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Reports

McKinsey & Company: Beyond the spillover: Asia–Pacific, the next engine of data center demand. Read here.

Morrison: Listed Infrastructure: The US-China AI race may hinge on US power markets. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: Global construction market intelligence 2026. Read here.

UNU: Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints. Read here.

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Europe

Cerebras Systems Accelerates European Expansion with 200MW of AI Compute Capacity by End of 2027. Read here.

Nscale and Nordkraft Enter Strategic Partnership to Support Data Center Operations in Narvik. Read here.

Nscale Closes a $900 Million Revolving Credit Facility. Read here.

Google Is Building a European Hub in Austria. Read here.

VOLT taps Dell and NorthC Datacenters for Dutch AI Cloud launch. Read here.

Early plans to create a £3billion AI data centre on the outskirts of a Kent village have been revealed. Read here.

The company behind £13bn plans for a data centre and battery energy storage site in north Devon has postponed a series of public consultation days. Read here.

A giant data bunker could be carved out of the landscape of Southern Scotland under a £2bn plan to build a computation facility in the Lammermuir Hills, near Duns. Read here.

SEGRO plc and Pure Data Centres Group announces second joint venture to develop 48mw fully fitted data centre in Paris. Read here.

Equinix to develop 10th and 11th data centers in Amsterdam. Read here.

Plans for €1bn Westmeath data centre stalled. Read here.

Ferrovial to invest €1 billion in a data center campus in Madrid. Read here.

NTT Berlin 36MW Data Center Development Contract Awarded to HOCHTIEF and Turner. Read here.

FiveNines completes 9.6MW European data centre project. Read here.

Scotland could pull plug on datacentre ‘overdevelopment’. Read here.

Data centre firm Aruba buys three hydropower plants in northern Italy. Read here.

Construction begins on municipal data center in Meppen, Germany. Read here.

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APAC

Anthropic reportedly seeks up to 1.4GW of Australian data centre capacity. Read here.

Gujarat launches first Data Centre Policy, targets ₹6 lakh crore investments and 7.5 GW capacity. Read here.

Gangwon and GS sign agreement for 2.4 GW AI data center campus in Donghae. Read here.

NextDC adds $500m to debt facility to fund data centre developments. Read here.

Amazon’s data center arm expands land lease by four acres in Mumbai, India. Read here.

Malaysia enters second wave of data center boom: Analyst. Read here.

Gangwon and GS sign agreement for 2.4 GW AI data center campus in Donghae. Read here.

NFD Korea plans 300 MW AI DC campus in South Korea. Read here.

SK Telecom plans 15 GW AI data center expansion across South Korea. Read here.

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North America

Amazon aims to raise $25 billion from bond sale. Read here.

Build publicly launched as the world’s first autonomous services firm for the built world. Read here.

TeraWulf Announces Anthropic Lease at Justified Data Campus and Sale of Majority Interest in Abernathy Joint Venture to Fluidstack. Read here.

TeraWulf Eyes $3.5 Billion for Anthropic-Leased Data Center. Read here.

Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave. Read here.

Big Digital Energy announces partnership with 10NetZero to Acquire Power-Ready Hood County, Texas Site for AI Datacenter Development. Read here.

Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality. Read here.

Carlyle to sell $2.6bn data centre power unit to EQT for fivefold return. Read here.

Power Developer Behind OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Is In Talks to Sell Stake. Read here.

Breaking Ground on Meta’s First Data Center in Canada. Read here.

Developer wants to put more than $1B into Lexington data center, records show. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers Welcomes Strategic Investment from Ares. Read here.

Empery Digital Announces a $65 Million Strategic Investment in Midwest 150 MW AI Data Center Property. Read here.

Google-linked affiliate Housebound Group LLC has filed for two data center projects in Haskell, Texas, with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Read here.

99MW data center proposed in Kern County, California. Read here.

NYDIG looks to expand data center at Massena site, New York. Read here.

Data center campus eyed for 46-acre site in Maquoketa, Iowa. Read here.

Cryptomining firm Avax One is set to acquire a site in Canada amid a wider pivot to AI and HPC. Read here.

Amazon Data Center Plans Advance Near Boling. Read here.

Edged eyes 725MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Data center developer hosts info session in White County amid concerns. Read here.

Plans filed for 100,000 sq ft data center outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Nexus DC files to develop second data center outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

20MW data center eyed in Parsons, Kansas. Read here.

Prologis files to build 99MW data center in San Jose, California. Read here.

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South America

How much can a 100MW AI data center generate for Brazil’s GDP? Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Why better‑off cities and towns see more benefits from data centers than rural regions. Read here.

Data centres are a crucial test of US industrial resolve. Read here.

The great AI data centre cover-up. Read here.

What Is A Data Center And Why Are They Suddenly Everywhere? Read here.

Labor Shortages Are Putting a Bug in the Data Center Build. Read here.

What uses more water: golf courses or data centers? Read here.

The billionaire dreaming of AI data centres in the desert. Read here.

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Neo Clouds, AI Infrastructure and the UK Data Centre Opportunity | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.

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Reports

Structure Research: AI Infrastructure Report. Read here.

Sijbrandij Foundation: The Data Center Power Playbook. Read here.

Energy & Innovation: Let The Sun In: Clean Energy Is The Cheapest Way To Meet Rising Demand. Read here.

Morrison – Listed Infrastructure: The AI Flywheel. Read here.

Savills: Spotlight: UK Data Centre Building Capacity – H1 2026. Read here.

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Europe

Plans for massive data centre in north Devon. Read here.

150MW Data Center proposed for Norfolk, UK. Read here.

Data centre planned for Microsoft’s UK HQ. Read here.

Shell Energy renews deal with Kao Data, helping to power the UK’s AI ambitions with renewable electricity. Read here.

Virtus announces expansion with the addition of London19. Read here.

Petition launched against plans to develop Warrington AI data centre. Read here.

Major data centre planned at Mwyndy Cross to boost digital capacity. Read here.

New data centre could be built at Thames Valley Park. Read here.

UK Gov: Overhauls Planning Rules to Speed Infrastructure. Read here.

Kuok Group plans €5.3bn Milan data campus investment. Read here.

