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Weekly Data Centre News – 11th September 2026

Posted on September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

Reports

Bitcoin Policy Institute: Data Center Dividends. Read here.

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

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

Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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

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

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

APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

North America

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

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

A data-centre backlash for Oracle. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

South America

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

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

Space

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

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

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

Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

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

Stonepeak CEO on Data Centre Investment Outlook. Watch here.

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

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2026 Data Centre Salaries

Posted on September 14, 2026September 16, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

The new 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey by DataX Connect reveals nearly 40% of data centre professionals in Europe and the US plan to change jobs within a year
41.7% of European respondents worked in energy or in semiconductor and pharmaceutical roles before entering data centres, and in the US, 36.9% came from energy or military backgrounds.
46.4% of women surveyed in Europe said their gender had affected their compensation or career progression negatively, compared with 1.7% of men

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Southampton, September 2026 – DataX Connect, the world’s leading, global data centre recruitment specialist, has today released the results of its 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey, drawing on insights from 1,700+ data centre professionals across the UK, Europe and the United States.

The findings reveal a highly mobile talent market, where competitive pay remains one of the most important considerations, but career development, benefits and progression are increasingly shaping people’s decisions to stay or move.

The research also identifies a growing disparity between genders, with more than 46% of women surveyed in Europe stating their gender had affected their compensation or career progression negatively. Almost four in ten professionals in permanent roles in both Europe and the US plan to change companies in the next 12 months, despite 65% of European and 71% of US respondents receiving a salary increase over the past year. In Europe, career development is now the single biggest reason for moving; in the US, salary still leads, with career development close behind. Pay is opening doors, but it is no longer keeping them shut.

Key findings

Pay rises don’t guarantee retention: 38.8% of permanent professionals in Europe and 37.8% in the US plan to change companies in the next 12 months. In Europe, career development is the biggest reason for considering a move, cited by 36.0%, while in the US salary leads at 31.4%, closely followed by career development at 29.5%.
Nearly half of women say their gender has affected their pay or career progression, and for 97% of them, the impact was negative. The issue is even more pronounced regionally, with 46.4% of women in Europe and 51.4% in the US saying gender has affected their compensation or career progression, compared with just 1.7% and 2.2% of men respectively.
New talent could be closer than we think: 41.7% of European respondents worked in energy or semiconductor/pharmaceutical roles before entering data centres. In the US, 36.9% came from energy or military backgrounds. For employers struggling to find experienced people, adjacent industries offer an important pool of transferable skills.
The right benefits depend on where you’re hiring: In Europe, shares, stocks or equity are the most requested additional benefit, selected by 30.3% of respondents. In the US, car or fuel allowance tops the list at 38.1%, showing why a one-size-fits-all approach to compensation may miss what people actually value in different markets.

Looking ahead

The findings of the DataX Connect 2026 Salary Survey show an industry with significant opportunities for both employers and professionals, but also a talent market that is becoming more nuanced with more requests for competitive benefits such as shares, and clear career progression.

Salaries, for example, still matter, but businesses that understand what people value, why those values are important to them, and those that create clearer routes for progression and look beyond traditional data centre backgrounds will be better placed to find and retain the skills they need.

“The biggest takeaway from this year’s Salary Survey is that there isn’t one simple answer to the talent challenge. Pay is important, but so is career progression, the benefits people value and, increasingly, where the skills we need actually exist,” said Andy Davis, Director, DataX Connect and Data eXec, and host of the Inside Data Centre Podcast.

“The challenge now is turning that insight into better decisions around where we recruit, how we attract people and how we retain them. Nearly half of women in our survey say their gender has affected their pay or career progression, and one of the clearest drivers is the lack of visible female role models in senior data centre roles. If people can’t see a path for themselves, they’re far less likely to stick around and carve one out. Closing that gap, and the gender pay gap alongside it, is vital to the future of this industry.”

The full 2026 Data Centre Salary Survey reports for Europe and the United States are available for download from the DataX Connect website.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 4th September 2026

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 by Emilia Perrin

Reports

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

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

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

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

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

Europe

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

CPP Investments and Equinix complete atNorth acquisition. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salute announces agreement to acquire T5 Operations. Read here.

