Category: Update

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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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! Some light reading for those of you heading home from PTC.. A lot of news around this week, and some significant new developments announced. AWS leading the way with a $10bn announcement…

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

Data Center Trends 2024 – Soben. Read here.

Global data center electrical usage to double by 2026. Read here.

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Europe

Kao Data announced it has successfully completed a new, £206 million debt raise. Read here.

Bulk Data Centers announced that construction has commenced of a new 42MW data center facility scheduled for completion this year. Read here.

German data center firm Maincubes is expanding its presence in Frankfurt with a new 40MW facility. Read here.

Heat re-use technology to be incorporated in new Manchester data centre. Read here.

Google has acquired a 52 acre site in Essex (UK). Read here.

Two in race for £400m Royal Docks data centre. Read here.

Arcus’ Portus is planning to build a 14MW data center in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.

Telecoms firm Vodafone has launched a new data center on the Spanish island of Majorca. Read here.

Data centre pressure on Irish grid to double by 2026. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Oracle has just signed a partnership framework with du, a telecom major in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read here.

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APAC

Goodman Group has stepped up its push into data centres with an agreement to deliver up to 1GW of power in Japan and has kicked off construction of a new 50MW data centre in Hong Kong SAR. Read here.

Thailand’s NT submits US$145m expansion plan for approval. Read here.

Major data center service providers in Thailand joined forces to officially establish the Thailand Data Centre Council (TDCC). Read here.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry has formed a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Investment of the United Arab Emirates to to develop data centres in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

PowerHouse Data Centers announced plans to develop a 800MW Campus in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Read here.

PowerHouse Data Centers announced it has closed on the site of “PowerHouse Reno,” a three-building, 900,000 square foot powered shell data center campus being developed in Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Meta is to build a new data center campus in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Read here.

AWS plans to invest $10 billion in Mississippi. Read here.

Mississippi lawmakers will meet Thursday morning for a special session to potentially finalize $294 million in financial incentives for a $10 billion Data Center Campus project in Canton and Madison County. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 140 acres of land in Manassas, Virginia. Read here.

Quantum Loophole in active negotiations for new sites. Read here.

Google confirmed it is behind a major data center campus proposal in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft and Caterpillar power data center for 48 hours using hydrogen fuel cells. Read here.

Silicon Ranch inks deal to integrate renewables into data centres in Nevada and Utah. Read here.

Ardent Data Centers has closed on a deal to acquire a data center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read here.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has voted to approve the rezoning of a 12-acre parcel of land in Chantilly, Virginia, for a 110-ft tall data center. Read here.

Meta expects to field a fleet of 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024. Read here.

Data center absorption in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) market in Texas reached record levels in 2023 according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. Read here.

Elon Musk’s social media firm X has been granted a tax break to keep data center hardware in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

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South America

Angola Cables is to build a new data center in Fortaleza, Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Global tech market spending to touch $5 trillion in 2024. Read here.

Five Trends Driving The Booming Data Center Economy In 2024 (And Why Investors Are Taking Notice). Read here.

Electricity demand from data centres set to double by 2026. Read here.

AI, crypto drive spike in data-center energy demands. Read here.

Hong Kong’s industrial property segment seeing pick up amid rising demand for data centres. Read here.

Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I talk Data Centre perception with Damien Wells of Spa Communications, and Ambrose McNevin of Tech Marketing Content. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! Data Centres have been all over the news this week. Major investments have been announced in a number of regions, and we all know there is much more to come.

Safe travels to everyone going to PTC, enjoy the event (and the social events as we know that is why you are going…)..

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Google has commenced construction on a $1bn campus in Waltham Cross, UK. Read here.

A £1bn data centre campus in the UK has been recommended for refusal. Read here.

Three “suitors” for the construction of Microsoft’s data centers (Greece). Read here.

Octopus Energy announced a £200m investment in Deep Green. Read here.

Germany-based investment group Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is set to grow its data centre portfolio during 2024 and beyond. Read here.

NorthC announced its plan to enter the Frankfurt data center market. Read here.

The UK government wants to boost the nation’s data center infrastructure as part of a plan to make Britain more attractive to scale-up companies. Read here.

Data center operator Green Mountain could be heading for the London Stock Exchange. Read here.

UK data center module provider Sonic Edge has delivered an immersion cooling pod to Castrol’s Berkshire research site in the UK. Read here.