Developer Twenty20 Energy has announced its intention to construct two data centers in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Read here.

Microsoft reveals plans for data center in Sandnes, Norway. Read here.

Microsoft signs land purchase agreement for data center in Grevenbroich, Germany. Read here.

Bulk buys land in Arendal, Norway, for data center development. Read here.

Kyivstar announces plans for AI data center in Ukraine. Read here.

Alto Infrastructure breaks ground on 70MW AI campus in Granada, Spain. Read here.

Bitdeer Technologies Group Signs Colocation Lease Agreement for Tydal, Norway AI Data Center Site. Read here.

Arcus to acquire London data centre operator Volta from Verne. Read here.

Brookfield wants to build AI data centers in London’s answer to Wall Street. Read here.

Data Centre Industry Urges Investment in Iceland’s Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Crusoe to invest $10bn in data centers in Israel over next 10-15 years – report. Read here.

Egypt Approves $400 Million Data Center Project to Boost Cloud Infrastructure. Read here.

Africa needs 500 data centers in nine years: AfCFTA secretary-general. Read here.

Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

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APAC

DigitalBridge and JEXI Announce Formation of Nippon Gateway Infrastructure, a New Data Center Platform in Japan. Read here.

DayOne Teams With Australia’s Firmus on 360MW Data Centre Campus Near Singapore. Read here.

Firmus secures 600 MW energy supply agreement in South Australia, linked to 1.2 GW of new renewable generation and battery storage. Read here.

Australian renewables and digital infrastructure developer Energy North has submitted Project Ares, a proposed 1GW hyperscale data centre campus with a co-located 16GWh battery energy storage system. Read here.

SKT to invest US$91.5 billion in new Korean data centres. Read here.

South Korea Unveils $880bn Tech Investment Plan. Read here.

Vietnam’s G-Group to invest $300M in building AI data center campus in Hanoi. Read here.

AirTrunk and ib vogt deliver Malaysia’s first data centre renewable VPPA. Read here.

Telangana reveals plans to build a 1,500-acre data center city. Read here.

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North America

Cloud Capital Establishes Core Joint Venture Strategy Seeded with over $6 Billion of Assets with Realty Income and a Global Institutional Investor. Read here.

Oracle Warns Its Splurge on AI Data Centers May Not Pay Off. Read here.

Brookfield and Bloom Energy Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership to $25 Billion; Fivefold Increase to Build and Finance Rapid Power for AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Aligned raises $1.19bn in asset-backed securities. Read here.

Applied Digital Delivers Second Building at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.

Blackstone Offloads Stakes in Trio of Virginia Data Centers. Read here.

Data Center Firm Switch Seeks $2 Billion in Funding Round. Read here.

Digital Realty Announces Purchase of Blackstone Interest in Three Northern Virginia Data Centers. Read here.

Details revealed for Google’s Project Skye data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.

Blackstone’s QTS ends Virginia data centre project after protests. Read here.

Skanska builds data center in Virginia, USA, for USD 94M, about SEK 870M. Read here.

900-acre data center could be built in Salix, Iowa. Read here.

Hyperscale Data completes land acquisition to expand Michigan campus. Read here.

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South America

Elea Announces the Amazon Region’s First AI Data Center With Power Infrastructure From Axia Energia. Read here.

ByteDance begins construction of US$ 38.44 billion data center in Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Netherlands: Landmark data centre case to reclaim infrastructure for the public interest. Read here.

AI Data Centers Have Been Great for the Steel Industry. Now, a Power Crisis Looms. Read here.

How to Make AI Data Centers More Sustainable. Read here.

Neocloud providers to capture $53 billion of AI cloud market by 2030, Gartner says. Read here.

Building Europe’s AI factories: How Nebius, Azur Datacenters and Inflect are reshaping Northern France’s digital infrastructure. Read here.

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Reports

The State of the AI Economy. Read here.

Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Read here.

Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth. Read here.

The World’s Largest Tech Companies: Memory Chips Skyrocket Amid AI Data Center Buildout. Read here.

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Europe

Warehouse giant Prologis takes $16.6 billion bid for UK’s Segro public after rejection. Read here.

CoreWeave Partners With Conapto to Expand AI Cloud Capacity in Sweden Powered by Renewable Energy. Read here.

The Government has intervened in a £500m proposal to build a data centre at the historic Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London. Read here.

Plans for a further AI data centre in Northumberland, located just miles from another site, have been submitted. Read here.

Nuclear-powered launch for Cottam data centre project (Nottinghamshire). Read here.

Britain’s biggest data centre to be powered by gas. Read here.

Prefered supplier selected for Cockenzie data centre. Read here.

AI data centre at Unilever Crosfields site clears planning hurdle. Read here.

Large new data centre planned for land near the M4 (Wales). Read here.

EdgeMode plans 300MW natural gas-powered data center campus in Toledo, Spain. Read here.

Russia Puts $2.3Bln of Data Center Projects on Hold as High Rates and Power Shortages Bite. Read here.

Cloud.ru begins construction on data center in Moscow, Russia. Read here.

60MW data center planned in Närpiö, Finland. Read here.

Bravida Finland awarded additional installation contract for XTX Markets’ data center complex in Kajaani. Read here.

KPMG Sweden and evroc create a blueprint for operational sovereignty in Europe. Read here.

evroc builds Combat Cloud together with the Swedish Armed Forces. Read here.

Google and Energy Dome Advance Multi-Continent Energy Storage Buildout with First Bilateral Project in Ireland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Dubai Holding could buy stake in data center firm Hscale – report. Read here.

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APAC

Amazon to invest additional $13 billion in India for data centre expansion as AI race accelerates. Read here.

GS Group in talks with S.Korean government to build two 1.2 GW data centers. Read here.

Singapore-based SuperX AI eyes 1 GW data center cluster in Kazakhstan. Read here.

Blackstone plans $30bn Japan AI data centre investment. Read here.

DigitalBridge Is Said to Explore Options for AIMS Data Centre. Read here.

PLDT files to establish and float data center REIT in Philippines. Read here.

New Hunter data centre plan promises to create 250 full-time jobs. Read here.

MRCB enters data center market with 65 MW project in Bukit Jalil, Malaysia. Read here.