South America

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

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

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

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

Other interesting articles

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

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

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

The Data-Center Dividend for Workers. Read here.

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Datacloud Global Congress 2026: Growth, Deals and the Future of the Industry | Live in Cannes. Listen here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 28th August 2026

Posted on September 2, 2026September 2, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre Investment Landscape. Read here.

CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H1 2026. Read here.

Oxford Economics: Data Centres Energy Demand Outlook in Australia. Read here.

Wood Mackenzie: China’s AI boom to drive data centre power demand to 774 TWh by 2030. Read here.

Results

NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027. Read here.

IREN Reports FY26 Results. Read here.

Europe

Anthropic agrees $45bn AI data centre deal with UK start-up Nscale. Read here.

AI Cloud Firm Nscale Is Said to Seek Up to $3 Billion in US IPO. Read here.

Nebius Group announces closing of private offering of convertible senior notes, with aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $5.75 billion. Read here.

New German operator Data Center Capital launches. Read here.

EcoDataCenter to Establish Third Datacenter Campus in Sweden. Read here.

Pre-construction works start on Microsoft data center in Vaasa, Finland. Read here.

T1 Energy secures approval to convert solar manufacturing campus in Mo i Rana, Norway, into 50MW data center. Read here.

Lidl-owner to invest billions on data centre in northern Germany, FAZ says. Read here.

More than £100bn of data centre construction planned in UK. Read here.

MP infrastructure warning about UK’s biggest M40 data centre. Read here.

Manchester AI-ready data centre proposal tabled. Read here.

Over 7000 objections against ‘monster’ AI data centre in Larbert as deadline looms. Read here.

Huge data centre kept under wraps from Devon residents for over a year. Read here.

Data centre could be built next to recycling plant (Bristol, UK). Read here.

Skanska to build $1bn Prague data centre. Read here.

NDC-Garbe proposes data center development in Leopoldsdorf, Austria. Read here.

Digital Realty breaks ground on new state-of-the-art data center in Switzerland. Read here.

Spain drafts rules requiring data centers to source 80% of power from new renewables – report. Read here.

Vapat enters the data center market with a 160MW project in Valladolid, Spain. Read here.

Ireland reconsidering nuclear in response to surging data center power demands – report. Read here.

Data centers, boom in energy demands: 95 GW waiting for connection in Italy. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

UAE business giant Al Ashram joins forces with Africa’s largest network provider to build AI data centers across the continent. Read here.

HUMAIN Project Gets a Boost as Al-Moammar Adds 200 MW to AI Data Center. Read here.

APAC

VCI Global Announces Galatron AI Factory, a Modular AI Data Center Platform with Roadmap to 500MW of Compute Capacity. Read here.

AI giant Anthropic wanted ‘massive’ data centre capacity in NSW, emails reveal. Read here.

Zerra DC files plans for large data center campus in Queensland, Australia. Read here.

Tycoon Francis Yeoh’s YTL Power Doubling Data Center Capacity To 2.4 Gigawatts By 2030. Read here.

Mongolia positions itself as Asia’s next data centre hub. Read here.

SK set to sell 49% of AI data center to KKR, Korean PE consortium for $2.2 billion. Read here.

SK Telecom Launches AI Data Center Infrastructure Company ‘SK Horizon’ and Secures Investments from KKR and IMM. Read here.

Evolution leases 50,000 sqm land to build 52MW data center in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.

Gateway plans $1bn, 81MW St Leonards data centre. Read here.

Application filed for 200MW data center in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.

Australia data centre firm NextDC reports rising water, energy use with profit beat. Read here.

Itochu to begin data center development, plans 10 new facilities by 2030. Read here.

Firmus seeks approval for Wesley Vale AI data centre. Read here.

Salim Group buys out IndoKeppel Data Centres, rebrands 500MW DC as IndoData Center. Read here.

North America

Anthropic-Tied Data Center Inks $1.3 Billion Private Credit Loan. Read here.

Nvidia backs data center powered land company Cloverleaf. Read here.

