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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 20th June 2025

Posted on June 23, 2025June 23, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Reports

Dell’Oro Group: Hyperscale Blackwell and Custom Accelerator Rollouts Drive 53 Percent Capex Growth in 1Q 2025. Read here.

Applied Digital: AI Factory: A Case Study for Total Cost of Ownership. Read here.

Linesight: The energy gap and power constraints: outlook for high-demand sectors. Read here.

Bloom Energy: 2025 Data Center Power Report: Mid-Year Pulse. Read here.

Ember: Grids set to block or unlock economic opportunities in Europe’s AI race. Read here.

Europe

Ochiltree (Scotland) 200MW data centre campus initial plans submitted. Read here.

Campaigners oppose planned data centre near Houghton Regis (Bedfordshire, UK) over environmental concerns. Read here.

Alterations made to plans for Bucks data centre the height of three double decker buses. Read here.

Lack of power could jeopardise data centre development across the South East (UK). Read here.

European Edge data center operator nLighten has signed a renewable supply agreement with Conrad Energy to power its portfolio of UK facilities. Read here.

Germany’s Maincubes tops out latest Frankfurt data center. Read here.

200,000 sqm data center campus planned in Keuruu, Finland. Read here.

Ireland plans legislation for data centers to build and run own power lines – report. Read here.

Norway inaugurates Olivia supercomputer at Lefdal Mine Datacenter. Read here.

Spain’s Box2bit plans data center in Malaga. Read here.

German firms to submit separate EU bids for AI data centre, newspaper reports. Read here.

EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production, developing 20MW data center in Sweden. Read here.

Montenegro to get data center as part of Hungary infrastructure deal. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Naver to Build 500MW AI Data Center in Morocco with NVIDIA. Read here.

Blue Turtle to support two Africa Data Centres facilities in South Africa. Read here.

APAC

Amazon investing AU$20 billion to expand data center infrastructure in Australia. Read here.

Edgnex Data Centers by Damac announces $2.3 billion AI-focused data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

NextDC secures AU$2.2bn debt finance for Asia expansion. Read here.

SK Group and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will jointly invest “several trillion won” to build a 100-megawatt AI data center in Ulsan, expected to become the largest AI-dedicated data center in Korea. Read here.

Haoyang Data buys land for 300MW Thailand data center. Read here.

Korea rushes to construct AI data centers. Read here.

AirTrunk breaks ground on 40MW expansion at Tokyo data center campus. Read here.

Kazakhstan to Build Central Asia’s First Tier IV Data Center. Read here.

Alibaba to launch 2nd data centre in South Korea to support AI expansion. Read here.

BDx Indonesia secures 30 MVA power deal with PLN to fuel AI data centre growth. Read here.

Aslan Energy partners with JIEP to develop 40MW renewable powered data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

North America

Cologix has started work on a $1 billion AI data center complex in the Lewis Center area, part of a larger central Ohio expansion for the Denver company. Read here.

5,000 acre plot listed for sale for data center development in the Texas Panhandle. Read here.

$14 billion proposed data center near Birmingham hits another hurdle. Read here.

APR Energy obtains approval for 800-acre natural gas powered data center in Pampa, Texas. Read here.

Chesapeake City Council rejects data center proposal. Read here.

Data center campus is planned for Great Falls. Read here.

Supervisors OK land sale for huge Beale Infrastructure data center complex near Tucson. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers buys property in Conesville Industrial Park. Read here.

Hines acquires industrial data center power facility in Silicon Valley. Read here.

Microsoft secures power supply for data center project in Malaga, Washington. Read here.

County planning officials outside Richmond vote against Tract data center park. Read here.

Advanced nuclear developer TerraPower closes $650m fundraise, with backing from Nvidia. Read here.

Fort Meade City Commission approves zoning change that could yield massive data center. Read here.

A 5,000-acre plot of land in the Texas Panhandle has been put up for sale for potential data center development. Read here.

108MW data center campus granted zoning approval outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

South America

Brazilian telco Century will invest $27m for second data center in Brazil. Read here.

Microsoft has launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country. Read here.

Tecfusions and Chilean organisation Grupo Daeza have signed a letter of intent to develop a 100MW campus in Puente Alto, Chile. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Architecture Firm Unveils ‘First Data Center Designed Entirely by AI’. Read here.

