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Weekly Update! It has been a very busy week this week.. The major cloud organisations continue to fill the news with new investments announced nearly every week. We have also seen some significant new campuses announced across the world.

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Reports

Arcadis: International Construction Costs 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Blackstone is planning to develop a data centre campus on the former Britishvolt site in Blyth (UK). Read here.

Blackstone acquired a controlling stake in Winthrop Technologies. Read here.

Colt DCS plans hyperscale data centre expansion with land purchase in Hayes, West London. Read here.

EirGrid is to provide national grid connection for proposed Echelon data centre in Wicklow (Ireland). Read here.

Greencoat Renewables has signed a power purchase agreement to power two data centres in Dublin, Ireland. Read here.

Engineering firm Mercury has been chosen to deliver Digital Realty’s next expansion phase of its Paris campus in France. Read here.

Opponents of a €1.2 billion ($1.28bn) data center complex planned for County Clare, Ireland, will seek a judicial review to try and block the development. Read here.

Spanish energy company Iberdrola is seeking a data centre partner. Read here.

Norway plans law to close the door on cryptomining data centers. Read here.

maincubes has appointed Martin Murphy as Chief Operating Officer. Read here.

Sweden Busts 18 Data Centers for Secretly Mining Crypto. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion for a minority stake in G42, an AI firm in the UAE. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Data Center expansion draws big Tech investment. Read here.

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APAC

Macquarie Technology Group has purchased land and buildings at Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Sizing Perth’s potential as a data centre hub for South East Asia. Read here.

Viettel opens largest scale data center in Vietnam. Read here.

T4 Group has acquired a plot of land in Invercargill on New Zealand’s south island for a data center. Read here.

Adani-EdgeConneX JV to invest $5 billion in 5 years to scale data centre business. Read here.

Oracle to Spend $8 Billion in Japan on Cloud Services, AI. Read here.

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North America

Edged Energy announced a new state-of-the-art sustainable data center in Irving, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft to double new data center capacity this year. Read here.

Core Scientific announced the start of a project to complete a 72MW expansion of the Company’s Denton, Texas data center. Read here.

Equinix has formed a joint venture to develop a hyperscale data center in Silicon Valley, California. Read here.

New plans shared for Convergent Technology Park in Fauquier County, Virginia. Read here.

Cold War bunker data center up for sale in Nebraska. Read here.

Chip startup Cerebras Systems is leasing space at Nautilus Data Technologies’ floating barge data center in California. Read here.

Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors has approved the 1.3million sq ft Belmont Innovation Campus. Read here.

9 million sq ft data center campus has been proposed in Virginia’s King George County. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 136 acres of land for data center development outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired five parcels of land for Phase II of its data center project in Malaga, Washington. Read here.

A former gym site in Ashburn, Virginia, is set to become a data center. Read here.

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South America

Equinix is planning $130m data center in Santiago, Chile. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The building blocks of the digital age could reach one trillion dollar investment per year by 2027. Read here.

NVIDIA datacentre chief to Europe: GPUs are coming, but have you got the power? Read here.

Fine porcelain maker Maruwa becomes the hottest bet for cooling AI data centres. Read here.

The rewarding career prospects data centres offer. Read here.

Booming AI demand threatens global electricity supply. Read here.

Data Centres’ Lean Towards Nuclear-Powered Future to Combat Energy Needs. Read here.

Keeping It Cool: How Data Centers Can Prepare For The Future. Read here.

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Weekly Update! I may be on holiday this week but the data centre news never stops. This week we have seen billions of dollars flood into the sector, major new developments announced, and new facilities go live. Data Centres never sleep!

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Reports

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Plan for 200MW Ennis (Ireland) data centre gets green light. Read here.

Google has announced plans to invest €1 billion in the construction of a new data centre in Farciennes, near Charleroi. Read here.

High-speed trader XTX Markets to build 250MW data centre in Kajaani district in central Finland. Read here.

1.35 Billion PLN for Expansion of Atman Data Centers. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced that it will open a second Zurich campus this summer. Read here.

EdgeConneX announced it secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA digital infrastructure expansion. Read here.

