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Reports

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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Other interesting articles

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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Other interesting articles

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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Reports

Switch Data Centers sustainability report 2025. Read here.

Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? Read here.

IEA: Data centre electricity use surged in 2025, even with tightening bottlenecks driving a scramble for solutions. Read here.

Synergy Research Group: U.S. Hyperscale Investment Shifts Decisively Inland. Read here.

Savills: Are data centres a competitor or catalyst for industrial and logistics space? Read here.

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Europe

Nscale announces expanded deal with Microsoft in Norway. Read here.

Microsoft Takes Over Stargate Norway Data Center From OpenAI. Read here.

OpenAI pauses UK data centre deal over energy costs and regulation. Read here.

Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK – report. Read here.

‘Energy efficient’ data centre planned for former steel site. Read here.

Volt announces ‘AI Gigafactory’ of up to 800MW in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Read here.

Google presses ahead with plans for first data center in France. Read here.

Portugal Approves National Data Center Plan. Read here.

Pure DC buys land in Seinäjoki, Finland, for data center campus. Read here.

Plans announced for 260MW data center in Konin, Poland. Read here.

Construction begins on Virtus Data Centers 204MW data center campus outside Berlin, Germany. Read here.

AtlasEdge boosts German footprint with new Leverkusen data centre build. Read here.

SANY Group to build giant hybrid power complex in Romania with data center. Read here.

Construction completed on underground data center in the Dolomites, Italy. Read here.

20MW data center proposed at former Eon office site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Read here.

A decision on whether to grant planning permission for an eight-building data center campus in Oxfordshire, UK, has been delayed. Read here.

Delska Launches One of the Baltics’ Most Advanced and Sustainable Data Centers in Riga. Read here.

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APAC

Amazon Australia signs nine new renewable energy deals taking Australian capacity to nearly 1GW. Read here.

Amazon Data Services India is seeking environmental clearance for a planned data centre project near Taloja, in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. Read here.

Singtel’s Nxera tops out Johor data centre project. Read here.

Why Singapore is building data centers on Jurong Island. Read here.

Pi Data Centers launches new DC in Mumbai, plans 23 MW expansion across India. Read here.

Malaysia’s Privasia to develop 10MW data center in Perak. Read here.

Iron Mountain tops out Chennai data center, India. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft announces intent to expand datacenter operations in Cheyenne, accelerating innovation and economic growth. Read here.

Metrobloks and Lincoln Property Company Announce Joint Venture to Develop AI-Ready Data Centers, Launching in Kansas City Metro. Read here.

Jane Street Signs $6 Billion AI Cloud Agreement with CoreWeave. Read here.

CoreWeave Announces Multi-Year Agreement With Anthropic. Read here.

Blackstone Files for IPO of Data Center Acquisition Firm. Read here.

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report. Read here.

Switch Raises $768 Million in Latest Data Center ABS Issuance. Read here.

Bloom Energy and Oracle Expand Strategic Partnership to Deploy up to 2.8 GW to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Build-Out. Read here.

AWS launches “Project Houdini” to speed up data center construction – report. Read here.

NiSource signs long-term power deal with Alphabet, expands Amazon agreement. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers Breaks Ground on “Project Caprock,” a Sustainable 540 MW Next-Generation Data Center Campus in Northwest Texas. Read here.

Maine Legislature passes first in the nation ban on data centers. Read here.

EdgeConneX affiliate proposes 430MW natural gas plant to power data center campus in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

Flexential Adding Fifth Atlanta-Area Data Center as Demand Accelerates Across the Southeast. Read here.

US Air Force eyes Alaska bases for AI data centres. Read here.

2GW data center could come to Socorro, New Mexico. Read here.

Former coke plant near Buffalo eyed for 300MW data center. Read here.

Developers looking to expand site of proposed data center in Chester Co. Read here.

Two-building data center campus proposed in northeast Pennsylvania. Read here.

Two data center buildings proposed on 87-acre site in Loudoun County. Read here.

160-acre Project Baccara is recommended for approval in Maricopa County, Arizona. Read here.

1.2GW data center campus proposed in Irwin County, Georgia. Read here.

Canadian telco Bell has started work on a new data center in Kamloops, British Columbia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Centre Cooling Trade-offs: Water, Energy and Trust. Read here.

The grey belt was made for big techBut Labour can’t explain why. Read here.

US contractors ‘unphased’ by price rises as data centre boom continues. Read here.

Data Center Protests Are Growing. How Should the Industry Respond? Read here.

Most new data centers in the U.S. are coming to rural areas. Read here.

AI, Climate and the Data Centre Dilemma. Read here.