SIC and DC Union to build US$ 600 million data center in Cyberjaya. Read here.

True IDC invests US$ 181 million in seventh data center in Bangkok. Read here.

Firmus confirms South Australian AI factory sites, renewable energy plans due within weeks. Read here.

Australian data center firm NextDC buys 169 hectares outside Melbourne. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip. Read here.

SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion. Read here.

Anthropic’s latest hiring spree reveals where it’s building AI data centers next. Read here.

Meta, Microsoft Lead $850 Billion Boom in Data Center Leases. Read here.

Qualcomm Lays Out New Data Center Roadmap For AI; Meta Buys It. Read here.

Microsoft announced one of the largest single capacity additions in their history (Pecos, Texas). Read here.

Microsoft completes construction on first datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Read here.

Digital Realty Announces Transactions to Drive Continued Platform Growth. Read here.

Dataprana acquires two sites outside Houston, Texas, totaling 92MW. Read here.

Yondr Group and JK Land Holdings Announce Pricing of Senior Secured Notes. Read here.

Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale secures planning approval for gigawatt data center campus in Wyoming. Read here.

DataBank files for 200MW data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Chevron Strikes Power Deal With Microsoft for West Texas AI Data Center. Read here.

Proposed DeSoto County data center could be among nation’s largest. Read here.

Gigawatt-scale data center campus proposed in Kansas. Read here.

Massive AI data center proposed for Kern County’s Elk Hills. Read here.

Real estate firm Karis is potentially targeting a new data center development outside Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Canada’s Beacon DC targets 275MW data center campus on California oil field. Read here.

NorthVault AI Unveils 43.75 MW AI Data Centre Campus in Ontario, With 4 MW Available Now. Read here.

QTS files to expand Fort Worth, Texas, data center for a third time. Read here.

Nexus DC files to develop data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

100MW data center could be built in Wheeling, West Virginia. Read here.

Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called ‘Megapod’. Read here.

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South America

Monte Capital acquires Brazilian data centre from Apax. Read here.

Odata pushes ahead with half-billion-Dollar São Paulo data centre development. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

From Bartenders To Builders: Data Centers Drive America’s Blue-Collar Comeback. Read here.

The 300-Plus Bans and Moratoriums Threatening the U.S. Data Center Boom. Read here.

Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts. Read here.

Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth. Read here.

America’s data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk. Read here.

The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation. Read here.

AI data center boom hits a human bottleneck — critical skilled labor shortages could slow deployment despite billions in funding. Read here.

Hyperscale Data plans to deploy humanoid robots at data center in Michigan. Read here.

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Reports

CBRE: Global Data Center Trends 2026. Read here.

Bloom Energy: 2026 Data Center Power Report. Read here.

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Europe

AiOnX completes $500m Genesis Digital Assets deal, will pivot crypto data centers to AI. Read here.

IREN Completes Acquisition of Nostrum Group Expanding AI Cloud Platform to Europe. Read here.

HIVE Digital Technologies to Acquire 32 MW Data Center in Boden, Deepening an Eight-Year Community Partnership in Northern Sweden. Read here.

Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender. Read here.

Ireland’s Red Admiral receives approval for 600-acre data center and solar farm in Westmeath, Ireland. Read here.

In Northern France, Data4 launches its largest data center campus to support Europe’s AI growth. Read here.

Verne begins construction of the first 70 MW on its data center campus in Mäntsälä. Read here.

Plans for £9.5bn data centre next to Universal park. Read here.

Northumberland receives new £3.8bn data centre proposal. Read here.

Tritax Big Box progresses 125MW data center plan in Essex, UK. Read here.

British billionaire trader sues Dell in £50m data centre row. Read here.

Edinburgh council calls for Scottish Government moratorium on ‘green’ data centres. Read here.

Firstcolo breaks ground on data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, Germany. Read here.

Hyperco files to build another data center in Kouvola. Read here.

UK and Denmark join battle to meet data centre power demand. Read here.

nLighten seeks to scale AI with UK edge data centre upgrade. Read here.

Data centre companies eye struggling business park (Wales). Read here.

XTX Markets taps YIT to build third Finnish data center. Read here.

Polarnode divests Pori data center project. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Turkey commits $3bn to AI and data centre roadmap. Read here.

Egypt grants data centre license to Hassan Allam. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s DataVolt to develop 12MW data center in Uzbekistan. Read here.

VisionWave Plans Israeli Tier IV Data Center Joint Venture. Read here.

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APAC

Amazon becomes water positive in India, returning more water to communities than it uses. Read here.

Asia-Pacific’s 32 GW data centre pipeline is shifting power costs and reliability obligations onto developers. Read here.

AI company Firmus to become Tasmania’s biggest power user if three planned sites come to fruition. Read here.

CAF II Invests in Racks Central to Advance Southeast Asia Data Centre Corridor. Read here.

Galaxy DC secures $250m to fund data center platform. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud launches two data centers in Johor. Read here.

Alibaba’s cloud arm opens 5th Japan data center, adding new AI services. Read here.

SunCon announces massive funding increase for Johor DCs. Read here.

DayOne’s investor in talks for US$ 600 million loan to fund investment: Report. Read here.

NFD Korea Target Growing AI Infrastructure Demand With 300MW Data Center Campus. Read here.

STT GDC opens first data center in South Korea. Read here.

PLDT targets 4Q REIT listing of data centers; US$ 400 million potential raise. Read here.

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North America

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Read here.

Amazon strengthens its investment in Missouri to bring new community programs, new jobs, and hundreds of millions in tax revenue. Read here.

Meta signs new AI computing deals with data center firm Crusoe, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.

SWI Group Expands Transatlantic Digital Infrastructure Platform with closing of $500 Million USD Acquisition of significant shareholding in a 1.3 GW USA portfolio. Read here.

NVIDIA joins $54M bet on startup that gets AI data centres online three years faster. Read here.

DataBank secures $1.45bn for data center build-out. Read here.

Switch buys another site outside Las Vegas. Read here.

Oracle denies $3bn Microsoft data center deal collapsed over security and compliance concerns. Read here.

Microsoft breaks ground on new data center in LaPorte. Read here.

Crusoe could build 14-acre data center in unincorporated Missouri land. Read here.