Microsoft announced London AI hub. Read here.

Plans outlined for jobs at major data centre in North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources. Read here.

European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a new cloud region in Paris, France. Read here.

Data centre specialist LCL will invest €30 million in a fifth data centre in Diegem, Belgium. Read here.

Keepit announced the opening of two new Data Centers in Switzerland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Africa Southern Africa have broken ground on a solar farm in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Read here.

OpenAI CEO wants UAE Dubai into his plan for a global AI cabal. Read here.

Race for AI Supremacy in Middle East Is measured in Data Centers. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft will spend $2.9 billion building out data center capacity in Japan. Read here.

AWS invests $15bn into Japans data ecosystem amidst AI boom. Read here.

Goodman is planning to build a 126MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited has acquired a data center firm and plans to develop facilities in Malaysia. Read here.

NextDC raising $860 Million amid record Data-Center demand. Read here.

A new 160MW data center campus and tape library is being proposed in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Quinbrook closed financing on BESS for new ‘Supernode’ data centre in Queensland, Australia. Read here.

Singtel sold 20% stake in data center business to KKR for $807 million. Read here.

Adani Group company Terravista Developers has acquired 25 acres of land in Pune to build a data center. Read here.

Spark announced plans to invest more than $15 million into digital infrastructure in the Waikato (New Zealand). Read here.

Invercargill (New Zealand) to get first Tier 4 Data Centre with T4 Group move. Read here.

Viettel launches AI-ready data centre in Hanoi. Read here.

STT GDC Breaks Ground on second Tokyo Data Center. Read here.

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North America

Google unveils Arm-based data center processor, new AI chip. Read here.

Google has filed to build a second data center at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Google plans two new subsea cables from US to Japan. Read here.

Equinix signed deal to procure up to 500MW of nuclear power from Oklo SMRs. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced a cumulative fundraise of $3.3 billion in green financing for global data center development. Read here.

DataBank announced that it has established a new $725 million credit facility. Read here.

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet. Read here.

Data from Cloudflare showed that Tuesday’s eclipse caused a drop in internet traffic in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Read here.

Lawmakers in Minnesota are proposing bills that would grant new tax breaks for data centers in the state. Read here.

US operator DC Blox is planning to build a data center and cable landing station on Florida’s east coast. Read here.

Chirisa is planning a new 20MW data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

A viral TikTok is igniting a debate over data centers taking over Virginia’s countryside. Read here.

US electric utilities brace for surge in power demand from data centers. Read here.

Is Microsoft & OpenAI’s 5GW Stargate supercomputer feasible? Read here.

AI could add 1 million tonnes to copper demand by 2030. Read here.

Data Centers Are Born To Run. Read here.

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Weekly Update! A quieter week this week, but still some interesting news stories from the world of data centres. The big news was the potential $100bn investment from Microsoft and OpenAI to develop an AI supercomputer campus. Is this a sign of things to come?

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Europe

Luxembourg’s Economy Minister Lex Delles has said Google may yet still build a data center in the Grand Duchy. Read here.

NTT DATA to boost Berlin presence with third data centre campus. Read here.

nLighten acquired 7 data centres from Exa Infrastructure. Read here.

Digital Realty selected to house Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom Mozambique is investing $25m in constructing a data center in Matola, Mozambique. Read here.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has completed the acquisition of a 40 percent stake in DigitalBridge subsidiary Landmark Dividend. Read here.

Data Center Construction Market in Africa to Witness Investment Opportunities of $2.53 Billion by 2029. Read here.

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APAC

Is Meta planning to build a data center in India? Read here.

Meta may locate its first Indian data center at Reliance Industries’ campus in Chennai. Read here.

GDS partners with Gaw, plans 40MW data center campus in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will invite Microsoft executive chairman and CEO Satya Nadella to the Government House next month to discuss investment in a data centre. Read here.

Nvidia eyes Indonesia for $200M AI center amid global AI scramble. Read here.

Gcore is making strides in the Korean market with its inaugural GPU-centric data center set to open in Incheon. Read here.