Next-gen AI chips will draw 15,000W each, redefining power, cooling, and data center design. Read here.

‘Cool data centres with treated sewage’ – water firm. Read here.

Land price, energy mix, workforce availability, IT infrastructure are the main advantages of Romania to attract investments in data centers. Read here.

Building Britain: Apprenticeships and the future of critical data infrastructure. Read here.

The True Cost of Data Centers. Read here.

How AWS is helping a Paris startup beat the superbugs. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 13th June 2025

Posted on June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Europe

European data centre investment to reach $114 billion by 2030. Read here.

Hypertec Expands into Europe with 5C and Together AI; a Strategic AI Infrastructure Alliance driving up to $5 billion in Private Investments. Read here.

Keir Starmer’s £2bn Pledge: How the UK Plans to Advance AI. Read here.

‘AI Maker, Not an AI Taker’: UK Builds Its Vision With NVIDIA Infrastructure. Read here.

Nebius launches in UK, boosts national AI infrastructure with Nvidia Blackwell Ultra deployment. Read here.

CyrusOne announces plans for 90MW data center campus in Buckinghamshire, UK. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Completes Industry’s First Euro-Based Data Center Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) with €640M Transaction. Read here.

Team Group, Firebird, NVIDIA launch a $500 million AI project in Armenia. Read here.

Crusoe to lease Polar data center in Norway for AI cloud. Read here.

CloudHQ unveils $1.4 billion data centre in France. Read here.

UNEP releases guidelines to curb the environmental impact of data centres. Read here.

North East (UK) stakes claim for leading data centre role as report highlights AI and cloud demand boom. Read here.

Havering (UK) Data centre development project sparks local strife. Read here.

Campaigners oppose AWS-linked data center in Bedfordshire, UK, over water and power fears. Read here.

New data center firm Arcem targets projects across Finland. Read here.

Finland sees 2 GW of data centre demand underway. Read here.

Virtus breaks ground on data center campus in Berlin, Germany. Read here.

This is what the huge new data centre to be built in Malaga will look like. Read here.

Schneider Electric and Nvidia unite to accelerate Europe’s AI factory ambitions. Read here.

CoreWeave has “large scale” solar and wind PPA in Spain. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

UAE’s Khazna, NVIDIA partner to build AI-capable mega data centres across MEA. Read here.

US-UAE AI Data Centre Deal ‘Far From Finalised’. Read here.

APAC

Agreement Signed for First Offshore Wind-Powered Underwater Data Centre in China. Read here.

Koramco targets $7 bn bets on Korea data centers. Read here.

CPP Investments commits $1.3bn to Ares’s Japan data centre fund. Read here.

DayOne secures $3.54bn financing for Malayasian data centers. Read here.

Data centre giant NextDC is building a $2b billion digital tech campus in Melbourne. Read here.

DC investors in Korea, Japan struggling to find powered land: CBRE report. Read here.

OpenAI exec tours APAC for possible Stargate data center sites – report. Read here.

Digital Edge partners B.Grimm to invest US$1 billion in 100MW data center in Thailand. Read here.

WHA Settles Land Sales with Top Chinese Provider for 300MW Hyperscale Data Center. Read here.

Pilot project to launch €185m sustainable data centre in Uzbekistan. Read here.

North America

Amazon plans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation. Read here.

Amazon Signs Data Centre Nuclear Power Deal with Talen Energy. Read here.

TD Cowen: AWS data center leasing returning, company scores 1GW+ customer. Read here.

TD Cowen: Oracle seeking 5GW US data center capacity for OpenAI training workloads by end of 2026. Read here.

Oracle will build more cloud infrastructure data centers than all its competitors combined, says Larry Ellison. Read here.

CoreWeave to develop 180MW data center at Digital Crossroads campus in Hammond, Indiana. Read here.

GridFree AI Planning ‘Oil and Gas’ Approach To Building Self-Powered Data Center Campuses. Read here.

Google acquires 85 acres in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

Sabey looks to develop data center campus outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Applied Digital has more gigawatt-scale data centers up its sleeve. Read here.

New Era Helium eyes major AI Data Center expansion in Texas as enterprise talks advance. Read here.

Crusoe secures $750m credit facility from Brookfield to accelerate the development of Energy-First AI Factories. Read here.

Soluna secures $20M to launch Project Kati 1. Read here.

Vantage explores data center development on Cloverleaf site in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Read here.