InfraTech Capital Advances $2.7 Billion Data Center Investment Initiative in Texas Panhandle. Read here.

Emerald AI Raises $150M Series A at $1.05B Valuation. Read here.

Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out. Read here.

Kentucky PSC Approves 482 MW Power Agreement for TeraWulf’s Justified Data Campus. Read here.

Soluna Closes Purchase of 397 Acres for Project Dorothy. Read here.

Soluna and Bitdeer Enter 28 MW Agreement at Project Kati 1. Read here.

Equinix Commits Additional $50 Million to the Equinix Foundation, Doubling Its Investment in Communities Worldwide. Read here.

OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia. Read here.

Applications filed for four more buildings in Cedar Creek, Texas. Read here.

A data center battle unfolds 30 miles north of Manhattan. Read here.

Prometheus Hyperscale partners with Istmo to develop up to 2.5GW gas powered data center in Reeves County, Texas. Read here.

Sphere 3D plans 50MW data center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Read here.

Switch files to develop data center on former Pittsburgh race track. Read here.

Rum Group signs up to $13.7bn lease agreement with unnamed US cloud customer. Read here.

South America

TERRANOVA begins construction of sustainable AI data centre campus in Brazil. Read here.

Claro Colombia allocates nearly US$26mn to data centers in 2026. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud’s first South American region goes online in Brazil. Read here.

Space

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Inside London’s data centres boom and the fierce local battles being waged around their future. Read here.

Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment. Read here.

US power demand soars as AI boom fuels growth. Read here.

The multiplying risks of financing data centres. Read here.

Digital cities: the future of Britain’s data centres. Read here.

Data-Center Disenchantment. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 21st August 2026

Posted on August 21, 2026September 2, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

Goldman Sachs: Global AI Investment Is Forecast to Exceed $1 Trillion in 2026. Read here.

CBRE: European Data Centres Figures Q2 2026. Read here.

Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market Forecast to Reach $120 Billion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Midyear 2026. Read here.

LSE: Who pays for AI? Data centres, electricity costs and regional energy equity. Read here.

Europe

Nebius upsizes debt sale to $5 billion to fund data centers, AI platform. Read here.

H&MV Engineering valued at €1.4 billion in new funding transaction. Read here.

Phoenix ME has completed an investment deal with HIG Capital. Read here.

DataVita secures £300 million for data centre rollout in Scotland’s AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers and Nebius Expand UK AI Infrastructure with First Deployment in South Wales AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Kingspan buys data centre specialist BMC Manufacturing in deal worth up to €900m. Read here.

Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia. Read here.

Caverion to expand Estonian data centre by 22 MW. Read here.

More data centres approved for west London. Read here.

Reform leaders at Norfolk County Council have given a degree of support to contentious proposals for a new AI data centre on the edge of Norwich. Read here.

Manchester AI-ready data centre proposal tabled. Read here.

Harworth Group enters exclusivity agreement for sale of land suitable for data centre. Read here.

Kildare Microsoft data centre faces local opposition. Read here.

M40 data centre approval sparks power supply concerns. Read here.

Data centre the size of 14 football pitches planned for South London riverside industrial area. Read here.

Plans unveiled for huge data centre by the Thames in London. Read here.

Application filed for data center campus near QTS’ site in Northumberland, UK. Read here.

RWE nears completion on two data center deals. Read here.

Calls to scrap plans for huge new AI data centre in rural Kent. Read here.

Helios plans new data center project in Tervola, Finland. Read here.

Danish real estate firm Thylander has broken ground on a new data center in Esbjerg. Read here.

Global Switch breaks ground on second Madrid data center. Read here.

Data center rumored to be coming to Hofheim in state of Hesse, Germany. Read here.

APAC

Alphabet eyes up to $3.5 billion debut Australian bond. Read here.

Australia’s CDC mulls new data center in New Zealand. Read here.

Goodman Secures First Hyperscale Lease for 1GW Tokyo Campus. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea data centre. Read here.

Plans filed for 10-story data center outside Brisbane, Australia. Read here.

STT GDC secures up to $1.37bn in funding for 166MW data center in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Stecon eyes US$ 1.5 billion data center jobs; in talks to invest in new DCs in Thailand. Read here.

