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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Inside Data Centre Podcast

The Gulf Region, AI Growth and the Future of Middle East Data Centres | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.

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Reports

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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South America

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

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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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Inside Data Centre Podcast

The Data Centre Industry’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Innovation | Tom Babington, Adaptive MDC. Listen here.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Power, Grid Constraints and Smarter Data Centre Growth | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Inside Data Centre Podcast

Why the Nordics Are Becoming Europe’s Next Data Center Hub | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.

Powered by People: How can we manage the exponential growth of the Data Center sector? Listen here.

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Reports

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

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

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

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon Data Center Plans Advance Near Boling. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Structure Research: AI Infrastructure Report. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

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

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The State of the AI Economy. Read here.

Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Read here.

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

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prefered supplier selected for Cockenzie data centre. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CBRE: Global Data Center Trends 2026. Read here.

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Polarnode divests Pori data center project. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

Switch buys another site outside Las Vegas. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Romania to build Quantum AI data center. Read here.

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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

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

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Space

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown. Read here.

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

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

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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