read here.

Two data center projects planned for Monticello, Minnesota. Read here.

Foxconn sets $1.4 billion budget for AI cluster and supercomputer. Read here.

Blue Owl-backed Beale Infrastructure is planning new data center campuses in Arizona and Oklahoma. Read here.

Goodman plans 97MW data center in Silicon Valley. Read here.

Fermi America has signed two more nuclear energy agreements to support the development of its planned giant data center campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.

Blue Energy Global Inc. is planning a power plant in Texas that will supply as much as 1.5 gigawatts of electricity to a new data center, initially using natural gas systems and eventually shifting to small reactors. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Tecto expands in Ceará with the launch of 20MW Mega Lobster data center in Fortaleza. Read here.

GTD to invest US$13 million in second phase of data center in Lurin, Peru. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

There’s a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it’s not data centers. Read here.

Big Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree. Read here.

Inside the AI Data Center Rebuild. Read here.

A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres. Read here.

Data centre financing: A European perspective. Read here.

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Reports

Uptime Institute:Data Center Staffing and Hiring Survey. Read here.

Bain & Company: AI Data Center Forecast: From Scramble to Strategy. Read here.

Bain & Company: Solving for AI’s Data Center Construction Crunch. Read here.

Bain & Company: Can the US Energy Grid Keep Up with AI Data Centers? Read here.

AON: Securing Power: Global Strategies for Data Center Energy Resilience. Read here.

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Europe

Apatura changes location of planned 300MW data center campus in Scotland. Read here.

Build of hyperscale data centre eyed at Cockenzie (Scotland). Read here.

Aker Nscale Planning Another AI Data Center in Northern Norway. Read here.

UK data centre spend to soar to £10 billion a year – Barbour ABI. Read here.

UK Government upgrading planning status of data centres, large labs and gigafactories. Read here.

Google puts plans for Finnish data centre expansion on ice. Read here.

Belgium mulls energy limits for power-hungry data centres as AI demand surges. Read here.

Mastercard announces three new data centers in France. Read here.

Vantage plots second Italian data center campus in Milan. Read here.

Conapto expands Stockholm 4 South Data Center with 8 MW extension. Read here.

Telehouse Begins £275m Build for Green London Data Centre. Read here.

Redcentric plans to sell its data center business to Stellanor. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft flags skills gaps as AI could unlock 230 million digital jobs in Africa by 2030. Read here.

Humain signs connectivity deal with Saudi’s Center3. Read here.

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APAC

World’s first underwater data center fueled by wind power completed in China. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres inks water deal for its data center in Thailand. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Maharashtra, to develop data center campuses in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Pune. Read here.

Datavault and T4 expand DC operations in New Zealand. Read here.

Hong Kong Tests Developers’ Data Centre Appetites with Mega-Site Tender. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Secures $260M Green Financing for Tokyo Data Center Expansion. Read here.

BlackRock-owned Vena Group to invest $14 billion in South Korea’s clean energy and AI projects. Read here.

3,000-acre Sarawak tech park to host AI data centers. Read here.

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North America

US data center capacity leasing in Q3 exceeds entirety of 2024. Read here.

Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars. Read here.

Record $38 Billion Debt Sale Nears for Oracle-Tied Data Centers. Read here.

Pimco books $2bn gain on $27bn Meta data centre debt as AI financing boom accelerates. Read here.

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage plan Stargate Wisconsin data center, expected to be ‘close to a gigawatt’. Read here.

Meta and Blue Owl, the private-credit firm, raised $27 billion to finance the buildout of a Louisiana data center. Read here.

Applied Digital Announces $5 Billion AI Factory Lease with U.S. Based Investment Grade Hyperscaler at Polaris Forge 2 ND Campus. Read here.

Crusoe raises $1.4bn as investors pile in to AI data centres. Read here.

Terawulf completes $3.2 billion senior secured notes offering for data center expansion. Read here.

Prologis buys 141 acres for Greater Cincinnati data center. Read here.

