ODATA Announces $1.3B Expansion in Colombia, Boosting Digital Development in the Country

The Company Reinforces its Position as a Leading Data Center Provider in the Country with the Announcement of Two New Facilities: DC BG02 and DC BG03, Which Will Offer a Combined Capacity of 144 MW

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – October 23, 2024 – ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company and provider of data center services for Latin America, announces two new data centers in Cundinamarca, Bogotá, Colombia: DC BG02, located in the Zona Franca de Occidente in Mosquera, and DC BG03, located in the Zona Franca Metropolitana in Tenjo. The initial phases of construction for the Company’s new facilities are expected to be completed by the end of 2026 and represent a total investment of $1.3 billion in the region. DC BG02 will provide 24MW of IT capacity, while DC BG03 will offer a substantial 120MW. Together, these facilities will deliver a combined capacity of 144MW.


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DC BG03 will be Colombia’s largest data center, solidifying the country’s position as a premier technology hub. This state-of-the-art facility will meet the surging demand for high-capacity data centers, catering to the growing needs of leading cloud and artificial intelligence providers.  The data center will be a catalyst for digital development in Colombia, reinforcing ODATA’s position as the preferred partner for leading companies seeking to expand their operations in the country.

DC BG03 will not only offer the largest IT capacity in Colombia, but will also be the first data center in the country to have a direct connection to the local power transmission system. This strategic advantage will enable ODATA’s customers to achieve enhanced scalability and energy stability, supporting the growth and development of their digital infrastructure.

ODATA established its presence in Colombia in 2018 with the launch of its data center, DC BG01. It has since become the leading data center provider in the country, and its data center a major connectivity hub serving some of the top companies in Colombia and the world.

According to Ricardo Alário, CEO of ODATA, the Company’s latest expansions represent another critical milestone in the organization’s growth as well the digital development of Latin America. “The addition of these new data centers in Colombia further solidifies ODATA’s position as a leading data center provider in the country as well as the broader Latin American region. By expanding our footprint in Colombia, we are creating new opportunities for businesses and reinforcing our commitment to the country’s digital development. Our state-of-the-art, sustainable data centers provide the ideal infrastructure for large-scale cloud and artificial intelligence workloads, positioning Colombia as an attractive destination for technology companies,” he states. The new data centers will adhere to the same rigorous standards of sustainability and innovation that have defined ODATA’s reputation across all its data centers. Thus, DC BG02 and DC BG03 will incorporate Delta Cube (Delta³) air cooling technology, developed and patented by ODATA’s parent company, Aligned Data Centers. Unlike conventional data center cooling methods that simply push cold air into the data hall, this technology captures and removes heat directly at its source, creating a hyper-scalable and highly efficient environment.

Delta³ is designed to cool variable power densities of up to 50kW per rack in the same row, allowing ODATA’s data centers to maximize space usage and energy efficiency. The technology seamlessly integrates with liquid cooling systems, enabling ODATA to efficiently meet the demanding requirements of artificial intelligence and other high-density applications in Colombia.


About ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers Company

ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company, is a data center provider offering scalable, reliable, and flexible infrastructure across the Americas. The company meets the increasing demands for energy, space, and reliability from organizations in various sectors, including major Cloud and Artificial Intelligence providers, delivering innovative and efficient data center solutions that support the development of digital infrastructure in Latin America.



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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 18th October 2024

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Europe

The UK Government announced £6.3bn global investment into UK Data Centres. Read here.

Planning consent secured by L&G, Goldacre and sineQN for £750m hyperscale data centre investment in Newham. Read here.

CloudHQ confirmed a £1.9bn campus development in Oxford, UK. Read here.

Plans for huge energy park and data centre in Cardiff have been approved. Read here.

UK chancellor unveils AI-driven national wealth fund to boost investment in clean energy. Read here.

Apto and Dromeus Capital Group partner to develop hyperscale data centre in Athens. Read here.

Blackstone to develop 300MW data center campus in Aragon, Spain. Read here.

EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC Powers European Expansion with 40MW Data Center Investment in Spain. Read here.

MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced the start of construction on their new data center campus located in Vila Franca de Xira, within close proximity to Lisbon. Read here.

Nebius to triple capacity at Finland data center to 75 MW. Read here.

Trentino DataMine announced work had started to install a facility in an active mine in a mountain at Val di Non, 40 km north of Trento (Italy). Read here.

Cyprus makes key Data Center Projects deal with Khazna. Read here.

JetCool will provide its cooling technology to colocation customers at Start Campus’ 1.2GW Sines DC in Portugal. Read here.

Google in talks with Italy for Mediterranean undersea cable project. Read here.

Helsinki homes to be heated using excess heat from Equinix data center. Read here.

Schneider Electric to buy data centre cooling firm Motivair for $850 million. Read here.

Nokia eyes data center market growth as Q3 sales fall. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Khazna announces construction of 100 MW AI optimised Data Center in Ajman. Read here.