AI Rejected: Tracking The Great Data Center Revolt. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

Data Centre News & GPU’s – Episode 4. Listen here.

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Reports

Data dive: Government 2030 datacentre capacity targets look shaky. Read here.

Synergy Research: Hyperscale Operators to Account for 67% of all Data Center Capacity by 2031. Read here.

Synergy Research: Neocloud Market Forecast to Approach $400B by 2031, Driven by Surging AI Infrastructure Demand. Read here.

Bloomberg: America’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts. Read here.

LandGate: Behind-the-Meter Report: 2026 Outlook. Read here.

Opposition to data centres grows in the US. Read here.

AI Data Center Investment: The $3 Trillion Infrastructure Boom Reshaping Global Markets. Read here.

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Europe

Exclusive-TikTok to build a second billion-euro data centre in Finland. Read here.

Stellanor expands to 11 facilities with acquisition of AI-ready data center from Imagination Technologies. Read here.

OpenAI’s flagship UK data centre hits the buffers in blow to Starmer’s AI ambitions. Read here.

OpenAI Pauses Stargate UK Data Center Effort Citing Energy Costs. Read here.

Driving Economic Growth: The Financial Benefits of the East Havering Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Plans for large AI data centre approved (UK). Read here.

Calls to reject Edinburgh AI data centre plan amid backlash. Read here.

How Irish engineers are cashing in on AI boom. Read here.

Hydrogen execs form data center company, target 50MW project in Vestland, Norway. Read here.

Merlin Properties’ data centres, with valuation potential of over €14 billion, set to drive 24% annual increase in profits between 2025 and 2030. Read here.

Data4 launches second Polish data center outside Warsaw. Read here.

Finnish energy firm Winda plans 100MW data center in Janakkala. Read here.

Bitdeer to develop 180 MW AI data center in Norway. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

US tech giant’s $54.1mln land buy signals South Africa’s data centre expansion boom. Read here.

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APAC

Digital Realty Targets Nearly S$7 Billion Investment to Strengthen Singapore as Asia Pacific AI Hub. Read here.

Firmus Raises USD$505 Million in Strategic Equity Investment Led by Coatue. Read here.

ESR clinches US$850 million in equity for logistics real estate, data centre growth. Read here.

NEXTDC announced the launch of a A$1.0 billion wholesale offer of subordinated hybrid securities o support the Company’s growth strategy. Read here.

AI startup Nava raises $22 million in round led by Greenoaks Capital. Read here.

Alibaba launches data center with 10,000 of its own chips as China ramps up AI push. Read here.

Stockland and Fife Capital plan $4bn data centre in Sydney. Read here.

La Caisse makes A$1bn commitment to Australian data centre operator NEXTDC. Read here.

Digital Realty opens new data center in Japan. Read here.

Google acquires land for $15bn India data center project. Read here.

Chindata and HEC break ground on 7.5MW data center in Hubei Province, China. Read here.

NTT DC REIT mulls buying data centers in Frankfurt and Tokyo. Read here.

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North America

Amazon plans to invest $25 billion in Mississippi data centers, create 2,000 jobs. Read here.

CoreWeave and Meta Announce $21 Billion Expanded AI Infrastructure Agreement. Read here.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure Announces Strategic Recapitalization. Read here.

Blackstone acquires 49 percent of data center firm Rowan – report. Read here.

OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart in Latest Shakeup to Data Center Strategy. Read here.

Fluidstack raises $750m for US expansion. Read here.

CloudHQ Seeks to Raise $1.4 Billion From Data-Center ABS Deal. Read here.

DataBank and Goodman Group Partner to Open New Landmark Data Center in Los Angeles. Read here.

Pimco Seeks to Sell Parts of $14 Billion Oracle Data Center Debt. Read here.

Blackstone-backed QTS launches $4.6bn green bond to fund AI data centre build-out. Read here.

Grain Management has taken a stake in the owner of data center firm Prime DC. Read here.

‘Common Sense’ to Keep $10B Data Centre, 1.4-GW Gas Plant Far from Town, Alberta Minister Says. Read here.

CyrusOne gets go-ahead for data center in Sangamon, Illinois. Read here.

640-acre data center could be built in Iron County, Utah. Read here.

Soluna acquires 150MW onshore wind farm in West Texas to power planned 300MW data center. Read here.

DC Blox to expand into Indiana, targets data center campus in Indianapolis. Read here.

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South America

Delay in ReData pressures data center investments in Brazil – Fitch. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Recalibrating the social license for AI infrastructure in the United States. Read here.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen shareholders ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings. Read here.