Bitdeer looks to develop 750MW data center campus in Ohio. Read here.

50MW ‘Project Taurus’ data center gets go-ahead in Colorado. Read here.

Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition. Read here.

Worries over water as a giant data center moves into the New Mexico desert. Read here.

Proposed 5,000-acre data center near Broadview Montana would be among world’s largest. Read here.

Why Fisk University’s $1 Billion Master Plan Includes A Data Center. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

London’s data centres use 750,000 homes’ worth of electricity. It’s bad news for the housing crisis. Read here.

Two mayors, one $10 billion AI data center, and a growing divide in small-town Texas. Read here.

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says. Read here.

Data centre investors navigate geopolitical strife as deals boom. Read here.

Nearly 80% of data center capacity is at elevated risk to climate hazards like flooding and fire, study says. Read here.

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire. Read here.

More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026. Read here.

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Reports

FT: The unlikely corporate winners of AI. Read here.

Savills: UK data centre take-up continues to concentrate on London as lack of power capacity intensifies. Read here.

Goldman Sachs: The Outlook for Data Centers in Asia. Read here.

Amazon: Amazon’s data centres are seven times more water-efficient than the industry average. Here’s how we do it. Read here.

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Europe

Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities for agentic and enterprise AI. Read here.

Nebius chooses Kao Data’s Harlow campus for major AI infrastructure deployment. Read here.

Larbert Data Centre Campus – Plans Submitted to Falkirk Council for Larbert Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Industry Launches Green Data Centre Charter (Scotland). Read here.

Era4 and Cosine Sign MoU to Scale Britain’s Sovereign AI Capability. Read here.

Corscale appoints McLaren Construction and Phoenix ME to start predevelopment of 140MW Iver data centre. Read here.

Multibillion pound data centre project in Wales risks collapse over government delays. Read here.

Ark DC to add new building to Longcross data center campus outside London, UK. Read here.

Viridor and Rivington Energy Announce Strategic Partnership to Support UK AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Major data centre in Slough gets government go-ahead. Read here.

UK – New backing for open-source AI builders, data centre design challenge and robotics partnership. Read here.

Hyperscale data center proposed for car boot sale site in Buckinghamshire, UK. Read here.

Ignis to build DayOne’s 300MW data center in Aragon, Spain. Read here.

Grupo Fotones eyes €1.15bn data center campus in Murcia, Spain. Read here.

Data centre firm EdgeMode to acquire 51% of Spain’s Ibersun to access BESS. Read here.

AmpTank Announces 200 MW AI Data Center Project in Utajärvi, Finland. Read here.

Microsoft acquires 470 acres on Finland’s west coast for data center. Read here.

Real estate firm Trevian partners with Glesys for a data center in Oulu, Finland. Read here.

Exyte secures three major AI-driven data center projects near Frankfurt – supporting 400 jobs in Germany. Read here.

Romania to build Quantum AI data center. Read here.

Green Horizon targets 36MW data center in Stavanger, Norway. Read here.

A major seven-figure sum in development contributions is being levied by Westmeath County Council on the developers of a proposed multi-billion-euro data centre and energy campus. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

While South Africa depends on Lesotho’s water, a $6.2 billion US deal could help Lesotho depend less on South African electricity. Read here.

Israeli-listed energy company Stark Power has signed a deal to acquire Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners, a US-based data center and powered land developer. Read here.

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APAC

Meta Partners With Reliance on AI-Enabled Data Center in India. Read here.

DayOne Data Centers Announces Final Closing of its Series C Equity Financing at US$4.5 Billion. Read here.

Blue Owl set to unload $US30b Asia-Pacific data centre business. Read here.

China Preps $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout. Read here.

Data center proposed next to public school in Katoomba, southeastern Australia. Read here.

Digital Edge acquires land in Seoul, South Korea, for 60MW data center. Read here.

SK Telecom, NTT and Chunghwa Telecom set up US$ 500 million global fund for AI investments. Read here.

China firm to invest US$ 5 billion in AI data center in Batam. Read here.

STT GDC expands Jakarta AI DC to advance 360MW pipeline. Read here.

Keppel acquires land in South Korea for AI data center. Read here.

Digital Realty debuts in Malaysia with 3-facility campus in Cyberjaya. Read here.

Thailand’s richest man plans to spend US$ 4.3 billion to build data centers up to 2,000MW. Read here.

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North America

Oracle to spend $70bn on Capex in the coming year. Read here.

KKR Launches Helix Digital Infrastructure, a New Company to Finance and Deliver the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Anthropic Pursues First Data Center Leases, Seeks Financial Backing From Google. Read here.

Amazon secures $17.5bn loan for AI data center buildout. Read here.

Switch Expands Corporate Revolving Credit and Letter of Credit Facilities to Nearly $10 Billion. Read here.

Keel Infrastructure Announces Closing of $458 Million of Convertible Senior Notes. Read here.

Crusoe’s Contracted AI Infrastructure Capacity Approaches 5 Gigawatts Across Data Centers and Cloud. Read here.

Applied Digital Signs 210 MW Lease at Delta Forge 2, Expanding Its AI Factory Franchise Model to a Fifth Campus. Read here.

Applied Digital Announces Proposed Offering of $1.59 Billion of Senior Secured Notes to fund the Fourth Building at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.

Applied Digital Secures Revolving Credit Facility of Up To $550 Million in Support of Strategic Growth. Read here.

Blue Owl provides $975m financing for Northern Virginia data center. Read here.

Bitzero Holdings Inc. Receives Approval to List on The Nasdaq Stock Market. Read here.

OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio. Read here.

Hamilton rejects plan to partition Stelco lands for AI data centre. Read here.

Canada’s QScale breaks ground on second building at Québec campus. Read here.

Cipher looks to build 500MW campus near coal plant outside Waco, Texas. Read here.

California-based medical equipment manufacturer BaRupOn LLC is developing a data center and energy campus in Liberty County, Texas. Read here.

Massive data center plan dropped in SC after latest public outcry against projects. Read here.

DC Blox’s proposed 24-acre data center near Nashville Zoo could be blocked by moratorium. Read here.

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South America

Latin America’s Data Center Gold Rush: Myth and Reality. Read here.

