Weekly Data Centre News – 27th February 2026

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Events

Data Centre Marketing Club: After Hours (3rd March, London). Register here.

European Resilience Summit, London, March 3. Register here.


Reports

sightline climate: Data center outlook: half of 2026 pipeline may not materialize. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Americas Data Center Update | H2 2025. Read here.

Rider Levett Bucknall’s 2026 Global Annual Report. Read here.

Aecom: Unlocking data centre growth in the UK: four recommendations. Read here.

BCG: Data Centres as Strategic Infrastructure: Unlocking Value for NZ Inc. Read here.

Hyperscaler compute capacity will double over next two years, says Wells Fargo. Read here.

MPs to examine data centres climate impact as Miliband says future demand “inherently uncertain”. Read here.


Europe

CPP Investments and Equinix join forces to acquire atNorth to further accelerate growth in the Nordics. Read here.

Echelon Data Centres has announced the successful closing of an initial €1.7 billion loan financing provided by Morgan Stanley. Read here.

Start Campus and EDP enter agreement to accelerate renewable-powered Data Center development in Portugal. Read here.

Altarea and Vantage Data Centers Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop AI and Cloud Data Center Campus in France. Read here.

Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group moves into AI compute with majority investment in Polarise. Read here.

Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group expands digital footprint with agreement to acquire significant stake in US Data Center company. Read here.

atNorth confirmed plans to develop a 300MW data center in Sollefteå Municipality, Sweden. Read here.

EdgeConneX Looks to Enter Swedish Market as Part of European Data Center Expansion Strategy. Read here.

500MW data center campus planned for Bełchatów, Poland. Read here.

Yondr Group secures inaugural ABS financing for its London campus. Read here.

Tritax targets data center project in Chelmsford, UK. Read here.

Finland’s YIT plans data center in Kontiolahti. Read here.

Latos Data Centres has launched a public consultation on proposals for a new AI-ready Neural Edge data centre at Bower Street in East Manchester. Read here.

Plans for £1 billion Bucks data centre approved by council. Read here.

Havering Data Centre Row Deepens as Consultation Plans Revealed. Read here.

McLaren secures Docklands data centre shell-and-core job. Read here.

700MW data center could be built at Port of Dunkirk, northern France. Read here.

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects designs structural stone data centre in Sweden. Read here.

Drax flicks switch on data centre plan. Read here.

Sales at Spanish construction group ACS saw its sales rise 19.7% in 2025. Read here.

Equinix committing up to $700M in New Hanley Energy Facility in Dundalk, Creating Hundreds of Skilled Jobs. Read here.

Altibox Carrier and DataVita Announce Strategic Partnership to Connect Scotland to the Nordics via the NO-UK Subsea Cable. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Dalia Energy, a utility firm, has announced plans for a 130MW AI data center outside the city of Ashdod, Israel. Read here.

QST considers cashing in on Saudi business. Read here.


APAC

Hyundai plans $7.5bn AI data center campus in South Korea – report. Read here.

ESR plans 60MW data center in Mumbai, India. Read here.

An Indian company is set to build a $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s GPUs and go public. Here’s what we know so far. Read here.

Kazakhstan plans Central Asia’s largest data centre campus. Read here.

Macquarie boosts profit as Sydney data centre spend rises. Read here.

Spark NZ completes sale of data center business, unit renamed to TenPeaks. Read here.

Staffing and consulting company Tryfacta signs MoU to develop 1GW Indian data center. Read here.

CDC opens Melbourne campus as Victoria positions for 800 MW. Read here.

Taiwanese whisky company contemplates foray into data centers! Read here.


North America

Scoop: Trump brings Big Tech to White House to curb power costs amid AI boom. Read here.

Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue. Read here.

Nvidia reports record quarterly data center revenue of $62.3bn, up 75% YoY. Read here.

Coreweave: A Defining Year for The Essential Cloud for AI. Read here.

OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030. Read here.

Amazon to invest $12 billion in first data center campuses in Louisiana. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Announces Data Center Developments Supporting Economic Growth in Louisiana. Read here.

Amazon looks to build large-scale data center campus next to nuclear plant in Texas. Read here.

Brookfield Launches Radiant as first vertically integrated AI Infrastructure Company Through Merger with Ori Industries. Read here.

MARA Announces Strategic Partnership with Starwood to Accelerate Delivery of Cutting Edge Hyperscale, Enterprise and AI Capable Digital Infrastructure. Read here.

A $10-billion AI data centre races ahead in a rural Alberta town, population 9,679. Read here.

US utility PPL sees data center pipeline swell by 23 percent to 25.2GW. Read here.

Microsoft to start permitting for 1,385-acre data center campus in North Carolina. Read here.

D.C.-based real estate firm investing $4B for new data center development in Berkeley County, WV. Read here.

Plug Power sells New York hydrogen site to data centre developer for $132.5m. Read here.

Lenders committed $121bn to US data center construction in 2025. Read here.


South America

Why Google is hooking up to Uruguay’s Antel data center. Read here.

What is ReData? Inside Brazil’s new data centre tax scheme. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Data centres seek credit ratings to unlock billions in funding for AI push. Read here.

AI data centres risk doubling Britain’s energy use and pushing up bills. Read here.

The AI Backlash Is Real. And It’s Winning. Read here.

‘It seemed to defy the laws of physics’: The everlasting ‘memory crystals’ that could slash data centre emissions. Read here.

US Data Center Construction Fell Amid Permit and Power Delays. Read here.

AI and the Data Center Backlash. Read here.


Inside Data Centre Podcast

Can we build Data Centers fast enough? | Episode 3 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Listen here. Watch here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 20th February 2026

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Events

Data Centre Marketing Club: After Hours (3rd March, London). Register here.

European Resilience Summit, London, March 3. Register here.


Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: H2 2025 EMEA Data Centre Market Update. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Year-end 2025. Read here.