Amazon Web Services and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East. Read here.


APAC

Viettel has announced plans to develop 24 data centers in Vietnam. Read here.

GDS announced plans to establish its first data center in Singapore. Read here.

NextDC has acquired land for a new 550MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Digital Edge opened a second Data Center in Seoul. Read here.

A ‘top secret’ data center valued at AU$500 million is being proposed for private land next to the HMAS Harman Military Base in Canberra, Australia. Read here.

The National Bank of Pakistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies Pakistan to establish a new national cloud data centre. Read here.

Area Group begins construction of 156-acre Malaysian data center campus. Read here.

Nvidia-backed firm eyes a data center near nuclear power in Japan. Read here.

Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd. Read here.


North America

Data center developer DataBank has raised $2 billion to build three facilities planned across the US. Read here.

Apple has launched the first data center at its new campus in Waukee, Iowa. Read here.

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres. Read here.

Amazon joins push for nuclear power to meet data center demand. Read here.

Major US electric utility Dominion plans to add 20GW of clean power generation resource. Read here.

Aurum Group and DigitalNexus Partners are teaming up to create AuNex Datacenters, a new joint venture aimed at developing and operating AI data centres. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers has acquired land in the Peoria area of Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Amazon Data Services pays over $37 million for 118 acres in Douglas County (Atalanta, Georgia). Read here.

Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty have acquired a data center in Hawaii. Read here.

Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers. Read here.

Digital Realty partners with Ecolab on AI water solution for US data centers. Read here.


South America

Brazil-based global digital infrastructure company V.tal has announced the creation of a new subsidiary focused on its data centre business. Read here.

LATAM Remains a Prevalent Data Centre Hub for AI Innovation. Read here.


Other interesting articles

What the real estate industry needs to know about data centers. Read here.

Why Labour is pushing through data centre projects (UK). Read here.

Nvidia’s Ian Buck shares his vision of the GPU data center. Read here.

Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online. Read here.

APAC sustainable data centre market to pass £16.9bn by 2029. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 11th October 2024

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Reports

Turner & Townsend: Data Centre Cost Index. Read here.


Europe

Newham Council expected to approve Canning Town data centre (UK). Read here.

AVK launched the AVK Academy, a dedicated training hub that will play a pivotal role in developing the next generation of data centre engineers. Read here.

Apto joins the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. Read here.

Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital has acquired a majority stake in new Nordic data center firm Polar. Read here.

Switch Data Centers have acquired a 50,000 sqm Data Center site in Poland. Read here.

Microsoft is reportedly looking to build several data centers in Northern France. Read here.

Invesco Real Estate acquired it’s first data center asset in Europe (France). Read here.

French startup Denv-R has launched its debut floating data center in Nantes. Read here.

DSM Group officially launched its cutting-edge Eco Data Centre in Peterborough. Read here.

Elite UK REIT has submitted a planning application to build an 80MW facility next to an office campus at Peel Park used by the DWP. Read here.

Nebius is tripling Nvidia GPU capacity at its AI data centre in Finland. Read here.

AN Bord Pleanála have told the High Court it will not oppose an appeal to the decision to grant planning permission for a €1.2 billion data centre campus on the outskirts of Ennis. Read here.

Meta experiencing labour issues at Clonee data centre. Read here.

OpenAI confirms Paris and Brussels offices as company sets sights on Europe. Read here.

Stelia, Centersquare partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across North America and Europe. Read here.

Beyond.pl and Veolia partner to heat Poznan with data centre waste heat. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Israeli data centre operator NED Data Centers is working on a joint venture to build 500MW of AI data centre capacity throughout Israel. Read here.

DAMAC Group announced a $1 Billion investment in Thai-Based Data Center with Tech Provider ‘PROEN Corp’. Read here.

Wolters Kluwer widens global footprint via new data centre in UAE. Read here.


APAC

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand. Read here.

Johor, Malaysia, has experienced a phenomenal surge in data center development. In just two years, the state’s capacity has skyrocketed from a modest 10MW to over 1,000MW, making it a regional powerhouse. Read here.

The government of the Western Indian state of Maharashtra is reportedly planning to build data center parks totalling an IT capacity of 1.5 GW in and around Mumbai. Read here.

Ares Management has reached an agreement to purchase Singapore-based logistics specialist GLP Capital Partners. Read here.

Hydrogen-powered data center planned in New Zealand. Read here.

Chinese data center firm ZData is expanding into Malaysia with a project in Johor. Read here.


North America

Blue Owl Capital has agreed to the $1bn acquisition of digital infrastructure fund manager IPI Partners from ICONIQ Capital and Iron Point Partners. Read here.

Strategic Real Estate Partners is seeking permission to develop a $1B, 2.1M SF data center campus on 320 acres South of Atlanta. Read here.