The view of APAC data centers in 2024. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft and OpenAI may build a $100 billion supercomputer campus to help develop artificial intelligence models. Read here.

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom. Read here.

Dallas-based CyrusOne is planning a $150 million data center development in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

$3,000,000,000 A.I. data center potentially heading to Michiana. Read here.

Google Promises New Data Center in Kansas City, Mo. Read here.

QTS has filed to build a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

An application has been filed to expand the scope of a previously approved T5 data center campus in Augusta, Georgia. Read here.

CenterSquare Investment Management announced an equity investment in Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

DataBank completed lease Buy-Back for LAS1 Data Center in Las Vegas. Read here.

US data center firms Cyxtera and Evoque are rebranding under the new Centersquare moniker. Read here.

Canadian colocation provider Coloware is expanding its presence at the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in Toronto, Canada. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Demand for Data Centers Vastly Underestimated, CoreWeave Says. Read here.

Can UK construction keep up with data centre expansion? Read here.

AI revolution will be boom for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses. Read here.

Data Center Construction Trends: Build Fast, Build Smart. Read here.

The Secret Weapon Of Smart Warehouses & Data Centers? Generative AI. Read here.

Data centre chip market to surge, aims for $23.8bn by 2032. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Doug Loewe of Kao Data. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! As I sit and write this on a wet Friday morning I am contemplating how this newsletter has reached 20,000 subscribers?! It blows my mind that every single week over 20,000 people are reading this. Imagine what this community could achieve…. 🤔

As long as the news doesn’t stop, I wont stop.. and the news has continued to flow this week.

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: 2024 Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.

DC Byte: 2024 Global Data Centre Index. Read here.

JLL: Secondary markets to drive data centre growth in Europe in 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Data Center Asking Rents. Read here.

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Europe

Kao Data secured planning permission for its new, 40MW data centre in Kenwood Point, Stockport. Read here.

Data centre power use ‘to surge six-fold in 10 years’ (UK). Read here.

Italian broadcaster RAI plans to invest €140 million ($151.6m) in developing data centers in the country. Read here.

NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin, with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers. Read here.

Sirius Real Estate has sold a Frankfurt business park site to a data center developer. Read here.

Fixed income asset management firm, PIMCO, has reportedly raised £257.3 million ($325 million) for a Europe-focused data centre fund. Read here.

Guy Willner joined Apto as Senior Advisor. Read here.

Oriole Networks, a new company that revolutionises the performance of AI systems and data centres, has raised £10 million in seed funding. Read here.

Regional Edge data center firm nLighten has deployed solar panels on the roof of its Milton Keynes data center in the UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria set to attract over $600 million investments through data centers. Read here.

Saudi Arabia plans to become world AI leader with US$40 billion technology fund. Read here.

Tencent Holdings is looking to expand its cloud business in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Read here.

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APAC

Google Sets Sights On Navi Mumbai For Its First India Data Center. Read here.

Data centre developer and operator GDS Holdings announced the signing of agreements to raise $587 million from private equity investors. Read here.

NTT broke ground on a Bangkok data centre. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group and Lendlease have completed construction of the 48-megawatt first phase of the data centre platform’s first project in Japan. Read here.

Bain Capital is reportedly looking for new backers for its Chinese data center operator ChinData. Read here.

Gamuda eyeing two data centre developments in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers required for AI Boom. Read here.

Google-linked corp gets green light for 181-acre data center campus in PWC, Northern Virginia. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. Read here.

Avant Technologies to Build First AI-Focused Data Center in Milwaukee. Read here.

Nautilus Data Technologies has launched a new modular data center offering. Read here.

Google’s Pick of Kansas City for Data Center Shows Midwest’s Growing Digital Allure. Read here.

$14B data hub proposed near Buckeye. Here’s why locals oppose it. Read here.

A proposal from a developer to build a two-story, 245,000-square-foot data center in Chicago was approved. Read here.

Microsoft has signed deals to procure renewable energy in Texas. Read here.

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South America

Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Inside Europe’s largest data hub in Slough. Read here.

Striking a balance for sustainable growth in the AI-driven data center. Read here.