Voltalia secures 322 MW grid connection for data centers in Brazil. Read here.

Plant-covered Rio AI City set to be Latin America’s largest data centre. Read here.

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Space

SpaceX details AI1 satellite ‘data center,’ claims 150kW peak compute. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

America’s Workforce Academy: The Future Is for Everyone. Read here.

Wall Street Is Rushing to Fund the AI Bonanza in Every Conceivable Way. Read here.

Americans wary of AI-driven data center boom, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. Read here.

Cities, communities and brownfield: the planning pressures reshaping data centre development. Read here.

The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown. Read here.

Data center opponents have blocked or delayed projects worth nearly $130 billion in 2026, study finds. Read here.

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Reports

Google’s water stewardship commitments for local communities. Read here.

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Europe

Polar Announces Landmark €800 Million Nordic Bond Issue to Accelerate European AI Infrastructure Expansion. Read here.

Submer launches Rubix Data Centers, claims platform has 8GW powered land portfolio. Read here.

Blue, yellow and green: Google invests in its new data center in Sweden. Read here.

atNorth expands to Norway with new mega site in Haugaland. Read here.

BW Group signs deal to build 250MW data center in Telemark County, Norway. Read here.

SoftBank Group to Build 5 GW of AI Data Center Capacity in France. Read here.

Brookfield ups French data center investment by €10 billion. Read here.

Ardian and Verne announce digital infrastructure hub in Île-de-France to support European industrial capabilities at Choose France. Read here.

Pure DC completes Europe’s first large-scale cross-border biomethane purchase for a data centre. Read here.

Joint venture launched in Italy to invest €1bn in renewable data centers. Read here.

Arcem buys land in Joroinen, Finland, for 500MW data center campus. Read here.

UK data center developer Era4 is planning to deploy capacity at a landfill site in Canterbury. Read here.

McLaren wins £1bn Corscale data centre campus near M25. Read here.

ILI files to develop 600MW Stoic data center in Fife, Scotland. Read here.

New £2bn Borders data centre aims to harness wasted wind power. Read here.

Campaigners oppose £2bn rural data centre ‘monster’ (Scotland). Read here.

AI data centre plans on outskirts of Canterbury would be powered by landfill site and solar panels and use ‘minimal water’. Read here.

New 12MW data centre to be built near M4. Read here.

Giga-scale Swiss data centre project will be ‘world-first’ in carving out niche for flow batteries, Invinity says. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Damac Digital plans 6GW data center expansion across four continents. Read here.

Asprofin Bank unveils $12bn proposal for data centers in UAE. Read here.

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APAC

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk To Invest $21 Billion In Data Center Project Near Mumbai. Read here.

Iren targets Australia for 800MW data center campus. Read here.

Stockland files to develop another data center in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.

Samsung to develop floating data centers with international partners. Read here.

BDx Data Centers secures 1.2GW power commitment in Indonesia. Read here.

Chinese Firm Seeks $2.6 Billion Loan for Hong Kong Data Center. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft, Meta signal new priorities as AI buildout accelerates beyond historic growth levels. Read here.

Google’s parent company Alphabet seeks $80 billion for AI build out. Read here.

Data Center Developer Switch in Talks to Raise Billions at $50 Billion-Plus Valuation. Read here.

Google and Intersect are announcing construction of the Meitner Energy Center, which includes a new data center co-located with new energy generation in Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas. Read here.

Yondr secures dual financings to accelerate hyperscale expansion across Europe and North America. Read here.

Bergen Engines signs approximately 750MW U.S. power agreement with Crusoe for AI data centres. Read here.

Amazon plans nine-building data center campus in Wheatfield, Indiana. Read here.

America’s Data-Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule. Read here.

$670bn of planned US data centres face major storm risk. Read here.

Microsoft files to expand data center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Read here.

Duke starts construction on data center near Central Campus. Read here.

EdgeConneX files to build two 730,000 sq ft data centers in Bastrop County, Texas. Read here.

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center. Read here.

Property developer Eagle Rock has proposed the construction of a 1GW data center in Christian County, Illinois. Read here.

2,000-acre land parcel rezoned for data center use in Mason County, Kentucky. Read here.

Tract’s 430-acre data center rejected by local officials in Hanover County, Virginia. Read here.

Core42 expands AI cluster by 42MW in Buffalo, New York. Read here.

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Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant. Read here.

Inside the AI Boom’s Arctic Outpost. Read here.

AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say. Read here.

Why the CEO of this $15 billion data center builder wants his data centers to look like museums. Read here.

France’s €110bn AI boom tests Emmanuel Macron’s tech ambitions. Read here.

Factors shaping data centre development in Asia Pacific. Read here.

Nvidia takes AI battle from the data centre to the laptop. Read here.

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Reports

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

Data Centres appg: Insights from the APPG’s inaugural Call for Evidence | May 2026. Read here.

Goldman Sachs: US Data Center Power Demand Projected to Double by 2027. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: From Megawatts to Meaning: Why Cost per Token Matters in AI Data Centres. Read here.

CBRE: 2026 Asia Pacific Data Centre Trends & Outlook. Read here.

Clean Energy Resources to Meet Data Center Electricity Demand. Read here.

InfraPartners: The First End-to-End, AI-Ready Power + AI Factory Platform. Read here.

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Europe

Pure DC Secures $2.7 Billion to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Growth Across Europe and the Middle East. Read here.

Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI. Read here.

Mistral AI plans AI deployment at Digital Realty data center in Paris, France. Read here.

AtlasEdge Gets €1.2 Billion in Loans for European Data Centers. Read here.

HSCALE Closes Second Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Milan, Committing Over €2 Billion to the Region. Read here.

Italy plans to build ‘Europe’s largest data center’ in former Trino power plant. Read here.

Plans revealed for AWS data center in Maintal, Germany. Read here.

French consortium to bid for EU’s AI datacentre fund. Read here.

AI data centre plans on outskirts of Canterbury would be powered by landfill site and solar panels and use ‘minimal water’. Read here.

Plans revealed for major North East data centre (UK). Read here.

Glencar lands green data centre in Brent Cross. Read here.

High Court refuses to allow appeal of failed challenge to €1.6bn data centre. Read here.