POLITICO asked 2,000 people about data centers — and made 5 charts. Read here.

Anthropic: Covering electricity price increases from our data centers. Read here.

Oracle: Designing Data Centers for the Communities and Natural Environments Where We Operate. Read here.

Microsoft: We need to act with urgency to address the growing AI divide. Read here.

e-on: Two-thirds of Brits support data centre in their vicinity – provided the waste heat is used efficiently. Read here.


Europe

Nscale Signs a $1.4bn Delayed Draw Term Loan Backed by GPUs to Finance Multiple Cluster Deployments Across Europe. Read here.

Amazon files to develop tape library data center outside London, UK. Read here.

Plans to build ‘hyperscale’ data centres on Chelmsford fields. Read here.

Proposals submitted for 500MW Data Centre in Somerset (UK). Read here.

AI cloud firm Nebius posts surge in capex on GPU, data center expenses. Read here.

UK MPs fear data centre boom could derail Miliband’s net zero plans. Read here.

Fossefall is looking to develop in Harpefoss in central Norway, while PolarDC is targeting two sites south of Oslo in Drangedal and Porsgrunni. Read here.

Plans advance for 50MW data center in Certosa di Pavia, Italy. Read here.

Mediterra arrives in Catalonia, plans Barcelona data center. Read here.

Large data centre investment in Germany totals more than €1 billion in 2025. Read here.

Data center planned on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Khazna launches DC skills development graduate program. Read here.


APAC

Sharon AI Announces Nasdaq Listing and Pricing of $125 Million U.S. Initial Public Offering. Read here.

Indian data center firm Yotta to build $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips. Read here.

Adani Group to Invest $100 Billion in Renewable-Powered AI Data Centres by 2035. Read here.

Introducing OpenAI for India. Read here.

Tata Group and OpenAI Form Partnership, to Develop AI Data Centers. Read here.

Reliance to invest $110bn in AI as India’s data center sector heats up. Read here.

AirTrunk fires starting pistol as AI bond bonanza reaches Down Under. Read here.

Blackstone Leads $1.2B Funding Round for India AI Data Centre Startup Neysa. Read here.

Govt. approves 601.40 acres of land for Google data centre in Vizag. Read here.

Macquarie boosts loan to fund Sydney AI data centre. Read here.

Goodman tilts pipeline towards data centres as power bank reaches 6GW. Read here.

Equinix inks 121 MW data center solar deal in Japan. Read here.

Blackstone leads $1.2 billion funding for India’s AI infra platform Neysa. Read here.

DigiCo will triple size of flagship data centre, despite scepticism. Read here.


North America

Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in “global south”. Read here.

O’Leary Digital Forms Joint Venture to Advance 7.5 GW Wonder Valley Utah Campus; Alberta Permitting Underway. Read here.

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs. Read here.

Anthropic cloud spend expected to reach $80bn through 2029. Read here.

Fleet Data Centers Announces Pricing of $3.8 Billion of Senior Secured Notes for Hyperscale Facility in Rapidly Growing Reno Hub. Read here.

Rowan Secures $550 Million of Construction Financing for 300 MW Cinco Project in Texas. Read here.

Mortenson, Turner win $10B Meta data center in Indiana. Read here.

Turner Selected as One of the Contractors for $10 Billion Meta Data Center Campus in Indiana. Read here.

$3bn Data center one step closer to reality after Spartanburg County Council approval. Read here.

New US platform, Prime Power Inc, launches to deliver low-carbon energy to data centres. Read here.

Data centres consider backing uranium projects, NexGen CEO says. Read here.

CBRE hits record revenue with boost from data centers. Read here.

1606 Corp to acquire plot of land in Texas for AI data center development. Read here.

900 acre expansion to Alabama’s “Project Marvel” receives recommendation from planning commission. Read here.

Maricopa County greenlights massive AI data center project amid development boom. Read here.

US operator Skybox Datacenters has secured permission to develop a new facility around Austin, Texas. Read here.

Zeo Energy to supply 280MW of power for Creekstone Energy’s up to 10GW data center campus in Millard County, Utah. Read here.

San Marcos leaders reject plans to build controversial data center. Read here.

Zeo, Creekstone Plan 280 MW Behind-the-Meter Power for Utah AI Data Center. Read here.

4 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Granger meeting draws crowd for update on large Microsoft data center planned. Read here.

Moratorium on large AI data centers in Maine under consideration. Read here.

‘A Big F*ck You to Big Tech’: New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center. Read here.

Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center. Read here.


South America

Microsoft brings two data halls online in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.

Mexico Data Centers Face Talent Gap, Threatening Growth. Read here.

Terranova launches in Mexico with its first data center campus. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Global Technology Leaders to Launch Trusted Tech Alliance. Read here.

Land Grab for Data Centers Is One More Obstacle to Much-Needed Housing. Read here.

Will rapid data center growth help Arizona? Examining the pros and cons. Read here.

Meet 16 Data Center Executives Leading the AI Buildout. Read here.

Elon Musk is pushing to build data centers in space. But they won’t solve AI’s power problems anytime soon. Read here.

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Read here.

New Hyperscaler Self-Build Capacity Growth to Outpace Colocation Supply Growth in Europe. Read here.

Land, labour and lead times: The hard limits on the AI datacentre boom. Read here.


Inside Data Centre Podcast

How are European Data Center markets evolving? | Episode 2 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Listen here. Watch here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 13th February 2026

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Events

Data Centre Marketing Club: After Hours (3rd March, London). Register here.

European Resilience Summit, London, March 3. Register here.


Reports

AI Boom Drives Data Center Capex to $1.7 Trillion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market to Surpass $80 Billion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

Synergy Research Group: GenAI Helps Drive Quarterly Cloud Revenues to $119 Billion as Growth Rate Jumped Yet Again in Q4. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre H2 2025 Update. Read here.


