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Weekly Update! A quieter week this week, but still some interesting news stories from the world of data centres. The big news was the potential $100bn investment from Microsoft and OpenAI to develop an AI supercomputer campus. Is this a sign of things to come?

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Europe

Luxembourg’s Economy Minister Lex Delles has said Google may yet still build a data center in the Grand Duchy. Read here.

NTT DATA to boost Berlin presence with third data centre campus. Read here.

nLighten acquired 7 data centres from Exa Infrastructure. Read here.

Digital Realty selected to house Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom Mozambique is investing $25m in constructing a data center in Matola, Mozambique. Read here.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has completed the acquisition of a 40 percent stake in DigitalBridge subsidiary Landmark Dividend. Read here.

Data Center Construction Market in Africa to Witness Investment Opportunities of $2.53 Billion by 2029. Read here.

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APAC

Is Meta planning to build a data center in India? Read here.

Meta may locate its first Indian data center at Reliance Industries’ campus in Chennai. Read here.

GDS partners with Gaw, plans 40MW data center campus in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will invite Microsoft executive chairman and CEO Satya Nadella to the Government House next month to discuss investment in a data centre. Read here.

Nvidia eyes Indonesia for $200M AI center amid global AI scramble. Read here.

Gcore is making strides in the Korean market with its inaugural GPU-centric data center set to open in Incheon. Read here.

The view of APAC data centers in 2024. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft and OpenAI may build a $100 billion supercomputer campus to help develop artificial intelligence models. Read here.

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom. Read here.

Dallas-based CyrusOne is planning a $150 million data center development in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

$3,000,000,000 A.I. data center potentially heading to Michiana. Read here.

Google Promises New Data Center in Kansas City, Mo. Read here.

QTS has filed to build a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

An application has been filed to expand the scope of a previously approved T5 data center campus in Augusta, Georgia. Read here.

CenterSquare Investment Management announced an equity investment in Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

DataBank completed lease Buy-Back for LAS1 Data Center in Las Vegas. Read here.

US data center firms Cyxtera and Evoque are rebranding under the new Centersquare moniker. Read here.

Canadian colocation provider Coloware is expanding its presence at the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in Toronto, Canada. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Demand for Data Centers Vastly Underestimated, CoreWeave Says. Read here.

Can UK construction keep up with data centre expansion? Read here.

AI revolution will be boom for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses. Read here.

Data Center Construction Trends: Build Fast, Build Smart. Read here.

The Secret Weapon Of Smart Warehouses & Data Centers? Generative AI. Read here.

Data centre chip market to surge, aims for $23.8bn by 2032. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Doug Loewe of Kao Data. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! As I sit and write this on a wet Friday morning I am contemplating how this newsletter has reached 20,000 subscribers?! It blows my mind that every single week over 20,000 people are reading this. Imagine what this community could achieve…. 🤔

As long as the news doesn’t stop, I wont stop.. and the news has continued to flow this week.

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: 2024 Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.

DC Byte: 2024 Global Data Centre Index. Read here.

JLL: Secondary markets to drive data centre growth in Europe in 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Data Center Asking Rents. Read here.

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Europe

Kao Data secured planning permission for its new, 40MW data centre in Kenwood Point, Stockport. Read here.

Data centre power use ‘to surge six-fold in 10 years’ (UK). Read here.

Italian broadcaster RAI plans to invest €140 million ($151.6m) in developing data centers in the country. Read here.

NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin, with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers. Read here.

Sirius Real Estate has sold a Frankfurt business park site to a data center developer. Read here.

Fixed income asset management firm, PIMCO, has reportedly raised £257.3 million ($325 million) for a Europe-focused data centre fund. Read here.

Guy Willner joined Apto as Senior Advisor. Read here.

Oriole Networks, a new company that revolutionises the performance of AI systems and data centres, has raised £10 million in seed funding. Read here.

Regional Edge data center firm nLighten has deployed solar panels on the roof of its Milton Keynes data center in the UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria set to attract over $600 million investments through data centers. Read here.

Saudi Arabia plans to become world AI leader with US$40 billion technology fund. Read here.