Data centers bemoan Florida plans for rate hike plan. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Datacloud Power 50: Meet the top 50 trailblazers in the data centre industry. Read here.

Next-gen AI demands smarter cooling tech. Here’s how AWS delivered it in just 11 months. Read here.

4 ways Google data centers transform communities for the better. Read here.

Data Centres: An International Legal and Regulatory Perspective Spotlight on Italy. Read here.

AWS Builds Custom Liquid Cooling in 11 Months for AI Chips. Read here.

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Just Launched: 2025 Data Centre Salary Survey

Posted on June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

11^th June 2025 – In response to continued demand for greater transparency in compensation and career progression within the data centre sector, critical infrastructure recruitment consultancy DataX Connect has officially launched its 2025 Data Centre Salary Survey. This annual survey collects vital data from professionals across Europe and the US, offering the industry a comprehensive view of pay, benefits, and bonuses.

The results of the survey will form the basis of DataX’s comprehensive regional salary reports, which are used by employers all over the globe to benchmark compensation and by professionals to understand their value in the market.

Take part in the survey

Supporting transparency in a booming industry

As the data centre industry continues to grow rapidly and compete for skilled talent, access to reliable compensation data has become increasingly important. The 2025 Salary Survey will provide insight into:

Pay trends by job title and region
Bonus structures and benefits packages
Experience levels, age, and career progression

There will be three main regional reports covering the UK, the rest of Europe, and the US.

What’s new in the 2025 survey

This year’s survey introduces expanded sections on:

Pay trends by seniority and by company type
Year-on-year salary data
Stagnant salaries
A closer look at individuals benefits packages
Gender pay gap analysis
Data on mobility and career movement across the market

The 2025 reports aim to provide even more actionable insights for both employers looking to attract and retain top-tier professionals, and individuals seeking to benchmark their compensation and progress within the sector.

Backing future talent pipelines

The survey also supports DataX Connect’s broader mission to help address the data centre talent shortage. Through its partnership with the Digital Futures Programme at UTCs in the South of England, the recruitment consultancy is contributing to the development of young technical talent and helping to shape the workforce of the future.

Have your say

DataX is inviting data centre professionals and employers across Europe and the US to take part in the 2025 survey and help shape the next edition of the industry’s most widely read salary benchmark report.

Take the 2025 Data Centre Salary Survey

With the insights gathered, DataX Connect will continue to drive transparency, competitiveness, and confidence in the data centre job market — supporting both the organisations it works with and the professionals it represents.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 6th June 2025

Posted on June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Reports

Aurora Energy Research: Coordinated action could unlock £35bn in green investment and 5 GW of data centres. Read here.

EUDCA: State of European Data Centres 2025. Read here.

JLL: EMEA Data Centre Report Q1 2025. Read here.

Europe

Brookfield plans $10 billion AI data centre in Sweden. Read here.

GreenScale announces the acquisition of Tonstad DataPark (Norway), its newest data centre development. Read here.

Ingenostrum Group has announced the development of a 300MW data centre in Badajoz, Spain. Read here.

National Grid starts work on new substation in Buckinghamshire to power data centres. Read here.

Equinix launches second Portuguese data center in Lisbon. Read here.

Microsoft invests $400m to expand data centres in Switzerland. Read here.

Greykite and White Star Real Estate have successfully converted a former logistics facility in Warsaw into a state-of-the-art data centre. Read here.

German landlord Aroundtown looks to convert offices into data centres. Read here.

Damac’s Hyperco targets data center development in Espoo, Finland. Read here.

CyrusOne & E.ON partner on 61MW new power system in Germany. Read here.

Japan’s NTT interested in opening data centre in Montenegro. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Wingu.Africa secures $60m from RMB to fuel data center build-out. Read here.

APAC

Amazon to invest over $5 billion in new AWS region in Taiwan. Read here.

Global Infrastructure Partners to invest more than $1bn in Thai data centers. Read here.

True IDC launches Thailand’s first AI Hyperscale Data Center. Read here.

DBS, UOB lend 6.7 trillion rupiah for Indonesia data centre campus. Read here.

Turkey’s Trendyol to build 48MW data center in Ankara. Read here.

Yondr Group delivers its first data center in Asia Pacific six months early. Read here.

North America

Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation. Read here.

Meta signs 20-year nuclear deal to power AI data centres from 2027. Read here.