Europe

Nscale Signs a $1.4bn Delayed Draw Term Loan Backed by GPUs to Finance Multiple Cluster Deployments Across Europe. Read here.

Elite UK REIT has secured planning consent for a major data center development in Blackpool. Read here.

Mistral AI and EcoDataCenter Partner to Build AI-focused Data Center in Sweden. Read here.

AtNorth files to expand planned data center campus in Kouvola, Finland. Read here.

Magnora has secured attractive land for a new 100 MW data center development project. Read here.

Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France. Read here.

Former sugar refinery near Caen, France, could become AI data center. Read here.

Plans approved for £250m data centre. Read here.

Pulsant injects £10m into Milton Keynes data centre. Read here.

CyrusOne tops out latest Frankfurt data center in Germany. Read here.

Merlin abandons plans to build data centers in Andalusia due to lack of guaranteed power supply. Read here.

Glencar tipped for latest London data centre. Read here.

Cisco to build data center in Krakow, Poland. Read here.

GIC Weighs Selling Stake in European Data Center JV for Up to €1 Billion. Read here.

Croatia plans biomass-powered data center using olive oil industry waste. Read here.

Vantage denied permission for data center outside Frankfurt. Read here.

Submer acquires Radian Arc to provide full-stack AI infrastructure, from core datacenters to edge compute. Read here.

AEW enters German data center sector with Nuremberg acquisition. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Microsoft Confirms Saudi Arabia Datacenter Region Available for Customers to Run Cloud Workloads from Q4 2026. Read here.

Middle East’s AI and data centre surge spotlighted at Datacloud market address. Read here.

Henox and CloudOne AI sign strategic partnership to enable 50MW AI-driven data centre infrastructure. Read here.


APAC

Firmus Secures US$10 Billion Financing led by Blackstone and Coatue to Scale Energy-Efficient AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Abu Dhabi’s G42 Leads $1 Billion Data Center Project in Vietnam. Read here.

OpenAI, Samsung SDS and SK Telecom set to start building data centres in Korea in March, minister says. Read here.

New York funds giant to pour $1.2b into Melbourne data centre. Read here.

Sharjah signs tripartite MoU to develop data centers and AI infrastructure. Read here.

Nxera opens 58MW green data center in Singapore. Read here.

Stack breaks ground on second Tokyo data center. Read here.

NTT buys land in Bangkok, Thailand, for new data center. Read here.


North America

Meta breaks ground on $10bn data centre campus in Lebanon, Indiana. Read here.

Meta purchases additional 1,400 acres for Hyperion mega-data center expansion. Read here.

Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity costs. Read here.

Equinix forecasts 10-11% revenue growth in 2026 amid AI demand. Read here.

Google secures nearly $32bn in debt following major data center capex commitment. Read here.

Google Backs TeraWulf Shift From Bitcoin Mining To AI Data Centers. Read here.

Energy Vault and Crusoe Announce Strategic Framework Agreement for Deployment of Crusoe Spark Modular AI Factory Units to Deliver Crusoe Cloud. Read here.

Ares Arranges $2.4 Billion Debt Facility to Vantage Data Centers. Read here.

White House eyes data center agreements amid energy price spikes. Read here.

CyrusOne partners with Constellation for 760MW data center campus in Texas. Read here.

CleanArc Data Centers Selected to Lead Development and Leasing for Crow Holdings’ 245MW Flagship Campus in Central Dallas. Read here.

New York moves toward data centre moratorium as energy fears grow. Read here.

Google enlists TotalEnergies for solar power at Texas data centre. Read here.

Telecom giant Bell Canada plans to build an “AI data centre campus” south of Regina, according to documents filed with the Rural Municipality of Sherwood. Read here.

Data center coming to Rapid City: Sequitor Edge plans facility in industrial park on south side. Read here.

AWS likely behind $4.8bn data center in Walla Walla, Washington. Read here.

Data center developer Stack to expand Hillsboro campus by 121MW. Read here.

Cologix acquires land in Ashburn, Virginia, for data center. Read here.

Global AI set to develop data center outside Denver, Colorado. Read here.

Intersect Power files to develop data center in Texas. Read here.

‘AI factory’ being proposed along Lakeshore Parkway in Birmingham. Read here.


South America

Millicom, NJJ Holding secure $1.2bn acquisition of Telefónica’s Chilean unit. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Here’s a way to use the data center boom to build a new economy in some communities. Read here.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I. Read here.

The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’. Read here.

Anthropic’s Data Center Ambition—and the Ex-Google Execs Who Could Make It Happen. Read here.

Can high-temperature superconductors transform the power infrastructure of datacenters? Read here.

AI Data Center Expansion Poses High Risk of Child Labor Issues. Read here.

Europe risks losing ground in AI race as data centre demand outpaces power and policy. Read here.


Inside Data Centre Podcast

AI, Frankfurt & the future of Europe’s Data Centres | Episode 1 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Watch here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 6th February 2026

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Reports

DWS: Hunger games: The data centre race for power, land and water. Read here.

AI and Data Centres: Climate and nature risks for investors. Read here.

AECOM: Inflation and labour shortages continue to hamper increasingly competitive London construction market, according to new AECOM report. Read here.


Europe

Armada and Nscale Sign Letter of Intent to Accelerate Sovereign AI Through Global Hyperscale and Edge Deployments. Read here.

Nvidia-backed UK AI firm Nscale hires banks for IPO, sources say. Read here.

Council rejects proposal for huge Scottish AI data centre. Read here.

Microsoft starts construction of data center in Bornasco, Italy. Read here.

900-space park and ride site in Cardiff could be transformed into data centre. Read here.

Campaigners fight to ‘save Brick Lane’ amid proposals for data centre on historic site. Read here.

Bucks council green lights major Equinix data centre. Read here.

Watford Mercure hotel data centre plan met with objections. Read here.

Government framework to build nuclear reactors to power Nottinghamshire data centre. Read here.