Lunar Digital has commenced a multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

UAE, Kazakhstan to invest in data centre and AI projects. Read here.

Aramco Digital and Intel have announced plans to build Saudi Arabia’s inaugural Open RAN (Radio Access Network) development center. Read here.

Oracle intends to open a second data center in Israel, which will be located nine floors below ground level to ensure it is safe from security threats. Read here.

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APAC

Adani Group to invest $6bn in Indian data centers. Read here.

The Maharashtra government has signed a memorandum of understanding worth Rs 10,000 crore with Web Werks for investment in a mega IT/ITES data centre in the state in the next five years. Read here.

AWS to invest over $15 bn in Japan to expand data centres. Read here.

Stonepeak has invested $200m in Guam telco GTA. Read here.

Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres announced it has received state significant development application (DA) approval to build its next data centre, IC3 Super West, in Sydney. Read here.

CapitaLand to invest over US$ 500 Million to build Data Center, Tech Park in Chennai. Read here.

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North America

Yondr Group announced a target to achieve net zero by 2030 for scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions. Read here.

US data center provider DC Blox has filed for its planned campus in Conyers, Rockdale County. Read here.

Tract announced that it has completed the acquisition of more than 668 acres of land in Eagle Mountain, UT, for the development of a 400MW campus. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers launched a new liquid cooling system – DeltaFlow. Read here.

The proposal of the Niagara Digital Campus, a $1.5 billion data center, allows the city to compete with the big cities in the world of big tech and AI advancements. Read here.

1547 Unveils Green Data Center Hub in Chester County. Read here.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing on Jan. 23 on a huge data center in Chantilly. Read here.

Starwood Capital Group launched Starwood Digital Ventures. Read here.

US firm LightEdge has acquired a data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.

Brookfield completed its $775m purchase of Cyxtera. Read here.

TA Realty appointed industry veteran Tim Shaheen to lead digital infrastructure development team. Read here.

Microsoft has hired Erin Henderson as the director of nuclear development acceleration. Read here.

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South America

Google Plans First Direct Subsea Cable Linking South America to Asia-Pacific. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The challenge of creating greener data centres during a data centre crunch. Read here.

Grading 2023’s top data center and tech predictions. Read here.

Turner Studying Effects of Rising Temperatures on Construction Workers. Read here.

Tech companies spending billions to meet data centre demand. Read here.

Cloud providers take the plunge with underwater data centers. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

In this weeks episode I talk data centres with Svante Horn, CEO & Co-Founder of Scandinavian Data Centers. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! I have had a lot of positive conversations this week around the forecasted growth in 2024. Significant demand but not enough capacity. It is looking like we are in for another busy year… If we can secure the power.

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What has happened this week?

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Reports

I have collated some of my podcast conversations into an eBook. Download here.

Global data centre CAPEX to rebound in 2024. Read here.

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Europe

MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced agreements with Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS), Exa and Axent for their new state-of-the-art, carbon neutral data center located in Barcelona, Spain. Read here.

KAO Data appointed Doug Loewe as it’s new CEO. Read here.

Data centre group Echelon ‘frustrated’ at slow pace of grid connection. Read here.

New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a data center in Marseille. Read here.

New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a data center in Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

European data center firm NorthC is to expand its presence in Germany with a new facility in Frankfurt. Read here.

CyrusOne has appointed a new European director of Public Policy. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel Nigeria, will build one of Africa’s largest data centres in Nigeria. Read here.

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North America

Vantage Data Centers announced a $6.4bn investment to fuel further growth. Read here.

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has been granted permission for a 253MW campus in Frederick County, Maryland. Read here.

DigitalBridge divests controlling interest of Vantage SDC. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced a new 72MW data center campus in Leesburg, Virginia. Read here.

US colocation firm DataBank is expanding its data center outside Salt Lake City, Utah, again. Read here.

Officials in King George County, Virginia, have voted to renegotiate an agreement with Amazon needed for the tech giant to move forward with a planned 869-acre data center campus. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 111 acres in West Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

Google has acquired 500 acres in Kansas City’s Northland. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 430 acres of land outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Amazon has been granted zoning approval for a data center development in the Round Rock area of Austin, Texas. Read here.

Plans by Digital Realty to build a data center in downtown LA have moved forward. Read here.

Holder Construction secured $1.9B Edgecore Digital Infrastructure data center project in Arizona. Read here.