Tencent Holdings is looking to expand its cloud business in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Read here.

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APAC

Google Sets Sights On Navi Mumbai For Its First India Data Center. Read here.

Data centre developer and operator GDS Holdings announced the signing of agreements to raise $587 million from private equity investors. Read here.

NTT broke ground on a Bangkok data centre. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group and Lendlease have completed construction of the 48-megawatt first phase of the data centre platform’s first project in Japan. Read here.

Bain Capital is reportedly looking for new backers for its Chinese data center operator ChinData. Read here.

Gamuda eyeing two data centre developments in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers required for AI Boom. Read here.

Google-linked corp gets green light for 181-acre data center campus in PWC, Northern Virginia. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. Read here.

Avant Technologies to Build First AI-Focused Data Center in Milwaukee. Read here.

Nautilus Data Technologies has launched a new modular data center offering. Read here.

Google’s Pick of Kansas City for Data Center Shows Midwest’s Growing Digital Allure. Read here.

$14B data hub proposed near Buckeye. Here’s why locals oppose it. Read here.

A proposal from a developer to build a two-story, 245,000-square-foot data center in Chicago was approved. Read here.

Microsoft has signed deals to procure renewable energy in Texas. Read here.

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South America

Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Inside Europe’s largest data hub in Slough. Read here.

Striking a balance for sustainable growth in the AI-driven data center. Read here.

What Nvidia’s Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators. Read here.

Here’s Why Data Center Cooling Is The Hottest Innovation In The Sector. Read here.

What’s behind Italy’s emergence as a key player in Europe’s digital landscape? Read here.

GenAI should factor in data centre design, sustainability. Read here.

9 of Europe’s most important submarine cable projects. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres and football with Fraser Anderson and Lewis Cobb. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! A lot of news this week… Google has been busy. NVIDIA blew the roof off at GTC. The data center sector met at DCD New York. And I put a sticker on a pint of Guinness…

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We have to start with NVIDIA this week..

Nvidia’s data center market opportunities can be as much as US$250 billion. Read here.

Nvidia: US tech giant unveils latest artificial intelligence chip. Read here.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation plans to build a supercomputer in Denmark made up of an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD. Read here.

“Nvidia doesn’t build chips,” he said. “Nvidia builds data centers.” Read here.

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Report

Linesight: Construction Market Insights – Europe. Read here.

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Europe

Plans unveiled for huge North Lincolnshire (UK) data centre. Read here.

Microsoft has filed plans for a data center in Rennes, France. Read here.

Data centre designer Ethos Engineering secures backing of private equity player Exponent. Read here.

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund have investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. Read here.

Mercury delivers Frankfurt data center to Global Switch. Read here.

Schneider Electric collaborates with NVIDIA on designs for AI data centres. Read here.

Ardian acquires data center firm Verne in Northern Europe expansion drive. Read here.

Pulsant has expanded Manchester data center footprint to meet rising demand. Read here.

AtlasEdge unveiled largest purpose built data centre in Leeds. Read here.

Plans for a solar-powered data center south of Bordeaux, France, have reportedly been abandoned. Read here.

US data center firm CorScale has started work on the second facility at its Gainesville campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

A dispute over an alleged trespass on lands in Co Meath earmarked for a proposed data centre has been resolved “amicably”. Read here.

Data4 could use data center waste heat to grow algae. Read here.

A brand-new data centre was inaugurated on CERN’s Prévessin site (France). Read here.

Spain power demand may get 3 GW boost from data centres. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria’s digital expansion leads to Hyperscale Data Center investments. Read here.

Coupa, a leading announced the launch of its first data centre in the Middle East. Read here.

Microsoft partners with PwC Middle East to launch AI Center of Excellence in Riyadh. Read here.

Ooredoo and e& Upgrade DC Connectivity between UAE and Qatar. Read here.

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APAC

Macquarie and Canada’s PSP start AirTrunk data centre sales process. Read here.

DigitalBridge joins race to buy AirTrunk. Read here.

ePLDT’s first hyperscale data centre on track to go live in July. Read here.

AWS linked to fresh $450m Sydney data centre build. Read here.