Court ruling tests Britain’s £1bn data centre power plans – and energy policy. Read here.

Infineon to invest €500m to meet ‘dynamic’ AI data centre demand. Read here.

Danish investors back Thylander Data Centers to expand national platform. Read here.

32MW, Israeli-backed data center coming to Albania. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Yellow Tulip announces Cleanwatts Mozambique to develop renewable-powered data centers in Southern Africa. Read here.

Dubai-based firm bets $1.6 billion on Africa’s AI data centres and farmland. Read here.

Saudi’s Neom megaproject review may focus on data centres. Read here.

STANLIB wins approval for Cassava Africa Data Centres acquisition. Read here.

Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon. Read here.


APAC

KKR-Led Consortium with Singtel Group to Fully Acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at S$13.8 Billion Enterprise Value. Read here.

Blackstone is finalising a $3.5bn private credit loan to support the expansion of Australian data-centre operator Firmus Technologies. Read here.

South Korea’s SGC Energy to build 300MW data center in North Jeolla. Read here.

I Squared weighing up sale of BDX. Read here.

Telangana signs MoU with the UPC–Volt JV to build 100 MW AI data center. Read here.

Ubitus partners with Maizuru City, Kyoto to launch AI data center project in Japan. Read here.


North America

Google parent boosts data center spending with doubling of capital expenditure plans. Read here.

Amazon plans $200 billion capex in 2026 as AWS ramps capacity. Read here.

SpaceX to join with xAI in $1.25 trillion Musk merger. Read here.

Musk, Zuckerberg Accelerate Data Center Spending, Reveal Competing AI Visions. Read here.

Nvidia, Prologis, EPRI, InfraPartners target prefab data centers at substation sites. Read here.

Developer lands $3 billion to finance North American data center pipeline. Read here.

High-volume rail terminal opens to support construction of Meta AI data centre. Read here.

TA Realty sells first hyperscale data centre buildings in Northern Virginia campus deal. Read here.

Tennessee utility TVA projects data center load to double across service area by 2030. Read here.

UK-based powered land developer Eneus Energy is looking to develop a 2GW data center on a site in Cameron County, Texas. Read here.

PowerHouse files to develop second phase of Spotsylvania data center campus in Virginia. Read here.

$10B data center campus proposed for former Bruce Mansfield site. Read here.

Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center. Read here.

Bitfarms files to convert cryptomine into AI data center. Read here.

900MW data center campus plan withdrawn in Hanover County, Virginia. Read here.

AI data center planned on 1,000+ acres at former Southland Paper Mill site. Read here.

QumulusAI gets approval for modular data center in Denton, Texas. Read here.

Investment firm Novacap and H5 Data Centers have launched a new data center venture and acquired three carrier hotels in the US from 365. Read here.

1,600-acre data center approved by local authorities in Forsyth, Georgia. Read here.

Igneo acquires 75MW US data centre platform from Northleaf, CVC DIF. Read here.


Space

Musk’s SpaceX applies to launch a million satellites into orbit. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Can AI De‑Risk Breakneck Data Centre Builds? Read here.

Why is Slough full of data centres? Read here.

Why the AI boom is different than the dot-com bubble. Read here.

Turning waste heat into value. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 30th January 2026

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Reports

Knight Frank: Data Centres Global Forecast Report – 2026. Read here.

Lockton: Data Centre Market Update: Q1 2026. Read here.

Data centre heat could warm more than 3.5 million UK homes. Read here.

Brookings: Why community benefit agreements are necessary for data centers. Read here.


Europe

Powering Britain’s AI Future: DataVita’s North Lanarkshire Site Named a UK AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Lanarkshire to become ‘one of the world’s most advanced AI sites’. Read here.

Google finally commits to much-anticipated Austria data centre. Read here.

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. Read here.

250MW data center planned for Bordeaux, France, to boost national AI capabilities. Read here.

atnorth announce new 30MW metro data center in Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

Romania preparing to build giant AI hub, data centers. Read here.

Bill Gates organizes Madrid utility summit to support data center buildout in Spain and Portugal. Read here.

Retelit to sell data center portfolio for $830 million – report. Read here.

Investec seeks buyer for £15.35m Trafford data centre. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

iXAfrica Data Centres Collaborates with Oracle to Deliver Kenya’s First Public Cloud Region. Read here.

Charles Russell Speechlys advises Qareeb Data Centres on strategic partnership to deliver Bahrain’s first edge data centre. Read here.

Tencent Cloud plans to boost Middle East data centre footprint. Read here.

Planned Saudi megacity ‘The Line’, designed for 9 million people across 170km, could be redesigned as a far smaller data center. Read here.

Active Energy explores UAE joint venture for data infrastructure, bitcoin mining. Read here.


APAC

Digital Edge to Build $4.5 Billion Data Center Campus in Indonesia. Read here.

Spark completes sale of 75% stake in data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners. Read here.

WinDC and Megaport partner on renewable-powered sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.

Blackstone plans Rs 10,000 crore data center park in Chennai. Read here.

Goodman files plans for 500 MW Sydney campus as expansion continues. Read here.

Singapore’s EPG raises nearly $100 million in Series B for modular AI data centres. Read here.

NeutraDC, Japan’s Ishikari data centre partner to link Hokkaido with Singapore, Indonesia. Read here.


North America

Meta, Microsoft execs defend move to double down on record data center spending. Read here.

Microsoft Cloud and AI strength drives second quarter results. Read here.

Meta estimates 2026 capex to be between $115-135bn, as data center spend grows. Read here.

Elon Musk’s Tesla to invest $2bn in Musk’s xAI, which is considering merging with Musk’s SpaceX ahead of IPO. Read here.

Nvidia invests $2bn in CoreWeave in new data centre push. Read here.

NVIDIA and CoreWeave Strengthen Collaboration to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories. Read here.

Meta Announces Up to $6 Billion Agreement With Corning to Support US Manufacturing. Read here.

