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Weekly Update! It is mental health awareness week this week so I want to use this opportunity to promote an event that is supporting a great mental health charity. Data Center Cycling Club will be cycling from Amsterdam to Datacloud in Cannes for ‘Mates in Mind’. You can find a link in the newsletter to support the team taking part in this event. Let’s remove the stigma around mental health.

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Data Center Cycling Club

Some crazy data centre folks will be cycling from Amsterdam to DataCloud Cannes in a few weeks, all for a great charity – ‘Mates in Mind’. Learn more about the event and how you can support them here.

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Europe

Coreweave is to invest £1B in UK data centres. Read here.

Microsoft announced 4 billion-euro data centre investment in France. Read here.

Tishman Speyer plans German data centre campus. Read here.

Digital Reef and London Borough of Havering make progress on proposed data centre. Read here.

Ares Management, CDPQ, and Schroders Capital announced a EUR 750 million financing for expansion of Vantage Data Centers’ EMEA platform. Read here.

Colt DCS has topped out the first building at its new data center campus outside London, UK. Read here.

Amazon Web Services announced they will invest €7.8 billion in its sovereign cloud infrastructure in Germany through 2040. Read here.

Curbs on new data centres are pushing big projects away from Ireland to other European countries. Read here.

Asset manager Royal London has sold an industrial site in West London, UK, to an unnamed data center operator for £315 million. Read here.

CapitaLand completed €19m refurbishment of Amsterdam data center. Read here.

Data center investment in Barcelona could generate €7bn in 2025. Read here.

Maincubes adds sustainability targets to €1 billion loan facility. Read here.

Intel nears €10.2bn deal to build a plant in Ireland. Read here.

Merlin Properties considers Capital increase. Read here.

Czech Internet operator and data center provider Seznam has expanded its data center campus in Prague. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Qatar looks forward to growing its data centre capacity three times more in the next five to six years and attracting more hyperscalers. Read here.

PAIX Data Centres announced a joint venture with the Djibouti Sovereign Fund to construct a data centre in Djibouti. Read here.

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APAC

Logistics real estate firm ESR has announced plans to develop a 60MW data center in Central Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

AirTrunk has officially launched its second data center in Tokyo, named AirTrunk TOK2, which has a scalable capacity of over 110MW. Read here.

Princeton Digital secures £220.9m green loan for data centre in Malaysia. Read here.

Malaysian real estate firm AME Elite has sold a plot of land in Johor to a data center firm. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has entered into a joint venture with VNG Corporation to develop, construct, and operate data center projects in Ho Chi Minh City. Read more.

CDC files for 500MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

NEC has launched two new data center buildings at its campuses in Kanagawa and Kobe, Japan. Read here.

NTT plans another 12MW data center to JKT2 campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

PowerHouse announced a 200MW development in Dallas. Read here.

Prime Data Centers has filed for two data center campuses in Dallas Fort Worth. Read here.

Quantum Loophole has sold a 150 acre plot of land at its campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Read here.

Amazon Data Services plans to construct two data-center buildings on 71 acres east of Signal Butte Road on the north side of Pecos Road in Mesa. Read here.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is planning to triple its footprint in Quantum Loophole’s Maryland campus. Read here.

Microsoft has a runaway lead in data centre investment among its Big Tech rivals. Read here.

Microsoft has broken ground on second data center campus in North Carolina. Read here.

CyrusOne closed its $1.175 billion asset-backed securities (“ABS”) offering. Read here.

Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI is reportedly set to spend $10 billion on Oracle cloud servers. Read here.

JLL announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SKAE Power Solutions. Read here.

Loudoun County Planning Commission recommends approval of Hiddenwood Assemblage data center proposal. Read here.

WestDulles Properties files for 3 million sq ft data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Flexential announced a new data centre in Denver. Read here.

California-based Province Group is looking to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. Read here.

Henrico County approved a 622-acre rezoning request for data centers in Virginia. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired more land outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.