Goodman Group Breaks Ground on 50MW Data Center in Tsuen Wan (Hong Kong). Read here.

Aboitiz InfraCapital and EdgeConnex forge ahead with Data Center Construction Plans in PH. Read here.

Vietnam emerges as fast-growing data centre market.

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North America

Data center park developer Tract is reportedly planning a new $14bn campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced the issuance of $240 million in green securitized notes. Read here.

Google has filed to construct a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Google named as company behind proposed $576 million Cedar Rapids data center. Read here.

Google is developing a $1 billion data center in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Google to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects. Read here.

5 ways Google’s data centers support Loudoun County. Read here.

Hedge fund targets data centre giant Equinix. Read here.

Microsoft plans to build yet another data center in the San Antonio area of Texas. Read here.

A new 96MW data center campus is being planned in Fayette County, Georgia. Read here.

Planning officials have approved proposals to turn a former mall site in Maryland earmarked as the FBI’s new HQ to become a data center campus. Read here.

Loudoun County officials have partially backtracked on a decision to deny a data center campus proposal in Belmont, in Northern Virginia. Read here.

NeuReality raises funds to advance affordable, carbon-neutral AI data centres. Read here.

Exaion launched a new data center hosting a quantum computer in Quebec, Canada. Read here.

Virginia’s Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill that will limit data centers. Read here.

Sam Altman’s nuclear power startup Oklo is looking to hire a director of data center solutions. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Nuclear industry strains to meet demands of power-hungry data. Read here.

Wolff towers on a data building exercise. Read here.

Narrowing the digital divide over land, sea, and space. Read here.

Water use in data centers is not a black-and-white issue. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I am joined by Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! One of those weeks where I cant think of what to write in this section, so how about a joke?

Why couldn’t the restaurant owners open a new data center?.. They didn’t have enough servers. (sorry..).

Hit me with your data centre jokes!

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Europe

Consultation has opened on Equinix’s plan to turn a former paint factory in Slough, UK, into a data center. Read here.

Kao Data’s plans to bring a £350 million data centre to a Stockport industrial estate have moved closer to being realised after garnering approval from local councillors. Read here.

The Irish High Court has issued an injunction preventing a man from letting horses graze on land set to house a new data center in County Meath. Read here.

Servecentric renewed its lease with data center provider Digital Realty in Dublin. Read here.

Commission adopts EU-wide scheme for rating sustainability of data centres. Read here.

Data centres swell TClarke’s order book. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel started construction of its first data center in Lagos. Read here.

Oracle Cloud to launch cloud region in Morocco. Read here.

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia to develop Private Cloud & GPU services. Read here.

Abu Dhabi announced ambitious plans surrounding AI. Read here.

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APAC

BDx acquires freehold of flagship Singapore data centre. Read here.

Chinese operator GDS has confirmed it is looking to sell a stake in its international operations. Read here.

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. Read here.

Australian operator NextDC has acquired a 13.5MW data center in Sydney. Read here.

India announced $1.25 Billion investment into AI. Read here.

Japan’s NEC is reportedly considering a sale of its data centers. Read here.

Yondr Group has powered up its first campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Evolution Data Centres has entered into a partnership with Banpu NEXT to power its data centers in Thailand and Vietnam using sustainable energy sources. Read here.

Keppel and Mitsui Fudosan from Japan have announced their collaborative venture into exploring data center development and investment prospects across Japan and Southeast Asia. Read here.

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North America

Dell CEO: We Could Need 100X More Data Centers in 10 Years. Read here.

US-based multinational computer technology company Oracle estimated it will spend US$10 billion on new data centre construction and expansions in 2025. Read here.

Meta to open data center in Rosemount in 2026. Read here.

Skanska announced they have secured a new Data Center development in Virginia. Read here.

Alphabet spinoff Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) unveiled Verrus, a new data centre unit. Read here.

Blackstone announced a credit facility with Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

AI demand and limited capacity drive US data center prices up 19%. Read here.

Google reaches clean energy agreement with SRP to power Mesa data center. Read here.

Hanley Energy opened North American HQ in ‘Data Centre Alley. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Our stressed-out power grids need help. Read here.