Blackstone reports record results, powered by data center investments. Read here.

SoftBank pauses talks to acquire data center operator Switch: report. Read here.

SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, source says. Read here.

EdgeMode Expands Joint Venture with BAIF, Adding Approximately 2GW of New AI Data Center Development Projects. Read here.

NextEra Energy targets 15GW of new generation for data center hubs by 2035. Read here.

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt launches arm to power data centers with clean energy. Read here.

CleanSpark Texas Land Move Puts AI Data Center Ambitions In Focus. Read here.

A $10B data centre is being proposed in Olds, among Canada’s largest. Read here.

1GW data center campus proposed in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

Mount Pleasant village board approves Microsoft data center expansion. Read here.

Oracle revealed as tenant of Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico. Read here.

$3.9bn data center approved for construction in Spalding County, Georgia. Read here.

Details on proposed $3 billion data center in Spartanburg made public. Read here.

QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin, amid opposition from local officials. Read here.

Atlas Development files for 12-building data center campus in Temple, Georgia. Read here.

TigerDC announces $3 billion data center, new jobs in Spartanburg County. Read here.

Archbald Council hears from data center developer eyeing 500-acre site, possible mine water use. Read here.

2 million-square-foot data center proposed for Florida village. Read here.

Cloverleaf Infrastructure proposes data center campus near St. Louis, Missouri. Read here.

180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. Read here.


South America

Engemon tapped to build AI data center in Brazil. Read here.


Other interesting articles

UK data centres: How to close the delivery gap. Read here.

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers. Read here.

Execution, Not Demand, Is Now Defining Data Center Growth. Read here.

When AI Meets The Grid: Designing Data Centers For The Real World. Read here.

Why Portugal Is Becoming Southern Europe’s Next Data Centre Hub. Read here.

Australia’s data centre gold rush is coming — and 2026 looks like the starting gun. Read here.

2026 US Data Centers and Energy: Key Trends Shaping Power Demand. Read here.

Construction in 2026: A boon for data centers, but uncertainty elsewhere. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 23rd January 2026

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Reports

CBRE: 2026 European Real Estate Market Outlook. Read here.

Heatmap: Amid Rising Local Pushback, U.S. Data Center Cancellations Surged in 2025. Read here.

OpenAI: Stargate Community. Read here.


Europe

DayOne plans major 560 MW data centre near Helsinki. Read here.

Meins surpasses 11 GW as it expands across Europe’s hydrogen and data centre markets. Read here.

UpCloud opens data center at former NATO munitions bunker in Norway. Read here.

Sovereign AI Selects Accenture and Palantir to Help Build Next Generation AI Infrastructure Across EMEA. Read here.

Azur Datacenter is set to turn a former solar panel factory in Lyon, France, into a data center. Read here.

Norway’s ASP acquires land for 25MW data center project in Suldal. Read here.

UK Government admits “serious error” in forcing through hyperscale data centre without environment protections. Read here.

Octopus Energy and the Emirati state-owned renewables firm Masdar have announced a collaboration which they claim will “power the next generation of data centres” in the UK. Read here.

Mace Construct partners with Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) on sustainable AI data centres. Read here.

Global Switch signs Welsh wind power deal for AI hub. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia’s Humain to expand AI with $1.2B deal. Read here.

VivoPower International PLC announced the execution of an agreement to acquire, develop, build, operate, and own an initial 25MW data center facility in the United Arab Emirates. Read here.

Ooredoo’s Syntys buys Q Data to expand Qatar data centre portfolio. Read here.

Dubai’s DAMAC Secures Capacity Worth $12 Billion for U.S. AI Data Centres. Read here.

Data centres and energy at centre of $30bn New Gaza plan. Read here.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer reviews construction progress at Moro Hub’s new Green Data Centre in Warsan. Read here.

DEWA approves expansion of green data centre in Dubai. Read here.


APAC

$25 billion, 1 GW, and fully green: AM Green Group to build massive AI data centre in Uttar Pradesh. Read here.

State Gives NextDC Green Light for $2bn M4 Data Centre. Read here.

Aware Super invests $300M in Skyline JV data center business. Read here.

Digital Realty acquires Malaysian data centre owner. Read here.

Larsen & Toubro Vyoma marked a milestone in India’s digital evolution with the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony for its upcoming 40 MW green, AI-ready data centre at Mahape in Navi Mumbai. Read here.

UPC Volt to set up 100 MW AI-ready data centre in Telangana’s Bharat Future City. Read here.

Goodman files to develop 90MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Dongyang to build AI data centers in South Korea. Read here.

Google launches cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

‘First-of-its-kind’ 50MW SMR-powered data center planned in Uzbekistan. Read here.

Digital Halo secures US$ 46.9 million financing to expand Manila data center. Read here.


North America

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal. Read here.

Galaxy Secures ERCOT Approval to Double Power Capacity at Helios Data Center Campus. Read here.

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on Delta Forge 1, a 430 MW AI Factory Campus in a Southern U.S. State. Read here.

Riot Announces Fee Simple Acquisition of Land and First Data Center Lease with AMD at the Rockdale Site. Read here.

Tech giant Google behind $1 billion Little Rock data center. Read here.

Canada’s government puts out call for firms to build 100MW+ AI data centers. Read here.

OpenAI unveils plan to keep data-center energy costs in check. Read here.

Infrakey, City of Lacy Lakeview unveil 925MW data center district in McLennan County, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft proposes adding 15 data centers to Mount Pleasant project. Read here.

Mount Pleasant commission approves Microsoft’s plans for data center expansion. Read here.

Naperville residents pack meeting as city council considers controversial plan for large data center. Read here.

$10 Billion Data Centre Proposed For Morwell. Read here.

Switch buys 176 acres at Apex Industrial Park, Las Vegas. Read here.


South America

V.tal plans US-Brazil subsea cable plus new data centre in Porto Alegre. Read here.


