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Reports

Microsoft: British bosses bullish on AI, but less than half the workforce confident in UK’s ability to become leading AI economy | Microsoft research. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: Data centre construction cost index 2026-27. Read here.

UN Environment Programme: Data Centres and AI Services Sector Brief. Read here.

JLL: U.S. Industrial Market Dynamics, Q3 2026. Read here.

Colliers: Data Center Snapshot, Iberian Region | April 2026 – Sept 2026. Read here.

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Europe

Nebius secures $3.5 billion financing facility with Citi. Read here.

Heim Datacenter partners with Omnes Capital to build a European data center platform. Read here.

Polar Expands Partnership with Crusoe in Norway with New 40MW AI Infrastructure Development. Read here.

Microsoft still committed to £22bn UK investment despite data centre withdrawal. Read here.

Microsoft pulls out of UK’s largest AI data centre. Read here.

Jensen Huang At GTC Berlin: Nvidia Showcases A Full Stack. Read here.

Amazon announces plan to invest €16 billion in Germany in 2027. Read here.

1GW data center proposed alongside solar farm in Norfolk, UK. Read here.

Era4 reveals details of hyperscale data center planned for former steelworks in Newport, Wales. Read here.

Plans submitted for AI data centre on Unilever Warrington site. Read here.

Questions over £12m data centre bid under hotel. Read here.

The developer of a proposed data centre in Cardiff has said it is also seeking permission to build a gas power plant to get it up and running. Read here.

Local communities are being urged to have their say on the growing use of artificial intelligence and the expansion of data centres across Wales. Read here.

VINCI wins a contract for a data center in the Iberian Peninsula. Read here.

Segro lines up data centre prelet and adds £70 million of rents. Read here.

Half of OVHcloud capacity is available, AI model launching in early 2027, CEO says. Read here.

NorthC breaks ground on data center in Geneva, Switzerland. Read here.

atNorth tops out latest data center in Espoo, Finland. Read here.

Europe’s data centre boom puts power grids under financial strain, Moody’s warns. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

HUMAIN and DataVolt sign framework agreement with Nebius for large-scale campus in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Oman, UK seal £1bn AI data centre deal, expand investment and security ties. Read here.

Israel to cap capacity of new data centers at 200MW – report. Read here.

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APAC

NEXTDC: M3 Melbourne Power Delay & Revised FY27 Guidance. Read here.

Nvidia Moves to Back GPU Cloud Provider Firmus After Investors Balk at Its IPO. Read here.

DayOne Supports NVIDIA DSX POD Reference Design, Advancing Standardized Infrastructure for AI. Read here.

South Korean data centre builder tumbles 32% on trading debut. Read here.

DayOne Said to Weigh Options for US IPO After Data Center Rout. Read here.

GreenSquare SYD1 now operational following adaptive reuse of 1995 data centre. Read here.

Thailand moves to finalise data center rules amid trillion baht investment pipeline. Read here.

Aolani commits to 500MW of AI data centre capacity in Malaysia in 2027. Read here.

InterContinental Energy targets up to 300MW AI campus at WA renewable energy hub. Read here.

Thailand moves to finalise data center rules amid trillion baht investment pipeline. Read here.

Aolani inks Malaysia deal for 500MW AI capacity; projects 580MW commitment by 2027. Read here.

SC Capital and NeoAI cloud partner on South Korea AI data center project. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT Closes $1.1B Tokyo Data Centre Buy. Read here.

SK Group’s data center unit seeks funding for $350 bln AI buildout – Bloomberg. Read here.

Gingerah seeks anchor tenant for up to 1GW data centre in Western Australia. Read here.

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North America

Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second $45bn deal – report. Read here.

Nvidia Backs $164.5 Billion Of AI Data Centers To Keep GPUs Selling. Read here.

Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era. Read here.

Google are working with Voltus to build a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant. Read here.

Blackstone Announces $8.7 Billion Final Close for Blackstone Energy Transition Partners V. Read here.

CBRE Expands Critical Infrastructure Capabilities in Europe and Asia Pacific with Onnec Acquisition. Read here.

EverWind plans US$ 7 billion Nova Scotia data center campus with Anthropic as tenant. Read here.

400MW data center eyed at old Navy cyber site in San Diego, California. Read here.

Lowndes County Commission sued over approval of hyperscale data center. Read here.

Data center developer goes back to the drawing board for the sixth time. Read here.

Soluna, Applied Digital plan 50-MW wind-powered data centre in Texas. Read here.

Stack files for second building at Lancaster campus, Texas. Read here.

Google explores data center site in Roanoke County, Virginia. Read here.

Canadian government eyes up to US$ 1.3 billion for 60 MW data center. Read here.