What Nvidia’s Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators. Read here.

Here’s Why Data Center Cooling Is The Hottest Innovation In The Sector. Read here.

What’s behind Italy’s emergence as a key player in Europe’s digital landscape? Read here.

GenAI should factor in data centre design, sustainability. Read here.

9 of Europe’s most important submarine cable projects. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres and football with Fraser Anderson and Lewis Cobb. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! A lot of news this week… Google has been busy. NVIDIA blew the roof off at GTC. The data center sector met at DCD New York. And I put a sticker on a pint of Guinness…

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We have to start with NVIDIA this week..

Nvidia’s data center market opportunities can be as much as US$250 billion. Read here.

Nvidia: US tech giant unveils latest artificial intelligence chip. Read here.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation plans to build a supercomputer in Denmark made up of an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD. Read here.

“Nvidia doesn’t build chips,” he said. “Nvidia builds data centers.” Read here.

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Report

Linesight: Construction Market Insights – Europe. Read here.

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Europe

Plans unveiled for huge North Lincolnshire (UK) data centre. Read here.

Microsoft has filed plans for a data center in Rennes, France. Read here.

Data centre designer Ethos Engineering secures backing of private equity player Exponent. Read here.

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund have investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. Read here.

Mercury delivers Frankfurt data center to Global Switch. Read here.

Schneider Electric collaborates with NVIDIA on designs for AI data centres. Read here.

Ardian acquires data center firm Verne in Northern Europe expansion drive. Read here.

Pulsant has expanded Manchester data center footprint to meet rising demand. Read here.

AtlasEdge unveiled largest purpose built data centre in Leeds. Read here.

Plans for a solar-powered data center south of Bordeaux, France, have reportedly been abandoned. Read here.

US data center firm CorScale has started work on the second facility at its Gainesville campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

A dispute over an alleged trespass on lands in Co Meath earmarked for a proposed data centre has been resolved “amicably”. Read here.

Data4 could use data center waste heat to grow algae. Read here.

A brand-new data centre was inaugurated on CERN’s Prévessin site (France). Read here.

Spain power demand may get 3 GW boost from data centres. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria’s digital expansion leads to Hyperscale Data Center investments. Read here.

Coupa, a leading announced the launch of its first data centre in the Middle East. Read here.

Microsoft partners with PwC Middle East to launch AI Center of Excellence in Riyadh. Read here.

Ooredoo and e& Upgrade DC Connectivity between UAE and Qatar. Read here.

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APAC

Macquarie and Canada’s PSP start AirTrunk data centre sales process. Read here.

DigitalBridge joins race to buy AirTrunk. Read here.

ePLDT’s first hyperscale data centre on track to go live in July. Read here.

AWS linked to fresh $450m Sydney data centre build. Read here.

Goodman Group Breaks Ground on 50MW Data Center in Tsuen Wan (Hong Kong). Read here.

Aboitiz InfraCapital and EdgeConnex forge ahead with Data Center Construction Plans in PH. Read here.

Vietnam emerges as fast-growing data centre market.

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North America

Data center park developer Tract is reportedly planning a new $14bn campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced the issuance of $240 million in green securitized notes. Read here.

Google has filed to construct a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Google named as company behind proposed $576 million Cedar Rapids data center. Read here.

Google is developing a $1 billion data center in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Google to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects. Read here.

5 ways Google’s data centers support Loudoun County. Read here.

Hedge fund targets data centre giant Equinix. Read here.

Microsoft plans to build yet another data center in the San Antonio area of Texas. Read here.

A new 96MW data center campus is being planned in Fayette County, Georgia. Read here.

Planning officials have approved proposals to turn a former mall site in Maryland earmarked as the FBI’s new HQ to become a data center campus. Read here.

Loudoun County officials have partially backtracked on a decision to deny a data center campus proposal in Belmont, in Northern Virginia. Read here.

NeuReality raises funds to advance affordable, carbon-neutral AI data centres. Read here.

Exaion launched a new data center hosting a quantum computer in Quebec, Canada. Read here.