Other interesting articles

‘Largest Infrastructure Buildout in Human History’: Jensen Huang on AI’s ‘Five-Layer Cake’ at Davos. Read here.

The AI Data Center Gold Rush Is Leaving The Landlords Behind. Read here.

Moody’s: $3 Trillion Data Center Investment by 2030 Amid Power Challenges. Read here.

Adapting Data Centers for the AI Era: From Speed to Agility. Read here.

Why tech billionaires dream of servers in the sky. Read here.

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Create Jobs for Electricians and Plumbers. Read here.

2025 Data Center M&A in review. Read here.

America’s aircraft Boneyard could end up powering the data centre boom. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 16th January 2026

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Reports

Microsoft: Building Community-First AI Infrastructure. Read here.

Arbonics: Europe’s data centres The nature report card. Read here.

Galaxy: Do We Have Enough Power? Read here.

Uptime Institute: Five Data Center Predictions for 2026. Read here.

AGC: Dampened expectations: The 2026 construction hiring and business outlook. Read here.


Europe

Amazon plans data centre at former power plant site. Read here.

Amazon ‘buys land in Oxfordshire for £200m’ at former power station. Read here.

East Havering Data Centre consultation date ‘error’ revealed. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers Completes £200M Tap of Existing £600M Industry-First EMEA Data Center Asset-Backed Securitization and Adds New £54M Class B Tranche. Read here.

Plans unveiled to redevelop former Anglesey chemical plant into AI data centre. Read here.

Blackstone could invest up to $4.65 billion for data center in Germany, Handelsblatt reports. Read here.

Prime targets data center development in Järvenpää, Finland. Read here.

Spanish data center firm Templus has completed the acquisition of three Grupo Aire data centers in Lisbon, Madrid, and Valencia. Read here.

NorthC Group to build new high-tech data center in Geneva, Switzerland. Read here.

Plans for 400 new Nottinghamshire homes and data centre could create hundreds of jobs. Read here.

EU regulations on AI and plans for limited data centre development to go to Cabinet. Read here.

Ireland hopes to grow data centre investments with new LEAP strategy. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Bahrain’s Arcapita acquires data centre in US. Read here.

Batelco and Qareeb to launch edge data centre in Bahrain. Read here.


APAC

CapitaLand Investment secures initial S$150m for India data centre fund. Read here.

Thailand Approves New Data Center Projects Worth $3.1 Billion. Read here.

Eurus, Toyota Tsusho to build 3-MW green data centre in Japan. Read here.

Daewoo Engineering & Construction announced that it has signed a multiparty agreement to develop two large-scale artificial intelligence data centers in South Jeolla Province (South Korea). Read here.

Australia’s GreenSquareDC expanding data center in Greater Western Sydney. Read here.

Keppel secures 720MW powerbank site Near Melbourne for AI DC campus. Read here.

TM Nxera secures 280MW power from TNB for Johor data center. Read here.

Malaysia tightens rules to prevent ‘phantom’ power demand by data centers. Read here.


North America

Meta establishes ‘Meta Compute,’ plans multiple gigawatt-plus scale AI data centers. Read here.

Meta signs nuclear power deals with Oklo, TerraPower and Vistra. Read here.

Cerebras scores OpenAI deal worth over $10 billion ahead of AI chipmaker’s IPO. Read here.

BlackRock Says AI Partnership Raises $12.5 Billion Toward $30 Billion Goal. Read here.

LightHouse Data Centers launches, plans 2GW pipeline. Read here.

Galaxy Digital Completes ERCOT Interconnection Studies and Secures Approval for Additional 830 Megawatts at Helios Data Center Campus, Doubling Total Approved Power Capacity to over 1.6 Gigawatts. Read here.

Metrobloks joins Soluna’s Project Kati 2 as neocloud LOI secured. Read here.

HC Capital Partners and Herrmann Family Companies announced plans for the development of Energy Ranch, a 1,500+ acre data center campus. Read here.

AVAIO Digital Announces New Large-Scale AI-Ready Data Center and Power Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.

600MW and Growing: XYZ Reality Expands Partnership with Applied Digital to Accelerate AI Factory Delivery. Read here.

Nebius plans 800MW data center campus outside Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

330MW Google-linked data center proposed in Southern California. Read here.

Blueprint Data Centers accelerates 85MW Texas capacity across greater Austin area. Read here.

CyrusOne and Eolian Partner to Enable Rapid Deployment of 200 Megawatt Data Center Campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.

Eolian and CyrusOne team up to deploy Texas data centre at site of 100MW BESS. Read here.

CleanSpark acquires 447 acres for second Texas AI data center site. Read here.

Cipher Mining acquires land for 200MW data center site in Ohio. Read here.

RadiusDC announces 24MW data center campus outside Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

Proposed AI data center sparks debate in rural Montana. Read here.

Laramie County commission unanimously approves massive AI data center. Read here.

The $1.5 Billion Project the Niagara Falls Mayor Doesn’t Want Residents to Know About. Read here.

Microsoft, CoreWeave, Google, QTS and more attend DOE Savannah River Site data center meeting. Read here.

Tract expands Austin data center park to 3,000 acres. Read here.

QTS files to expand Fayetteville data center campus in Georgia. Read here.

Limerick eyes 1.4-million-square-foot data center proposal. Read here.

Virginia-based data center company tied to roughly 180-acre purchase in Bastrop County. Read here.

DC BLOX Secures $240 Million HoldCo Financing Facility from Global Infrastructure Partners. Read here.

TensorWave to lease 20MW across two TecFusions data centers in the US. Read here.


South America

Casa dos Ventos, Ascenty announce largest energy contract for data centers in Latin America. Read here.

Hive Digital Technologies to launch Buzz Cloud platform in Paraguay. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Could New Nuclear Feed Power-Hungry Data Centers? Read here.