Firmus’ Bell Bay data centre gets green light from council planners. Read here.

Digital Realty, STT GDC among data centre operators awarded 50 MW of new capacity in Singapore. Read here.

DayOne seeks loan to fund Hong Kong data centre ahead of US IPO. Read here.

YTL Power and JLand to partner to build up to 1.5GW data center in Johor. Read here.

North America

NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital. Read here.

NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to Exclusively Host NVIDIA AI Compute. Read here.

Saragon Launches as New U.S. Data Center Company Purpose-Built for AI Inference and Edge Colocation. Read here.

Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and GIC announce strategic partnership to develop dedicated data center infrastructure at scale. Read here.

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project. Read here.

AWS pledges $6bn investment in data center campus in Shreveport, Louisiana. Read here.

Core Scientific Completes Acquisition of Polaris DS, Advancing Planned Muskogee Expansion to 1.5 GW of Gross Power. Read here.

Riot Platforms strikes deal with Anthropic as bitcoin miners shift focus to AI infrastructure. Read here.

Fermi Announces Binding Lease Agreement with TensorWave. Read here.

Google reveals it is behind 506-acre Project Clydesdale data center in Oklahoma. Read here.

Super Micro forecasts upbeat annual revenue on data center adoption. Read here.

CoreWeave Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Results. Read here.

Flexential Secures $800 Million to Fund Data Center Development Across Four High-Growth Markets. Read here.

Pennsylvania Governor Restricts Data Centre Development. Read here.

InfraTech to invest $2.7bn to develop data center campus in Carson County, Texas. Read here.

Eagle Point loan greenlights first phase of Nexus’ hyperscale campus. Read here.

100MW data center proposed in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Read here.

South America

Actis’ Terranova breaks ground on US$500mn data center in Brazil. Read here.

KIO Data Centers considering 100 MW expansion in Mexico. Read here.

Other interesting articles

SpaceX Plans to Power $16.8B Terafab Without the Grid. Read here.

Navigating the AI data center capacity crisis. Read here.

‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm. Read here.

There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for water. Read here.

AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections. Read here.

The war on data centres is a bit fake. Read here.

Where are authorities restricting data centres amid AI boom? Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 7th August 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2026. Read here.

Colliers: Beyond FLAP-D: Where data centre growth is heading next. Read here.

JLL: EMEA data centre mid-year 2026 report. Read here.

CBRE: U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook Midyear Review 2026. Read here.

Europe

AVK Secures Majority Investment from Partners Group. Read here.

Volta, a fully vertically integrated artificial intelligence (”AI”) infrastructure platform and NVIDIA Cloud Partner, emerged from stealth with a mission to build The Utility of Compute™. Read here.

Polarise Plans to Participate in EU Tender for AI Gigafactories. Read here.

Bitdeer Announces $4.7 Billion, 16-Year AI/HPC Data Center Lease for Tydal, Norway Campus. Read here.

Microsoft revealed more plans for it’s Data Centre development in Langley, UK. Read here.

Developer makes case for landfill gas-powered data centre in Canterbury. Read here.

UK’s Harworth Group in talks with multiple parties about selling land for data center development. Read here.

Large data center rumored for Burgenland, Austria. Read here.

Redevelopment of the former Bekaert site in Figline Valdarno: it also includes a zero-impact data centre. Read here.

Germany’s Maincubes completes first module of new Frankfurt data center. Read here.

FiberCop to launch 100 edge data centres across Italy. Read here.

Tritax Big Box taps shareholders for data centre expansion. Read here.

Argyll hyperscale data centre stalled: Grid delays. Read here.

AtlasEdge starts next expansion phase of data center in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Neom to start building Oxagon AI data centre ‘in months’. Read here.

Qatari group Meeza secures $432m funding to boost data centre capacity. Read here.

APAC

CoreWeave Expands Cloud AI Platform to Indonesia, Marking First Move Into Asia-Pacific Region. Read here.

Firmus Announces Fully Subscribed USD$2 Billion Strategic Equity Investment. Read here.

Sharon AI Announces US$373m Five-Year AI Cloud Service Agreement. Read here.