Surge in new data centre projects sparks new work opportunities. Read here.

Embracing the AI revolution – What’s in it for data centres? Read here.

Soaring AI Power Demand Poses Unanswered Questions for Data Centers. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Data Centres with George Rockett – listen here.

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Weekly Update! I hope everyone survived Data Centre World London. Events are always a good way to see how much the sector has grown in the last few years: it was crazy busy! No surprise, it has been another busy week in the world of data centres.

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Europe

Digital Core REIT ups Frankfurt data centre stake with €117m acquisition. Read here.

maincubes seals first PPA contract with Stadtwerke Göttingen. Read here.

AtlasEdge announced the completion of a key acquisition in Vienna. Read here.

Waste heat from a new Microsoft data center in Denmark will warm up to 6,000 homes. Read here.

UK-based Amber Infrastructure is looking for a capital partner for its Australian data center business. Read here.

CWCS Managed Hosting has acquired a 9,300 sq ft building in Nottingham to increase the company’s data centre footprint. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Amazon Web Services among firms investing over $10 billion in Saudi Arabian data centers. Read here.

Zoho Corp announced the opening of its first two data centers in the Middle East. Read here.

President of Kenya unveils green-powered Mega Data Center in collaboration with the UAE. Read here.

IBM to invest $200 Million in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

G42 partners with EcoCloud to develop green DC in Kenya. Read here.

Airtel Africa set to build 34MW data center in Nigeria. Read here.

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APAC

Vantage Data Centers has secured a $64 million loan for its Taiwanese data center build-out. Read here.

A planned NZ$7.5 billion Amazon Web Services data center development in New Zealand has been put on hold. Read here.

Meta is reportedly considering building a data center in India. Read here.

Digital Realty unveiled NRT12, their Second Data Center in Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Read here.

Colt DCS announced plans new data centre in Chennai. Read here.

Keppel Data Centers has completed external construction work on a new data center in Singapore. Read here.

BW Digital to develop 80MW data center in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.

Australian data center operator NextDC is reportedly in talks to acquire some of Global Switch’s data center portfolio. Read here.

Philippines conglomerate SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is exploring moving into the data center space. Read here.

Youth For Tomorrow sold 70 acres in Virginia to Stack Infrastructure in November for $81.3 million. Read here.

Singtel trims stake in Bharti Airtel with $710m sale to invest in data centers. Read here.

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North America

Amazon has agreed to purchase Talen Energy’s data centre campus, located next to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Logistics real estate giant Prologis has hired Compass co-founder Chris Curtis to lead a new data center team. Read here.

DC BLOX has completed the expansion of it’s Birmingham Alabama data center. Read here.

Digital Realty, Mitsubishi form data centre development joint venture. Read here.

Modular data center startup Flexnode has raised $8.85 million in a Series A round. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers has entered a partnership with Elcairion, a modular, containerized data center solution company headquartered in Paris, France. Read here.

Core Scientific to provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center infrastructure to support AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

Construction firm Hourigan has filed to rezone hundreds of acres of land outside Richmond for data center development. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 124 acres in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

An unnamed data center developer has acquired 14 acres of land in the Itasca area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. Read here.

Council to vote on rezoning 640 acres for Razor5’s possible data center near New Carlisle. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The AI revolution, are you ready? Read here.

Europe’s Emerging Tier 2 Data Centre Markets in 2024. Read here.

Equinix Boss Warns Data Centre Clampdown Risks ‘Techxit’. Read here.

The Irish Times view on the Cabinet row over data centres. Read here.

The future of hyperscale data centres. Read here.

Swaths of the US are at risk of power outages with artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mines doubling forecasted energy demand over the coming years. Read here.

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Weekly Update! 19,000 subscribers… Thanks for the continued support, and it was great to see so many of you at Kickstart in Amsterdam. It has been another busy week in the world of data centres.. Busy, it is always busy.

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Reports

JLL: North American Data Center Report. Read here.

Data Center 50: The Hottest Data Center Companies Of 2024. Read here.