The UK data centre boom: Why economic modelling is crucial to planning approvals. Read here.

Renewable developers pivot as artificial intelligence data centres reshape power markets. Read here.

AI is shaping our environment – where do architects step in? Read here.

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Reports

JLL: EMEA year end data centre report 2025. Read here.

S&P Global: 2026 Trends in Data Center Services & Infrastructure. Read here.

Boston Consulting Group: Solving the US Data Center Power Crunch. Read here.

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Europe

Nscale, a global AI infrastructure company, with support from Fortum plans to establish a data center in Harjavalta, Finland. Read here.

Council approves huge ‘AI data centre campus’ on unallocated farmland site despite heritage harm. Read here.

Nebius to construct 310 MW AI factory in Finland. Read here.

60MW data center colocated with solar and battery storage planned in Finland. Read here.

Mistral AI Strategy in Paris for $830m Data Centre Deal. Read here.

Prime Data Centers to develop 550MW campus in Esbjerg, Denmark. Read here.

Renewable energy developer Telis Energie Deutschland has announced plans to build a 500MW data center campus outside Hanover in Germany’s northwestern state of Lower Saxony. Read here.

Bitdeer taps contractor to begin conversion of Norwegian crypto mine to HPC. Read here.

Data centre plan risks turning Essex neighbourhood into soulless housing estate. Read here.

TikTok pulls plug on second Irish data centre. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nexus Core Systems makes headway in data centre project (Morocco). Read here.

Amazon Bahrain Data Centres Damaged Following Recent Iranian Military Strikes. Read here.

Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft Deepens Thailand Partnership with more than US$1 billion Investment, Spanning Technology, Trust, and Talent. Read here.

Microsoft announces $5.5 billion spend and new Microsoft Elevate programs to support every tertiary student, educator and nonprofit to power Singapore’s AI future. Read here.

Japan’s Sakura Internet jumps 20% as Microsoft plans $10 billion AI push with SoftBank. Read here.

AirTrunk hires Citigroup, DBS, Jefferies for Singapore REIT IPO: Report. Read here.

Anthropic may invest in Australian data center infrastructure. Read here.

DigitalBridge and JEXI acquire NEC data centre portfolio in Japan. Read here.

True IDC breaks ground on 250MW data center site in Thailand. Read here.

Airtel’s Nxtra secures $1 billion in investment for India expansion. Read here.

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard. Read here.

Former Exodus data center in Sydney, Australia, to be replaced with 70MW facility. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI. Read here.

CoreWeave Closes Landmark $8.5 Billion Financing Facility, Achieving First Investment-Grade Rated GPU-backed Financing. Read here.

Digital Realty Announces Final Close of $3.25 billion U.S. Hyperscale Data Center Fund. Read here.

Related Digital closes in on $16bn financing for Oracle data center in Michigan – report. Read here.

Blackstone agrees to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

Google nears deal to help finance multibillion-dollar data centre leased to Anthropic. Read here.

WEED Inc Looks to Advance a High-Value AI Data Center Opportunity for The Four Winds of Lake Erie, LLC. On Our Prime Lake Erie Waterfront Property. Read here.

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant. Read here.

Poolside hunts data centre partners after CoreWeave deal falls through. Read here.

Developer withdraws plans to build second phase of 500-acre data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read here.

Switch buys more land at industrial park outside Las Vegas. Read here.

Cannabis company wants to turn former golf course in New York into data center. Read here.

Michigan approves 1,332MW of BESS with 332MW supporting Oracle data centre. Read here.

LandBridge & PowerBridge partner for 2GW data center campus in West Texas. Read here.

Stream DC to partner with New Era for gigawatt data center campus in Texas. Read here.

360MW data center to be built outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Virginia appeals court halts data center near Civil War battlefield. Read here.

$500m data center approved for construction outside Indianapolis. Read here.

AWS proposes data center campus next to nuclear plant in Calvert County, Maryland. Read here.

Prologis files to develop data center outside Toronto, Canada. Read here.

Blackstone Extends the Data Center Buying Spree. Read here.

Ex-BP CEO Bernard Looney to Lead Data-Center Developer. Read here.

Oracle lays off up to 30,000 staff with 6am email. Read here.

Soma Energy, a startup founded by former Amazon energy managers, emerged from stealth Thursday with $7 million in funding. Read here.

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South America

Latin America’s Data Center Dilemma: Sold on Renewables, Powered by Fossil Fuels. Read here.

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Space

Starcloud Raises $170M Series A at $1.1bn Valuation Led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. Read here.