Tierpoint announced the acquisition of a new, multi-megawatt data center in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.

Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to further move the data center company into hyperscale data center development. Read here.

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APAC

A joint venture of Indosat, BDx Data Centers, backed by I Squared Capital and Lintasarta – has agreed to acquire a portfolio of data centres in Indonesia for IDR2.63bn (€154m). Read here.

NTT announced the launch of its new data centre campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data centre. Read here.

Reliance Industries has partnered with Canada’s Brookfield asset management and US-based Digital Reality to set up a data centre in Chennai. Read here.

Yotta Data Services launched its new cloud data center in GIFT City, India. Read here.

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South America

Brazilian technology firm Soluti has launched a new 4,500sqm data center in Goiânia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Center Leaders Make 2024 Predictions. Read here.

Ranked: Top 50 Data Center Markets by Power Consumption. Read here.

How 2024 GenAI investment will transform data centers. Read here.

Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I discuss Data Centers in Australia & New Zealand with Ben Crowe of Vertiv. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! The start of another year. This update covers news over the last few weeks so still quite a lot to catch up on. I have no doubt that 2024 is going to be the busiest year yet..

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Plans revealed for new data centre on existing Ark Data Centre’ campus in Corsham, Wiltshire. Read here.

Abbots Langley data centre: developer (Greystoke Lane) shares video ‘tour’. Read here.

Fingal County Council has refused planning permission for a data centre in north Dublin. Read here.

German data center provider NewTelco has opened a new data center in Karlstein am Main, Germany. Read here.

Telehouse, is extending its reach across Europe by launching its fifth data centre at its Frankfurt campus in Germany. Read here.

A HUGE 100-acre piece of green belt land next to the A127 (UK) could be transformed into a 24-hour data centre. Read here.

European firm Penta Infra has acquired a KPN data center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read here.

ISG won the second phase on a Slough datacentre contract. Read here.

Spanish telco Avatel has reportedly sold its data center business to funds operated by Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and Teras Capital. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Zambia gets ready to build a tier 3 data centre. Read here.

UAE and Egypt ministries have signed a MoU for 1GW of data center projects. Read here.

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APAC

VNET announced $299m strategic investment milestone. Read here.

Adani Group’s data centre joint venture with EdgeConneX is reportedly in talks with a group of global lenders to raise as much as US$400 million via an offshore loan. Read here.

Honda and Mitsubishi are planning to test a small data center that runs on hydrogen from an industrial electrolysis plant run by Tokuyama Corporation. Read here.

Chinese data center provider GDS has promised to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters has broken ground on its greenfield data center in GIFT City, Gujarat, India. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers readies for AI demand in Southeast Asia. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft is looking to acquire more than 200 acres of land in Licking County, Ohio for more data centers. Read here.

Edgecore announced the completion of a $1.9 billion debt financing transaction to fund scalable development on its data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. Read here.

Data center operator Arkon Energy nabs $110M in fresh funding. Read here.

Iron Mountain is reportedly close to finally breaking ground on a new data center site in Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia, have filed a lawsuit against the Board of County Supervisors over a data center development. Read here.

Cipher Mining announced a 60 MW expansion development. Read here.

Involta announced the acquisition of a 24.5-acre site housing an existing data center in the Green Bay region. Read here.

Virginia’s Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has adopted a set of guidelines designed to curb data center developments. Read here.

Amazon buys $27M parcel for latest Northern Virginia Data Center project. Read here.

Wells Fargo have sold an office and data center West Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.

Microsoft’s $70 million data center investment will transform Wisconsin. Read here.

West Virginia’s Raleigh County Commission has indefinitely suspended a data center proposal. Read here.

A new data center efficiency bill has been proposed in the Virginia House of Delegates. Read here.

Data centre developer and operator Digital Power Optimization (DPO) has struck a power purchase agreement covering up to 100MW. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Elea invites investment in its sustainable data centre goals. Read here.

Scala Data Centers unveiled a new HyperEdge data centre in Porto Alegre city. Read here.

Scala uses giant inflatable tent on São Paulo building site. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Asia’s data center landscape is red hot — and increasingly complex. Read here.

Why thirsty data centres risk plunging the world into crisis. Read here.

Slough Trading Estate’s data warehouses: A look inside a data centre. Read here.

Space: The final data center frontier. Read here.