AEP files proposal to handle surging data centre development in Ohio. Read here.

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South America

GDA launches bitcoin mining centre in Argentina. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Underwater data centres could be destroyed by loud noises. Read here.

Tackling construction challenges within the data center sector. Read here.

How will energy prices affect data center costs in 2024 and beyond? Read here.

EU moves toward regulating data center energy and water use. Read here.

How data centers can simultaneously enable AI growth and ESG progress. Read here.

Big Tech’s Hunger for Data Centers Drives Green Construction Movement. Read here.

The AI data center revolution is happening right in your backyard. Read here.

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Data Centre Club Nights Sydney (Australia)

Club Nights will be in Sydney on May 27th. Register here.

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Weekly Update! This weeks newsletter is being written in McDonalds (the coffee is shocking!) while I wait to have some new tyres fitted on my car. The glamourous life of a Data Centre Newsletter writer!

The world of data centres has had another busy week…

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Europe

Plans continue for East Havering Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Norway to introduce regulated Data Centre law. Read here.

Microsoft eyes more data centers across EMEA region. Read here.

Microsoft invests in renewable energy to power data centres in Ireland. Read here.

Microsoft signed a 3.33 million-tonne carbon capture deal in Sweden. Read here.

Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat of Catalonia are exploring building a data center in a basement in the La Sagrera area of Barcelona. Read here.

Telia to add 4MW to Helsinki data center. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Iozera is building a massive 386MW AI data center in Morocco. Read here.

Dubai aims to close the Skills Gap with AI Index for Universities. Read here.

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APAC

Industrial property giant Goodman Group says data centres account for 40 per of its $13 billion of projects underway around the world. Read here.

Amazon plans to spend $9 billion expanding its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore. Read here.

Digital Realty announced it has commenced construction of its third data center at its NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in Japan. Read here.

PLDT is reportedly considering offloading its data centre business to Japan-based NTT Group. Read here.

Global Switch has filed to add 47MW of capacity to Ultimo data center site in Sydney. Read here.

DataVolt has broken ground on data center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Read here.

South Korean telco LG Uplus is to build a new data center in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. Read here.

Syntec Construction has formed a dedicated team to address the escalating demand for data center construction projects in Thailand. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has secured a green loan to fund the build-out of its campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

New Zealand’s T4 Group leads surge in AI-focused Data Centre infrastructure. Read here.

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North America

Meta is building what could become the largest high-tech project in Wyoming in south Cheyenne. Read here.

Apple Is Building AI Data Center Chips Under Codename ‘ACDC’. Read here.

Biden announced $3 billion investment by Microsoft to build new AI data center in Racine. Read here.

EdgeCore, Stack Infrastructure and Yondr launch Data Center Safety Council. Read here.

Massive scale of data center development plans in Frederick County addressed by company co-founder. Read here.

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks. Read here.

Digital Realty sold $1.5 billion worth of stock. Read here.

Bloom Energy announced a power capacity agreement with Intel Corporation that will result in Silicon Valley’s largest fuel cell-powered high-performance computing data center. Read here.

Atlanta City council members propose bill to block data center developments. Read here.

Tonaquint completes upgrades to Oklahoma City data center. Read here.

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South America

New ordinance reveals some exceptions for data centres outside Brazil. Read here.

Equinix completes US$57mn expansion of Mexican datacenter. Read here.

Cryptomining firm Genesis Digital Assets Limited has launched a new data center in partnership with state-owned utility YPF Luz in Argentina. Read here.

Microsoft has signed a reforestation deal in Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

DigitalBridge CEO: Data Centers To Run Out Of Power In 2 Years Or Less. Read here.

The opportunities and the challenges of a data centre building boom. Read here.

The inner workings of Asia’s largest data centre, in Navi Mumbai. Read here.

Here’s how utilities are thinking about nuclear power for data centers. Read here.

The Data Center Demand Surge and Its Implications. Read here.