Australia’s new data centres must be majority renewable powered, says minister. Read here.

Microsoft opens its largest India data center hub as AI race heats up. Read here.

China commissions world’s largest data center campus built for 2 GW, 1M accelerators. Read here.

RedNote could build 600MW data center campus in Inner Mongolia – report. Read here.

Australia’s GreenSquare expands into Melbourne with 240MW campus. Read here.

Australia’s CDC files for data center in Kemps Creek, Sydney. Read here.

North America

KKR Closes $19.2 Billion Infrastructure Fund. Read here.

Banks to offload $15bn of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google. Read here.

Startup Raises $700 Million to Replace Data-Center Wires With Light. Read here.

Ionic Digital Debuts on Nasdaq, Marking Its First Day of Trading. Read here.

Ocean-Powered Data Center Startup Set to Double Valuation to $2 Billion. Read here.

SpaceX earnings: 2GW of compute by year end, aiming for 10-20GW by end of 2027. Read here.

Internal Amazon documents reveal a major overhaul of one of the world’s biggest AI data centers. Read here.

TeraWulf plans high-density data center at former Maryland power plant. Read here.

Texas governor orders pause on new data center approvals pending audit. Read here.

Cipher eyes 900MW data center site outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

Texas residents fume over proposal to put data center next to a Buddhist monastery. Read here.

Amazon abandons plans for data center campus at Calvert Cliffs. Read here.

Amazon eyes Homer City site for data center campus. Read here.

Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data center and gas power complex. Read here.

Crow and CleanArc target 245MW data center at Dallas Market Center in Texas. Read here.

NRG nears 1.2-GW hyperscaler deal amid Texas data center pause. Read here.

Salmon farm or server farm? AquaBounty weighs AI pivot. Read here.

Yondr Group and Cerberus acquire 40 acres for data center campus in Manassas, Virginia. Read here.

Google possible customer of MidAmerican data center in Salix County, Iowa. Read here.

PowerHouse files for 300MW data center campus outside Dallas-Fort Worth. Read here.

Blue Owl-backed Stack buys land in Culpeper County, Virginia. Read here.

South America

Grid connection authorization sought for 500MW Santiago data center. Read here.

What consultancies are saying about Latin America’s data center market. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Why Meta Builds Its Own AI Data Centers. Watch here.

AI data-centre race builds $1 trillion lease burden for Big Tech. Read here.

AI’s Arctic land grab. Read here.

The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This. Read here.

Bank of America’s ‘Robust’ AI Data Center Deal Pipeline: Q&A. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 31st July 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

DC Byte: 2026 Global Data Centre Index Report. Read here.

London’s Data Centre Future Growth Forecasts and Strategic Insights. Read here.

Earnings reports

Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results. Read here.

Microsoft Cloud and AI strength fuels fourth quarter results. Read here.

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results. Read here.

Equinix Reports Second-Quarter Results, Raises 2026 Guidance and Long-Term Outlook. Read here.

Europe

EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe’s computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment. Read here.

Orange and Morrison announce plans to create a data centre joint venture to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty. Read here.

Nscale Acquires Anyscale, Enhancing its Full Stack AI Cloud Platform. Read here.

Yondr sells majority stake in UK data centre campus to GLIL. Read here.

Tritax Big Box gains planning consent for Slough data centre. Read here.

Controversial plans to build offices, homes and a data centre near Brick Lane in east London have been approved by the government. Read here.

Peaceful protests planned as company behind massive Fife AI data centre comes to town. Read here.

Microsoft buys North Holland land, applies for data center power. Read here.

UK’s Ofgem proposes grid-connection fee to deter speculative data centre projects. Read here.

A States of Guernsey committee is planning to create a data centre strategy for the island. Read here.

APAC

AirTrunk secures US$2.325b green financing to support sustainable digital infrastructure growth in Malaysia. Read here.

Vantage is said to mull $2 billion data center sale in Malaysia. Read here.

GIC, La Caisse join race for Bridge Data Centres stake – report. Read here.

Malaysia’s Sime Darby Property launches $636 million green sukuk for data centres. Read here.