Colliers: 2024 Data Center Marketplace. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix, Iron Mountain, American Tower, DigitalBridge. Read here.

European data centre market to attain 5.8GW total supply by 2024’s conclusion. Read here.

The North America Data Center Market is set for a significant surge with an expected growth from USD 26.67 billion in 2023 to a remarkable USD 55.83 billion by 2028. Read here.

Global Data Center Construction Market to Reach $371.7 Billion by 2030. Read here.

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Europe

Huge artificial intelligence data centre coming to former Bucks machinery site. Read here.

Microsoft is proposing to develop a new UK data center campus on the site of a decommissioned power station in Eggborough, North Yorkshire. Read here.

AQ Compute launches maiden data center in Hønefoss, Norway. Read here.

Property investor Segro could develop up to 24 data centers across the UK and Europe after raising £900 million n a share issue. Read here.

Post-production firm Dirty Looks has committed to moving all its computing tasks onto Deep Green servers, which heat the pool at a Devon leisure center in the UK. Read here.

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

European data centres grapple with AI-driven demand for space. Read here.

77MW data center proposed for East London, UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Gulf telcos enter MoU to link up Bahrain to the wider region. Read here.

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APAC

Goodman Property Trust is setting up a new NZ$300 million fund to build data centers in Auckland, New Zealand. Read here.

AirTrunk has initiated the construction of its latest data center, AirTrunk OSK1. Read here.

Macquarie Technology Group is looking to expand its data center portfolio on the back of soaring demand for cloud and AI services. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres has expanded its presence by acquiring new land in Selangor for the development of its third data centre, MY02, in Cyberjaya. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., has announced that it is building its latest facility in Chennai. Read here.

Empyrion DC secures S$133m to refinance Singapore data center. Read here.

Telecommunications company Spark New Zealand plans to build a 10MW data center in Auckland’s North Shore. Read here.

Bitera, a world-class data center, officially held its Grand Launching on February 27, 2024. Read here.

DCI Indonesia has opened a new data center in Indonesian capital Jakarta. Read here.

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North America

JK Land Holdings buys 108 acres for data center development in Ashburn, Virginia. Read here.

Meta announced plans to establish a new $800 million data center campus in Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft has bought more land outside Atlanta in Palmetto, Georgia. Read here.

Continent 8 launched a second data center in West Virginia. Read here.

Georgia Representatives have voted in favor of suspending tax breaks for data centers while a special commission reviews grid capacity in the state. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced two new regional (EMEA & US) Presidents to support further growth. Read here.

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South America

Chile partially pulls Google data center permit. Read here.

ODATA Expands its operations in Mexico with the construction of two new Data Center Campuses. Read here.

Amazon Web Services plans to launch a cloud region in Mexico in early 2025. Read here.

Layer 9’s Project Falcon datacenter ambitions taking flight. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Centers: The Hubs of Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

Are Data Centres a Sustainable Heating Solution? Read here.

Rapidly evolving AI could spark data center innovation. Read here.

What’s next for data center design in 2024. Read here.

AI Is Exploding Data Center Energy Use. Read here.

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green. Read here.

Data centres face tough challenges in meeting evolving needs of the digital age. Read here.

‘A New Era’: What Nvidia’s Rise Means For The Future Of Data Center Development. Read here.

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Weekly Update! In this weeks edition we even have a section for the moon! This sector is out of this world.. (sorry). I will be at Kickstart on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully see some of you at the event.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

Nvidia’s Data Center business is booming. Read here.

Q4 2023 colo earnings: Digital Realty, Equinix. Read here.

DigitalBridge announced $15bn CAPEX for 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Europe Data Centres Figures Q4 2023. Read here.

Turner & Townsend: An in-depth look at data centre development in the Middle East. Read here.

White Paper – How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs? Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft to expand its AI infrastructure in Spain with $2.1 billion investment. Read here.

Virtus Data Centres announced a 75MW AI Ready campus in North-west London. Read here.

Global Switch received full planning approval for its third London data centre. Read here.

Mercury has delivered a new data center in Paris, France, to Digital Realty. Read here.

Latham Advises maincubes on Expansion in the Frankfurt Data Center Market. Read here.