JLL Says AI Demand Turns Data Centers Into ‘Hottest Asset Class’. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Data Center construction with Andreas Beck of Zauner Group. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! Another crazy week in the world of data centres. Major investment announcements, land acquisitions, ground broken, and new facilities going live. ‘Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know.. Turn off the lights and ill glow..’ One for all the 90’s music fans!

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Europe

Blackstone completed the purchase of Britishvolt site in Northumberland for £10bn data centre project. Read here.

Sisk officially announced for Vantage Data Centers Dublin campus. Read here.

Vantage Data Centres has been confirmed as the new owner of the former Ford site in Bridgend, Wales. Read here.

Vantage looks to raise £600 million securitization funding against Cardiff data centers. Read here.

Data4 plans to create a new campus in the Milan area to be named “Mil2″. Read here.

Amazon eyes data centres on Bord na Móna’s new ‘energy park’ (Ireland). Read here.

PGIM Real Estate has acquired land in Munich, Germany, for the development of a data center. Read here.

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure energy from a wind farm in Ireland. Read here.

Waste heat from a data center in Bochum, Germany, could be stored in an abandoned mine and used in a district heating system. Read here.

German colocation firm Maincubes has launched its second data center in Frankfurt. Read here.

Waste data centre heat to power university campus as part of Scottish net zero drive. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Abu Dhabi-based telco e& is considering a potential acquisition of eastern European carrier United Group BV. Read here.

Mauritius Telecom plans to build a subsea cable connecting Africa, the Indian Ocean islands, and Asia. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft CEO pledges $1.7 bn AI, cloud investment in Indonesia. Read here.

Microsoft announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand. Read here.

Microsoft has committed to investing $2.2 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence services in Malaysia over the next four years. Read here.

India’s Yotta to help build Nepal’s first supercloud data centre. Read here.

Billionaire Adani-Backed JV To Raise Up To $1.4 Billion To Bankroll Indian Data Centers. Read here.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law. Read here.

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North America

Google announced $3 billion in investments to build or expand our data center campuses in Virginia and Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft to power data centres with big Brookfield renewables deal. Read here.

Microsoft has commenced construction of it’s ‘Boyd Farms’ (North Carolina) Data Center. Read here.

Meta plans to build $800 million, next-generation data center in Montgomery. Read here.

Tract has broken ground on a 810MW data center campus outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced its plan to develop a 220MW campus south of Dallas, Texas. Read here.

T5 Data Centers announced the development of a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois. Read here.

Davenport City Council advances discussions for high-tech data center project. Read here.

Coreweave announced it has secured $1.1 billion in new funding. Read here.

DC Blox is planning to build a second cable landing station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Read here.

PSEG to explore selling nuclear power to data centers. Read here.

Seven-building data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Ardent Data Centers, has announced it has broken ground on construction at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania data centre site. Read here.

Global Data Center Division of NTT Data Adds to Texas Pipeline. Read here.

CyrusOne looks to raise $1.175bn in securitized notes. Read here.

Iris Energy accelerates data center expansion. Read here.

Nscale announced its official launch this week, offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators. Read here.

US Edge computing provider Greensparc has delivered an Edge data center to an electric energy company in Cordova, Alaska. Read here.

Equinix unveiled it’s 2023 sustainability report. Read here.

Digital Realty Reports First Quarter 2024 Results. Read here.

Other interesting articles

A Data Center Building Boom Is About to Begin. Read here.

AI Boom’s Secret Winners? Read here.

Generational Growth: AI, data centers and the coming US power demand surge. Read here.

Data Centers Now Need a Reactor’s Worth of Power, Dominion Says. Read here.

Futuristic AI Needs Futuristic Data Centers, And It’s Just Starting. Read here.

Keep It Cool: Can A Data Center Ceiling Contribute To Energy Savings? Read here.

Navigating uncharted waters: key challenges in the data centre boom. Read here.