LightEdge eyes data center project outside Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

Alcoa sells New York aluminum smelter to data center developer for $315 million. Read here.

NiSource announces long-term agreement with Microsoft. Read here.

San Francisco shopping mall targeted for potential data center. Read here.

Microsoft files for data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

DCD Studio: The data center workforce challenge with Andy Davis, Data eXec. Watch here.

Datacenters 2027: The Year of Acceleration, +50GW in a single year. Read here.

Ken Griffin Says AI Is “Almost Certainly” A Bubble As Corporate America Opens Its Anthropic And OpenAI Bills. Read here.

Don’t let data centres become a national pariah. One day, they might save us all. Read here.

BlackRock’s Fink Sees Inflation Risk in Slow Data-Center Buildout. Watch here.

Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices. Read here.

Where does all the hardware go? The hidden environmental footprint of AI data centres. Read here.

Most Americans say AI is bad for society, oppose more data centers: ABC/Post/Ipsos poll. Read here.

The data centre water myth: why AI infrastructure doesn’t have to be thirsty. Read here.

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The Data Centre Boom Has a Workforce Problem. Read here.

The data centre boom is creating enormous opportunities, but who’s going to build, run and maintain all this infrastructure?

This week’s feature looks at the workforce challenge facing the industry, covering skills shortages, talent retention and why we need to do a much better job of attracting people into the sector. I shared a few thoughts with Techerati on where we are, what needs to change and why the robots might be coming sooner than we think.

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Europe

SWI Group announces €800 million institutional capital increase at a €6.1 billion final valuation to accelerate the expansion of its transatlantic AI infrastructure and compute platform. Read here.

Nscale’s Flagship Data Center Hit by Delays Ahead of IPO. Watch here.

AI cloud company Nebius has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Volt for data center capacity in the Netherlands. Read here.

Cypher Capital tests investor interest in European data centre land fund. Read here.

VivoPower starts construction at 42MW Mo i Rana data center in Norway. Read here.

AI data centre plans near Menai Strait (Wales) face growing opposition. Read here.

Plans for a huge data centre in Norwich should be blocked as it could harm neighbouring nature sites, an MP and a broadcaster both said. Read here.

Plans for 1.2 GW Drax data centre rejected by government. Read here.

Plans have been drawn up for a huge new data centre and one of the UK’s largest solar farm’s near King’s Lynn in Norfolk. Read here.

How Will Croatia Actually Benefit From the €50 billion Data Centre? Read here.

Echelon to establish Ireland’s first green energy park at data centre campus in Wicklow. Read here.

Castleforge and Galaxy seek investor for Redhill data centre expansion. Read here.

Canterbury approves landfill-powered AI data centre for Era4. Read here.

Planning permission for major data centre development in Co Waterford refused. Read here.

Foresight Signed a Non-Binding Term Sheet to Acquire 50.01% in a 270MW Capacity European Data Center Development Company. Read here.

Uncertainty over data center development in Trzebnica, Poland. Read here.

Council rejects 80MW data center in northern Italy. Read here.

March against hyperscale data centres set for Edinburgh. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Humain tenders 100MW Riyadh AI data centre. Read here.

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APAC

Iren targets 900MW data center campus in Wagga Wagga, Australia. Read here.

NTT to build first data center for Anthropic in Japan. Read here.

Hillhouse Investment, a Singapore-based global alternative asset management firm, has launched TeraNova DC, a new data center platform in India. Read here.

SC Capital Takes Equity Stake in Korean AI Data Centre in $445M Financing Round. Read here.

Colt DCS and RMZ Begin Construction of Third Data Centre in Mumbai to Support Growing AI Demand. Read here.

EdgeConneX Enters Australia in Partnership with Stockland, with Hyperscale Data Center Campuses Planned in Sydney and Melbourne. Read here.

Bitdeer AI Expands Malaysia Campus with New 60MW A103 Facility, Closing in on Up-to-350MW Global Capacity Target. Read here.

Malaysia approves 27 data center projects with US$ 55.4 billion investment. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group seeks US$1.2 billion loan to fund Johor data center: Report. Read here.

A chemical company turned presumptive data center operator is set to build a 500MW hyperscale facility in Maharashtra, India. Read here.

CapitaLand India Trust unveils US$203.2 million Chennai data centre. Read here.

Indian Clean Power Firms Brace for Data-Center Demand Surge. Read here.

AirTrunk nears deal to sell its Johor data centers for US$1 billion: Report. Read here.

SoftBank eyes possible AI data center project in Borneo. Read here.

CapitaLand to launch 53MW data center in Chennai, India, before the end of the year. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft unveiled its latest custom chip: Maia 300. Read here.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink warns a data center moratorium could trigger a recession. Read here.