Thailand’s True IDC seeks US$ 2 billion loan to build new data center. Read here.

NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA expand South Korea AI infrastructure project to 200 MW. Read here.

LG says it will invest additional $910m in 200MW data center near Seoul. Read here.

North America

Nvidia in Talks With OpenAI to Guarantee $250 Billion Financing for Data Center. Read here.

Meta Announces New Strategic Venture with BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso. Read here.

BlackRock Will Own 80% Of Meta’s Massive New AI Data Center In El Paso. Read here.

Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by Google. Read here.

Koch Said to Mull $15 Billion Sale of Data-Center Firm Edged. Read here.

TPG Is Said in Talks to Buy Netrality for Up to $3 Billion. Read here.

Cloud Capital closes US$ 520 million ABS financing deal for data center. Read here.

AMD has signed an agreement with Core Scientific for access to more than 500 megawatts of AI-ready data centre capacity in the US beginning in 2027. Read here.

Brookfield Asset Management and NextEra Energy are developing a $100 billion data center campus in Paducah, Kentucky. Read here.

Nebius is bringing a world-class AI factory campus to Butler Township, Pennsylvania in Schuylkill County’s Highridge Business Park. Read here.

Nexus Data Centers in advanced talks to secure $15B for Google-backed Anthropic data center. Read here.

Galaxy Digital plans 74 MW McGregor data center. Read here.

Residents Concerned over $9bn Project Peanut, Loch, and Skye Data Centers by Google in Chesterfield. Read here.

PowerHouse and Poe target another 550-acre data center campus outside Louisville, Kentucky. Read here.

AI cloud company CoreWeave to fill $440M Cedar Creek data center. Read here.

Gigawatt-scale data center campus planned outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Google files to expand data center campus in LaGrange, Georgia. Read here.

900-acre data center project proposed outside Lexington, Kentucky. Read here.

Flexential acquires 110 acres outside Dallas, Texas, for 108MW data center campus. Read here.

South America

Brazil has a 26GW data centre pipeline. How much of it will actually get built? Read here.

Other interesting articles

Britain is struggling to build data centres. Read here.

Nuclear Momentum Meets the Megawatt Test. Read here.

Data center boom to make Portugal one of Europe’s fastest-growing power markets, EDP says. Read here.

Why energy is now the deciding factor for data centre development in Australia. Read here.

The $1tn AI build-out: Power, capital and contractors under pressure. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 24th July 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Europe

UK’s Segro signals support for Prologis’ last-ditch $18.8 billion takeover bid. Read here.

Pure DC Secures Additional €1.3 Billion to Accelerate Growth of One of Europe’s Largest AI Campuses. Read here.

Vattenfall, Dutch AI Infrastructure Company Explore Wind-Powered Offshore Data Centres. Read here.

Polar Announces DRA02 Expansion at Flagship AI-Ready Data Center Campus in Norway. Read here.

Ealing Council insists electricity for new data centre won’t come from local grid as it pockets £18m. Read here.

Bromley green belt under threat as hundreds slam plan to build ‘monstrosity’ data centre. Read here.

Latos £100m Stockton data centre “on track” – will be UK’s first “neural edge” site. Read here.

Hochtief bags £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre. Read here.

Hochtief and Turner team up to build German data centre. Read here.

120MW data center announced for Lombardy, Italy. Read here.

YIT and atNorth agree on construction of a data center in Kouvola – value for YIT approximately €300 million. Read here.

Eurus breaks ground on wind-powered data centre in Hokkaido. Read here.

Croatia’s grid operator clears key milestone for €50bn Pantheon AI data centre project. Read here.

Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal. Read here.

NZ utility Mercury invests in data center firm Datagrid. Read here.

M-net to build new data center in Munich, Germany. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

MGX group pumps $5bn into US data centre developer. Read here.

Income to invest $280m in data center near Alexandria, Egypt. Read here.

e& UAE and Core42 partner to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.

Iran claims strike on AWS data centre as investors reassess regional risk. Read here.

APAC

IREN Signs $2.8bn in New Customer Contracts with Leading AI Developers, Raises 2026 ARR Target to over $4bn. Read here.