Real estate firm COPT Defense Properties has acquired land outside Des Moines, Iowa, likely for a data center campus. Read here.

Green data center developer Soluna has signed term sheets for power and land with an unnamed renewable energy developer for its 187MW Project Rosa development. Read here.

Cipher Mining to develop 300MW cryptomining data center site in West Texas. Read here.

Talen acquires full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine facility. Read here.

Enerfore Digital gets go-ahead for data center proposal in North Dakota. Read here.

DC Blox has broken ground on 216MW data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

JLL are to develop a data center on STAMP site in Genesee County, New York. Read here.

Amazon may be looking to develop more data centers in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Tract is looking to develop a 2,000 acre data center park outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Google leases more than 2 million sq ft across two sites in DFW, Texas. Read here.

OpenAI looks to use data center providers beyond Microsoft. Read here.

Microsoft to build $420m data center in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

Flexential has broken ground on a 22.5MW data center in the southern district of Parker (Denver). Read here.

Data centre boom threatens U.S. power supply, economic growth, warns CoBank. Read here.

AMD’s new GPU lineup aims to rival Nvidia in data centre AI market. Read here.

MARA announces micro data center project powered by natural gas. Read here.


South America

Nokia and Furukawa expand Brazilian data centre partnership. Read here.

GTD launches 20MW Peruvian data center. Read here.


Other interesting articles

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How North East people will be trained for high quality jobs at £10 billion Cambois datacentre. Read here.

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Can Data Centres in Urban Spaces Improve Lives? Read here.

Data Centres ‘Should be Part of Residential Developments’. Read here.

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Utilities Must Reinvent Themselves to Harness the AI-Driven Data Center Boom. Read here.

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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 4th October 2024

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DC Byte: The London Data Centre Market. Read here.

The Insight Partners: Hyperscale Data Center Market Size Worth $355.87 Billion, Globally, by 2031. Read here.

AI market poised to reach $990B by 2027. Read here.

Data Center Vacancy Falls to 3% in the Americas with 80% of New Construction Pre-Leased. Read here.


Europe

Microsoft invests €4.3B to boost AI infrastructure and cloud capacity in Italy. Read here.

Sepia Infrastructure has announced its augural fundraising round. The funding round was led by Ankaa Ventures and Engie New Ventures. Read here.

Elite UK Reit applies to develop 80 MW data centre campus in Blackpool. Read here.

DTCP announced investment in Data Center developer Atlantic Hub. Read here.

Aruba unveils €300m hyperscale data centre campus in Rome. Read here.

Questions over Cambois AI centre’s 4,000 jobs claim (UK). Read here.

Spain’s Merlin Properties bets on AI boom to drive revenue growth. Read here.

IBM is setting up a quantum data center in Ehningen, Germany. Read here.

Kao Data commenced work on £350m Manchester data centre. Read here.

State of Michigan co-invests in Nordic data centre firm Bulk via BGO. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Kyriba Opens New Data Center in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

DataVolt and Center3 partner for Saudi Arabian data center operations. Read here.

ICS Arabia has begun construction of the first facility in its 187MW Desert Dragon project in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Intro Technology and Oman Data Park sign $450m MoU for Egypt data center. Read here.

Equinix has abandoned its plans to invest in IXAfrica Data Center. Read here.

Oman Data Park to build $450m data centre in Suez Canal zone. Read here.


APAC

Oracle plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to develop a data center in Malaysia. Read here.

Google said that its investments in Malaysia is estimated to support more than US$3.2 billion in positive economic impact and will create 26,500 jobs by 2030. Read here.

Google To Invest $1 Billion For Data Centre In Thailand. Read here.

Google is looking to expand data centres in India. Read here.

Amazon India to buy land from Lodha for new generative AI data centre. Read here.

Goodman is planning to develop a 90MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Goodman Group has announced the completion of the third building at its 225MW Tsuen Wan West data centre campus in Hong Kong. Read here.

Yondr is reportedly looking to sell its stake in its Indian data center joint venture. Read here.

Mapletree Acquires Mixed-Use Facility Comprising Data Centre in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

HMC Capital in talks to buy Global Switch Australia and other data centers. Read here.

T4 Group looks beyond Auckland for data centre strategy. Read here.


North America

Equinix forms $15bn joint venture to expand AI-ready data centres. Read here.

T5 has broken ground on 250,000 sqft Northlake facility. Read here.

Skanska wins another billion-dollar order to build data centers in the US. Read here.

Microsoft’s mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases. Read here.

New Albany City Council approves 15-year tax break for $420 million Microsoft data center. Read here.

CyrusOne breaks ground on 40MW Illinois data center campus. Read here.

Salute announces new investment to support data center growth. Read here.

Compass Datacenters starts building $300 million expansion at Dallas-area campus. Read here.

Google is spending billions on new data centers and subsea cables to connect them. Read here.