Fermi Signs Credit Support Agreement with AMD and Announces Partnership. Read here.

Gorilla Advances U.S. Market Entry with Proposed 36 MW Data Centre Acquisition and 100+ MW AI Infrastructure Expansion Plan. Read here.

AI data centers are coming for federal land. They’re roiling the Nevada governor’s race. Read here.

Energy firm AEP plans $4 billion investment to power Google’s data center in Wyoming. Read here.

Meta named as company behind 3,000 acre data center project in Mason County, Kentucky. Read here.

Soluna files to build 112MW data center building in Willacy, Texas. Read here.

Plymouth Township data center proposal sparks contentious zoning hearing. Read here.

Amazon pitches 600-acre data center development in Butler County at open house. Read here.

Manchester Group Pitches Massive Data Center at NAVWAR Site. Read here.

Big Watt, PowerHouse secure approval for hyperscale data center campus in Texas. Read here.

Five-building data center campus proposed in Metter, Georgia. Read here.

Johnson County data center offers residents $1,000 yearly payments. What’s the catch? Read more.

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South America

How Latin America Is Climbing the High-Tech Value Chain. Read here.

Uruguay signs multi billion dollar deal for 500 MW data center park. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Why Data Centers Have Become Military Targets. Read here.

Data Centre Titans: The Data Centre Boom Has a Workforce Problem – Andy Davis | DataX Connect. Read here.

Investor appetite for data centre IPOs is reaching its limit. Read here.

Across the US, people don’t want data centers coming to their communities. Read here.

The Rate Hike Lands Where the Lease and the Loan Disagree. Read here.

The next big challenge for data centres isn’t more power. Read here.

Building an AI data center costs billions. Defending it is another story. Read here.

The impact of data-centre discontent. Read here.

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Reports

Heatmap: Exclusive: Data Center Cancellations Top $260 Billion in 2026. Read here.

Debunking the Biggest Data Center Myths. Read here.

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Europe

atNorth to develop new data center in Salo, Finland. Read here.

Applied Digital Secures Up to 1 GW of Potential Power Capacity in Finland, Marking First International Development in the Nordics. Read here.

Sesterce Plans a €10 Billion AI Campus in Jämsä, Finland. Read here.

Housing or data centre? London’s land-use dilemma. Read here.

Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres. Read here.

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres. Read here.

Plans to demolish Microsoft HQ to build £200m data centre in Reading. Read here.

AI data center planned for Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Read here.

Work on major Wiltshire data centre starts after legal agreements signed. Read here.

Plans for data centre on outskirts of Norwich submitted. Read here.

1,000-year-old Scottish castle could be destroyed to make way for hyperscale data center. Read here.

Former Fawley Power Station outside Southampton could host data centers. Read here.

Fast-track permits turn Spain’s Aragon into a $70 billion data centre magnet. At what cost? Read here.

Wärtsilä to supply 282 MW onsite power solution for a U.S. data center as AI growth intensifies demand for reliable power. Read here.

Nordic sustainable data centre firm Asp eyes public market – report. Read here.

Spain, Portugal data centre boom spurs clean power, storage build. Read here.

Russia’s Yandex says it is unclear whether data centre can be restored after drone strike. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Continent 8 Technologies launches data center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read here.

Intro Group to invest $270m in Egypt’s Kemet Data Center. Read here.

FiveNines Group joins US$ 1.2 billion Nexus AI Factory project in Morocco. Read here.

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APAC

DayOne Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Nvidia-backed Firmus scraps $5 billion Australia IPO amid growing AI scrutiny. Read here.

Macquarie Capital invests in Zerra to support Asia-Pacific expansion. Read here.

CoreWeave Enters India, Expanding AI Cloud Platform With AdaniConneX. Read here.

Monash rejects Centuria data centre plans as Victoria tightens planning rules. Read here.

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk to invest $1 billion in Japan data centre campus. Read here.

KT Cloud to Build 50MW AI Data Center in South Korea’s Incheon Cheongna. Read here.

Trentar signs MoU for US$ 3.3 billion, 500 MW data center in Maharashtra. Read here.

SoftBank, Grab, PETROS ink deal to explore AI infrastructure in Sarawak, Malaysia. Read here.

Digital Realty breaks ground on 24 MW KIX15 data center in Osaka. Read here.

Stockland wins approval for 49MW, 10-storey Macquarie Park data centre. Read here.

Andhra Pradesh High Court lets Vizag hyperscale campus proceed at developer’s own risk. Read here.

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North America

Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX Seek Blockbuster Debt Deals to Pay for AI Chips. Read here.

Oracle Announces $10 Million Partnership with the Nashville Symphony. Read here.