Peterson Co. files for 16-building data center campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Read here.

Nearly $500M data center project could be coming to Sangamon County. Read here.

Massive data center, one of the world’s largest, proposed in rural Treasure Coast. Read here.

Menlo Digital Breaks Ground on 48MW Data Center in Herndon Virginia. Read here.

$500M data center proposed in Richland. Read here.

Google behind 390-acre data center development in Morgan County, Indiana. Read here.

The Air Force wants to put private AI data centers on its bases, raising security, land-use fears. Read here.

Data center to be built at former Air Force base in Aroostook County, Maine. Read here.

482-acre data center campus planned for Pine Island, Minnesota. Read here.

Plans for a data center have been greenlit by the city council of Jarell, Texas. Read here.

Conshohocken-area residents push back against proposed data center. Read here.

Fortune 50 company gets greenlight for data center campus in Hermantown, Minnesota. Read here.

Spiritus Announces $500M Partnership to Deliver 1.5 GW of Carbon-Negative Power for Data Center Campus. Read here.

BGO raises $800m US Industrial Fund with a data center allocation. Read here.

CBRE sees strong growth, led by record Q3 leasing and data center expansion. Read here.

Digital Realty’s $1.6 billion Q3 revenue beats forecasts as core FFO reaches record level. Read here.

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South America

Tecto cuts ribbon on sixth data center, announces five new sites under US$1bn capex. Read here.

Data center firm Equinix expands in Brazil, sees it as a priority market. Read here.

HIVE Digital to build 100 MW hydroelectric data center in Paraguay. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Building the future: How datacenters are innovating with sustainability in mind. Read here.

Data centers turn to old jet engines to power AI’s soaring energy demands. Read here.

Inside ‘data centre alley’ – the biggest story in economics right now. Read here.

How to set up an AI data center in 90 days. Read here.

Data Centre in a Mine Located in The Alps. What’s Next for Underground Data Centres? Read here.

Capacity Europe 2025: Europe’s data centres confront the AI era. Read here.

How Data Centers Actually Work. Read here.

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Reports

Knight Frank: Data Centres: The EMEA Report – 2025. Read here.

Synergy Research Group: Neoclouds Currently Growing by Over 200% per Year; Will Reach $180 Billion in Revenues by 2030. Read here.

World Economic Forum: The $3.3 trillion climate question: Can data centres take the heat? Read here.

S&P Global: Data center grid-power demand to rise 22% in 2025, nearly triple by 2030. Read here.

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Europe

Start Campus Hosts the EU’s First NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for Microsoft with Nscale. Read here.

Nscale Contracts Approximately 200,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with Microsoft to Deliver NVIDIA AI Infrastructure Across Europe and the U.S. Read here.

UK data centre start-up Nscale strikes $14bn Microsoft deal in push for IPO. Read here.

Major data centre public inquiry starts (Slough, UK). Read here.

Data centres costing €5.6bn have planning approval but no electricity, industry warns (Ireland). Read here.

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. Read here.

New wave of UK data centres to run on gas engine and CCS microgrid. Read here.

Glesys to acquire Verne’s managed private cloud operations and two data centers in Finland. Read here.

Cellnex to sell French data centre business to Vauban for €391m. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Alibaba’s cloud business launches second data centre in Dubai. Read here.

Khazna announces 1GW data center expansion plans. Read here.

AI Boom Sparks Billion-Dollar Data Center Race in Nigeria. Read here.

Congo pitches world’s largest hydro site as power source for AI data centres. Read here.

Morocco plants flag on AI development with $60m data centre plan. Read here.

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APAC

Firmus Technologies is heading to mainland Australia with a $73.3 billion plan in partnership with CDC Data Centres and Nvidia to build four more AI data centres in capital cities. Read here.

Google to invest $15bn to build AI data hub in India. Read here.

Data centre operator DayOne aims to raise over $1 billion, sources say. Read here.

OpenAI courts Australia in its $771b global infrastructure push. Read here.