Equinix opens its MD5 data center in Spain. Read here.

€70 Million Gaia AI Factory to be established in Poland. Read here.

Data center planned for Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Read here.

Hochtief breaks ground on data center in Herne, Germany. Read here.

Campaigners oppose 600MW hyperscale data centre planned for Fife. Read here.

LVL Energy announces plans to build 50MW data center in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. Read here.

‘A £billion proposal on protected greenbelt land In Havering demands a democratic vote’-Say Residents. Read here.

E.ON unit signs 200 MW grid connection for atNorth AI data centre in Sweden. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

HSBC has agreed to provide $550m to Core42 to support the deployment of sites across the US and Europe. Read here.

Du unveils UAE’s cloud platform purpose-built for Chinese enterprises expanding into the UAE. Read here.

Oman, UAE, and Italy sign green data center agreement. Read here.

With 44 billion dirhams.. Asprofen Bank establishes 3 data centers in Dubai. Read here.

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APAC

SoftBank to launch AI data center GPU cloud in Japan. Read here.

Swiss-backed GreenSquareDC withdraws application for 120MW data center in Perth, Australia. Read here.

Amazon to spend $39 billion in Southeast Asia over next 13 years. Read here.

PDG looking to sell China data centers – report. Read here.

Goodman eyes new data center development outside Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Malaysia and India top growth as power availability redraws data center footprint: CBRE. Read here.

Data centers in Southeast Asia are winners amid war: Report. Read here.

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North America

TeraWulf Expands Infrastructure Platform with Acquisition of 1+ GW Eastern Kentucky HPC Campus. Read here.

Applied Digital Reaches Significant Milestone, Surpassing 1 GW of Contracted Capacity with U.S. Based High Investment-Grade Hyperscaler Lease at Fourth Campus, Polaris Forge 3. Read here.

Rowan Closes $3B Green Financing for Turnkey Hyperscale Campus in High-Growth Texas Market. Read here.

Missouri Secures $15 Billion Investment from Google in Montgomery County. Read here.

Edged US Announces Nearly $2 Billion in Year-to-Date Financing to Accelerate Growth Across Strategic U.S. Markets. Read here.

I Squared Capital launches U.S. AI inference and edge colocation data center platform with $1b commitment. Read here.

DigitalBridge agrees $1.05bn acquisition of PE firm ArcLight. Read here.

Nebius and Bloom Energy partner to power AI infrastructure build-out. Read here.

AI cloud firm Iren has signed a $1.6bn contract with Dell to acquire air-cooled Blackwell systems. Read here.

$100B data center project proposed at Berry Hill megasite advances. Read here.

Alaska’s North Slope proposed as home for massive AI data center. Read here.

Louisiana announces $3.6 billion AI data center campus planned for Rapides Parish. Read here.

Shelby County data center campus signs $1B deal with AI company. Read here.

New Hampshire data center developer withdraws plans hours before opponents were to pack town meeting. Read here.

Real estate developer Panattoni takes over Meta-backed data center proposal in southern Wisconsin. Read here.

Prime Data Centers breaks ground on three out of five buildings at its 240MW campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Fleet breaks ground on data center outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Armada raises $230 million to scale modular AI data centres. Read here.

Dell lifts forecasts as AI data center buildout fuels demand, shares soar. Read here.

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Big Tech’s big data-centre problem. Read here.

Data Center Investment in 2026: AI Demand, Power Constraints, and Private Equity Trends. Read here.

Not all data centers are created equal. Read here.

The scramble by data centres for hefty financing is getting more exotic. Read here.

Ascenty announces $1.2bn investment to deploy 150MW data center capacity across Brazil. Read here.

Erin Brockovich launches a crowdsourced AI data center map. Read here.

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IDCA: Global Data Center Report (2026). Read here.

Airtrunk: Financing the Future: Building Asia Pacific’s Sustainable Digital Backbone. Read here.

Moody’s: Hyperscaler capex forecasts marked up by $85bn, to close in on $1trn by 2027. Read here.

Gallup: Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area. Read here.

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Europe

EdgeConneX to Invest €3 Billion in Three New Data Centres in Italy by 2031. Read here.

Nscale Secures $790 Million in Financing to Support AI Infrastructure Buildout in Norway. Read here.

Argentum AI Signs $2.5 Billion European Data Center Deal with Cloud Gaming, Real Estate Firms. Read here.

Nebius reports first quarter 2026 financial results. Read here.

IREN Expands AI Cloud Platform to Europe with Acquisition of Nostrum Group. Read here.

Malaga attracts major 1.2-billion-euro data centre set to start construction in 2027. Read here.

Plans announced for municipal data center in Reșița, Romania. Read here.

Kao Data Acquires New Industrial Site in Park Royal, West London. Read here.

Data centre designed to re-use heat to warm local homes given green light in Bradford. Read here.

Digital Realty breaks ground on latest data center in Paris, France. Read here.

atNorth joins Nordic Compass to support industry innovation. Read here.

Data Centre Capacity Pricing in Europe Set for Double-Digit Growth Amid Supply Constraints. Read here.

Data center to house supercomputer planned for university campus in Guimarães, Portugal. Read here.

Data center firm AiOnX has secured a US hyperscaler for its debut campus outside Dublin, Ireland. Read here.

BT and StackIT partner on sovereign cloud in EU. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Abu Dhabi’s Phoenix Group Partners with DC Max to Unlock $8 Billion European AI Data Center Opportunity, with Lyon, France as First Deployment. Read here.

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APAC

NEXTDC KL1 Kuala Lumpur Goes Live: Malaysia’s Premier AI-Ready Data Centre Opens for Business. Read here.

Aussie investment firm Alceon launches data center fund, invests in Insite DC. Read here.

Korea, UAE forge alliance to build AI architecture. Read here.

Equinix to invest US$ 190 million to build new data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Read here.

Malaysia and China firms mull US$250 million investment in 32MW AI data center in Perak, Malaysia. Read here.

Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition. Read here.

Zerra DC files for six-building data center campus in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.

SoftBank launches Japan battery business for AI data centres. Read here.

$500 Million Uber India Data Center Project Advances With Adani Group Partnership. Read here.