University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project. Read here.

Construction of Microsoft data center in Wieringermeer can go ahead as usual. Read here.

Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. Read here.

Data centres and energy transition projects drive record new orders for Hochtief. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Omantel, in cooperation with Huawei, launched a national cloud. Read here.

Teraco plans to build a 120MW solar farm in the Free State province of South Africa to help power its data centers. Read here.

US Data Center Operator Equinix plans $390 Million Africa build. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Data Center Market poised for growth in 2024. Read here.

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APAC

Vodafone and UAE data center firm Edgnex are to build a new data center in Turkey. Read here.

Korea to build nation’s largest data center cluster. Read here.

The Asia Pacific Data Centre Association announced first board of directors. Read here.

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North America

Prime Data Centers announced they are planning a new facility in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Aligned has been granted a tax abatement for a planned data center campus in the Elk Grove area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Edged Energy debuts AI-ready data centres in the United States. Read here.

Prologis and Skybox Data Centers have filed new plans for two data center developments in Texas. Read here.

A data center campus has been proposed by Strategic Real Estate Partners outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Microsoft has purchased land from Xcel Energy in Becker for a future data center. Read here.

Investment firms, including KKR and DigitalBridge, are said to be in the running to acquire a minority stake in Airtel’s Nxtra data center unit. Read here.

Bitcoin Data Center coming to Oklahoma’s Port Muskogee. Read here.

Brookfield is mulling new infrastructure fund. Read here.

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The moon

Intuitive Machines lands on the Moon, carrying virtual test data center. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Chinese team’s memory leap shrinks data centre storage capacity into DVD-sized disk. Read here.

Data centres ‘are a good thing’ and should be accommodated. Read here.

AI companies plan to use nuclear energy for their energy-hungry data centers. But should they? Read here.

Is a speedy, scalable and sustainable datacentre too much to ask? Read here.

Europe’s datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres with John Shingler of T5 Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! It was a fairly slow week until Thursday, and then everything started happening. The world of data centres was obviously keeping me on my toes. This week Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that sector spend will double to £2tn in the next few years: it’s not slowing down…

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What has happened this week?

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Report

Cushman & Wakefield: APAC Data Centre Update: H2 2023. Read here.

Europe

Microsoft announced a €3.5bn investment in Germany. Read here.

Google has obtained a permit to develop a new campus in Hainaut, Belgium. Read here.

NTT Ltd’s Global Data Centres division will develop and operate its first data centre campus in the Paris market. Read here.

Starwood Capital Group unveiled a strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres. Read here.

Two new data centers with a cumulative power of 40-45 MW are considered by developers to be built in Romania. Read here.

Datacenter One launches new HAM1 data centre in Hamburg. Read here.

Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital plans data centre demolition. Read here.

techUK announced new Data Centres Council for 2024/2026. Read here.

£350m ‘big shed in Stockport’ promises ‘boom time’ for Greater Manchester. Read here.

Stadiums and data centres drive North West (England) construction as reports show positive signs for local economy. Read here.

A former data center in Edinburgh, Scotland is to be converted into flats and commercial space. Read here.

Icelandic operator Borealis Data Centers has acquired a facility in Finland, marking its first international expansion. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi’s Solutions secured a $40mln contract to build data centre infrastructure. Read here.

UAE signs pact with India for data centres. Read here.

Chinese Bitcoin Miners find a new Crypto Haven in Ethiopia. Read here.

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APAC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts data center spend will double to $2 trillion. Read here.

Amazon plans new data centers in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Yondr Group has formed a partnership with Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation for the development of data centers in Japan. Read here.

Blackstone puts tentacles out for data centre giant AirTrunk. Read here.

45MW data center proposed next to AirTrunk SYD2 site. Read here.

$80b data centre opportunity lifts Goodman to new high. Read here.

Bangladesh’s first ever data centre ‘Meghna Cloud’ begins operation. Read here.

Indian startup PlanckDot raised $1.6 million for Edge data centers. Read here.

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North America

Surry Council approved a nuclear-powered data center campus that promises more than 1,300 jobs. Read here.

Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Read here.