ESR and Colt DCS Partner on Sustainable Data Centre in Japan. Read here.

Tata plans 1GW data center build-out in India. Read here.

Blackstone mulls selling AirTrunk’s Johor data center. Read here.

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North America

AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to Acquire All Equity in Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

Macquarie confident in AI, data centre future after $40 billion Aligned sale. Read here.

Meta, Blue Owl Seal $30 Billion Private Capital Deal for AI. Read here.

Breaking Ground on Our (Meta) New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso. Read here.

How Google is investing in South Carolina to expand AI infrastructure and support local workforce programs. Read here.

AI startup Poolside teams up with CoreWeave on 2GW data center in Texas. Read here.

OpenAI and Oracle to deploy 450,000 GB200 GPUs at Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas. Read here.

Fermi secures natural gas pipeline connection for up to 11GW data center project in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.

Brookfield and Bloom Energy Announce $5 Billion Strategic AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.

QumulusAI Secures $500M Blockchain-Backed Facility to Scale AI Compute Infrastructure. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers Expands Power Availability Across Key Campuses. Read here.

Google purchases 950 acres for potential data center in Monroe County, Georgia. Read here.

Vantage files to build another data center in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

ABB to develop next-generation AI data centers with NVIDIA. Read here.

Former cannabis farm in Saskatoon, Canada, could be turned into data center. Read here.

Mixed-use 284-acre development in Georgia to include data center. Read here.

Real estate firm Penzance has broken ground on a data center in Chantilly, Virginia. Read here.

A plan to convert a former psychiatric hospital near Philadelphia into a data center could be held up by new regulations. Read here.

DC BLOX will add capacity for five new subsea cables at its Myrtle Beach data centre campus, boosting international connectivity across the US Southeast. Read here.

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South America

Brazil to begin construction on TikTok data center in six months, minister says. Read here.

OpenAI plans 500MW data center in Argentina. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Measuring risk in the AI financing boom. Read here.

What the datacenter boom means for America’s environment – and electricity bills. Read here.

Business Insights | The Impact of AI on Europe’s Data Centre Market. Read here.

Why women are leading the next chapter of data centers. Read here.

‘Overlooked’ Fibre Planning Stalls 82% of Data Centre Builds. Read here.

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Europe

Google invests an additional €5 billion in Belgian data center. Read here.

European private capital firms target €17bn in data centre deals. Read here.

Diggers move in to start build on £10billion data centre complex in Northumberland. Watch here.

Colt DCS plans three new data centers in Hayes, UK. Read here.

First stage of plans approved for new data centre in Bridgend. Read here.

Blykalla, Studsvik and Evroc and have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of Sweden’s first nuclear-powered data centres at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping on the country’s east coast. Read here.

Spanish renewables firm Solano plans 100MW data center campus in Finland. Read here.

Portuguese DC power demand already toppled current total production. Read here.

Spain’s Adam Ecotech breaks ground on third Barcelona data center. Read here.

Dutch economy faces billions in losses as Amsterdam data center expansion halts. Read here.

Macfarlanes advises L&G on the development financing of a £750m data centre in Newham. Read here.

Pulsant Completes Five-Year, £187M Refinancing Deal. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Cameroon’s ST Digital opens data center in Côte d’Ivoire. Read here.

Africa’s data center power demand grows 25% annually, to reach 8,000 GWh – Experts. Read here.

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APAC

Google plans 1GW data centre cluster in India, ending talk of stalled hyperscaler commitments. Read here.

TCS to build 1 GW AI data centre. Read here.

Oracle and SoftBank come together to provide Sovereign Cloud and AI services in Japan. Read here.

China: World’s first commercial underwater data centre with 1,433-ton cabin goes live. Read here.

U.S. tech giants hit pause on India data center deals under weight of trade uncertainty. Read here.

Mongolia to join data center frenzy with Chinggis Khaan sovereign wealth fund. Read here.