SpaceX confidentially files for IPO, setting stage for record offering. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

When data centres become targets: It’s time to treat AI infrastructure as critical infrastructure. Read here.

Shifting sands: the regulatory landscape shaping large-load development globally. Read here.

Gridlocked: How Power Constraints Are Shaping the Future of Data Centers. Read here.

What Could the UK Government’s Proposed Grid Reform Mean for The Data Centre Sector? Read here.

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed. Read here.

New rules could make data centers grid assets. Read here.

A data center developer wants to buy an entire Virginia neighborhood, offering $4 million to each homeowner. But there’s a catch. Read here.

Data centres: Building opportunities on solid foundations. Read here.

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BloombergNEF: AI Data Center Build Advances at Full Speed: Five Things to Know. Read here.

Microsoft: AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future. Read here.

Colliers: Facilitating AI with Unprecedented Infrastructure Investment. Read here.

Equinix Expands Investments in Global Data Center Workforce Development. Read here.

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2026. Read here.

Announcing Arm AGI CPU: The silicon foundation for the agentic AI cloud era. Read here.

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Europe

Pure DC and SEGRO joint venture unlocks major AI infrastructure development in London. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres Owners Said to Weigh Options Including Sale. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres secures €1.7bn loan financing from Morgan Stanley. Read here.

Fluidstack Drops Out of Marquee €10 Billion AI Project in France. Read here.

EdgeMode Expands AI Infrastructure Pipeline to 4.35GW in Spain, Establishing One of Europe’s Largest AI Development Platforms. Read here.

Digital Realty Further Expands Mediterranean Presence with Strategic Land Acquisitions in Milan. Read here.

CyrusOne Breaks Ground on First Data Center in Italy. Read here.

Germany’s Maincubes breaks ground on second Berlin data center campus. Read here.

atNorth Heat Reuse partnership with Kesko goes live, delivering recycled data center heat to Finnish retail store. Read here.

Locals object to $14 billion British neocloud latest plans, Nscale pushes on. Read here.

Labour bypasses councils to build AI data centres (UK). Read here.

UK Government to decide whether to approve 300MW data center in Buckinghamshire. Read here.

Sembcorp probes 1m sq ft Wilton International data centre. Read here.

GCRE draws interest for South Wales data centre plan. Read here.

Plans For Old IBM Site in Greenock Switch From Housing To Hi-Tech And Energy Uses. Read here.

APG invests in European data center company NorthC. Read here.

Denmark urges Commission to fast-track sovereign data centre capacity. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Mubadala exits AI cooling firm in $4.75 billion deal amid data centre surge. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Edarat secures data center contract from major regional bank. Read here.

AWS Bahrain Region disrupted by ongoing conflict. Read here.

UAE data centre power demand to double by 2030 as regulatory gaps constrain clean energy procurement. Read here.

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APAC

Adani Eyes Partnerships With Meta, Google Amid Data Center Boom. Read here.

AWS cloud business is ramping up its operations in India, signing letters of intent with several co-location providers, according to a report from local media outlet Economic Times. Read here.

PDG plans two more data center campuses in India, totaling 210MW. Read here.

Sembcorp gets approval for AI-ready data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT to invest S$ 1.3 billion in Singapore and Japan assets. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres seeks up to US$6 billion loan for Thailand expansion. Read here.

NSW moves 15 data centres worth AUD 51.9bn into IDA pipeline. Read here.

Armenian bank Ameriabank invests $60m in Firebird.ai’s planned 100MW data center. Read here.

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North America

Aligned Data Centers Closes on $2.58 Billion Credit Facility to Fuel Continued U.S. Expansion. Read here.

Core Scientific Expands Strategic Financing Facility to $1 Billion with Additional $500 Million Commitment from J.P. Morgan. Read here.

CyrusOne Upsizes and Extends $8.0 Billion in Loan Facilities to Support Strategic Growth and Sustainability Goals While Strengthening Liquidity Position. Read here.

Meta: Big Things Are Happening, El Paso! Read here.

Meta Partners With Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon. Read here.

OpenAI will raise an additional US$10 billion as part of its latest funding round, potentially the last before an IPO later this year. Read here.

Metrobloks Selects Liberty, Missouri, for $1.4 Billion Data Center Investment. Read here.

In-Q-Tel invests in US data center firm Prometheus Hyperscale. Read here.

Blackstone Nears Deal to Buy Data Center Firm Rowan. Read here.

SoftBank and AEP plan massive Ohio gas-fired AI data center campus. Read here.

Microsoft to Rent Texas Data Center Dropped by Oracle, OpenAI. Read here.

Musk unveils “Terafab” chip venture spanning Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Read here.