Yondr Group broke ground on second hyperscale data centre in Northern Virginia. Read here.

Polaris Technologies Inc. is investing $100 million to construct a 200 megawatt data center at Port Muskogee. Read here.

Greenidge Generation Holdings, which runs cryptocurrency data centers and power plants, has raised $6 million to help fund its growth plans. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired hundreds of acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, from Xcel Energy. Read here.

AREP’s PowerHouse pushes on with billion-dollar expansion roadmap. Read here.

Equinix expects strong adjusted core earnings on data center demand. Read here.

DataBank has raised $456m to refinance data center debt. Read here.

Loudoun County Planning Commission rejected plans for the Innovation Gateway data center. Read here.

Counties across North Virginia are considering bills that may curb data center developments in the region. Read here.

$576m data center campus is being proposed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Read here.

Northern Data Group-sponsored Ardent Data Centers has finished the acquisition of a data centre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Fifteenfourtyseven Critical Systems Realty is seeking to raise $250m (€232.3m) for its date centre fund. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The changing face of investment in GCC’s data centre market: What’s driving growth? Read here.

Sisk enjoying a surge in growth, with projects across Europe. Read here.

The rise of AI-specific data centres in Australia. Read here.

Azoras big splash in the data center market. Read here.

Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors. Read here.

Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Read here.

AI Data Centers could help bridge rural America’s Digital Divide. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Stijn Grove of Kickstart Europe. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! We pushed over the 18,000 subscriber mark this week!! Another busy week in the world of data centres with new campuses announced, new investment flooding in, and new facilities opening their doors. Data centres never sleep.

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Blackstone in talks to buy data centre construction giant Winthrop. Read here.

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway. Read here.

Azora, Core Capital launch $540m Iberian data centre platform. Read here.

Skanska has secured a data centre project in Telemark, Norway. Read here.

AtlasEdge’s Datacenter One opens Hamburg facility. Read here.

Facebook parent company Meta has rented the data centers of Spanish real estate firm Merlin Properties. Read here.

Monaco Telecom is to build a new data center as part of a residential development in the city-state. Read here.

German private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank has acquired a data center in development in Hamburg. Read here.

Facebook parent company Meta has rented the data centers of Spanish real estate firm Merlin Properties. Read here.

Opera to deploy Nvidia AI cluster at atNorth data center in Iceland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft are to build another data centre in South Africa. Read here.

MedOne to invest $270m in two new data centers in Israel. Read here.

Khazna Data Centers has launched a new data center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read here.

Cisco Duo plans to launch new cloud data center in the UAE. Read here.

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APAC

KKR raises record $6.4bn for Asia fund in infrastructure rush. Read here.

STT GDC is to expand data centre capacity in Tamil Nadu. Read here.

ClickUp announced its expansion in the Asia Pacific region by adding a new data center in Singapore. Read here.

Tencent inaugurated a microgrid at its Cloud Data Center situated in Tianjin. Read here.

AirTrunk and ib vogt forge Malaysia’s first Data Center Renewable Energy Pact. Read here.

Thailand’s state telco National Telecom is seeking approval to develop two data centers as part of a $145 million expansion plan. Read here.

Bangladeshi telco Grameenphone has launched its first ‘Super Core’ data center in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Read here.

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North America

Gigaland pitches new data center complex near Remington. Read here.

Tract announced the acquisition of an additional 517 acres in Storey County, Nevada. Read here.

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US cloud firm CloneCone. Read here.

The Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has repurposed a particle accelerator facility into a scientific data center. Read here.

Soluna Holdings advances green data center projects. Read here.

Cryptocurrency data center business Applied Digital has taken out a loan to help fund its expansion into the high-performance computing sector. Read here.

US firm Switch Inc. is planning to expand its data center footprint in Austin, Texas. Read here.

Duke Energy is in talks to leverage the power from data center generators during peak grid demand. Read here.

US state of Georgia could pause data center tax breaks over power concerns. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Embracing a new European market. Read here.

The AI Paradox: Data Centers, Power, and the Quest for Sustainable Intelligence. Read here.