Gas-rich Australian region backs $28bn data centre project. Read here.

SK Telecom approves AI data center subsidiary, plans to invest US$ 500 million by 2030. Read here.

India’s HCLTech to set up $1.48 billion AI data center along with domestic startup. Read here.

Hong Kong property firm ITC inks memorandum to build 1GW data center near Shanghai. Read here.

AU$1.1 billion data center project proposed outside Melbourne, Australia. Read here.

NSW approves Goodman’s AUD 1.1bn Project Pluto data centre in Western Sydney. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT plans to redevelop older data center in Singapore to cater for hyperscaler demand. Read here.

Digital Halo among 11 assets set to benefit from US$ 15 billion funding raised by majority shareholder Partners Group. Read here.

Malaysia needs $20 billion to fund next wave of data centre growth. Read here.

Chinese AI developer Z.AI reportedly completes 1GW data centre using domestic chips. Read here.

North America

Google increases capex forecast again after cloud-driven quarterly beat. Read here.

OpenAI announces $20bn Data Center development in Effingham County, Georgia. Read here.

AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP Close Acquisition of Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

Hut 8 Fully Commercializes 1 GW Beacon Point AI Data Center Campus with Second 352 MW IT Lease, Bringing Campus-Level Base-Term Contract Value to $19.6 Billion. Read here.

Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre. Read here.

Meta and Anthropic in talks for up to $10bn data centre deal. Read here.

Meta faces higher borrowing costs in latest $12bn data centre financing. Read here.

SpaceXAI Explores Major Data Center Expansion in Texas. Read here.

Submer’s Rubix Data Centers proposes 2GW data center at former steelworks in Kentucky. Read here.

Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas. Read here.

Sabey starts construction on 120MW data center campus in Oregon. Read here.

Fluidstack raised $830M Series A. Read here.

AI cloud startup General Compute raises $400m in debt financing. Read here.

Proposed Wheatland County AI data centre hits close to home for concerned residents. Read here.

Liberty Energy, PowerBridge form JV to power planned 2GW data center in West Texas. Read here.

48MW data center eyed for Kane County, Illinois. Read here.

Atmosphere Data Centers challenges six-month data center moratorium in Montgomery, Maryland. Read here.

Details of four data centers planned for Petersburg, Virginia, revealed. Read here.

Meta starts operations at data center in Temple, Texas. Read here.

Southland community has questions about $3.5b AI data centre. Read here.

South America

Nuclear power deal for Latin American data centres. Read here.

Without federal deal, Brazilian states see little reason to cut data center taxes. Read here.

Other interesting articles

What is the role of the architect in data-centre design? Read here.

US data centre developers prioritise existing project pipelines as new pipeline capacity growth slows in Q1 2026. Read here.

The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects. Read here.

The Truth About AI’s Water Use. Read here.

Exclusive Tour Inside a NEXTDC Data Centre. Watch here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 17th July 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

DC Byte: Trends in Hyperscaler Build Strategies Report. Read here.

A&O SHEARMAN: Data center insights: the forces shaping the AI infrastructure boom. Read here.

Europe

ACS Group, Global Infrastructure Partners Launch Coravel, Secure First Major Hyperscaler Customer Agreement. Read here.

ACS is joined by Global Infrastructure Partners to launch a global data center development platform with initial 1.7 GW portfolio. Read here.

Nebius Group to build leading European AI infrastructure company. Read here.

Nebius introduces business model to scale AI cloud globally through infrastructure partnerships. Read here.

AI startup Reflection signs over $1 billion computing deal with Nebius. Read here.

Pure DC Launches One of Europe’s Largest Ever AI Infrastructure Projects. Read here.

Submer invests more than €1 billion in AI data center in northeastern Spain. Read here.

Spain’s Ferrovial to invest €1 billion in Madrid data center campus. Read here.

EdgeMode looks to sell multiple data center development sites in Spain. Read here.

Krolmap plans 150MW data center campus in Aragón, Spain. Read here.

Valfortec plans €300m data center campus in Alicante, Spain. Read here.

Nscale’s £2bn UK data centre hit by grid delays. Read here.