Carlyle and KKR to build two data centres for US Army at a cost of $2bn each. Read here.

NextEra Energy receives approval from President Donald J. Trump to develop up to 10 GW of natural gas‑powered generation to meet nation’s historic power demand. Read here.

Form Energy and Crusoe Announce Agreement for 12 Gigawatt-Hours of Iron-Air Batteries for AI Data Centers. Read here.

Crusoe and Redwood Materials Expand Strategic Partnership, Scaling to 7x the Original AI Infrastructure Density. Read here.

Property developer Drox looking to build 129-acre data center near Greensboro, North Carolina. Read here.

Cipher Digital Lands Third AI Data Center Lease, Secures $200M Credit Facility. Read here.

Butler County industrial park site sale paves way for data center construction, sets valuation benchmark. Read here.

432MW data center campus eyed in Virginia’s Data Center Alley. Read here.

Google just bought your Minnesota vacationland for a data center. Read here.

Google affiliated company buys 430 acres of land in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall. Read here.

Microsoft looks to buy 57.8 additional acres in Gaines Township, Michigan. Read here.

Approval given to $20bn data center near Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Krambu could open Bonner Data Center within months. Read here.

DNREC board affirms decision to prohibit Starwood Digital data center in coastal zone. Read here.

Wealthy banking tycoon shrugs off outrage after selling 644 acre farm for a data center. Read here.

Proposal to turn warehouse into data center approved by local authorities near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Read here.

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South America

Conecta Infra’s US$350m plan to connect South American data centre hubs. Read here.

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Space

Orbital Data-Center Startup Aetherflux Raising New Financing at $2 Billion Valuation. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

US Family rejects $26m offer to sell farmland for AI Data Center. Read here.

NVIDIA 800 VDC Architecture. Read here.

Construction of Data Centers, Power Plants, Factories, and Office Buildings: Boom & Bust. Read here.

Meta’s $27 billion AI data center is causing chaos in small town Louisiana. Read here.

New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction. Read here.

Can Europe’s AI gigafactories close the gap with the US? Read here.

Stressed US grid forcing data centers to get more flexible. Read here.

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Data Center Capex Surges 57 Percent in 2025 as AI Deployments Accelerate, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2025. Read here.

Microsoft: Putting communities first: Our decision to end NDAs with local governments. Read here.

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NVIDIA GTC

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI. Read here.

Keynote: Watch here.

Nvidia GTC 2026: CEO Jensen Huang sees $1 trillion in orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through ’27. Read here.

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Europe

Xynteo spin-off ‘PoweringAI’ launches to revolutionise European AI infrastructure through industrial transformation. Read here.

Nebius signs new AI infrastructure agreement with Meta; deal to accelerate growth of Nebius’s core business in AI cloud. Read here.

Nebius Group announces pricing of upsized private offering of $4.0 billion of convertible senior notes. Read here.

Nscale to Deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform in 2027, Bringing 100,000+ GPUs to Europe. Read here.

SEGRO Pure Premier Park Data Centre Limited receives planning committee approval. Read here.

Green light for two data centres at £900m Stevenage life sciences hub. Read here.

Tritax Big Box delays data centre completion as awaits green light. Read here.

Japanese Company Buys £250M London Office And Data Centre Scheme. Read here.

Microsoft is building a new datacenter in Køge (Denmark). Read here.

Gigawatt-scale data center planned for Choczewo, Poland. Read here.

Equinix begins work on new €87m data centre in Dublin. Read here.

Sunly plans to build Baltic region’s largest data center in Estonia. Read here.

Fossefall eyes data center in Rollag, Norway – report. Read here.

Norway’s Østfold Energi targets data center developments south of Oslo. Read here.

T1 Energy Secures 50MW Grid Allocation for Nordic Data Center Asset. Read here.

360MW data center campus planned on Germany’s eastern border. Read here.

40MW data center planned for industrial park near Butzbach, Germany. Read here.

Ark DC enters Spain to build 45MW data center in Barcelona. Read here.

Former paper mill site in Finland targeted for data center use – report. Read here.

Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north. Read here.

Edinburgh Council approves temporary ban on AI data centres. Read here.

UK to Fast‑Track Data Centre Connections as Grid Queue Soars 460%. Read here.

Schneider Electric expands NVIDIA partnership with Vera Rubin reference designs. Read here.

Foresight Raises $25M Series A to Close the Execution Gap in the Global Infrastructure Supercycle. Read here.

Lunar Digital and Asanti Data Centres Form Joint Venture to Expand AI and Edge Infrastructure Across the UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Egypt’s minister discusses Sinai hydrogen project, hyperscale data center with Renergy alliance. Read here.