Goldman sees US data center growth intact despite opposition. Read here.

The U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Republic of Korea Announce Project Star, a $22.3B Energy Infrastructure Campus in Texas, being developed by Related Companies and NextEra Energy with Lewis Energy Group. Read here.

Google and Constellation Announce Landmark Agreement to Bring 890 MW of New Nuclear Capacity to PJM Grid as Part of Long-Term Power Deal. Read here.

Sabey Data Center Properties Secures Additional Investment from Ares to Support Continued Growth. Read here.

VEIR Raises $110 Million Series C to Accelerate Commercialization of Superconducting Power Delivery Technology for AI Data Centers. Read here.

Brookwood City Council backs $3.2 billion Applied Digital data center project. Read here.

AWS plans 36-building data center campus in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Raleigh pauses data centers while it writes new rules. Read here.

New LandGate Analysis Identifies North Dakota as Emerging AI Data Center Hotspot Driven by Low Power Costs and Grid Capacity. Read here.

Former IBM research campus in Silicon Valley set to be acquired by data center firm. Read here.

TeraWulf Expands Contracted Power Capacity at its Muskie Data Campus to 1 GW. Read here.

Applied Digital Brings an Additional 75 MW of AI Infrastructure Online at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.

Axe Compute acquires full ownership of AI cluster in Columbus, Georgia. Read here.

Investment firm Forum Markets partners with Edge Node for US compute roll-out. Read here.

Developer behind Perry County data center proposes multi-million-dollar community agreement. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

This week we looked at the future of data-centre design. Read here.

America’s data center fight is a preview of what’s to come for the rest of the world. Read here.

What made the unfriendly data centres fall on Slough? Read here.

A Data-Center Crunch is Coming. Read here.

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Reports

Bain & Company: AI Data Center Boom: Can We Build It If They Come? Read here.

Goldman Sachs: Power demand, cyclical progression and Sustainability implications. Read here.

Bloom Energy: The New Rules of AI Power. Read here.

Data Centers in Illinois: Economic impacts and key policy considerations. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale Limited announced its $3.36bn raise via convertible loan notes, led by Third Point. Read here.

Submer Group Launches Corenix to Deliver Modular Data Center Platforms for Accelerated Computing. Read here.

Huge 7.3-hectare Amazon data centre approved in Buckinghamshire. Read here.

Fawley Power Station data centre work could start in 2027. Read here.

Three more data centres planned for green belt site (UK). Read here.

A plan for a “massive” data centre close to a small village could claim a large area of land on the edge of the Cheshire countryside. Read here.

Plans submitted for ‘world’s largest data centre campus’ in Scotland. Read here.

Planning Submitted For £16.5 Billion Data Centre near Annan. Read here.

Google wins planning permission for Dublin data centre extension. Read here.

Plans unveiled for ‘largest’ data center in Italy. Read here.

Electricity retailer Energa Obrót signs letter of intent for 100MW data center in Konin, Poland. Read here.

Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland. Read here.

NxN enters Portugal with 1MW data center and plans to invest €100m. Read here.

Global Switch to host large Nvidia Blackwell deployment at Paris data center. Read here.

Lefdal Mine acquires data center development site in Norway. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Gulf courts private capital with power-ready AI data centres. Read here.

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APAC

Japan plans $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and Jera. Read here.

Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-back. Read here.

CDC wins approval for AU$203.5m Beard 2 data centre in Canberra. Read here.

Microsoft to Double Taiwan Data Centres as AI Demand Outpaces Supply. Read here.

HyperDC lodges plans for a 400MW data centre at Moorabool, near Geelong. Read here.

Philippines telco Globe bets on AI and data centers for next billion-dollar growth. Read here.

Microsoft gets approval for AU$1.26bn, 96MW Sydney data centre. Read here.

JERA to Build Large AI Data Center near Tokyo. Read here.

Macao developer plans 40MW AI data center using prefabricated solution. Read here.

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North America

Amazon to invest $1bn over the next five years to US Data Center communities. Read here.

Inaugurating the era of Super Intelligence. Read here.

Three takeaways from Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ summit. Read here.

Samsung Commits $1 Billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure to Support Global AI Infrastructure Buildout. Read here.

Lambda closes $1 billion senior secured fixed rate financing. Read here.

Lambda to build new data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, generating half a billion dollars in tax revenue over next decade. Read here.

Bain interested in buying Edged US – report. Read here.

Brookfield-Backed AI Data Center Developer 5C Eyes IPO. Read here.

Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic. Read here.

Crusoe Developing Data Center Campus in Armstrong County, Texas. Read here.

9.4GW SMR-powered data center campus proposed in Utah. Read here.