Musk’s xAI seeks billions to expand AI data centres. Read here.

Applied Digital signs $7bn lease with CoreWeave. Read here.

Google pledges $7bn to expand Iowa data center footprint. Read here.

Virginia’s Chesterfield County approves rezoning for two data center projects. Read here.

Alberta grid operator launches interim plan to connect up to 1.2GW of data centers by 2028. Read here.

Bit Digital acquires manufacturing site in North Carolina, plans 99MW data center. Read here.

Arizona Land Consulting (ALC) is looking to develop a 1.5GW data center in Arizona. Read here.

Vantage targets data center campus outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.

Bitzero Blockchain has announced the development of four data centers across the US, Finland, and Norway. Read here.

Digital Realty files to develop two-building campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

South America

Brazil wind power company gets OK for data center project with TikTok interest. Read here.

TECfusions to develop 100MW data center campus in Puente Alto, Chile. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Global leaders align on urgency & opportunity in data centre investment. Read here.

12 things we learned at Datacloud Global Congress 2025. Read here.

These 5 Courses Will Teach You Data Centre Skills (And Help You Land a Technician Role). Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 30th May 2025

Posted on June 2, 2025June 2, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Reports

Colliers: The digital backbone: Data center growth prospects in India. Read here.

Coresite: 2025 Industry Trends, Strategy and Innovation. Read here.

Europe

CBRE: Data Centre Take-up in Europe to Reach New Peak in 2025. Read here.

German tech giants collaborate on AI Data center bid with EU support. Read here.

Iron Mountain to expand Amsterdam data center campus by 10MW. Read here.

New firm Polarnode plans data center campuses across Finland. Read here.

APL targets 100MW data center campus in Finland. Read here.

Up to 1,000 jobs could be created by a new artificial intelligence data centre in North Lincolnshire. Read here.

‘AI data centre campus’ proposed in North Lincolnshire that would cost at least £5.5bn to develop. Read here.

Data centre blitz threatens Labour’s net zero hopes (UK). Read here.

Parish council objects to plan for major data centre on North Weald airfield (UK). Read here.

Plans in for first phase of Cambois Data Centre Campus (UK). Read here.

Westmeath €1bn data centre not classed as strategic infrastructure, told to go local. Read here.

The development of a data centre in Killala is on hold after an appeal was lodged with An Bord Pleanala. Read here.

Construction approval for 1.6GWh flow battery and associated Data Center in Switzerland. Read here.

German landlord Aroundtown looks to convert offices into data centres. Read here.

Greykite to redevelop Warsaw logistics site as 65MW data center in Poland. Read here.

European operator Penta Infra is to connect its data center in Leeuwarden to a new district heating network. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

UAE grapples with ‘overwhelming’ demand for more energy amid data centre boom. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s AI co. Humain looking for US data center equity partner, targets 6.6GW by 2034 with subsidized electricity. Read here.

Abu Dhabi to invest over $10 billion to power data center industry, says TAQA CEO. Read here.

APAC

BRIGHTRAY breaks record by completing data center in 8 months (China). Read here.

Alibaba Cloud reaffirms $52.7bn global buildout plans. Read here.

Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region. Read here.

Pakistan allocates 2,000 megawatts of electricity to bitcoin mining, AI data centres. Read here.

S. Korea’s KT plans to set up AI data center in Vietnam. Read here.

Trendyol, Castle Investments to build $500M data center in Turkish capital. Read here.

Microsoft opens its first data center in Indonesia. Read here.

S. Korea’s 90 billion won AI data center sits half-empty amid budget shortfall. Read here.

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT to buy data center and business park for S$700 million. Read here.

High security data center soon to launch in West Auckland, New Zealand. Read here.

North America

Oracle ‘To Spend $40bn’ On Nvidia Chips For Stargate Campus. Read here.

Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73%. Read here.

Blue Owl, Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers Announce Next Phase of $5 Billion Joint Venture Development Partnership. Read here.

Neuron Factory Announces $6 Million Seed Funding, Strategic AI Partnership with Construction Innovators Cordeel Group. Read here.

Amazon Web Services suspends plans for Minnesota data center. Read here.

Aligned looks to develop three more data centers at Quantum Frederick park in Maryland. Read here.

Indian American real estate tycoon Anita Verma-Lallian closes $51m Data Center deal in Arizona. Read here.