Decarbonising data centres will shape the green transition. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk Datacloud Global Congress with Liss Boot-Handford and Chris Thompson of Broad Group. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! What a crazy week.. A number of $1bn+ campuses announced across the world, significant investment from the major hyperscale organizations, and the newsletter topped 21,000 subscribers. The growth continues!

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Hyperscale Data Centers Hit the Thousand Mark; Total Capacity is Doubling Every Four Years. Read here.

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Europe

Google announced an investment of $640m for a new data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced they are to develop their first Dublin Campus. Read here.

Northumberland County Council has agreed to remove a buy-back clause on the former Britishvolt site paving the way to a Blackstone backed data center. Read here.

AtlasEdge enters Portuguese market with Lisbon acquisitions. Read here.

U.S. investment and development giant Hines is planning moves into the UK data centre and self-storage sectors. Read here.

Heat from one of Edinburgh University’s large server rooms is to be used to keep students in some buildings warm, it has been announced. Read here.

Digital Realty is set to partner with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund agreed a deal with STC to create tower company. Read here.

Acronis announced the opening of a new Cyber Cloud data center in Dubai. Read here.

UAE, Kenya join hands to boost digital cooperation. Read here.

Kenya to establish ‘revolutionary’ data centre for Africa. Read here.

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APAC

DigitalBridge-backed Vantage considering offloading Hong Kong assets. Read here.

Singapore and the Philippines are to embark on a Digital Transformation journey. Read here.

CtrlS unveiled its upcoming Data Center in Hyderabad. Read here.

AirTrunk and CLP Power Partner to boost renewable energy in Hong Kong. Read here.

The water demands of China’s data centers are set to soar in the coming years as demand for AI increases. Read here.

Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator. Read here.

Eco-friendly data centers help drive $6.3 billion of green investment in Southeast Asia. Read here.

TCS to set up BSNL data centres across India. Read here.

SunCon is on track to achieve its new contract wins target of RM3bil for 2024, driven by data centre projects. Read here.

TCS to set up BSNL data centres across India. Read here.

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North America

AWS announced plans to invest $11 billion in Indiana. Read here.

Google expects to spend $12bn per quarter on technical infrastructure. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced it has secured a $3 billion green loan from a bank syndicate led by structuring bank Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. Read here.

Apple data centers consumed some 2.344 billion kWh of electricity in 2023 to power its data centers and colocation facilities around the world. Read here.

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest bottleneck to building out AI data centers. Read here.

Meta has filed to build a new data center at its campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Read here.

Meta plans to spend billions of dollars more on servers and data centers. Read here.

Tesla spent $1bn on AI infrastructure in Q1. Read here.

Microsoft may be planning to develop a new data center campus in Plano, Illinois. Read here.

Microsoft secured a US$ 1.1 Billion deal with Coca Cola for Cloud and AI services. Read here.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters. Read here.

Apple hires former Google data center AI exec to lead multi-cloud effort. Read here.

Thomas & Mack Development Group sells ‘Sin City’ data centre to DataBank. Read here.

OVH launched a $145m data centre project in Canada. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The AI frenzy could fall flat as companies hoard chips without enough data centers to host them. Read here.

Data4 CEO’s vision for European data centres in the AI era. Read here.

The Subplot | Gigafactories are out, data centres are in. Read here.

10GW Clean Energy Zones, the solution to the data centre industry’s problems? Read here.

Is Scotland Emerging as the Next Big Data Centre Market? Read here.

AI Is Making Older Data Centers Obsolete, Yet Upgrades Are Rare. Read here.

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

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Reports

Arcadis: International Construction Costs 2024. Read here.

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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South America

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

The rewarding career prospects data centres offer. Read here.

Booming AI demand threatens global electricity supply. Read here.

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

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

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

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Reports

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2024. Read here.

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Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft announced London AI hub. Read here.

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

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

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

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

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

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Middle East & Africa

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

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

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

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APAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other interesting articles

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

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

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

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

Data Centers Are Born To Run. Read here.

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