Amazon Tries to Boost Nuclear Power in Maryland After Scrapping Data Center Deal. Read here.

AB Energy secures 2 GW of power projects for data centres in the US. Read here.

Zone Frontier leases land for up to 500 MW Texas data center campus. Read here.

DataBank Acquires Building Housing MSP2 Data Center in Minneapolis. Read here.

Virginia bans data center NDAs as part of new digital infrastructure framework. Read here.

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South America

Araico came out of stealth mode: Latin Americas largest AI Factory platform. Read here.

Google invests $1.2 million in water conservation near Chilean data centre. Read here.

Google to double cloud capacity in Brazil in through 2030. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

What It’s Like to Party With 600 Data Center Enthusiasts. Read here.

Data centres are spreading across the UK – and the pressure on our natural spaces is mounting. Read here.

Caterers see a $3.2bn market in feeding AI data centre workers. Read here.

‘South Park’ Will Target ‘Stupid Billionaires’ And Data Centers In New Episode. Read here.

Cracks Emerge in AI’s Debt-Fueled Data Center Boom. Read here.

The Great Data-Center Rebellion. Read here.

Where in Europe is data centre hiring growing fastest – and why do these jobs pay more? Read here.

Inside The Trillions Being Spent On The AI Data Center Buildout. Read here.

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Reports

Q2 2026: Data Center Watch Report. Read here.

Artificial intelligence data centers could reach one percent of global electricity demand by 2030. Read here.

The Tech Capital Women 100. Read here.

Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative. Read here.

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Europe

VIRTUS Data Centres announced the successful completion of a £2.45 billion financing package. Read here.

Alibaba’s AI push reaches deeper into Europe with new cloud regions and data centres. Read here.

Nscale Limited announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares. Read here.

Civo unveils first of 40 UK edge data centres built to power sovereign AI compute. Read here.

AI data centre giant to create 2,100 new jobs in Scotland. Read here.

The company behind plans for a large data centre at Hunterston has contacted more than 100 local businesses and suppliers ahead of a major Ayrshire trade fair next week. Read here.

£3bn M40 data centre plans face petition signed by more than 1,600. Read here.

Huge 60-hectare data centre campus planned for Little Bollington. Read here.

TBC Partners explores second Cambois data centre. Read here.

‘Various ambitious plans for that site’: Swiss tech firm acquires Northern Ireland data centre in multi-million-pound AI investment. Read here.

Nabiax breaks ground on 100MW data center in Madrid, Spain. Read here.

Polcom to build 40MW data center in Skawina, Poland. Read here.

Plans progress for 200MW data center in Schladen-Werla, Germany. Read here.

Valorem eyes data centers in Savonlinna and Kankaanpää, Finland. Read here

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Middle East & Africa

Oman’s O-Green targets 200MW of data center capacity by 2028. Read here.

Egypt Reviews Plans for $270 Million, 80MW Data Centre in Suez Canal Zone. Read here.

Microsoft’s $10 billion Gulf AI bet puts resilience at centre of strategy. Read here.

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APAC

BlackRock, IFM close in on $25 billion Stack data center deal, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.

GreenSquare signs long-term AI infrastructure customer at SYD1. Read here.

Amazon Buying Hong Kong Data Centres From Grand Ming for Up to $312M. Read here.

Andhra Pradesh secures agreements for 6.5 GW data centre capacity, projects moving to execution. Read here.

SharonAI buys former printing press outside Albury, Australia. Read here.

BDx breaks ground on AI data center in West Java; first 120MW building to be ready by early 2027. Read here.

Tera Data Centers buys 221.7 acres Negeri Sembilan land in US$ 250 million deal. Read here.

CDC plans AUD 15bn, 1.4GW data centre campus near Wagga Wagga. Read here.

AirTrunk proposes AUD 3.7bn NSW data centre with AUD 37m community offer. Read here.

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North America

Oracle’s $18bn data centre debt under strain amid local pushback. Read here.

Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center. Read here.

OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag — 20-30 MW facilities to provide capacity as mega structures undergo construction. Read here.

Anthropic in Talks for 1-Gigawatt Data Center Lease With Apollo-Backed Developer. Read here.

Applied Digital confirms $3.2 billion data center campus in Brookwood. Read here.

Meta Paid $300.1M For 1,754-Acre Sturgeon County Data Centre Site In Alberta. Read here.

SOS Limited Reports Digital Assets of $75.57 Million and Outlines Data Center Development Plans. Read here.

CoreWeave-Tied Data Center Raises $1.1 Billion in Junk Bonds. Read here.

Bain Capital Ventures closes $1.6 billion fund targeting AI. Read here.

California governor signs broad data center oversight bill package. Read here.