Virginia’s Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill that will limit data centers. Read here.

Sam Altman’s nuclear power startup Oklo is looking to hire a director of data center solutions. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Nuclear industry strains to meet demands of power-hungry data. Read here.

Wolff towers on a data building exercise. Read here.

Narrowing the digital divide over land, sea, and space. Read here.

Water use in data centers is not a black-and-white issue. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I am joined by Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! One of those weeks where I cant think of what to write in this section, so how about a joke?

Why couldn’t the restaurant owners open a new data center?.. They didn’t have enough servers. (sorry..).

Hit me with your data centre jokes!

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Europe

Consultation has opened on Equinix’s plan to turn a former paint factory in Slough, UK, into a data center. Read here.

Kao Data’s plans to bring a £350 million data centre to a Stockport industrial estate have moved closer to being realised after garnering approval from local councillors. Read here.

The Irish High Court has issued an injunction preventing a man from letting horses graze on land set to house a new data center in County Meath. Read here.

Servecentric renewed its lease with data center provider Digital Realty in Dublin. Read here.

Commission adopts EU-wide scheme for rating sustainability of data centres. Read here.

Data centres swell TClarke’s order book. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel started construction of its first data center in Lagos. Read here.

Oracle Cloud to launch cloud region in Morocco. Read here.

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia to develop Private Cloud & GPU services. Read here.

Abu Dhabi announced ambitious plans surrounding AI. Read here.

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APAC

BDx acquires freehold of flagship Singapore data centre. Read here.

Chinese operator GDS has confirmed it is looking to sell a stake in its international operations. Read here.

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. Read here.

Australian operator NextDC has acquired a 13.5MW data center in Sydney. Read here.

India announced $1.25 Billion investment into AI. Read here.

Japan’s NEC is reportedly considering a sale of its data centers. Read here.

Yondr Group has powered up its first campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Evolution Data Centres has entered into a partnership with Banpu NEXT to power its data centers in Thailand and Vietnam using sustainable energy sources. Read here.

Keppel and Mitsui Fudosan from Japan have announced their collaborative venture into exploring data center development and investment prospects across Japan and Southeast Asia. Read here.

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North America

Dell CEO: We Could Need 100X More Data Centers in 10 Years. Read here.

US-based multinational computer technology company Oracle estimated it will spend US$10 billion on new data centre construction and expansions in 2025. Read here.

Meta to open data center in Rosemount in 2026. Read here.

Skanska announced they have secured a new Data Center development in Virginia. Read here.

Alphabet spinoff Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) unveiled Verrus, a new data centre unit. Read here.

Blackstone announced a credit facility with Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

AI demand and limited capacity drive US data center prices up 19%. Read here.

Google reaches clean energy agreement with SRP to power Mesa data center. Read here.

Hanley Energy opened North American HQ in ‘Data Centre Alley. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Our stressed-out power grids need help. Read here.

Surge in new data centre projects sparks new work opportunities. Read here.

Embracing the AI revolution – What’s in it for data centres? Read here.

Soaring AI Power Demand Poses Unanswered Questions for Data Centers. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

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Weekly Update! I hope everyone survived Data Centre World London. Events are always a good way to see how much the sector has grown in the last few years: it was crazy busy! No surprise, it has been another busy week in the world of data centres.

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Europe

Digital Core REIT ups Frankfurt data centre stake with €117m acquisition. Read here.

maincubes seals first PPA contract with Stadtwerke Göttingen. Read here.

AtlasEdge announced the completion of a key acquisition in Vienna. Read here.

Waste heat from a new Microsoft data center in Denmark will warm up to 6,000 homes. Read here.

UK-based Amber Infrastructure is looking for a capital partner for its Australian data center business. Read here.

CWCS Managed Hosting has acquired a 9,300 sq ft building in Nottingham to increase the company’s data centre footprint. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Amazon Web Services among firms investing over $10 billion in Saudi Arabian data centers. Read here.

Zoho Corp announced the opening of its first two data centers in the Middle East. Read here.

President of Kenya unveils green-powered Mega Data Center in collaboration with the UAE. Read here.