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North America

Quality Growth Companies Introduces QII to Build Powered Infrastructure for AI Factories and Advanced Manufacturing. Read here.

Nebius breaks ground on gigawatt-scale AI factory in Independence, Missouri. Read here.

Blackstone’s data-center REIT targets AI boom with $1.75B IPO, priced at $20. Read here.

VoltaGrid Announces $1 Billion Strategic Equity Investment from Blackstone and Halliburton to Fund Growth and Acquisition of Propell. Read here.

Google files for data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Powered land company Cloverleaf proposing 633-acre data center in Canadian County, Oklahoma. Read here.

Jacobs awarded EPCM contract to deliver second Hut 8 AI data center in Texas. Read here.

Fisk University Launches $1 Bn Quantum Leap Plan Anchored by 100,000 sq ft Data Centre in Nashville. Read here.

Prime files to build two data centers outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Edged files to develop 2 million sq ft data center campus outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Meta’s $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks. Read here.

Developers file application for $1.6bn data center in Cleveland, Ohio. Read here.

City (Hillsboro) Hears Feedback On Data Center Proposal. Read here.

Developer eyes Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, for new data center development. Read here.

$15B Wisconsin AI data centre campus signals a new building era. Read here.

Former Walmart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, could become data center. Read here.

Amazon acquires leased data center in Virginia for $65 million. Read here.

Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban. Read here.

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South America

Terranova moves forward with data center in Chile following regional US$1.5bn plan. Read here.

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Space

SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit. Read here.

Cowboy Space Wants to Put AI Data Centers in Orbit Using Its Own Rockets. Read here.

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Tracking Hyperscale AI Data Center Growth with Satellite Imagery. Read here.

You Can’t Just Plug in a Data Center. Read here.

Data Centers in Space: A Pipe Dream, or AI’s Next Big Thing? Read here.

Why The Data Center Boom May Be Digging In The Wrong Dirt. Read here.

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Reports

Goldman Sachs: Tracking Trillions: The Assumptions Shaping the Scale of the AI Build-Out. Read here.

Nscale: The AI Grid: A 2026 playbook for Telco AI. Read here.

Brookings: New evidence on data center employment effects. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale to Deliver 66,000+ NVIDIA Rubin GPUs to Microsoft at Start Campus’ Site in Portugal. Read here.

OneQode signs 15-year 110MW lease at Bitzero data center in Norway. Read here.

TotalEnergies, in collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, announced the signing of a contract for the design and installation of Pangea 5, its next high-performance supercomputer. Hosted at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center in Pau, in the South of France. Read here.

Stellanor completes acquisition of eight data centers from Redcentric. Read here.

Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers secure planning permission to redevelop Redhill data center campus outside London. Read here.

Giant data centres to end blight of former coal power sites in UK – EDF. Read here.

CPRE argues against building data centres in Hertfordshire (UK). Read here.

Essex data centre proposal deferred for determination. Read here.

Data centre near Houghton Regis approved again after legal challenge. Read here.

Therma Loop to establish new data center in Finland. Read here.

Deep Green taps Zendo Energy for Manchester data center renewable energy deal. Read here.

Opposition mounts to Brick Lane data centre plans as Reed decision awaited. Read here.

Spain’s MERLIN Sees Compelling Growth Prospects in Europe’s Data Center Sector. Read here.

Germany’s O2 lays out data centre expansion plan. Read here.

Fortum has started heat production at two large data centre sites in Finland. Read here.

Retelit breaks ground on new data center in Milan, Italy. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Kenya suspends $1 billion Microsoft data centre as energy shortfall raises doubts over Africa’s AI ambitions. Read here.

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APAC

CDC signs 555MW data centre contract with US customer. Read here.

NEXTDC bolsters liquidity to A$8.4 billion to accelerate AI infrastructure rollout. Read here.

STACK reported to seek $30 billion for APAC data centre portfolio. Read here.

Gorilla Technology acquires land in Thailand for 200 MW AI data centre campus. Read here.

Thailand Approves $29 Billion Investment Wave as Data Center Demand Surges. Read here.

PDG has raised US$ 856 million debt for data center expansion in Indonesia. Read here.

Digital Edge and B.Grimm Power secure Thailand’s largest data center loan of US$ 880 million to finance buildout. Read here.

India’s Yotta weighs $900 million Mumbai IPO – report. Read here.

Chinese cloud infrastructure spend up 26% in Q4 2025. Read here.

Karnataka plans three sustainable data center parks with combined capacity of 1 GW. Read here.

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North America

NVIDIA and IREN Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Deployment of up to 5 Gigawatts of AI Infrastructure. Read here.

KKR Preparing New $10 Billion AI Firm Led by Ex-Amazon Web Chief. Read here.

Meta picks Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for El Paso data center financing, source says. Read here.

Applied Digital Completes Separation of Cloud Business, Establishing ChronoScale as Independent Public Company. Read here.

Fleet Data Centers Announces Closing of Upsized $4.6 Billion 6.500% Senior Secured Notes Offering to Fund Hyperscale Facility in Rapidly Growing Reno Hub. Read here.

Core Scientific Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results. Read here.

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX. Read here.

Hut 8 Commercializes First Phase of 1 GW Beacon Point AI Data Center Campus with 15-Year, 352 MW IT Lease with Base-Term Contract Value of $9.8 Billion. Read here.

Wall Street Readies Data Center IPOs as AI-Linked Debuts Surge. Read here.

Principal Eyes $3 Billion for Two Data Center Funds on AI Boom. Read here.

AI investor Coatue joins data center frenzy with new venture to buy land. Read here.

Coatue sets up data center venture, partners with Fluidstack for 430MW campus in Indiana. Read here.

Digi Power X Signs AI Colocation Agreement with Leading AI Compute Company for 40 MW Data Center in Columbiana, Alabama. Read here.

Cryptominer Mawson rebrands as Big Digital Energy, signs 75MW colo deal with Endeavor. Read here.

Core Scientific acquires cryptomine in Muskogee to expand AI data center campus. Read here.

IREN energises 1.4 GW Sweetwater data centre site in Texas. Read here.

Microsoft confirms plans for data center in Tyrone, Georgia. Read here.

DigiCo to sell Chicago data centre for $750 million, eyes further asset sales. Read here.