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APAC

Shinsegae Group and Reflection AI to build 250MW sovereign AI data center in South Korea. Read here.

Digital Edge Secures Indonesia’s Largest Data Center Green Loan of US$665 Million to Advance AI-Ready Hyperscale Campus. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres Plans Major Investment With Global Partners To Strengthen Singapore’s Position As Asia Pacific’s Leading AI Hub. Read here.

GMI Cloud unveils $12 Billion, 1GW sovereign AI infrastructure initiative in Japan. Read here.

Edge data center firm Armada secures 11MW deployment with WinDC in Australia. Read here.

DayOne seeks to double loan to record US$ 7 billion: Bloomberg. Read here.

STT GDC India breaks ground for data center campus in Palava. Read here.

EdgeConneX breaks ground on Osaka data center. Read here.

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North America

Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar to Deliver 1.35GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs at Flagship AI Factory Campus in West Virginia. Read here.

Nscale Acquires American Intelligence & Power Corporation, Creating a Full Stack AI Hyperscaler, Integrated from Energy to Compute. Read here.

Google: We’ve now signed 1 GW of data center demand response with utility partners, harnessing our electricity growth for smarter utilization of U.S. electricity systems. Read here.

Google: Scaling clean energy and reliability in Michigan. Read here.

Google commits $1B to North Carolina data centers as AI demand surges. Read here.

Microsoft to invest $52m in data centers in Medina, Texas. Read here.

AWS files to develop data centers in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

McDuffie County leaders approve $1B Project Azalea data center. Read here.

Canada’s Bell announces 300MW data center campus in Saskatchewan, names CoreWeave & Cerebras as customers. Read here.

Another massive data center project is eyed near Samsung’s factory in Taylor. Read here.

AI infrastructure and cybersecurity company Available Infrastructure has announced Project Qestrel, which is a nationwide network of private edge data centres across the U.S. Read here.

Crusoe Expands NVIDIA Collaboration Across the Full AI Factory Stack, Delivering the Complete Infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era. Read here.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites. Read here.

Ecolab close to buying KKR’s data center cooling company for up to $5 billion, WSJ reports. Read here.

US real estate company Comstock is entering the data center space and partnering on two projects. Read here.

QTS acquires 1,700 acres of land in Pennsylvania for data center development. Read here.

Behind-the-meter data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

648-acre data center could be built in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Read here.

164 acre data center could come to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Read here.

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South America

Data centers in Mexico: energy, costs, and geopolitics reshaping the sector. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Europe’s industrial legacy holds the answer to its digital future. Read here.

Understanding Operational Engineering Skills Shortages in the UK Data Centre Industry: Training Pathways, Leadership Practices and Future Skills Strategies. Read here.

How Data Centers And Utilities Can Work Together To Tackle Grid Constraint And Ensure Energy Resilience. Read here.

Lenders struggle to find insurance cover for mega data centre projects. Read here.

Demand connection reform: How to secure a data centre grid connection. Read here.

Using inexpensive MicroLEDs, Microsoft networking innovation aims to make datacenters more efficient. Read here.

How the red-hot AI data center boom is igniting demand for a new, lucrative career path: Trade workers. Read here.

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Europe

AVK and Pure DC Deploy Europe’s First Data Centre Microgrid. Read here.

Apto Announces Largest Data Centre Campus in Madrid Cloud Region. Read here.

NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud. Read here.

Nscale Raises $2 Billion in Series C — the Largest in European History. Read here.

Powering AI: Europe switches on its first microgrid-connected data center. Read here.

‘Billions of pounds’ of AI investment could bring hundreds of skilled jobs to North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Spanish renewables firm FRV plans €2.8bn data center in Mérida. Read here.

Polarise Builds Artificial Intelligence Data Center in Amberg – Unterallgäu (Greater Augsburg Area). Read here.

Microsoft breaks ground on data center in Bergheim, Germany. Read here.

Plans in the pipeline for second data centre in Northumberland. Read here.

£1bn data center to be built next to UK studio where James Bond was filmed. Read here.

Pure Data Centres Wants to Triple Capacity With AI Boom. Read here.

Pure Data Centres appoints industry Leader Gary Wojtaszek as Executive Chairman and Interim CEO. Read here.

Pure DC Completes Europe’s First Successful Data Centre Biomethane Proof of Concept. Read here.

Scottish campaigners demand moratorium on hyperscale data centres. Read here.

Karatzis Group to build €240m data center in Boeotia, Greece. Read here.

Construction begins on Telia Lietuva data center in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read here.