Indonesia’s NeutraDC Nxera targets Batam go live by H1 2026. Read here.

BW Digital tops off data center in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

Applied Digital and Macquarie Asset Management Execute First Funding Milestone in $5.0 Billion AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.

OpenAI considers Stargate data center capacity in Canada. Read here.

AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. Read here.

Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026. Read here.

Billionaire Behind Blackstone’s Data Center Bet Readies Next Act – QII. Read here.

Meta, Pembina near deal to build massive Alberta AI data centre. Read here.

120-acre data center to be built between Calgary and Edmonton, Canada. Read here.

Google looks to build up to six data centers near nuclear power site in Linn County, Iowa. Read here.

Related Digital’s $1.2B Wyoming Data Center Will Be Anchored By CoreWeave. Read here.

CoreSite Achieves Key Construction Milestone for New DE3 Data Center in Denver. Read here.

Data center and powered land provider Lancium has reportedly secured new debt financing. Read here.

Talen Energy seeks to rezone land in Montour County, Pennsylvania, for data center project. Read here.

Data center planned on 795 acres of farmland in south Joliet, Illinois. Read here.

Microsoft scraps plans for Caledonia data center site, working to find an alternate location. Read here.

Data center could come to Hermantown, Minnesota. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale has revealed plans for a second AI data center campus in Wyoming, which it says could eventually deliver 1.5GW of IT capacity. Read here.

SHARON AI Initiates Phase Two Engineering for Its Flagship 1GW AI Data Center Campus Joint Venture in Texas. Read here.

CleanArc buys more land for debut Virginia campus, taking site to potential 900MW. Read here.

IREN prices $875M convertible debt offering. Read here.

Entergy to build 600MW solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas to power Google data centre. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Eletrobras plans to develop its own data center in Campinas, São Paulo. Read here.

Kio Data Centers to invest more than $20m in second Guatemala data center. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Europe’s ‘obsession’ with Net Zero will kill AI boom, warns US data centre boss. Read here.

Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it’s possible. Read here.

Amazon data center communities: Here’s what’s happening near data centers across the US. Read here.

Supersized: The no-limit AI data center build-out. Read here.

Data center boom brings risks of overbuilding, Ares says. Listen here.

AI Growth Is Outpacing Moore’s Law: $500 Billion Needed Every Year To Build Data Centers, Says The Kobeissi Letter. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale Announces $433 Million Pre-Series C SAFE, Building on Historic $1.1B Series B Momentum. Read here.

UK renewable firm Innova submits proposals for ten data center projects with a combined capacity of 4.4GW. Read here.

Elliott explores options for British data centre firm Ark, sources say. Read here.

The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has launched a major new competition to secure an Energy and Data Centre Partner for its 700-hectare site in South Wales. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services seeks to develop data centre campus. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres Expands into Italian Market Through €3bn Development of Large-scale Milan Site with Immediate Power Availability. Read here.

TIM Enterprise is accelerating the country’s digital transformation with a substantial investment plan of €1 billion over three years. Read here.

Sierra DC plans large data center in Granada, Spain. Read here.

EdgeMode and SUB1 partner to expand data centers in Europe. Read here.

‘Critical’ £1.3bn AI data centre will be built in Essex despite loss of countryside concerns. Read here.

200MW data center planned outside Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

City’s IPO market roars back to life as US energy and AI data centre developer Fermi lists in London. Read here.

Kao Data has re-launched its trailblazing online learning resource to inspire primary school children towards future careers in the fast-growing data centre sector. Read here.

Project to build green data centre in Leeds under spotlight at Turner & Townsend roundtable. Read here.

Renewables firm FF Ventures plans data center in Aljustrel, Portugal. Read here.

CapMan’s Kolo DC launches data center in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read here.

Datacenter United secures €120 million financing for “significant expansion” across Belgium. Read here.

New Dutch operator House of Data launches, plans two data centers in Netherlands. Read here.

Atman opened WAW-3 – the largest data centre campus in Poland near Ozarow Mazowiecki. Read here.