706-acre data center approved for development outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

365 Data Centers and Carter Funds to develop 200MW of data centers in the US. Read here.

PowerHouse looking to build 500-acre data center near Austin, Texas. Read here.

After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT. Read here.

Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves. Read here.

A data center may be on its way to Nueces County. Read here.

Community rallies against construction of giant data center in small NJ town. Read here.

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Space

SpaceX Wants to Blast Data Centers Into Orbit. Here’s What It May Take. Read here.

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Data center jobs aren’t at servers — they’re in energy. Read here.

Location, location, location: why data centre siting policy needs more than grid logic. Read here.

Data Center Panic Gets Electricity Prices Wrong. Read here.

Denmark faces data center reckoning amid power grid strains. Watch here.

The US Military Is Branching into Data Centers. Has It Thought This Through? Read here.

The data center clean energy debate gets granular. Read here.

School economics class: The great American data centre divide. Read here.

Campaigners fear Scottish data centre ‘greengrab’ of land. Read here.

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Earnings calls

Google: Q1 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO. Read here.

Microsoft: Earnings Release FY26 Q3. Read here.

Meta Reports First Quarter 2026 Results. Read here.

AWS: Q1 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Read here.

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Europe

Data Center Pioneers Byrne Murphy and William Conway Return to Nordics to Develop 500+ MWs of Data Center Infrastructure. Read here.

Transatlantic Investment Group Announces €50 Billion AI Data Center and Innovation Campus in Croatia — the Largest Investment in Croatian History and Among the Largest Private U.S. Investments in Europe. Read here.

One of Europe’s largest AI data centres to be built in Croatia. Read here.

Microsoft has been given the go-ahead to build a major data centre complex at the site of a former power station (UK). Read here.

Data centre could ‘transform Alderney’s economy’. Read here.

Plans for AI data centre and solar farm north of Scunthorpe emerge. Read here.

Legal challenge sends data centre plan near Houghton Regis back to the council. Read here.

Polish city of Gliwice to build municipal data center. Read here.

700MW data center planned for Freyenstein, Germany sparks protests. Read here.

Goodman reviews Dutch court decision blocking grid connection. Read here.

KevlinX targets data center development in Genoa, Italy. Read here.

First Silicon Sands (UK) data centre gets green light. Read here.

‘Pivotal milestone’: Harrogate’s Redcentric completes data centre business sale for £123m. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Huawei unveils North Africa AI strategy at AI Data Center Innovation Summit. Read here.

Middle East data centre investment pauses as conflict disrupts AI infrastructure plans. Read here.

Pure DC commits to Middle East focus backed by in-region solar renewables. Read here.

Anan Data Center to provide 40MW AI infrastructure for Crusoe in Israel. Read here.

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APAC

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO. Read here.

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Earmarks $3 Billion To Build Data Centers In Malaysia. Read here.

Google Breaks Ground on India AI Hub, Launching a National Industrial Ecosystem Alongside India’s Digital Infrastructure Milestone. Read here.

PDG acquires land in Jakarta, Indonesia, for 240MW data center campus. Read here.

Digital Edge weighs sale options at up to $10 billion valuation – report. Read here.

Macquarie Data Centres partners Macquarie Uni on data centre research. Read here.

Singapore’s floating data center kicks off construction in Q1 2026; completion in 2028. Read here.

Philippines earmarks 4,000-acre land as AI hub under US-led Pax Silica. Read here.

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North America

Core Scientific Plans Expansion to 1.5 Gigawatts of Gross Power at Pecos, Texas Campus. Read here.

Hut 8 Announces Pricing of $3.25 Billion of Investment-Grade Senior Secured Notes for River Bend Data Center Project. Read here.

Hut 8 Closes $3.25 Billion of Investment-Grade Senior Secured Notes in Landmark Financing for River Bend Data Center Project. Read here.

Meta: Powering AI, Strengthening the Grid: Innovation in Space Solar Energy and Long-Duration Storage. Read here.

Google to invest up to $40 billion in AI rival Anthropic. Read here.

Related Digital announces financing for $16 billion Oracle data center project in Saline Township, Michigan. Read here.

Switch Announces New Data Center Campus in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Investors push for higher yield on $14bn of Oracle-backed data centre debt. Read here.

ValorC3 Data Centers Announces Closing of a Credit Facility With Apterra Infrastructure Capital To Fund the Continued Development of an Anchored Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Boise, Idaho. Read here.

MARA Advances Its Optimized Digital Infrastructure Strategy with Agreement to Acquire Long Ridge Energy & Power. Read here.

OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term. Read here.

BlockchAIn outlines $9.9bn plan for 715MW data center portfolio. Read here.

Brookfield unit drops out of giant data center project in Virginia. Read here.

$4bn data center rejected by Nobles County, Minnesota. Read here.

Pace plans 100MW “Texas first” data center in Glasscock County. Read here.

Digital Realty signs largest ever lease for new data centre in Charlotte. Read here.

Bell Canada to turn Winnipeg food processing plant into AI data center. Read here.

Oracle, BorderPlex, and Bloom Energy to Power Project Jupiter with Cleaner, Water-Efficient Fuel Cell Technology. Read here.

The residents of a small town in Pennsylvania are currently amid a fight for their community, as data center developers have applied for permits to build six campuses within the area. Read here.

A $1.8 billion AI data center is coming to this tiny N.J. town. Read here.

ElectriGen to build and operate 1.8GW behind-the-meter gas platform for data center development in Texas. Read here.

Rehlko Secures Another 1.7 Gigawatts of Backup Power Orders Supporting Hyperscale Data Center Growth. Read here.

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South America

I Squared Capital Announces Expansion of its Data Center Franchise in Latin America with the Acquisition of Elea Data Centers, a Leading Brazilian Platform. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Boom Exposes Data Centre Confidence Crisis. Read here.

Build data centres in Scotland not London, says Britain’s energy grid boss. Read here.

How OpenAI’s $500bn data centre venture Stargate has shifted shape. Read here.

New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time. Read here.

Small, connected data centers will power AI, a builder says. Read here.

What’s stalling data center projects? Public opposition and power access lead delays. Read here.

Related Companies CEO Jeff Blau on financing data center projects. Watch here.

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