Google’s CEO said that the company is considering whether to power its data centers with nuclear power plants. Read here.

Asset manager TPG is seeking a court order to remove data center company Quantum Loophole from its role as manager of a $5 billion campus planned near Frederick, Maryland. Read here.

Amazon has been confirmed as the end user for a large new data center campus being developed in Herndon, in Virginia’s Fairfax County. Read here.

A Digital Realty data center outside New Haven, Connecticut, is up for sale. Read here.

Digital Realty adds $450 million to credit facility. Read here.

Texas Regulator Wants Data Centers to Build Power Plants. Read here.


South America

New operator 247 Data Centers launches targeting hyperscalers in Brazil. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Data center owners turn to nuclear as potential electricity source. Read here.

Going With The Flow: How To Construct Data Centers With Liquid Cooling In Mind. Read here.

10 biggest impacts to the data center market in 2024–2025. Read here.

Looking for a pay rise? Try data centre construction. Read here.

What makes nuclear power plants attractive to data center owners? Read here.

Tech giant pledge billions for Britain’s data centre push – but building them won’t be easy. Read here.

Only Lenders With The Deepest Pockets Can Sit At The Data Center Table. Read here.


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“Worker Shortage Hampers Data Centre Boom” – BBC

A recent article from the BBC highlights the growing demand for skilled workers in the data centre construction industry, driven by the rapid expansion of cloud services and AI.

Data centres, used by major tech firms like Amazon and Microsoft, require highly specialised construction and installation work, such as electrical and cabling tasks. However, the sector is struggling to recruit enough qualified workers, with a shortage of skilled labour and an aging workforce posing challenges.



The article reads:

“If someone had asked Billy Keeper five years ago what a data centre was, he admits: “I would not have had a clue.”

The 24-year-old joined specialist electrical firm Datalec Precision Installations as a labourer straight from school.

He’s now an electrical supervisor for the UK-based firm, and oversees teams up to 40-strong carrying out electrical and cabling installations at datacentres.

This means, “managing the job, from a health and safety perspective, making sure everything goes smoothly, and dealing with the clients”.

And those clients are central to today’s technology landscape. Data centres are the massive warehouse-like buildings from which big tech firms like Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook deliver their cloud services.

Other organisations, large and small, run their own dedicated facilities, or rely on “co-location” datacentres to host their computer equipment.

Demand for data centre space has been turbocharged in recent years by the rise of artificial intelligence, which demands ever more high-end computers, and ever more electricity to power them.”


“Total data centre floorspace across Europe was just over six million sq ft (575,418 sq m) in 2015, according to real estate firm Savills, but will hit more than 10 million sq ft this year. In London alone, data centre “take up” in 2025 will be almost triple that of 2019, predicts real estate services firm CBRE.

But while demand is surging, says Dame Dawn Childs, chief executive of UK-based operator, Pure Data Centres Group, “delivering and satisfying that demand is challenging.”

Just finding enough land or power for new data centres is a problem. Labour’s election manifesto promised to overhaul planning to encourage the building of infrastructure, including data centres and the power networks they rely on.

But the industry is also struggling to find the people to build them.

“There’s just not enough skilled construction workers to go around,” says Dame Dawn.

For companies like Datalec, it’s not just a case of recruiting staff from more traditional construction sectors.

Datacentre operators – whether co-location specialists or the big tech firms – have very specific needs. “It is very, very fast. It’s very, very highly engineered,” says Datalec’s operations director (UK & Ireland), Matt Perrier-Flint.

“I’ve done commercial premises, I’ve worked in universities,” he explains. But the data centre market is particularly regimented, he says, with everything carried out “in a calculated and structured way.””


The article goes on to say:

“Mark Yeeles, vice president, Secure Power Division, UK and Ireland, at power and automation firm Schneider Electric, began as an apprentice in the 1990s.

Given that the industry is often looking for people with 15 years’ experience, he says, “The time to start investing in apprentices was 10 years ago.”

However, Schneider Electric is changing its ratio of graduates to apprentices. “We’ve doubled our intake of apprentices,” says Mr Yeeles.”

We believe that apprenticeships are going to be crucial for combatting the talent shortage for data centre companies. That’s why we’ve signed up to be part of the Digital Futures Programme, a programme that gives children aged 16-19 the knowledge the need to pursue a career in the data centre industry.



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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 27th September 2024

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Reports

Stack Infrastructure: Scaling Responsibly 2024 ESG Report. Read here.


Europe

Blackstone / QTS Data Centers £10bn investment in AI data centre confirmed (UK). Read here.

Lian Group launches data center platform Polar, announces two facilities in Norway. Read here.

Nebius unveiled plans to invest over US$1 billion in European AI infrastructure by mid-2025. Read here.

Developers propose data centre with 500MW ‘non-flammable’ battery in Switzerland. Read here.

Equinix launched its BA2 data center in Barcelona, Spain. Read here.