Serbia signs MoU with e& enterprise to triple national data center capacity. Read here.

Sweden’s Bahnof drops plans for Stockholm data center to focus on Gothenburg bunker facility. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

ByteBridge and Naizak Forge Joint Venture to Boost AI and Hyperscale Data Centers in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Blue Owl deal cements Qatar fund’s $500bn commitment to US market. Read here.

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APAC

OpenAI has teamed up with South Korean shipbuilding firm Samsung Heavy Industries to explore building floating data centres. Read here.

India Data-Center Firm to File for $500 Million IPO in Two Weeks. Read here.

Thailand’s data center boom to drive electricity demand to 6 TWh by 2030. Read here.

Bifrost is ready for service; directly links Singapore to the US. Read here.

New NSW authority ready to fast track data centre projects. Read here.

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North America

GIP Nears $40 Billion Deal to Buy Aligned Data Centers in Bet on AI. Read here.

OpenAI now worth $500 billion, possibly making it the world’s most valuable startup. Read here.

Rick Perry’s Fermi cashes in on AI frenzy, valued at $15 billion in Nasdaq debut. Read here.

Microsoft to get 100,000 Nvidia GB300s under Nebius deal; has signed more than $33bn in capacity agreements with neoclouds. Read here.

AI Unicorn Groq Charts Data-Center Expansion Plan. Read here.

Centersquare Builds the Backbone for the AI Era with $1 Billion Expansion Across North America. Read here.

Google is investing in Arkansas with a new data center, energy efficiency programs and more. Read here.

CoreWeave stock closes up 12% after company lands $14 billion deal with Meta. Read here.

PG&E announces $73bn grid infrastructure upgrade plan to meet surging data center demand. Read here.

Crusoe announces flagship Abilene data center is live. Read here.

Project Clydesdale, a 506-acre campus outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been approved by the county’s Board of Commissioners. Read here.

NNSA Announces Call For AI Data Centre Projects At Savannah River Nuclear Site. Read here.

TCDC signs LOI to acquire an additional 203 acres for offgrid data center campus in Ector County, Texas. Read here.

Brookfield raises $4 billion at first close of fourth infra debt fund. Read here.

Uptown Charlotte office building to be removed to make way for 4-story data center. Read here.

Metrobloks pitches $500m data center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

Ohio must adjust data center strategies to maintain ‘Hyperscale hub’ dominance, per report. Read here.

Campaigners call on regulator to block 4.5GW gas powered AI data center in Homer City, Pennsylvania. Read here.

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South America

Elea Data Centers Strengthens Capital Structure with Around US$150 Million in ESG-Linked Debenture Issuance. Read here.

Elea Wins Bid to Build 30 MVA Petrobras Data Center in São Paulo. Read here.

X8 Cloud plans AI data center in Paraguay with energy from Itaipú. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data centers are a gold rush for global real estate — but can funding keep up? Read here.

AI and the Rise of Neocloud: Redefining Cloud Infrastructure in the UK. Read here.

AI set to widen gender skills gap in UK’s GBP £1 trillion tech. Read here.

Site Selection and Incentives for Data Centers — Navigating New Opposition and Legislative Challenges. Read here.

From static builds to liquid cooling: The race to future-proof data centers. Read here.

Inside the data centres powering your phone — and the AI revolution. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale raises the largest Series B in European history, at $1.1 billion. Read here.

SAP and OpenAI partner to launch sovereign ‘OpenAI for Germany’. Read here.

Latos announces £100m AI data centre in Stockton-on-Tees. Read here.

AI Pathfinder plans to spend £18.4bn on two UK data centers. Read here.

Firm hails ‘AI powerhouse’ potential as £1bn Basildon data centre edges closer. Read here.

New data centre, AI virtual studio and robotics lab for MediaCity. Read here.

Nearly £12bn in US investment to help develop data centre in Newport. Read here.

Plans for €3bn data centre in Co Kildare are stalled after joint appeal. Read here.