Japan’s Data Center Boom: Tokyo, Kansai, Hokkaido, and Hiroshima Lead Growth. Read here.

Heating pools with cat videos? How data centres can carve a brave new world. Read here.

Data center design in the age of AI. Read here.

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Weekly Update! The hardest part of my weekly update is thinking of something to put in this intro section. Some weeks I really struggle to come up with anything. At least that is the intro sorted for this week.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

JLL Data Centers 2024 Global Outlook. Read here.

DataCenterHawk – 4Q 2023 Data Center Market Recap. Read here.

AFCOM: AI Boom Fueling Data Center Construction, Design Innovation. Read here.

The cloud Q4 results are coming in. Read here.

AWS revenue increased 13% to $24.2 billion, with executives saying growth will accelerate this year. Read here.

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Europe

Google announced 700 megawatts of clean energy — including their largest offshore wind projects to date in The Netherlands. Read here.

Construction on a 3D-printed building set to be used as a data center in Heidelberg, Germany, has been completed. Read here.

Ireland’s Data Centre Sector Is Set For A Boom — If It Can Solve Power Quandary. Read here.

Belgian infrastructure investment firm TINC is reportedly looking to divest its stake in local data center firm Datacenter United. Read here.

The Dutch Data Center Association (DDA) has complained about “drastic” new measures from the Municipality of Amsterdam to restrict data centers. Read here.

Amazon has agreed to buy more than half of the power available from the new Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. Read here.

Equinix has signed seven wind power offtake agreements in France with German renewables developer Wpd. Read here.

Nu Quantum is developing a world-first modular, rack-mount and scalable quantum data centre prototype. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Google has launched its first African cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read here.

UAE and Greece have signed a digital infrastructure deal. Read here.

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APAC

DCI begins construction of flagship data center in Seoul. Read here.

STT GDC Shortlists PE Firms for $1 Billion funding. Read here.

Thailand Data Centre Council aims to make Thailand a key DC hub. Read here.

Singtel embarks on AI flavoured data centre push. Read here.

GP launches first ‘Super Core Data Center’. Read here.

Telekom Malaysia is said to be exploring plans to build a new hyperscale data centre. Read here.

Logistics real estate firm ESR has reportedly acquired land previously earmarked for a Digital Realty data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Real estate firm Goodman is planning to develop a new 80MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Goodman Group signalled its plans for a $1.4 billion reworking of the former ABC Studios site in Artarmon. Read here.

STT GDC has broken ground on a third data center campus in Chennai, India. Read here.

True Internet Data Center Company Limited is investing over 10 billion baht to significantly expand its data center and cloud business capabilities in Thailand from 2024 to 2027. Read here.

Melbourne’s data centre growth outstrips Sydney. Read here.

CapitaLand advances construction of state-of-the-art data centre at Madhapur. Read here.

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North America

Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion Empire of Power-Hungry Data Centers. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced the company raised a record $10 billion in incremental debt and equity financing throughout 2023. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired more than 370 acres outside Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

West Virginia project gets $3m to cool data centers with mine water. Read here.

Recently announced Meta data center ‘very significant’ for River Ridge. Read here.

A former AT&T telecoms facility outside Chicago and dating from the Cold War is up for auction. Read here.

Prologis and Skybox are moving ahead with their major data center projects outside of Austin. Read here.

QTS Data Centers plans to build a second data center adjacent to its first one near the AllianceTexas development. Read here.

Switch tees up expansion of data center in Southeast Austin. Read here.

Data Centers Are Booming In Ohio’s Digital Heartland. Read here.

Prince William County responds to lawsuit challenging planned Devlin data center campus. Read here.

Meta will develop its own custom AI chip and deploy them at their local data centres to power their AI tools. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

How can the UK make the most of the data centre boom? Read here.

Breaking Ground: Constructing Data Centers For the AI Revolution. Read here.

Rethinking modern data center design and construction trends. Read here.

Data gold rush: companies once focused on mining cryptocurrency pivot to generative AI. Read here.

AWS, Google Cloud invest in data center expansion, sustainability. Read here.

‘Waterless’ Data Centers Aren’t Always The Most Sustainable Choice. Read here.

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