IBM to invest $200 Million in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

G42 partners with EcoCloud to develop green DC in Kenya. Read here.

Airtel Africa set to build 34MW data center in Nigeria. Read here.

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APAC

Vantage Data Centers has secured a $64 million loan for its Taiwanese data center build-out. Read here.

A planned NZ$7.5 billion Amazon Web Services data center development in New Zealand has been put on hold. Read here.

Meta is reportedly considering building a data center in India. Read here.

Digital Realty unveiled NRT12, their Second Data Center in Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Read here.

Colt DCS announced plans new data centre in Chennai. Read here.

Keppel Data Centers has completed external construction work on a new data center in Singapore. Read here.

BW Digital to develop 80MW data center in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.

Australian data center operator NextDC is reportedly in talks to acquire some of Global Switch’s data center portfolio. Read here.

Philippines conglomerate SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is exploring moving into the data center space. Read here.

Youth For Tomorrow sold 70 acres in Virginia to Stack Infrastructure in November for $81.3 million. Read here.

Singtel trims stake in Bharti Airtel with $710m sale to invest in data centers. Read here.

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North America

Amazon has agreed to purchase Talen Energy’s data centre campus, located next to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Logistics real estate giant Prologis has hired Compass co-founder Chris Curtis to lead a new data center team. Read here.

DC BLOX has completed the expansion of it’s Birmingham Alabama data center. Read here.

Digital Realty, Mitsubishi form data centre development joint venture. Read here.

Modular data center startup Flexnode has raised $8.85 million in a Series A round. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers has entered a partnership with Elcairion, a modular, containerized data center solution company headquartered in Paris, France. Read here.

Core Scientific to provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center infrastructure to support AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

Construction firm Hourigan has filed to rezone hundreds of acres of land outside Richmond for data center development. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 124 acres in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

An unnamed data center developer has acquired 14 acres of land in the Itasca area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. Read here.

Council to vote on rezoning 640 acres for Razor5’s possible data center near New Carlisle. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The AI revolution, are you ready? Read here.

Europe’s Emerging Tier 2 Data Centre Markets in 2024. Read here.

Equinix Boss Warns Data Centre Clampdown Risks ‘Techxit’. Read here.

The Irish Times view on the Cabinet row over data centres. Read here.

The future of hyperscale data centres. Read here.

Swaths of the US are at risk of power outages with artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mines doubling forecasted energy demand over the coming years. Read here.

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Weekly Update! 19,000 subscribers… Thanks for the continued support, and it was great to see so many of you at Kickstart in Amsterdam. It has been another busy week in the world of data centres.. Busy, it is always busy.

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Reports

JLL: North American Data Center Report. Read here.

Data Center 50: The Hottest Data Center Companies Of 2024. Read here.

Colliers: 2024 Data Center Marketplace. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix, Iron Mountain, American Tower, DigitalBridge. Read here.

European data centre market to attain 5.8GW total supply by 2024’s conclusion. Read here.

The North America Data Center Market is set for a significant surge with an expected growth from USD 26.67 billion in 2023 to a remarkable USD 55.83 billion by 2028. Read here.

Global Data Center Construction Market to Reach $371.7 Billion by 2030. Read here.

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Europe

Huge artificial intelligence data centre coming to former Bucks machinery site. Read here.

Microsoft is proposing to develop a new UK data center campus on the site of a decommissioned power station in Eggborough, North Yorkshire. Read here.

AQ Compute launches maiden data center in Hønefoss, Norway. Read here.

Property investor Segro could develop up to 24 data centers across the UK and Europe after raising £900 million n a share issue. Read here.

Post-production firm Dirty Looks has committed to moving all its computing tasks onto Deep Green servers, which heat the pool at a Devon leisure center in the UK. Read here.

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

European data centres grapple with AI-driven demand for space. Read here.

77MW data center proposed for East London, UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Gulf telcos enter MoU to link up Bahrain to the wider region. Read here.

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APAC

Goodman Property Trust is setting up a new NZ$300 million fund to build data centers in Auckland, New Zealand. Read here.

AirTrunk has initiated the construction of its latest data center, AirTrunk OSK1. Read here.