Microsoft announced pioneering green hydrogen pilot project with ESB. Read here.

Schneider Electric has deployed a new modular data centre at The Pirbright Institute. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Ooredoo lands US$549m financing deal for AI data centre plan. Read here.

BSF Capital, and Al Moammar Information Systems have signed a letter of intent to increase capacity of data centres in the kingdom up to 64MW. Read here.

Digital Dubai picks Moro Hub to develop Data and AI Platform. Read here.

Raxio Group Launches First Data Centre In Ivory Coast. Read here.


APAC

Singapore LNG Demand Set to Jump on AI and Data Center Boom. Read here.

Pakistani oil company Mari Petroleum Company Limited is to develop data centers across the country as part of an expansion into digital infrastructure. Read here.

NTT is exploring the possibility of listing a data center real estate investment trust in Singapore. Read here.

South Korean firms commit $50bn to AI development. Read here.

Digital Edge announced expansion plans in Japan & Philippines. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group has signed a deal to develop three more data centers outside Mumbai, India. Read here.

Indonesia to Build Three New National Data Centers. Read here.

Cloud Carrier, a privately owned Australian company has announced the launch of its Southern Highlands Data Campus. Read here.

The Vietnamese government announced that Vietnamese and US firms have signed memorandums of understanding to cooperate in energy, artificial intelligence, and a data center. Read here.

Inligo Networks has announced it has commenced construction of its open cable landing station in Darwin, Australia. Read here.


North America

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the company is developing data centers that will consume more than 1GW of power. Read here.

Alphabet to invest $3.3 billion in South Carolina data centers. Read here.

ECL announces 1 GW off-grid hydrogen-powered data center in the US. Read here.

OpenAI Pitched White House on Unprecedented Data Center Buildout. Read here.

PowerHouse Data Centers and Chirisa Technology Parks have acquired 104 acres in Chesterfield County to develop Digital Drive Data Center campus. Read here.

Sixth Street invests in EQT’s global data centre business EdgeConneX. Read here.

560-acre data center campus proposed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Read here.

Three Mile Island restart for Microsoft data centres. Read here.

Plans surface for $200 million data center in far north Fort Worth. Read here.

Compass Datacenters is looking to expand its Red Oak data center campus in Texas. Read here.

US secondary markets emerge as new frontier for data centre growth and AI expansion. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers bond offering pushes annual issuance to record high. Read here.

New data centers approved on former Manassas Colored Horse Show grounds. Read here.

2.3M SF former Compaq Computer campus in northwest Houston will house a 774K SF modernized data center with the help of $40M of green financing. Read here.

County Supervisors will decide the fate of the Greenlin Park data center project along the Dulles Greenway in Virginia’s Loudoun County next month. Read here.

Surge in US data centre growth is powering renewable energy investment opportunities. Read here.

Rpower and Wise Asset to offer natural gas-powered land to data center developers in Texas. Read here.


South America

Brazil’s Scala secures $500 million in financing. Read here.

Microsoft announced a US$1.3 billion investment in Mexico over the next three years to bolster artificial intelligence infrastructure and digital skills initiatives. Read here.

Latin America-focused technology company Cirion is expanding the capacity of its datacenter in Buenos Aires and is seeking a site to build a second center in the country. Read here.

Paraguay receives 4 offers to build datacenter. Read here.


Other interesting articles

iMasons and Nomad Futurist Form Strategic Alliance. Read here.

Data centre power consumption could increase 10x by 2030, finds report. Read here.

How data centers can become pillars of the local community. Read here.

How To Design A Data Center That Can Run The Race To Power AI. Read here.

How Utilities, Hyperscalers Are Working to Tackle ‘Extreme’ Data Center Power Demands. Read here.

BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, Blackstone and the Future of Global AI Infrastructure Investment. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 20th September 2024

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: APAC Data Centre Update (H1). Read here.

JLL: U.S. Data Center Report – Midyear 2024 – Top 5 trends. Watch here.


Europe

A new HPC/AI Operator with significant PE backing is set to launch in Europe next week.. Come back next week for more!

New Data Centre in Derry to attract ‘some of the largest global companies and investors’. Read here.

Spain’s Solaria confirms plans for 200MW data center in Puertollano. Read here.

Google says UK risks being ‘left behind’ in AI race without more data centres. Read here.

Google has filed to appeal a council planning decision to deny permission for a new data center in Dublin, Ireland. Read here.

Farmland sites on radar of data centre developers (UK). Read here.

Iberdrola is finalising an agreement with a large investment fund or group of funds to launch a subsidiary specialising in the data centre business. Read here.

Iderdrola SA plans to provide a Spanish data center with a grid connection and renewable power in exchange for up to 20% of the facility, which will cost as much as €2 billion to build. Read here.

European operator Portus Data Centers is developing a new 12.8MW data center in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace is moving ahead with a 26MW data center outside Prague. Read here.