Why repurposing industrial warehouses as edge data centres can be beneficial for all involved. Read here.

Honey, I shrunk the data centres: Is small the new big? Read here.

Interdependency: The Emerging Operational Security Dependencies Between Data Centers and Electric Utilities. Read here.

(UK) Construction ends 2025 on high as analysts predict ‘structural shift’ due to data centre demand. Read here.

Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust? Listen here.

State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy. Read here.

BlackRock: Investors Are Betting Big on Data Centre Energy. Read here.

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 9th January 2026

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Reports:

JLL: 2026 Global Data Center Outlook. Read here.

EPOCH AI: AI Chip Sales. Read here.

PWC: Transforming India into a trusted global data hub. Read here.


Europe

KKR and Oak Hill Capital Commit Nearly $2 Billion to Leading European Data Center Platform Global Technical Realty. Read here.

Compute Nordic gets permission to build 212 MW data center in Finland. Read here.

Magnora takes majority stake in planned 120MW data center project in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Read here.

London player Colt targets data centre migration to expand Singapore market share. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia launches 480MW Hexagon data centre. Read here.

Nebius secures 80MW Israel capacity in $880 million Mega Or build. Read here.

RailTel to set up data centre in Ethiopia. Read here.


APAC

DayOne Data Centers Announces Over US$2.0 Billion Series C Financing to Accelerate Global Digital Infrastructure Expansion. Read here.

HCMC sets up task force to expedite US$ 2 billion data center. Read here.

Summit Group plans first data centre in Bangladesh. Read here.

Bain Capital-Backed Bridge Data Centres Plans Foray Into Japan, Australia, Middle East. Read here.

Japan’s largest data center cluster to come up in Toyama prefecture. Read here.

Lum Chang inks deal with MyTelehaus to build data center in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Read here.


North America

Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi. Read here.

CoreWeave Extends Its Cloud Platform with NVIDIA Rubin Platform. Read here.

Nvidia-Backed Cloud Provider Lambda in Talks to Raise $350 Million Ahead of IPO. Read here.

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in Michigan township. Read here.

Microsoft plans data center campuses in Dorr and Lowell Townships, Michigan. Read here.

Meta locks in multi-gigawatt nuclear power deals to fuel AI and data centre growth. Read here.

Crusoe gets go-ahead for 1.8GW data center campus and power plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read here.

Prologis eyes 13-building data center development in Indiana. Read here.

Navy reactors eyed for Tennessee data centre. Read here.

How is STACK Infrastructure linked to Caddo, Bossier data center deals? Read here.

Vantage completes latest data center in Montréal, Canada. Read here.

More details emerge on Data Center proposal (Alabama). Read here.

Principals, Developers Plan Hyperscale Data Center In New Mexico. Read here.

Marana Town Council approves rezoning for Luckett Road Project, 600-acre hyperscale data center. Read here.

Digital Realty files to expand Digital Dulles campus in Northern Virginia. Read here.

Skybox eyes six-building data center campus in San Angelo, Texas. Read here.

Wilmington planning commission tables vote on $4B Amazon data center. Read here.

Rowan starts construction on 300MW data centre campus in Texas. Read here.

RadiusDC looks to build two data centers outside Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

Duos Technologies deploys new edge DC in Texas. Read here.

Digital Core REIT leases Virginia data center to unnamed cloud provider. Read here.


Other interesting articles

The Fight Over Making Data Centers Power Down to Avoid Blackouts. Read here.

Data centers get makeovers to blunt NIMBY criticism. Read here.

Data centers were 40% of PJM capacity costs in last auction: market monitor. Read here.

Data Centers are Lousy for the Planet. Should We Move Them to Space? Read here.

Southern California’s unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city. Read here.

How would an AI ‘bubble’ impact Wisconsin communities hosting data centers? Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 2nd January 2026

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Europe

Amazon secures permission to build three data centres in North Dublin. Read here.

EdgeMode secures power supply for 1.5GW Spanish data center platform. Read here.

Azrieli to invest €1 billion in Norwegian data center campus. Read here.

Historic factory site in Wales could become major data centre. Read here.

Plans unveiled to build new data centre on Cardiff East Park and Ride. Read here.

Plans submitted to erect data centre at North Yorkshire power station. Read here.

Data centre plan for Mercure Hotel Watford submitted. Read here.

Huge data centre plan ‘misrepresents’ truth of Wiltshire land. Read here.

Asterion seeks clearance for acquisition of Altice’s Portugal hyperscale data centre. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

SDAIA starts work on world’s largest government data centre in Riyadh. Read here.

Can Saudi Arabia Disrupt Global Data Centre Markets with Ultra-Low Energy Costs? Read here.

Kenya’s tech evolution: Construction of colossal data centre underway at Tatu City. Read here.


APAC

SoftBank Group to Acquire DigitalBridge for $4 Billion to Scale Next-Gen AI Infrastructure. Read here.

CapitaLand India Trust Sells 20.2% Stakes in Three Data Centre Assets. Read here.

Eight data centre parks to come up in Uttar Pradesh. Read here.

Global alliance develops $1 billion AI data centre network in Vietnam. Read here.

Blackstone’s AirTrunk weighs Singapore REIT option: report. Read here.


North America

Applied Digital to Spin Out Cloud Business, Proposes Business Combination with EKSO to Launch ChronoScale. Read here.

Nvidia Strikes a Deal With Groq, an A.I. Chip Start-Up. Read here.

Musk-backed xAI moves ahead with third large-scale data centre in US South. Read here.

Elon Musk Is Turning ‘Colossus’ Data Center Into a 2-Gigawatt AI Behemoth. Read here.

Cipher Mining Announces Acquisition of 200 MW Site in Ohio. Read here.

Brookfield to start cloud business amid AI frenzy: The Information. Read here.

Swiss-Backed Data Center Plan Targets €8 Billion in Gas-Rich Alberta. Read here.