Macquarie Technology Group is looking to expand its data center portfolio on the back of soaring demand for cloud and AI services. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres has expanded its presence by acquiring new land in Selangor for the development of its third data centre, MY02, in Cyberjaya. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., has announced that it is building its latest facility in Chennai. Read here.

Empyrion DC secures S$133m to refinance Singapore data center. Read here.

Telecommunications company Spark New Zealand plans to build a 10MW data center in Auckland’s North Shore. Read here.

Bitera, a world-class data center, officially held its Grand Launching on February 27, 2024. Read here.

DCI Indonesia has opened a new data center in Indonesian capital Jakarta. Read here.

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North America

JK Land Holdings buys 108 acres for data center development in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

Meta announced plans to establish a new $800 million data center campus in Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft has bought more land outside Atlanta in Palmetto, Georgia. Read here.

Continent 8 launched a second data center in West Virginia. Read here.

Georgia Representatives have voted in favor of suspending tax breaks for data centers while a special commission reviews grid capacity in the state. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced two new regional (EMEA & US) Presidents to support further growth. Read here.

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South America

Chile partially pulls Google data center permit. Read here.

ODATA Expands its operations in Mexico with the construction of two new Data Center Campuses. Read here.

Amazon Web Services plans to launch a cloud region in Mexico in early 2025. Read here.

Layer 9’s Project Falcon datacenter ambitions taking flight. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Centers: The Hubs of Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

Are Data Centres a Sustainable Heating Solution? Read here.

Rapidly evolving AI could spark data center innovation. Read here.

What’s next for data center design in 2024. Read here.

AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. Read here.

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green. Read here.

Data centres face tough challenges in meeting evolving needs of the digital age. Read here.

‘A New Era’: What Nvidia’s Rise Means For The Future Of Data Center Development. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

This week I talk Data Centre Club Nights with Paul Hammer. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! In this weeks edition we even have a section for the moon! This sector is out of this world.. (sorry). I will be at Kickstart on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully see some of you at the event.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

Nvidia’s Data Center business is booming. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix. Read here.

DigitalBridge announced $15bn CAPEX for 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Europe Data Centres Figures Q4 2023. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: An in-depth look at data centre development in the Middle East. Read here.

White Paper – How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft to expand its AI infrastructure in Spain with $2.1 billion investment. Read here.

Virtus Data Centres announced a 75MW AI Ready campus in North-west London. Read here.

Global Switch received full planning approval for its third London data centre. Read here.

Mercury has delivered a new data center in Paris, France, to Digital Realty. Read here.

Latham Advises maincubes on Expansion in the Frankfurt Data Center Market. Read here.

University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project. Read here.

Construction of Microsoft data center in Wieringermeer can go ahead as usual. Read here.

Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. Read here.

Data centres and energy transition projects drive record new orders for Hochtief. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Omantel, in cooperation with Huawei, launched a national cloud. Read here.

Teraco plans to build a 120MW solar farm in the Free State province of South Africa to help power its data centers. Read here.

US Data Center Operator Equinix plans $390 Million Africa build. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Data Center Market poised for growth in 2024. Read here.

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APAC

Vodafone and UAE data center firm Edgnex are to build a new data center in Turkey. Read here.

Korea to build nation’s largest data center cluster. Read here.

The Asia Pacific Data Centre Association announced first board of directors. Read here.

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North America

Prime Data Centers announced they are planning a new facility in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Aligned has been granted a tax abatement for a planned data center campus in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Edged Energy debuts AI-ready data centres in the United States. Read here.

Prologis and Skybox Data Centers have filed new plans for two data center developments in Texas. Read here.

A data center campus has been proposed by Strategic Real Estate Partners outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Microsoft has purchased land from Xcel Energy in Becker for a future data center. Read here.

Investment firms, including KKR and DigitalBridge, are said to be in the running to acquire a minority stake in Airtel’s Nxtra data center unit. Read here.

Bitcoin Data Center coming to Oklahoma’s Port Muskogee. Read here.

Brookfield is mulling new infrastructure fund. Read here.