The biggest data center stories of 2023. Read here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! This isn’t a weekly news update, this is simply a thank you from me. As 2023 draws to a close I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the readers of this weekly newsletter. Without you this newsletter wouldn’t exist, or it would simply be me writing to myself..

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The first newsletter was published at the start of 2022, meaning in a few weeks this newsletter will be 2 years old. In that time I have released 97 weekly updates and the subscribers has grown from zero to a massive 16,229 (as I write this).

Every time the readership hits another milestone I think that it has peaked and then before I know it we are racing towards another. 15,000 was my punchy goal for 2023, that has now been knocked out of the park. 20,000 now seems achievable?!

Every release day the newsletter is read by in excess of 5000 of you, every newsletter is achieving over 7000 reads in the first week. That doesn’t include all of those people that are sent the newsletter, and the readers on other platforms.

In 2024 I will be looking to create other mediums to share industry news, and I hope to be able to include some of you in these new developments.

Data Centre Club will become an integral part of the new developments so please join the club if you are not yet a community member. Join here.

The data centre sector never sleeps, and neither shall we…

2024 is going to be exciting… But before then, sit back, enjoy time with friends and family, eat more cheese, and be thankful for what 2023 has given us.

See you on the other side..

Have a great week!

Weekly Update! This could be the last Data Centre News of 2024… Unless anything big happens next week! What a year it has been for the newsletter… 15,731 subscribers, 400,000+ article views, 600,000+ impressions.. Can we break the million barrier next year?

Have a great Christmas, and here is hoping for a healthy and happy 2024.

Thanks for all the support this year.

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Report

Data Centre Staffing and Recruitment survey by Uptime Institute. Read here.

Amazon, Meta, and Enterprise Spend to Drive Data Center Capex to 11 Percent Growth in 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Google have commenced construction on a new data centre in the Netherlands. Read here.

Data centres operating in the UK will be required to have tougher security and resilience measures to protect against potential disruption. Read here.

Microsoft as acquired land in The City of Espoo, Finland, for the development of a data centre. Read here.

Microsoft focus on South Wales for £2.5bn investment in AI data centres. Read here.

Digital Realty has officially announced plans for a new 12,000 sqm data center in Marseille, France. Read here.

Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group are developing a 2000sqm data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover, Germany. Read here.

Arcus Infrastructure Partners has acquired a German data center operator and launched a new European data center platform. Read here.

The European Commission will provide €1.2 billion ($1.29bn) in state funding for cloud computing and Edge development. Read here.

atNorth to host Crusoe Cloud GPUs as the appeal of the Nordic region gains traction. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel launches Nxtra in Africa. Read here.

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APAC

Seraya Partners closes $800m APAC digital infrastructure and energy transition fund. Read here.

Brookfield Infrastructure, Reliance Industries and Digital Realty have successfully completed the formation of a Joint Venture (JV) aimed at developing data centers in India – named Digital Connexion. Read here.

GDS has announced the successful acquisition of a syndicated green financing facility totaling MYR1.27 billion. Read here.

Australian cloud service provider ResetData has deployed a liquid-cooled data center laboratory in Sydney. Read here.

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North America

Oracle is planning to expand its data center footprint significantly in the near future. Read here.

CoreSite announced major expansions in New York and Denver Data Center Campuses. Read here.

DC BLOX Set to Build Hyperscale-Ready Data Center Campus in Rockdale County, Georgia. Read here.

Here’s why DataBank is building its first Three-Story Data Center in Texas. Read here.

Nautilus Data Technologies has secured a new 2.5MW contract with a prominent artificial intelligence company. Read here.

Meta’s Arizona data centre to use Ørsted solar power. Read here.

The Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted 4-3, with one abstention, in favour of the Digital Gateway project. Read here.

Victory for QTS and Compass for 2,000-acre Prince William County project. Read here.

1.5 million sq ft data center campus proposed in Mesa, Arizona. Read here.

Amazon has acquired a plot of government-owned land in Manassas, in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

Start-up raises $55 million for portable Starlink-dedicated data centers. Read here.

LinkedIn pauses plans to close data centers and move to Microsoft Azure. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Standardised design builds better, faster and cheaper data centres. Read here.

Can AI address the data centre skills shortage? Read here.

Why Subsea Data Centers can’t get afloat. Read here.

The key considerations for data centre development. Read here.

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Have a great week!

Weekly Update! It is cool to be late.. Apologies for making you wait for the latest instalment of Data Centre News. I think we can squeeze in at least one more update before the end of 2023.. What a year it has been!