Plans for ammonia plant in Norway dropped, company set to target site for data center development. Read here.

€48M deal may turn former Finnish paper mill into huge data hub. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre to generate hundreds of journeys. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

400MW data center could be built in eastern South Africa. Read here.

Humain secures 211 plots of land in Saudi Arabia for data centers. Read here.

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APAC

AI giant Anthropic confirms Australian launch and data centre plans. Read here.

New Zealand’s Datagrid gets approval for 280MW campus near Invercargill. Read here.

Bridge DC plans $3.9 billion Singapore AI investment over coming years. Read here.

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Taps $1.2 Billion Loan To Expand Tokyo Data Center. Read here.

Data centre giant AirTrunk bets big on Singapore, mulling Reit IPO. Read here.

DayOne partners Cortical Labs to develop Singapore’s first biological data center. Read here.

Datagrid secures approval for New Zealand’s first AI factory in Southland. Read here.

Warburg-backed Princeton to raise US$5 billion in debt for data centres. Read here.

Vietnam’s US$2 billion AI data center to start construction in April. Read here.

Macquarie Technology secures AUD 200m to expand sovereign digital infrastructure. Read here.

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North America

Moody’s flags $662 billion risk at the heart of the data center build-out by just 5 companies. Read here.

Microsoft, Meta fuel near $1trn boom in data centre leases. Read here.

Core Scientific Secures Strategic Financing with Morgan Stanley for Up To $1 Billion. Read here.

Crusoe Unveils Crusoe Edge Zones to Deliver High-Performance AI Infrastructure, Powered by Crusoe Spark Modular AI Data Centers. Read here.

Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI’s Stargate skipped – report. Read here.

Nvidia Cloud Ally Nscale in Talks to Buy a Major U.S. Data Center Site Ahead of IPO. Read here.

Applied Digital Announces Pricing of $2.15 Billion of Senior Secured Notes to fund Polaris Forge 2 Campus. Read here.

Stream ups planned investment in New York campus to $19.46 billion. Read here.

AWS likely behind plans for $750m data center in Clinton, Mississippi. Read here.

Penzance to invest $4B for West Virginia data center build. Read here.

InfraPartners and Emerald AI partner to unlock grid capacity and cost-effectiveness for AI data centers. Read here.

Proposal for $20bn data center outside Chicago recommended for approval by local planning commission. Read here.

Stack set to acquire site in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.

New data center construction confirmed in Adams County, Ohio. Read here.

MS regulators approve 41 gas turbines at xAI. Read here.

Underwater data center powered by tidal energy proposed off the coast of Maine. Read here.

Floating Wind Tech Developer Zooms In on AI | Aikido Unveils Data Centre Concept, Selected for NVIDIA Programme. Read here.

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South America

KIO starts construction of 4MW MEX8 data center in Mexico City. Read here.

Brazil’s Serpro to build two data centers to expand processing capacity. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Australian Startup Develops Data Centres Using Human Brain Cells. Read here.

Data Center Developers Battle For Hearts And Minds For Their Projects. Read here.

Survey reveals Gen Z least likely to back data centres in their local area. Read here.

BlackRock is splashing $100 million on training plumbers, electricians, and HVAC technicians as its CEO flags a skilled trade worker shortage. Read here.

Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes (UK), builders warn. Read here.

How are Data Centres Supporting Local Construction Workers? Read here.

The AI boom beneath our feet: How data centres are rewriting mineral demand. Read here.

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Reports

CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H2 2025. Read here.

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Europe

Amazon increases investment in Spain to €33.7 billion to expand data center infrastructure and drive AI innovation across Europe. Read here.

Solaria reaches a new agreement with Merlin for a second data centre (213 MW) powered by a hybrid PPA. Read here.

Digital Realty Enters Portugal, Strengthening Southern Europe’s Digital Backbone. Read here.

New Vinci Energies Portugal chief eyes data centres as key growth driver. Read here.

Å Energi and Bulk Infrastructure have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement in connection with the construction of the Øygard hydropower plant in Åseral, Norway. Read here.

New policy coming on data centres, City Hall (London) says. Read here.

Ada Infrastructure Celebrates Groundbreaking of its 210 Megawatt Docklands Data Center Campus in London. Read here.

Digital Realty Enters Bulgaria with Acquisition of Highly Connected Interconnection Hub in Sofia. Read here.

Construction firm Hochtief has broken ground on a new wooden Edge data center it is building for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. Read here.

Green Mountain partners with Norwegian paper mill company for potential data center development. Read here.

Zeus Data Center plans first data center, Big Nuage, in Saumur, France. Read here.