Goldman Sachs, Igneo Infrastructure Partners, and Wren House among candidates reportedly selected to purchase Nabiax. Read here.

Spain’s Cellnex is exploring a sale of its data centre unit in France. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Aramco Digital and Groc building mega Inference Data Center in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Microsoft has partnered with AI company G42 to launch two data centres aimed at promoting responsible AI. Read here.

Sudlows Consulting opened a new office in Riyadh. Read here.

Egypt collaborates with alliance to set up green data center. Read here.


APAC

$300m data center confirmed for Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

GE Vernova Integrating Energy Storage for Australia Data Center Complex. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group announced capacity expansion in India to 230 MW, driving an investment programme of around $1 billion in the country. Read here.

CyrusOne KEP breaks ground on Japanese data centre, plans $7bn investment. Read here.

Earths Energy starts scoping study on geothermal for data centres in Australia. Read here.

Global real estate giants are racing to expand their data center footprints in Japan. Read here.


North America

Microsoft, BlackRock to launch $30 billion fund for AI infrastructure. Read here.

Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure. Read here.

Snowhawk announced a strategic investment in CleanArc Data Centers. Read here.

QTS filed plans to build a data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Residents of Bristol share concerns for $1 billion data center proposal. Read here.

Developers for a data center in southwest Fort Worth cleared their first major hurdle on Tuesday night, landing approval of a zoning amendment. Read here.

5C Data Centers announced plans for a 20MW facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

12 building, 4.2 million sq ft data center campus proposed in Georgia. Read here.

A company is looking to rezone 434 acres in rural Osceola, Florida, for a data center development. Read here.

Digital Realty has filed to expand its planned data center campus in the Garland area of Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft building another data center in rising hub San Antonio. Read here.

Chuck Kuhn sinks $141M into assembling Manassas sites for data centers. Read here.

White House Launches AI Data Center Task Force. Read here.


South America

Google has hit the reset button on its US$200 million data centre project in Santiago, Chile. Read here.

Claro’s new Argentina datacenter to support network traffic growth. Read here.


Other interesting articles

How data centers and the energy sector can sate AI’s hunger for power. Read here.

The Data Center AI Effect: Supporting Digital Infrastructure Growth. Read here.

Data centers are everywhere. What it’s like to work in one. Read here.

How power-positive data centres can unlock AI’s potential while transforming communities. Read here.

As power shortages threaten the UK’s tech boom, how can bridging solutions help? Read here.

From Crypto To AI: Repurposing Data Centers For The Future. Read here.

The best ‘geographies’ for AI data centers: Schneider Electric CEO. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 13th September 2024

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Reports

Research and Markets: Data Center Construction Strategic Research Report 2024. Read here.

The AI Growth Cycle for the Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market Started in 2Q 2024, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.


Europe

The UK Government has designated Data Centres ‘Critical National Infrastructure’. Read here.

Political support for construction of £4bn data centre (DC01UK) in Hertfordshire, UK. Read here.

AWS plans to invest £8 billion in the UK, supporting 14,000 jobs annually in local businesses. Read here.

A controversial £1bn Data Centre in Abbots Langley (UK) set for six-day appeal next month. Read here.

Data4 plots 90MW data center campus outside Athens, Greece. Read here.

EcoDataCenter announced a new mega data centre campus in Borlänge, Sweden. Read here.

T-Mobile has launched an expansion to its flagship data center in Prague, Czech Republic. Read here.

Quantum-secure connection to be built between pair of data centres in “UK first”. Read here.

Data Center Advisors (DCA) rebrands as Data Center Partners (DCP). Read here.

TIM looks to buy BT data centres in Italy. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Aramco Digital and Groq announced they are to build the world’s largest AI inferencing data center in Saudi Arabia!. Read here.

Grifols Egypt Collaborates with Orange Business to Deliver New Data Center and Communications Infrastructure. Read here.


APAC

NEXTDC to raise $500m for Asian data centre expansion. Read here.

NEXTDC Seeks A$2.9 Billion Loan to Expand Data Centers in Asia. Read here.

True IDC to invest THB ฿10bn in data centre expansion. Read here.

Microsoft acquires Rs 520 cr land in Pune for data centre expansion plans. Read here.

CyrusOne KEP Begins Construction on its First Data Center in Japan. Read here.

ST Telemedia to invest $3.2B to boost its Indian operations. Read here.

China paves the path for Foreign Ownership of Data Centers. Read here.


North America

Data center operator Switch weighs IPO at about $40 billion valuation. Read here.

Switch Secures $5 Billion in New Debt Financing. Read here.

Oracle to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors. Read here.

White House officials to meet with AI leaders about data center development. Read here.

Manulife-Backed Serverfarm Acquires Two Data Centers Providing Over 500MW of New Potential Capacity in the Houston Market. Read here.

Manulife Investment Management Completes Acquisition of Serverfarm. Read here.