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Investment firm InfraRed Capital Partners has officially launched Nexspace, a new European data center platform. Read here.

Green Mountain broke ground on new data centre expansion in London. Read here.

Blackpool ramps up delivery of Silicon Sands data cluster. Read here.

atNorth announced a heat reuse enabled mega site in Kouvola. Read here.

KAO Data tables plans for a huge data centre in Stockport. Read here.

Nationwide looks to expand data center in Swindon, UK. Read here.

Swedish company T.Loop has launched a new Edge data center in Stockholm. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nutanix, Raya Data Centers form strategic alliance to accelerate Egypt’s cloud computing evolution. Read here.

How Saudi Arabia became the Fastest Growing DC Market in MENA. Read here.

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APAC

Vantage Data Centers to build 16MW data centre in Taipei. Read here.

Logistics real estate firm ESR has sold a fully-leased data center and logistics facility outside Seoul, South Korea. Read here.

GDS secures $270m green financing for Johor data center. Read here.

YTL and NVIDIA unveil $4.3 Billion AI Infrastructure Boost in Malaysia. Read here.

Yotta teams up with NVIDIA to develop digital infrastructure for Shakti-Cloud. Read here.

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North America

CalEthos launches with plan for 300MW data center campus in Southern California. Read here.

Digital Realty and Blackstone announced a $7 Billion Hyperscale Data Center Development joint venture. Read here.

Meta selects DPR for $1B Arizona data center. Read here.

Meta behind 1,000-acre data center campus proposal in El Paso, Texas. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced the expansion of its flagship Prince William County data center campus. Read here.

Amazon plans data center in Round Rock, Texas. Read here.

Novva Data Centers announced the acquisition of a 7.5-acre campus comprised of several buildings located in South San Francisco. Read here.

NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers. Read here.

Cologix has acquired two data centers in Canada from Cyxtera and expanded two others. Read here.

‘Digital Gateway’ data center project heads for vote in Prince William. Read here.

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South America

Claro Peru, an América Móvil subsidiary, has inaugurated the first phase of its data center in Lima, Peru. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Germans stick data centres in windmills. Read here.

Can we use data centres to heat our homes? Read here.

How will AI shape the real estate investing landscape? Read here.

How Seven Billion Smartphones Could Impact Data Center Sustainability. Read here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! Happy December! As the year draws to a close the news will start to slow, but 2024 is looking like another exciting year for the world of data centres. What are your predictions for 2024?

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What has happened this week?

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Report

The Knight Frank / DC Byte Report focuses on the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, covering the markets of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Morocco, and Egypt. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft pledged £2.5 Billion for UK Investment Drive into AI Data Centres. Read here.

KAO Data announced that construction of its second Harlow data centre, KLON-02, is now fully complete, commissioned, and operational. Read here.

KAO Data has submitted plans for £350m Stockport scheme. Read here.

CyrusOne has officially broken ground on its fifth data center in Frankfurt (FRA5), strategically located in Hanau, 25 km east of the center of Frankfurt, Europe’s data center capital. Read here.

Crypto miner Hive expands data center operations in Sweden. Read here.

evroc announced they have selected Stockholm for flagship data center paving the way for Europe’s first hyperscale cloud and critical AI infrastructure. Read here.

Green Mountain has delivered first data center building to TikTok. Read here.

TikTok pledges €12B European investment over 10 years as work on Norwegian data center begins. Read here.

Google boosts presence in Greece with Data Center investment. Read here.

EcoDataCenter plans to expand its main data center and more than double its current capacity. Read here.

French private equity firm Ardian has acquired data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. Read here.

UK’s power struggle gets real as data centres plea for energy reforms. Read here.

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APAC

DataVolt has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with three ministries in Uzbekistan that will see it developing green data centres in the market. Read here.

World’s first commercial undersea data centre has been deployed in Hainan, China. Read here.

OVHcloud plans to develop new data centers in Sydney and Toronto. Read here.

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North America

Meta has launched its DeKalb, Illinois, data center. Read here.

Novva Data Centers announced the acquisition of a 7.5-acre campus comprised of several buildings located in South San Francisco. Read here.

Databank announced that it has raised $533 million of capital through a combination of debt and equity to fund the construction of new data centers. Read here.

Microsoft wants to bring a sixth data center, called Ruthenium, to West Des Moines. Read here.