Bell Canada has announced it will open six artificial intelligence data centres in British Colombia as part of a plan to create the largest AI compute project in Canada. Read here.

Multibillion-dollar data center proposal makes its way to Kansas City, Kansas. Read here.

Snow Lake, Exodys form SMR venture targeting US data center market. Read here.

South America

Brazil’s Eveo inks contract to host infra at Atlantic Data Centers. Read here.

Brazil’s data center boom puts Nokia in the right place at the right time. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Inside OpenAI’s Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman. Watch here.

Trump Nuclear Power Plans Target Data Centers And National Security. Read here.

Navigating regulatory challenges in data centres. Read here.

Spain’s first Data Center Academy promotes young talent and equal access to job opportunities in technology. Read here.

Stargate and beyond: The global data centre arms race. Read here.

Lithuania: Europe’s emerging green data center investment opportunity. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 23rd May 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025May 27, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Europe

Bain Capital unveiled hscale and charts a course for rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres across EMEA. Read here.

MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI, NVIDIA launch joint venture to build Europe’s largest AI campus in France. Read here.

France attracts 4 GW of new data centre demand. Read here.

Prologis, U.S. Logistics Titan, Plans a Staggering €6.4 Billion Investment in France. Read here.

500MW data center proposed in Lapland, Finland. Read here.

New plans outline timescale for delivery of data centre at Cambois in Northumberland. Read here.

Data centre decision ominous for green belt near M25. Read here.

Solaria secures an additional 250 MW to power data centers in central Spain. Read here.

OVH launches first Italian data center in Milan. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

OpenAI to join US-UAE plan to build vast data centre in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive Data Centers in the U.A.E. Read here.

AWS and HUMAIN to invest US$ 5 billion in AI Zone in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

APAC

Turkey’s Turkcell secures €100m for data center expansion. Read here.

Foxconn to Build 100 MW AI Data Center With Nvidia. Read here.

OpenAI seeks Asia Pacific deals for Stargate data centers. Read here.

AWS Taiwan data center is still in play, but the launch date is unclear. Read here.

Thailand’s First AI Hyperscale Data Center Debuts. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group has secured more than $1 billion in financing to fuel its roll-out. Read here.

North America

BlackChamber Group has raised $2.1 billion for the development of hyperscale data centers in the US. Read here.

REPORT: 26North Nearing Acquisition Of Data Center Investor DigitalBridge. Read here.

JPMorgan to Lend More Than $7 Billion For OpenAI Data Center. Read here.

Texas data centre being built for OpenAI by startup Crusoe has secured $11.6 billion in funding. Read here.

EdgeCore expands its Metro Phoenix data center market to over 450 MW. Read here.

Iron Mountain has begun construction on a 200MW data center campus near Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Sangha starts construction on 19.9MW Bitcoin site in Texas. Read here.

Prologis set to buy Project Sail data center site outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

‘Hyperscale’ data center project drawing resistance in rural Oldham County. Read here.

Large data center campus is being proposed in West Memphis, Arkansas. Local press suggests Google could be behind the project. Read here.

500-acre data center campus planned in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read here.

T5 files to develop data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Soluna unveils 75 MW solar-powered data centre in northeast Texas. Read here.

Meta Buys 650 MW of Renewable Energy to Power U.S. Data Centers. Read here.

CyrusOne tops out 18MW Illinois data center. Read here.

Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X. Read here.

South America

Elea confirmed as company behind Rio’s 1.8GW AI City project. Read here.

Other interesting articles

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Booming industry: analysing UK data centre growth. Read here.

Bloomberg Technology: OpenAI Plans Data Center. Listen here.

How AI Will Continue to Impact the Data Centre Industry. Read here.

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Data Centre Marketing Club to Host Masterclass Event

Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Data Centre Marketing Club Formed to Champion Best Practice, Collaboration and Storytelling in the Digital Infrastructure Community

Co-founded by Senior Education, Influencer, Marketing and PR leaders, the new Data Centre Marketing Club hosts its first Masterclass at Norton Rose Fullbright on the 22^nd May 2025.
The event aims to explore the key marketing challenges and opportunities facing the data centre sector and provide attendees with a platform to share marketing best practices.
Features speakers from organisations including AVK, AtlasEdge, CFH, DataX Connect, Digital Realty, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, Kao Data, PWC, Spa Communications, The Inside Data Centre Podcast and WeDoCo.