‘This industry won’t have carte blanche’: Spanberger cracks down on data centers. Read here.

INNIO Secures 450 MW Order to Power Next-Generation Data Centers. Read here.

Woodway Energy Infrastructure announced the execution of definitive agreements to develop, construct, own and operate a 22-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline for a hyperscale data center development. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Eveo plans data center in Recife. Read here.

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Space

Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space. Read here.

Google is sending an AI Data Center to outer space. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

What It’s Like to Work in One of America’s Data Centers. Read here.

Rare look at the remote engine rooms fueling China’s AI boom. Watch here.

EU pressures Big Tech to go green with new data center sustainability label. Read here.

Scotland’s AI revolution: the people shaping its future. Read here.

Local opposition blocked 45 data center projects worth $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026 — data center investments reportedly still on track to hit $32 trillion by 2050. Read here.

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Reports

EnergyTag: POLLING | Anti-dirty AI: What Americans think about data centers. Read here.

The New Occupiers: How Neoclouds Are Reshaping APAC Data Centre Demand. Read here.

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Europe

AI Data Center Developer LIAN Eyes IPO to Raise $500 Million. Read here.

Data centre quartet make switch to Astor with €5bn pipeline. Read here.

Thor Equities strikes Ireland with industrial development site acquisition. Read here.

What Backlash? Greek Mining Region Pins Revival Hopes on a Data Center. Read here.

Microsoft set to submit new data centre project (Langley, UK). Read here.

New guidance to assist planning decisions on new data centres will be issued by the Scottish Government before Christmas. Read here.

DataVita boss Danny Quinn is seeking to bring an end to the debate over the sector’s development by inviting critics to tour his facility in North Lanarkshire. Read here.

Data centre giant hails annual £9.6m community benefit fund. Read here.

Data centre could impact ongoing Unesco status. Read here.

Reading: Update on plans for new data centre in Thames Valley. Read here.

Calls for data centre plans to be scrapped near Caernarfon. Read here.

PGIM sells data centre development (Germany). Read here.

Magnora joins venture for Estonia data center project. Read here.

Planning authority overturns approval for new Mayo data centre. Read here.

More than 5,000 sign petition opposing major data centre beside Menai Strait. Read here.

Asp Data Center has raised 1.6 billion Norwegian Krone ($169.7m) in bonds for its data center in Stavanger, Norway. Read here.

NorthC breaks ground on data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Vertical Data expands into Sweden with 100MW data centre plan. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

AWS tells clients to quit Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes. Read here.

South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers. Read here.

Damac and Vodafone launch Turkish data center. Read here.

Digital Realty enters Turkey, plans 22MW facility in Ankara. Read here.

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APAC

AI data centre provider Firmus courting investors ahead of IPO on Australian Securities Exchange. Read here.

EQT targets $50bn India investment programme with data centres in focus. Read here.

AirTrunk is seeking around S$2 billion (US$1.6 billion) in debt financing to support a potential listing of a real estate investment trust backed by its data centre assets. Read here.

Goodman Raises $455M for Hong Kong Data Centre Venture as Tsuen Wan Project Advances. Read here.

KKR, Brookfield lead global rush into Korea’s AI data centers. Read here.

Anthropic signs first Australia data centre agreement. Read here.

Amazon receives approval for AUD 2.17bn Sydney data centre. Read here.

Bitdeer AI signs 10-year agreement for 65.1 MW data center in Malaysia. Read here.

Fortune Hospitality & Infra plans US$ 6.2 billion hyperscale data center park in Telangana. Read here.

DayOne Breaks Ground on 42MW Kodaira Data Center Campus in Tokyo. Read here.

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North America

House overwhelmingly passes bill to shield ratepayers from data centers. Read here.

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers. Read here.

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion at valuation of nearly $31 billion as it bets on factory-built data centers. Read here.

Vantage Secures $2B Credit Facility, Expanding Financing to Support Growing Demand. Read here.

Manulife IM-Backed Serverfarm Increases Credit Facility to $3.895 Billion to Accelerate Data Center Development Across North America. Read here.

Blockfusion signs CoreWeave as a customer in Niagara Falls, New York. Read here.

Google considers data center development in New Mexico. Read here.

Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers announced the groundbreaking of “Project Phoenix,” a new 2 GW data center campus located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Thor Equities submits plans for 150MW data center in Georgia, US. Read here.

A 2,100 acre data centre project was proposed near a Civil War battlefield has been abandoned. Read here.

Microsoft files to build data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia. Read here.

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

Canada’s Bell to quadruple capacity at planned Saskatchewan data center campus. Read here.

Digital Realty, Colovore, Hut 8, CoreSite, and DataBank file to build data centers in Texas. Read here.