Racine County Board gave final approval to Microsoft land sale, and associated data center development plan. Read here.

A large data center application in the technology zone area just east of the town of Culpeper is headed to the County Board of Supervisors. Read here.

DigitalBridge has closed its digital infrastructure credit fund, DigitalBridge Credit (DBC), having raised $1.1 billion. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Top 5 Tips to Shape Positive PR for the Data Centre Industry. Read here.

Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes. Read here.

How Meta redesigned its data centers for the AI era. Read here.

What’s it like inside a data center. Read here.

‘It’s Time To Be More Realistic’: Data Centers’ Nuclear Ambitions Suffer Setback. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

This week I talk Data Centers with Brian Green, EVP of Operations, Engineering & Project Management at Edgeconnex. Listen here.

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Have a great week.

Weekly Update! Happy Thanksgiving to all of my US readers. I am going to try and run a 24 Data Centres of Christmas as we lead up to the big day and ideally I want to share your photos of data centres across the world.. Please send me any pictures you have and I do my best to include them.

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

£4bn Swansea renewable energy project (including a hyperscale data centre) progresses. Read here.

Applications have been filed for more data centers in Slough, UK. Read here.

Altice has sold a chunk of data centre business to Morgan Stanley. Read here.

Gigas CEO and co-founder Diego Cabezudo says the group expects to invest “around €10 million” in Portugal next year. Read here.

Construction has begun on Colt Data Center Services’ (Colt DCS) third Frankfurt data center. Read here.

Google submits application for major power tender for planned data centre in Norway. Read here.

A local mayor has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW are false. Read here.

Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank is launching a data center investment fund. Read here.

NLighten, the new regional Edge data center firm from I Squared Capital, has entered the Netherlands and acquired a data center in Amsterdam. Read here.

Equinix has improved the energy efficiency of its FR6 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, with the use of artificial intelligence. Read here.

Euskaltel breaks ground on Basque Country 2MW data center. Read here.

Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the north coast of Africa, is set to get its first data center. Read here.

Nexspace launched a 2MW data center in Heidelberg, Germany. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Raxio Data Centres confirmed the launch of its newest facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read here.

Egypt set for its first hyperscale data centre. Read here.

Touchdown 2023: Middle East leaders hail strong data centre market growth poised to edge $8bn. Read here.

Pan-African operator Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is expanding its data center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read here.

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APAC

Construction has commenced on NEXTDC’s D1 Darwin data centre. Read here.

Australian superannuation fund Rest Super is investing in a data center and battery storage project in Brisbane from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. Read here.

Bersama Digital Data Centres tops off 60MW Jakarta facility. Read here.

Microsoft Thailand has unveiled plans to position the nation as a key hub for artificial intelligence in Asia. Read here.

Chinese data center operator GDS Holdings saw its net revenue reach $345.3 million in the third quarter of 2023. Read here.

Universal Success has committed to investing $240m for data center in West Bengal. Read here.

Equinix expands footprint in Korea to further accelerate the country’s AI development. Read here.

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North America

The New Albany City Council has approved an Edged Energy plan to develop 210,000 sq ft a data center in the Ohio city. Read here.

Data center park developer Tract is planning a large campus outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Data center developer, Wurldwide LLC, is to buy 1,000 acres in El Paso, Texas. Read here.

H5 Data Centers announced the expansion of its edge data center located at 100 Taylor Street in downtown San Antonio. Read here.

Skybox Datacenters has started work on a new data center campus in Lancaster called PowerCampus Dallas. Read here.

A “significant” data center development is coming to Ridgeville, South Carolina. Read here.

Microsoft is planning a 6th data center in West Des Moines. Read here.

Microsoft is to invest $680M in digital infra, data centres in Quebec. Read here.

CyrusOne is planning to develop 1.4million sq ft campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

$800M hyperscale data center project proposed for vacant 1,039 acres in Northeast El Paso. Read here.

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South America

Scala Data Centers has announced a new issuance of green debentures worth $215m. Read here.

Brazilian IT firm Surfix Data Center is to expand its footprint across the country. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI demand & energy reduction to shape data centre trends by 2024. Read here.

Water usage and efficiency in German data centers: A regulatory overview. Read here.

How AI Is Shaping the Future of Data Center Financing. Read here.

AWS turns sewage into sustainable data center cooling. Read here.

AI, sustainability to shape data centre trends in 2024. Read here.

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Have a great week.