World’s first gas-powered data centre set for Norfolk coast. Read here.

BEC showcases nuclear powered A.I data centre, Pioneer Park (Cumbria, UK). Read here.

Residents outraged as planning is approved for new Microsoft Datacentres (Leeds, UK). Read here.

Go-ahead for data centre on site of former Southall cereal factory. Read here.

Ignis to unlock solar power for Apto’s new data centre near Madrid. Read here.

Uniper aims to unlock new revenue potential by attracting data centers to its power plant sites. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

US Expands Côte d’Ivoire Tech Footprint with Starlink Approval and $170m Data Centre Project. Read here.

Mindstream Energy proposes 400MW gas-powered data center in Jordanian gas field. Read here.

Approval for rezoning given to pair of proposed Equinix data centers in Cape Town, South Africa. Read here.

I Squared Capital to invest $1bn in digital infrastructure with Saudi Arabia’s PIF. Read here.

Raxio’s TZ1 to add 6 MW and 800 racks to Tanzania’s data center market. Read here.

Letsia to invest US$ 13.32 million into green data center development in Riyadh. Read here.

APAC

Sharon AI Announces US$1.32 Billion Five-Year Cloud Computing Service Agreement. Read here.

Macquarie Technology secures land for $3b Sydney data centre. Read here.

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT sells Singapore data centre for S$200m. Read here.

Bill Gates and the dream to take data centres to the Outback. Read here.

Nvidia has partnered with Japanese consortium Noetra for the deployment of a Vera Rubin ‘AI Factory’ in Japan. Read here.

IFC backs AirTrunk’s Johor expansion with $175 million package. Read here.

AWS breaks ground for new DC in Hyderabad, plans US$ 21 billion investment in India. Read here.

HCLTech to invest up to US$ 363 million to establish AI data centers in India. Read here.

Mitsubishi Estate to debut in Japan with 2,500MW data centers at US$9.3 billion investment. Read here.

North America

Csquare, Inc. Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Switch lines up $10 billion IPO at potential $80 billion valuation. Read here.

Databricks secures $188bn funding round to advance AI strategy. Read here.

IDF, Oaktree to invest $1.7bn to support Bloom Energy’s fuel cell deployments across Nebius data centers in US. Read here.

CleanSpark Secures Twenty-Year Lease with High-Investment Grade Global Technology Company for Data Center in Sandersville, Georgia. Read here.

3M and Microsoft announce strategic partnership to advance AI data center infrastructure and enterprise transformation. Read here.

Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas. Read here.

Crusoe linked to potential data center project in Franklin County, Virginia. Read here.

Google is customer behind 2.7GW data center campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read here.

New York imposes landmark one-year ban on large data centres. Read here.

Trump criticizes New York data center moratorium. Read here.

Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center. Read here.

Palm Beach County rejects major data center proposal after daylong meeting. Read here.

Protests planned across US as opposition to AI data centers grows. Read here.

A Texas Farmer Provided 87 Acres for a Park. The City Sold It Off to Build a Data Center. Read here.

Concerns Raised in Trinidad and Tobago Over Planned Data Centre Project. Read here.

Mara acquires 1,200-acre Texas site from HIF USA for up to 2GW data center campus. Read here.

Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Plans for data center submitted in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, just two days before local moratorium vote. Read here.

Nebraska carbon black plant set to host data center. Read here.

Developer promises ‘a better data center’ in revealing Salem project. Read here.

QTS to build 11 data centers on Lancium campus in Hall County, Texas. Read here.

Plug Power sells Texas site to Stream Data Centers. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Europe’s data centre crisis has a hidden answer, and it’s already in the ground. Read here.

Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom. Read here.

America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren’t as great as they seem. Read here.

Data-Center Builders Are Racing to Offload Stakes Worth Billions. Read here.

Land set aside for green hydrogen projects in Chile could be reallocated to data centres. Read here.

The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects. Read here.

Among AI crowd, some investors position for slower hyperscaler spending growth. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre News – 10th July 2026

Posted on July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 by Laura Fewell

Reports

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

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

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

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

Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon Data Center Plans Advance Near Boling. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

South America

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

Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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