Digital Realty earmarks more than €500m for data centers in Madrid and Barcelona. Read here.

Data center campus planned for Villena, Spain. Read here.

NorthC to build data center in Basel, Switzerland. Read here.

Bahnhof winds down Elementica data centre in Stockholm as work starts on Gothenburg Bunker. Read here.

EcoDataCenter breaks ground on Borlänge, Sweden data center. Read here.

Portus breaks ground on second Munich data center in Germany. Read here.

European data center firm Penta Infra has launched a new facility in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.

Firm moves proposed AI data centre campus plans from Plean to Larbert (Scotland). Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Qatar Investment Authority and Blue Owl Capital Enter Agreement to Establish Digital Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.

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APAC

ISPT site to host 1GW data centre in Western Sydney. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud to launch data centers in eight locations in coming year. Read here.

Singapore’s Keppel DC REIT to buy Tokyo data centre for $555 million with parent Keppel. Read here.

Equinix Opens $69M First Phase of Chennai Data Centre as India Network Grows. Read here.

Land, infra ready for proposed G42-led hyperscale data center in Vietnam: Reports. Read here.

Warburg Pincus, DC Connects, and Wide Creek AMC acquire land for 80MW Hyperscale DC in South Korea. Read here.

Blackstone-backed Lumina CloudInfra acquires land for hyperscale DC in Mumbai. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems. Read here.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites. Read here.

Oracle takes on $18bn in debt ahead of AI data center build-out. Read here.

CoreWeave Expands Agreement with OpenAI by up to $6.5B. Read here.

Cipher Mining Signs 168 MW, 10-Year AI Hosting Agreement with Fluidstack. Read here.

IREN Doubles AI Cloud to 23k GPUs, Raises AI Cloud ARR Target to >$500m. Read here.

Ares Aims to Raise $8 Billion to Back AI-Fueled Data Center Boom. Read here.

Rick Perry’s data center REIT Fermi targets $13 billion valuation in US IPO. Read here.

Fermi America™ and Siemens Energy Execute Letter of Intent for an Additional 1.1 GW. Read here.

Microsoft behind Project Nova data center campus in Caledonia, Wisconsin. Read here.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure secures $1.2bn financing to fund data center build-out. Read here.

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf to raise $3B for Google-backed data center: Report. Read here.

Tech supergiant to invest $1.5B into expanded Alabama data center site. Read here.

Sequitor Edge to build data center on 16-acre land parcel in Kearney, Nebraska. Read here.

Data center operator Edged has launched a data center outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.

Stream files to build 48MW data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

One of several planned AI data centers that was coming to Wisconsin will no longer be headed to the Badger State, at least, for now. Read here.

Denver company planning $277M data center on San Antonio’s far West Side. Read here.

EdgeCore tops out first phase of Ashburn, Virginia, data center campus. Read here.

Digital Realty signs 500GWh hydropower deal with Current Hydro to power Virginia data centers. Read here.

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South America

CloudHQ announces US $4.8B plan to build six data centers in Querétaro. Read here.

Chile AI data centers: Clean power on tap but grid link seen vital. Read here.

Brazil slashes tech taxes to attract billions in data centre investments. Read here.

TikTok pitches $10bn data centre investment to Brazil’s Lula. Read here.

RT-One to Build Latin America’s Largest AI Data Centre. Read here.

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Retaining Great Data Centre Talent Is Not Just About Pay. Read here.

Data Center Talent Crisis: 40% of Staff Plan Job Changes Despite Rising Salaries. Read here.

Underground data fortresses: the nuclear bunkers, mines and mountains being transformed to protect our ‘new gold’ from attack. Read here.

What’s the big deal about AI data centres? Read here.

The data centre boom needs a resilient workforce – here’s how to build one. Read here.

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Europe

Google Opens Waltham Cross Data Centre as Part of Two-year £5 Billion Investment in the UK to Help Power its AI Economy. Read here.