DataBank announces 480MW data center campus development in South Dallas. Read here.

Tract plans 343-acre data center park outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.

20MW data center planned at AREP’s Quantum Park in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

Digital Realty Wins Incentives, Could Invest $1.9B On Data Center Campus In Garland. Read here.

Microsoft is building a datacenter campus in Cherry Valley, Illinois. Read here.

Institutional investors adjust positions in Equinix. Read here.

Digiweb founder Colm Piercy eyes billion-dollar data centre deals. Read here.

NetworkOcean plans underwater data center test in San Francisco Bay. Read here.

Nine-building data center campus proposed in Northwest Indiana. Read here.

Virginia County Limits New Data Center Development. Read here.

Dataprana plans 30MW cryptomine site outside Houston, Texas. Read here.

The Planning Commission of Forest Grove in Oregon has approved a 178,750 sqft data center development. Read here.

Microsoft has broken ground on a data center in Quebec City, Canada. Read here.


South America

Scala pitches $50bn Brazil data center campus of up to 4.7GW. Read here.

Amazon’s AWS to invest $1.8 billion in Brazil through 2034. Read here.

Paraguay extends datacenter tender deadline. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Circular Economy in Data Center Operations: Turning Waste into Opportunity. Read here.

Building for the long-term: Grant van Rooyen’s Tract masterplan. Read here.

The AI Power Squeeze: A Data Center Sustainability Imperative. Read here.

Bitcoin Miners Forge Lucrative AI Deals. They Have A Big Advantage. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 6th September 2024

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Reports

DTCP Sustainability Report. Read here.


Europe

atNorth announced a 250MW heat reuse enabled mega data center in Denmark. Read here.

Penta Infra announced plans to build 20,000sqm data centre in Copenhagen. Read here.

Consultation launched for plans for a major data centre in South Mimms (UK). Read here.

320MW data center campus proposed in North London, UK. Read here.

Report outlines ambition to start work on £10bn Northumberland data centre in 2025. Read here.

Netwise announces major expansion of London East data centre. Read here.

Retirement village anger over ‘huge’ data centre. Read here.

Solaria’s former industrial facilities to house 200-MW AI data centre. Read here.

Ramboll has acquired the data centre consulting company i3 Solutions Group. Read here.

PIMCO on building a future-proof data center strategy. Read here.

Norway takes the register to keep out cryptominers. Read here.

Pulsant announces data centre redesign rollout across UK. Read here.

Echelon secures grid connection for Co Wicklow data centre. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Dubai’s strategic vision for a data centre economy. Read here.

MEEZA has reached an agreement to deliver 1 MW capacity in its M-VAULT4 data centre to a global hyperscaler. Read here.

What’s driving the surge in the Middle East’s data centre market? Read here.


APAC

Blackstone announced agreement to acquire Airtrunk in a A$24bn transaction. Read here.

Empyrion Digital to Build 25MW AI-Ready Data Center in Tokyo. Read here.

A-FLOW topped off its first data centre in the Philippines. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres announced a significant investment of US$3.2 billion. Read here.

Indian luxury homebuilder Rustomjee to expand into data centres on AI boom. Read here.

Reliance Industries to build GW-scale AI data center in Gujarat, India. Read here.

AWS to spend additional $2bn on Indian data centers. Read here.

Data Center Firm Yondr Seeks Private Loan for Malaysia Expansion. Read here.

NEXTDC has today opened A1 – Adelaide’s first Tier IV certified data centre. Read here.

Converge ICT to Launch Two New Data Centers in Luzon. Read here.

Japan Targets Rural Data Center Expansion with Photonics. Read here

Govt of Telangana partners with Yotta to Launch India’s Largest AI Supercomputer. Read here.

CapitaLand Investment to raise up to $250 million through India data center fund. Read here.

Zettabyte and Wistron Partner to Build Taiwan’s First Hyperscale AI Data Center. Read here.


North America

Two companies seek to develop $125bn AI data centers in North Dakota. Read here.

Wyoming Hyperscale becomes Prometheus Hyperscale and announced a significant pipeline of developments. Read here.

Nvidia and Other Investors Back Applied Digital With $160 Million in Funding. Read here.

Partners Group’s EdgeCore expands US footprint with $1.9bn capital injection. Read here.

GI Partners has secured planning permission for a new 72MW data center in Santa Clara, California. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired more land in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, for its Racine County data center campus. Read here.

Mesa City Council has approved two major data center projects in the southeast of the Arizona city. Read here.

QTS linked as the buyer of a distribution center outside Richmond. Read here.

Data centers in New York state are being invited to apply for grants of up to $2 million to fund novel heat reuse systems. Read here.

A company linked to Amazon has acquired land in Virginia’s Prince William County that was recently granted data center zoning approval. Read here.

Duos Edge AI launches first Edge Data Center. Read here.