South America

Cirion accelerates corporate business with data center in Peru. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World. Read here.

Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape. Read here.

The defining data centre deals of 2025 and the investors behind them. Read here.

DCD: The End-of-Year Supplement. Read here.

Will sustainable data centres power the future? Read here.

How AI Is Putting Data Center Infrastructure Under Pressure. Read here.


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Weekly Data Centre News – 12th December 2025

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Reports

Dell’Oro Group: Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market Expands 18 Percent Y/Y in 3Q 2025, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

Omdia: Cloud and Data Center Market Snapshot – December 2025. Read here.

DC Byte: The Hyperscale Build Race. Read here.

Goldman Sachs: Is There Enough Data Center Capacity for AI? Read here.


Europe

evroc and SUSE Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign European Cloud Solutions. Read here.

Historic investment lands in West Denmark as Microsoft announces new datacenter region. Read here.

Northumberland’s £10 billion data center set for major step forward. Read here.

Nuclear Industry Association warns of UK need to overhaul energy strategies for AI race. Read here.

Argyll Infrastructure Holdings, a Dunoon-based firm focused on building sustainable, high-performance data centres has announced an initial capital raise of £15 million. Read here.

Dunoon Argyll AI data centre complex plans take step forward. Read here.

Drax announces data centre plans as earnings expected at ‘top end’ of forecasts. Read here.

Plans for massive data centre at Corsham to be determined next week. Read here.

Decision due on plans for £250m data centre. Read here.

Polarnode Plans Major Data Centre Project in Kuopio’s Mustakorpi Area. Read here.

Equinix targets 150MW campus in Lelystad, Netherlands. Read here.

NEOIX PLC Announces 50 MW AI Data Center project in Nova Gradiska, Croatia. Read here.

Antin Infrastructure Partners acquires European data center firm NorthC. Read here.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board eyes half of Goodman European data centre fund. Read here.

Nu Quantum Raises $60M Series A in Largest Financing Round for Quantum Computer Networking. Read here.

Norway’s USD 2.1trn wealth fund shuns data centers. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Brookfield and Qai, an artificial intelligence company owned by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, have formed a $20 billion joint venture to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure in Qatar and select international markets. Read here.

UAE’s Khazna enters Saudi Arabia with first data centre. Read here.

Saudi Arabia eyes data embassies amid sovereign AI push. Read here.

Saudi’s Humain partners with Global AI for US data center deployment. Read here.


APAC

Microsoft invests US$17.5 billion in India to drive AI diffusion at population scale. Read here.

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

Bain weighs multibillion-dollar options for Bridge Data Centres amid AI infrastructure rush. Read here.

Empyrion Digital cleared to build 200+MW data centre in Malaysia. Read here.

India’s Adani Group to establish 48MW data center in southern India. Read here.

HITC and Evolution Data Centres partner to build hyperscale data centers in Vietnam. Read here.

WinDC unveils portable, renewable-powered AI factories. Read here.

Australian Data Centres adds second operational campus in Canberra. Read here.


North America

Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment. Read here.

Oracle shares slide on $15bn increase in data centre spending. Read here.

KKR To Invest Billions In Portfolio Of Brookfield-Backed Compass Datacenters. Read here.

Blue Owl raises $1.7bn for digital infrastructure trust as data centre demand accelerates. Read here.

InfraRed Capital Partners announces strategic core-plus digital infrastructure vehicle with Pantheon. Read here.

SoftBank Looking at Potential Deal for Data-Center Operator Switch, Bloomberg Says, Citing Sources. Read here.

Argo Infrastructure Partners Increases Ownership and Capital Commitment to TierPoint. Read here.

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud Announce Landmark Strategic Energy and Technology Partnership to Accelerate AI Growth and Transform the Energy Industry. Read here.

Boom Supersonic pivots to develop turbines for AI Data Centers: AI Needs More Power Than the Grid Can Deliver. Supersonic Tech Can Fix That. Read here.

NextEra Energy partners with Google to develop at least three gigawatt-scale data center campuses. Read here.

3.7 million sq ft data center campus gets initial OK from officials in Florida. Read here.

Palm Beach County postpones 200-acre ‘Project Tango’ AI data center after community outrage. Read here.

Former aviation firm Jet.AI details plans for 350-acre data center campus in Winnipeg, Canada. Read here.

$10bn data center project recieves approval in Lacy Lakeview, Texas. Read here.

CyrusOne files to expand data center campus outside Waco, Texas. Read here.

Filing reveals initial piece of Google’s $40 billion investment in Texas. Read here.

Project Blue data center in Tucson, Arizona, secures utility connection with Tucson Electric Power – report. Read here.

Former coal plant site in Springdale sold for $14.3M to make way for massive data center. Read here.

Georgia Power proposes $16bn plan to add 10GW of new generation capacity to meet data center growth. Read here.

New data center could be coming to Woodlawn area in Baltimore County. Read here.

AI Data Centers Have Paid $6B+ In Tariffs In 2025 — A Cost To U.S. AI Competitiveness? Read here.


South America

Mexico’s KIO cuts ribbon on new Querétaro data center. Read here.

Brazilian fiber firm Nicnet to open two Edge data centers in São Paulo. Read here.


Space

Aetherflux, a space-based solar technology company hoping to beam power down to Earth, is now throwing its hat into the orbital data center ring. Read here.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers. Read here.

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up. Read here.

Billionaires are racing to build data centers in space. Read here.


Other interesting articles

DCD>Awards 2025: Winners announced! Read here.

Data centre boom sparks deals rush. Read here.

Certainty through transparency: A new planning paradigm for data center loads. Read here.

How data centre developments can enrich society. Read here.

Shaky data centre tenants could choke off AI boom. Read here.

Big global investors see gold in AI but don’t buy the rush. Read here.

Blackstone’s Gray says data centers still an attractive investment. Read here.

Five debt hotspots in the AI data centre boom. Read here.


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