Microsoft invests $30 billion in UK to power AI future. Read here.

Introducing Stargate UK. Read here.

Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI. Read here.

North East England set for billions in investment and thousands of jobs as UK and US ink tech partnership. Read here.

Two sites in North East become ‘AI growth zone’. Read here.

AI industrial park in Irvine ‘could bring £15bn investment’. Read here.

New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss. Read here.

CoreWeave ups UK AI data centre investment to £2.5bn. Read here.

DataVita and CoreWeave to launch AI infrastructure in Scotland, powered by renewable energy, as part of £1.5bn investment. Read here.

US AI firm makes £1.5 billion investment in Scottish data centre. Read here.

Plans for £1bn data centre recommended for approval. Read here.

Google rumours swirl Teesworks (UK). Read here.

AI Pathfinder, a UK-based company, has announced its ‘mission’ to deliver up to 2GW of sovereign AI supercomputing capacity at its AI Factories in the UK starting in Northants. Read here.

Lords call for government to produce national (UK) AI energy efficiency strategy in next 18 months. Read here.

Microsoft to build data center in Elsdorf, Germany. Read here.

EdgeMode to Acquire Spanish Data Center Portfolio, Targeting 1.5 GW of Sustainable AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Announces Opening of Second London Campus with Landmark Public Art Installation. Read here.

Vantage enters Spain, to invest €3.2 billion in Zaragoza data center campus. Read here.

Spain’s Templus to expand Madrid data center to 20MW. Read here.

Digital Realty completes buildout of data center campus in northern Paris. Read here.

Data4 breaks ground on data center project in Hanau, Germany. Read here.

First YEXIO Data Centre in Heiligenhaus enters Operation. Read here.

Galaxy Data Centers and Zendo Partner to Deliver Traceable Clean Energy to London Data Centre. Read here.

DWS embarks on $2 billion sale of data centre business. Read here.

EQT puts GlobalConnect up for sale with €8bn price tag – report. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

MTN Group is in advanced talks with American and European technology firms over plans to roll out a new generation of data centres across Africa.. Read here.

Saudi Arabia eyes private equity capital for data center buildouts. Read here.

Iraq partners with Nokia to build first state-owned data centers in Baghdad. Read here.

$1trn Adia fund shifts to more data-driven strategy. Read here.

G42 signs 200MW Stargate data centre construction deal. Read here.

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APAC

Indonesia sovereign wealth fund INA targets data centres, AI in healthcare, renewables. Read here.

Gorilla Technology and Singaporean Freyr sign $1.4bn AI data centre deal. Read here.

Keppel inks deal with Dell to develop data centers, AI platforms in Asia. Read here.

Malaysia signs MoUs in journey towards AI nation status. Read here.

Equinix Opens First AI-Ready Data Center in Chennai. Read here.

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North America

Made in Wisconsin: The world’s most powerful AI datacenter. Read here.

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter. Read here.

Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners are set to approve a $165 billion incentive project for a data center to be built in Santa Teresa. Read here.

CleanArc gets green light for 600MW data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.

Avaio Digital Partners breaks ground on $6bn data center in Mississippi. Read here.

OQC and Digital Realty Launch New York’s First Quantum‑AI Data Centre. Read here.

CyrusOne breaks ground on New Albany, Ohio data center. Read here.

AWS seeks permit for another data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia. Read here.

Meta emptied five live data centers to make one large AI cluster. Read here.

Prince William County votes against Stack Infrastructure’s campus expansion. Read here.

Tract acquires 1,000 acres in Nevada for 1.6GW data center park. Read here.

Statesville City Council approved a rezoning request to allow construction of a data center on farmland. Read here.

Prince George’s County moves to put data center development on pause. Read here.

Kalkaska considers Data Centre development. Read here.

Generate Capital extends $100 million line of credit to Soluna to develop green data centers. Read here.

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South America

Roblox data center in Brazil goes live ahead of schedule. Read here.