Atlanta City Council bans data centers along Beltline. Read here.

Growing Data Center Demand in North Texas Puts Emphasis on Project Planning. Read here.

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in South Bend. Read here.


South America

New JV will address dark fibre infrastructure provision in Mexico. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Data Centres and the Edmonton Region advantage. Read here.

Project Silica: Using Glass to Revolutionise Data Storage. Read here.

Data Center industry worldwide to release 2.5 billion tons of CO2 by 2030. Read here.

Biggest data center acquisitions: 13 billion-dollar data center deals. Read here.

The fragmented state of Europe’s data centre markets. Read here.

This Startup Wants to Tackle AI Energy Demands With Data Centers in Space. Read here.

Capitalising on Africa’s data centre boom. Read here.

Just because Ireland is good for data centres does not mean they are good for us. Read here.

If Gartner’s Magic Quadrant turns to US hyperscalers, how will emerging markets react? Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 30th August 2024

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Reports

CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H1 2024. Read here.

JLL: U.S. Data Center Report – Midyear 2024. Read here.


Europe

euNetworks lands €2.1bn to spend on European data centre comms play. Read here.

Google plan for new data centre in Dublin rejected in face of electricity supply pinch. Read here.

New AI data centre in Cambois (UK) being enabled by Coal Authority permits. Read here.

Solar farm development proposed to support Blackpool Airport and associated Silicon Sands development. Read here.

Swiss data center firm Green has broken ground on a new 12MW data center in Zurich. Read here.

‘Malfunction’ at Dutch defense ministry datacenter causing mass disruption. Read here.

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave is to lease capacity from Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter. Read here.

DataVita launched a National Cloud for UK organisations. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Digital Realty’s iColo has announced the installation of solar panels at two of its Kenya data center facilities in Nairobi and Mombasa. Read here.

Egypt: One of North Africa’s Most Promising Emerging Markets. Read here.


APAC

Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam. Read here.

Epoch Digital, an Asian data centre platform backed by Actis, is in talks with existing fund investors to co-invest equity capital for a 200 MW portfolio that is being developed. Read here.

Final bids submitted for AirTrunk’s data centre portfolio by major consortiums. Read here.

China has invested over 43.5 billion yuan ($6.12 billion) in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past year. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres is collaborating with AI pioneer Phaidra to pilot an AI-based autonomous control system for optimising data centre cooling in STT GDC’s facilities in Singapore. Read here.

Reliance to build GW-scale AI-ready Data Center in Gujarat, India. Read here.

ESR completed core & shell of the first phase of a 25MW data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

Singtel and Hitachi partner to build AI data centers in Japan. Read here.


North America

Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital Inc., Chirisa Technology Parks, and PowerHouse Data Centers have executed a joint venture development agreement focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. Read here.

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. sponsored QTS Data Centers has a development pipeline valued at more than US$92 billion. Read here.

T5 finalized land acquisition in Atlanta to support a 300 MW Data Center Campus. Read here.

Tract announced confirmation of a 1.8GW data center park in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Meta, is behind a $800 million data center breaking ground in Aiken County. Read here.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms signs deal to purchase geothermal power from Sage Geosystems. Read here.

Compass Datacenters has celebrated the start of work on a hyperscale data centre campus in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, US. Read here.

Cipher Mining announced the acquisition of new 300 MW data center site in West Texas. Read here.

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) has announced plans to expand its recently launched Texas data centre to 400 megawatts. Read here.

Soluna Breaks Ground on Project Dorothy 2, its Flagship Sustainable Data Center in Texas. Read here.

Nvidia earnings beat expectations, with $26.3bn in data center revenues – up 154% over last year. Read here.

Google is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into its data center footprint in Nevada. Read here.

Last Energy secures $40M to build ‘micro-nuclear’ plants for cleaner data center energy. Read here.

Deep Fission wants to build reactors a mile underground has emerged from stealth and announced a $4 million pre-seed funding round. Read here.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has chosen Sabey Data Centers as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Read here.

Culpeper tech zone attracts data centers. Read here.


South America

Google announced plans to invest $850m developing a second data center in Latin America, this time in Canelones, Uruguay. Read here.

Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP has launched a new data center in Manaus and launched a new data center unit. Read here.

Scala Data Centers has submitted a US$145mn project to expand its datacenter in the Huechuraba district of Chilean capital Santiago, which is currently under construction. Read here.

Scala Data Centers and Serena sign a renewable energy supply agreement to start in 2025. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Tech companies transforming decommissioned power stations into AI-driven data centres. Read here.

Here’s how data centers became a billion-dollar real estate investment. Watch here.

The Rise of Data Centres in Wales. Read here.

AI investors want to own their own compute power. Read here.

The Rise of Data Centre Startups Across Europe. Read here.

Top 10: Submarine Cable Projects. Read here.

The rise of the Levant region in the subsea industry. Read here.


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