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The moon

Intuitive Machines lands on the Moon, carrying virtual test data center. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Chinese team’s memory leap shrinks data centre storage capacity into DVD-sized disk. Read here.

Data centres ‘are a good thing’ and should be accommodated. Read here.

AI companies plan to use nuclear energy for their energy-hungry data centers. But should they? Read here.

Is a speedy, scalable and sustainable datacentre too much to ask? Read here.

Europe’s datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with John Shingler of T5 Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! It was a fairly slow week until Thursday, and then everything started happening. The world of data centres was obviously keeping me on my toes. This week Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that sector spend will double to £2tn in the next few years: it’s not slowing down…

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What has happened this week?

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Report

Cushman & Wakefield: APAC Data Centre Update: H2 2023. Read here.

Europe

Microsoft announced a €3.5bn investment in Germany. Read here.

Google has obtained a permit to develop a new campus in Hainaut, Belgium. Read here.

NTT Ltd’s Global Data Centres division will develop and operate its first data centre campus in the Paris market. Read here.

Starwood Capital Group unveiled a strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres. Read here.

Two new data centers with a cumulative power of 40-45 MW are considered by developers to be built in Romania. Read here.

Datacenter One launches new HAM1 data centre in Hamburg. Read here.

Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital plans data centre demolition. Read here.

techUK announced new Data Centres Council for 2024/2026. Read here.

£350m ‘big shed in Stockport’ promises ‘boom time’ for Greater Manchester. Read here.

Stadiums and data centres drive North West (England) construction as reports show positive signs for local economy. Read here.

A former data center in Edinburgh, Scotland is to be converted into flats and commercial space. Read here.

Icelandic operator Borealis Data Centers has acquired a facility in Finland, marking its first international expansion. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi’s Solutions secured a $40mln contract to build data centre infrastructure. Read here.

UAE signs pact with India for data centres. Read here.

Chinese Bitcoin Miners find a new Crypto Haven in Ethiopia. Read here.

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APAC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts data center spend will double to $2 trillion. Read here.

Amazon plans new data centers in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Yondr Group has formed a partnership with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation for the development of data centers in Japan. Read here.

Blackstone puts tentacles out for data centre giant AirTrunk. Read here.

45MW data center proposed next to AirTrunk SYD2 site. Read here.

$80b data centre opportunity lifts Goodman to new high. Read here.

Bangladesh’s first ever data centre ‘Meghna Cloud’ begins operation. Read here.

Indian startup PlanckDot raised $1.6 million for Edge data centers. Read here.

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North America

Surry Council approved a nuclear-powered data center campus that promises more than 1,300 jobs. Read here.

Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Read here.

Yondr Group broke ground on second hyperscale data centre in Northern Virginia. Read here.

Polaris Technologies Inc. is investing $100 million to construct a 200 megawatt data center at Port Muskogee. Read here.

Greenidge Generation Holdings, which runs cryptocurrency data centers and power plants, has raised $6 million to help fund its growth plans. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired hundreds of acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, from Xcel Energy. Read here.

AREP’s PowerHouse pushes on with billion-dollar expansion roadmap. Read here.

Equinix expects strong adjusted core earnings on data center demand. Read here.

DataBank has raised $456m to refinance data center debt. Read here.

Loudoun County Planning Commission rejected plans for the Innovation Gateway data center. Read here.

Counties across North Virginia are considering bills that may curb data center developments in the region. Read here.

$576m data center campus is being proposed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Read here.

Northern Data Group-sponsored Ardent Data Centers has finished the acquisition of a data centre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Fifteenfourtyseven Critical Systems Realty is seeking to raise $250m (€232.3m) for its date centre fund. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The changing face of investment in GCC’s data centre market: What’s driving growth? Read here.

Sisk enjoying a surge in growth, with projects across Europe. Read here.

The rise of AI-specific data centres in Australia. Read here.

Azoras big splash in the data center market. Read here.

Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors. Read here.

Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Read here.

AI Data Centers could help bridge rural America’s Digital Divide. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Stijn Grove of Kickstart Europe. Listen here.

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