Boosteroid and DL Invest to build massive data centre in Poland. Read here.

Croatia plans biomass-powered data centre using olive oil industry waste. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre – What we know about development. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre consultation approved by council. Read here.

Greencoat Renewables targets AI data centre boom with infrastructure platform. Read here.

Floating AI data centre set to enter UK waters in 2028. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes. Read here.

Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive. Read here.

Amazon’s Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says. Read here.

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APAC

ByteDance locks in 500MW of Vnet capacity for Doubao buildout: report. Read here.

Macquarie Takes on $410M Korean Hyperscale Data Centre Partnership. Read here.

Taipower forecasts over 5GW new power demand by 2030 amid semiconductor and AI data center expansion. Read here.

Stockland finalises EdgeConneX data centre JV as CEO plots more investment. Read here.

LG launches containerized data center offering, plans 60MW deployment in Busan, South Korea. Read here.

Sydney-Based Iren Orders 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to Supercharge AI Data Center Expansion. Read here.

Firmus secures “multi-billion-dollar” AI contract for Melbourne. Read here.

Goodman breaks ground on 90MW Sydney DC as pipeline reaches AUD 18bn. Read here.

Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU Infrastructure in Vietnam, Enabling Cloud Gaming and AI Services. Read here.

Bridge DC, Concord New Energy assess barge-based hydrogen for data centres. Read here.

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North America

Trump tells AI companies they need ‘PR help’ over data centre backlash. Read here.

Oracle plans to again cut thousands of jobs to free up AI data center cash flow. Read here.

NVIDIA and Coherent Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Optics Technology to Scale Next-Generation Data Center Architecture. Read here.

Blackstone Plans Public Company for AI Data-Center Buying Spree. Read here.

Super Micro Computer Targets Scalable AI Growth With Modular Data Center Push. Read here.

xAI expansion: $659M permit filed for Memphis Colossus 2 site. Read here.

CoreWeave aims to add 5GW more data center capacity by 2030, anticipates capex in 2026 to double. Read here.

Core Scientific Announces Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Results. Read here.

NTT secures four data center leases in US totaling 115MW. Read here.

Amazon has bought a university campus in Virginia and is eventually planning to develop it into a new data center campus. Read here.

Google files for fifth data center at Midlothian campus in Texas. Read here.

Meta signs pre-development agreement for data center in Beloit, Wisconsin. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale details plans for Dallas data center campus. Read here.

Penzance targets 600MW data center campus in West Virginia. Read here.

TransAlta, CPP, Brookfield ink MoU for 230MW Alberta data center project. Read here.

Prologis reveals site plan, begins work on hyperscale data center in Butler County. Read here.

Birmingham City Council votes to pause new data center applications for six months. Read here.

Oregon moves toward 1-year moratorium on some data center tax breaks. Read here.

Data centers propelled Turner to record $29.2B in revenue in 2025. Read here.

GI Partners Acquires Two Baltimore-Area Data Centers. Read here.

Babcock & Wilcox has been cleared to deliver a $2.4 billion gas-fired power project that will supply electricity to Applied Digital’s expanding artificial intelligence data center campuses. Read here.

Harrison Street sells two powered shell data center sites in Maryland. Read here.

HighBrook Investors Closes Inaugural Data Center Fund to Develop 300 MW in Northern Virginia. Read here.

La Caisse invests CAD 240 million to advance Cologix’s AI-ready MTL8 data centre in Montréal. Read here.

Atlantic Energy Selected by Viking Data Centers to Power 380,000 Sq. Ft. Akron Facility, Expandable to 150 MW. Read here.

Tax breaks for an 800MW Nebius data center campus in Independence, Missouri, have been approved. Read here.

$5bn data center project in the works around Columbus, Georgia. Read here.

Proposed Clinton data center will be the largest economic development project in city history. Read here.

Glass-walled Edge data center dubbed the ‘Fish Bowl’ proposed for South Miami-Dade, Florida. Read here.

West Louisville data center approved despite opposition. Read here.

Microsoft hosts open house on proposed data center in Lowell Township. Read here.

New York data mining company to open data center in Grand Island. Read here.

Data center developer withdraws Apex project after community opposition. Read here.

Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary. Read here.

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Google’s Data Center Buildout Could Top $1 Trillion. Read here.

Data centres in space: less crazy than you think. Read here.

Meta Grants Are Fueling Innovation in Local Data Center Communities. Read here.

How states are trying to keep AI data centers off your power bill. Read here.

Powering the AI Revolution: Why grid stability is the next frontier in sustainable data center growth. Read here.

How Data Centers Became a Casualty of War. Read here.

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