Rune Debuts RELIC, the First Drama-Free Data Center Powered by Solar, With $40M in New Funding. Read here.

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South America

Grid connection request filed for 100MW Chile data center project. Read here.

Brazil signs Redata tax regime into law to stoke data center investment. Read here.

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Microsoft: What happens to a community when a datacenter is done right? Read here.

Data Center Pay Is Rising, but Turnover Remains High, Survey Finds. Read here.

Arcadis launches Data Center Growth Lab to build next generation of data center talent. Read here.

Are data centres actually noisy, and is this bad for our health? Read here.

In Silicon Valley, AI data center boom meets local resistance. Read here.

What does a good data centre future look like? And how do we get there? Read here.

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Reports

Bitcoin Policy Institute: Data Center Dividends. Read here.

JLL: Australian data centre growth and the impacts on the industrial sector. Read here.

Verdant: The Jobs Mirage of Data Centres: Minimal employment, maximal resource demand. Read here.

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Europe

Google Deepens Commitment to Finland with Two-Year €13 Billion investment in AI Infrastructure. Read here.

HSCALE Secures Landmark Strategic Deal With Major US Cloud Provider for Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Spain. Read here.

UAE announces $46.6bn investment in Germany across AI, energy and industry. Read here.

TikTok to expand data center capacity in Finland amid boom in AI infrastructure deals. Read here.

Nscale seeks about $3.5 billion pre-IPO funding, source says. Read here.

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier. Read here.

UK’s Andy Burnham rejects call for data centre moratorium. Read here.

Plea for data centre moratorium sends ‘wrong message’ to investors, MSPs told. Read here.

Apatura CEO: ‘Larbert data centre would bring real, lasting jobs’. Read here.

High Wycombe data centre plans backed despite water concerns. Read here.

Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure to invest €360m in Milan data center. Read here.

Renewable energy firm Friesen Elektra explores data center project in Lower Saxony, Germany. Read here.

S+B Gruppe to build data center in Bucharest, Romania. Read here.

Nostrum’s data center in Badajoz gets the green light for electrical connection. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

UAE revises AI data center plan after Iranian attacks, sources say. Read here.

DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye inaugurate the largest data center in the Aegean region. Read here.

Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava joins Vodafone in $1 billion Egypt data-centre and sovereign AI push. Read here.

US beats China in its AI race to Africa as Egypt inks a $1 billion data center deal with the world’s most valuable company. Read here.

Digital Realty launches 6.4MW data center in Nairobi, Kenya. Read here.

Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM. Read here.

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APAC

Firmus surpasses 900 MW contracted capacity, adds OpenAI as anchor customer and expands into Malaysia. Read here.

NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia’s Data Center Ecosystem. Read here.

Nvidia plans major expansion of data centre capacity in Australia to meet AI demand. Read here.

Australian data centre operator NEXTDC to raise $795 mln for AI infrastructure. Read here.

Six new AI data centres proposed for Tasmania, but companies behind them are being kept secret. Read here.

Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create ‘airtight’ requirements for large-scale data centers. Read here.

Fortune to set up ₹60,000 cr hyperscale AI data centre park in Telangana. Read here.

Transgrid warns Sydney data centre demand is stretching grid capacity. Read here.

GLP begins development of 200MW data center in Foshan, China. Read here.

Goodman Group gets green light for 135MW data center in northern Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Zankore secures US$ 3.1 billion loan; targets 1GW AI Factory in Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

How Anthropic Clinched $517 Billion in Compute Deals in 11 Months. Read here.

Microsoft plans 38 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.

A data-centre backlash for Oracle. Read here.

Blue Owl Plans Creating Publicly Traded Data Center REIT. Read here.

CoreWeave CEO: America’s data center backlash won’t stop the AI build-out. Read here.

US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says. Read here.

Google, Blackstone cloud venture faces delays at data centre sites. Read here.

Iren delivers first phase of AI capacity to Microsoft in Texas. Read here.

Meta tests robots for data centre operations to manage costs. Read here.

Public hearing date set for 300MW Larbert AI Data Centre proposal. Read here.

Eugene rejects data center at former Hynix site. Read here.

Creekstone Energy Launches Project Oasis: A New Standard for Water Stewardship in Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.

Developers of the ‘largest data center campus in the world’ in Utah say they’ll do something unprecedented — make water. Read here.

JV plans 54MW data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Z Squared lands energized Union County Campus in Paradox Data acquisition. Read here.

Weld County officials vote to approve controversial data center. Read here.

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South America

Why Argentina’s Patagonia could become the next mega data centre hotspot. Read here.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Read here.