London, United Kingdom, May 19^th 2025 – Senior leaders from the digital infrastructure sector have formed a first of its kind Data Centre Marketing Club – enabling PR, Marketing and Social Media professionals to collaborate, share knowledge, and champion branding, marketing and storytelling best practices across the data centre community.

Co-founded by Giuseppe Caltabiano, Senior Marketing Director, AVK; Andy Davis, Director, DataX Connect and host of the Inside Data Centre Podcast; Nicola Hayes, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Platform Markets Group; Adam Nethersole, Vice President (VP) Marketing, Kao Data; and Rory Flashman-Wells, Managing Director, Spa Communications Ltd, the open community aims to address the negative perception of data centres by improving marketing and communications about the industry’s role in technological innovation and sustainability, and its position as a global platform for economic growth.

Further, by encouraging cross-industry learning and providing members with both the foundational tools and a forum to enhance their skillsets, the community plans to help marketers can better understand their strategic value to digital infrastructure organisations, and develop the confidence to create campaigns that deliver demonstrable outcomes for leadership teams.

On the 22^nd May 2025, the Data Centre Marketing Club hosts its first, free-to-attend Masterclass event, ‘Cutting Through the Noise’, at legal firm Norton Rose Fullbright – exploring the critical role of brand in business growth, and how marketers can accelerate impact by delivering a joined-up approach to sales, marketing and communications strategies.

Open to marketing, PR and social media professionals across the industry, key sessions will include ‘The ROI of Brand Building in B2B’, led by Prof. Charles Graham of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute; ‘Building a standout brand in the data centre sector’ featuring James Dunn, Co-Founder and Creative Director WeDoCo, and Giuseppe Caltabiano, Senior Marketing Director, AVK; and ‘The ROI of Storytelling’ by Tim Love, Founder, CFH London.

Additionally, Andy Davis, Director, DataX Connect and host of the Inside Data Centre Podcast, and Josie Hughes, Director of Marketing, Strategy and Culture, DataX Connect will discuss ‘The role of marketing in attracting talent’, while Adam Nethersole, VP Marketing, Kao Data and Rory Flashman-Wells, MD, Spa Communications Ltd will present on ‘Making Markets’, exploring the role of PR in propelling business growth.

The day ends with ‘The Storytelling Panel’, featuring Georgia Lewis Anderson, Co-Founder, Lantyn and previously Generative AI Content Strategist, Meta, Katryna Turner, Global Brand Strategist, PwC, and Duncan White, Senior Director of Communications & Marketing at AtlasEdge. This is followed by an ‘Ask the Experts’ session moderated by Kristy Harrower, Partner at Norton Rose Fullbright, featuring key insights from Sue Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Digital Realty, Katryna Turner.

“Feedback from the initial discussions at Data Centre Marketing Club found that brand and content strategies are often overlooked when it comes to digital infrastructure marketing,” said Nicola Hayes, CMO, Platform Markets Group. “As such, we developed the key themes for our first masterclass to meet these challenges head on – explaining the strategic role of brand, PR and storytelling in business growth and enabling marketers to justify budget allocation directly to these areas.”

“Today there’s this misconception that marketing in the digital infrastructure sector must be overly technical and driven by activation, but that’s absolutely not true. The foundations of marketing – brand building, positioning, and storytelling – don’t change just because your product is more complex,” said Giuseppe Caltabiano, Senior Marketing Director, AVK. “Our first event brings together a host of speakers to encourage cross-industry learning, and I’d like to extend our collective thanks to Norton Rose Fullbright for hosting us.”

“When I first started the Inside Data Centre Podcast I don’t think I realised the potential that building a personal brand would have on our business, or how quickly it would transform our growth trajectory,” said Andy Davis, Director, DataX Connect. “This event will enable attendees to understand what it takes to cut through the noise and learn how different organisations approach PR, marketing and brand – the only question now is, are you in?”

To Register for the last few tickets for the Masterclass at Norton Rose Fullbright, click here.

For more information about Data Centre Marketing Club, visit the website or join the community on LinkedIn here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 16th May 2025

Posted on May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

Reports

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 9th May 2025

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 2nd May 2025

Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 by Zoe Towlson

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.

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.

Middle East & Africa

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

Khazna eyes US expansion. Read here.

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.

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.

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.

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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