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Datacloud USA keynote – Quantum is coming: Why data centres can’t afford to ignore it. Read here.

When Data centers trigger billion-dollar utility projects that push higher bills onto the public. Read here.

xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World. Read here.

Can small nuclear reactors create real impact for the data centre industry? Read here.

Bridging the Skills Gap in Data Centre Teams: Training, Retention, and Change. Read here.

OpenAI and Oracle’s $300B Stargate Deal: Building AI’s National-Scale Infrastructure. Read here.

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Europe

OpenAI, Nvidia set to announce UK data center investments, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.

Nebius announces multi-billion dollar agreement with Microsoft for AI infrastructure. Read here.

EcoDataCenter raises an additional EUR 600 million. Read here.

Lift off for Anglesey’s £1bn Prosperity Parc. Read here.

Double Canning Town site sale completes for giant data centre and homes development. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Announces Opening of Second London Campus with Landmark Public Art Installation. Read here.

TikTok Launches Latest Data Center Project in Europe (Finland). Read here.

Microsoft is expanding its data center footprint in Madrid, Spain. Read here.

Microsoft purchases 50 hectares for Dutch data center expansion. Read here.

L&G digital infrastructure fund closes at £520m. Read here.

Green expands into Europe – further data centers planned. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Helios eyes Cairo data centre in deal with Telecom Egypt. Read here.

Airtel breaks ground on its East Africa data centre hub at Tatu City. Read here.

Adia partners in $1.6bn deal backing US data centre operator. Read here.

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APAC

OpenAI in Talks with Reliance and Other Data Centres to Bring Stargate in India. Read here.

OpenAI mulls data center construction in Korea. Read here.

Bain to Sell China Data Centers to HEC-Group in $4 Billion Deal. Read here.

AI Boom Fuels $5.6 Billion Data Center Bain Capital, Vantage Deals Across China And Malaysia. Read here.

GreenSquareDC advances 110MW Sydney data centre project with key approvals. Read here.

Data centre demand is new driver for SunCable project. Read here.

ZDATA seeks US$ 500 million loan for Johor data center: Reports. Read here.

Alibaba is looking to raise $3.2 billion through the sale of zero-coupon convertible bonds. Read here.

Lodha Developers Partners with Maharashtra Government to Build 2 GW Green Data Centre Park in Palava. Read here.

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North America

Babcock & Wilcox and Denham Capital Announce Strategic Partnership to Convert Existing Coal Plants to Power Data Centers in the U.S. and Europe. Read here.

Fermi America™ Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO). Read here.

Goodman tops out LAX01 Vernon data centre. Read here.

Alberta wants to become an AI data centre hub, but this rural county just rejected a big proposal. Read here.

Kershaw County considering 160-acre data center proposal from North Carolina developer. Read here.

Plans filed for data center site outside Columbia, South Carolina. Read here.

Indianapolis City-County Council to vote on Google data center project in Indiana. Read here.

New industrial hub planned near Phoenix as EdgeCore targets major data center project. Read here.

HydraVault announces plans for 20MW liquid-cooled data center in Chicago. Read here.

HHHunt eyes 10-building, 400-acre data center campus beside Wyndham. Read here.

600MW data center campus proposed in Texas. Read here.

Data center proposed by Tract for Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Read here.

Data center park developer Tract enters Iowa. Read here.

Titus secures 673MW generation capacity for Texas data centre projects. Read here.

DataBank Raising $1B By Securitizing 3 U.S. Data Center Assets. Read here.

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South America

Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center. Read here.

Argentine supermarket chain Coto inaugurates modular data center. Read here.

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Public perception and data centre delays. Read here.

One year on: Critical national infrastructure for data centres in the UK. Read here.

Vive la révolution: The inside story of the big French AI data center build-out. Read here.

Heatmap Poll: Only 44% of Americans Would Welcome a Data Center Nearby. Read here.

US data center build hits record as AI demand surges, Bank of America Institute says. Read here.

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI boom, AI bust? Read here.

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