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Space

SpaceX Overhauls Data Center Build-Out, Potentially Slowing Expansion. Read here.

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space unveil US$ 1 billion plan for 50-Satellite AI constellation. Read here.

Blue Origin to develop communications network around Mars for NASA. Read here.

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The Next Big Opportunity in Data Centers: Insuring Them. Read here.

AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash. Read here.

AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up. Read here.

Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project? Read here.

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center. Read here.

Stonepeak CEO on Data Centre Investment Outlook. Watch here.

Masterplanning a 1.4 GW UK data centre campus. Read here.

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PWC: Global investment in AI infrastructure to hit US$31.6 trillion through 2050. Read here.

PWC: Where $31.6 trillion of capex flows in the era-defining AI build-out. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Data Center Development Cost Guide. Read here.

DC Byte: LATAM Data Center Market Spotlight. Read here.

Data Center Hawk: 2Q 2026 Global Data Center Market Report. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale and Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI. Read here.

CPP Investments and Equinix complete atNorth acquisition. Read here.

Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland Announce New 165 MW AI Data Centre in Mikkeli, Finland. Read here.

Green Mountain Global Signs Contract with Major Neocloud Operator at LON-East Campus. Read here.

atNorth signs contract with YIT for additional data center building at campus in Finland. Read here.

DataVita submits plans for DV4, its third data centre at Chapelhall. Read here.

Scottish council issues statement on £2 billion AI data centre. Read here.

Plans have been submitted to transform part of Greenock’s former IBM site into a major data centre development. Read here.

John Swinney declines opportunity to commit to AI data centre pause (Scotland). Read here.

Controversial Avonmouth AI data centre would have ‘minimal water needs’. Read here.

Data center proposal approved by local council in suburb of Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Could Shetland host a data centre in the future? Read here.

Thousands sign petition against proposed data centre near Reading. Read here.

Welsh ministers urged to take over decision on controversial data centre plans. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft Announces That Saudi Arabia East Datacenter Region Will Be Available in November 2026. Read here.

AWS and Humain commit to bringing 50MW online at Saudi AI Zone by 2028. Read here.

Saudi AI firms Humain, DataVolt partner for data center on kingdom’s Red Sea coast. Read here.

Leap’s first two days bring in a string of data center agreements. Read here.

PIF-Backed Humain Eyes $2.5 Billion For Saudi Data Centers. Read here.

World’s largest oilfield-services company with 100 African locations spends $4.1 billion to chase AI data-centre boom. Read here.

Saudi company launches fund to build two data centres. Read here.

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APAC

Firmus and SUBCO announce major Trans-Pacific AI connectivity agreement. Read here.

Bitdeer AI Announces Sell-out of its 9.5MW A102 Malaysia Data Center with Total Expected AI Cloud Revenue of Over $800 million. Read here.

Goodman wins approval for 135MW Macquarie Park data centre. Read here.

IFC approves US$ 170 million financing to Philippines data center firm YCO Cloud. Read here.

ByteDance to expand massive AI data centre cluster in Inner Mongolia, source says. Read here.

Firmus proposes third data center project in Tasmania. Read here.

DayOne, TNB to explore onsite power up to 1.5GW for Greater Kuala Lumpur data center. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT to acquire stakes in two Tokyo data centers for US$ 1.05 billion. Read here.

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North America

Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal Backed by Nvidia. Read here.

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation. Read here.

SB Energy Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Vertiv announces agreement to acquire UtilityInnovation Group to accelerate time to power for AI data centers. Read here.

ChronoScale and Microsoft partner on 50MW deployment in North America. Read here.

Trump says data centre critics ‘want to end up backwards and poor’. Read here.

New 400MW AI data center planned for Algoma in Ontario, Canada. Read here.

Northampton Capital Partners Forms Joint Venture with Provident Data Centers, Announces Initial Data Center Development in the Dallas Metropolitan Market. Read here.

Site of proposed Wonder Valley data centre in northern Alberta gets special industrial zone designation. Read here.

Hyperscale Data ends cryptomining operations at Michigan data center. Read here.

Salute announces agreement to acquire T5 Operations. Read here.

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South America

Cuasar Capital, part of the Spanish group EOSOL, and KA URBE IT have formed a partnership to jointly market the Cuasar Data Center campus in Durango. Read here.

Brazil’s special data center regime approved: what’s next. Read here.

With own and two third-party data centers, AWS nears Chile cloud region launch. Read here.

Yamna secures Porto do Açu land for 250MW AI data center campus. Read here.

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Power-hungry data centers are expanding in Europe. So is the resistance. Read here.

The country music stars taking on data centres. Read here.

The moral panic over data centres is foolish. Read here.

The Data-Center Dividend for Workers. Read here.

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