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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Space

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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South America

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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South America

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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South America

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Reports

BloombergNEF: AI and the Power Grid: Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Read here.

Baker McKenzie: Data Centers Unlocked: What’s New and What Matters. Read here.

S&P Global: The Saudi Arabia data center market: a catalyst for economic innovation. Read here.

S&P Global: Navigating the US data center power crunch: On-site solutions offer a faster path to power. Read here.

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Europe

Amazon planning Oxfordshire data centre on old coal plant. Read here.

‘Biggest ever’ private investment set to bring giant data centre to Teesworks. Read here.

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

First phase of data centre works given go-ahead. Read here.

Council seeks views on Ratcliffe power station data centre plans. Read here.

Data centre development could undermine London housebuilding, panel warns. Read here.

Bitzero Begins Phase I at 1GW Finland Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Deutsche Telekom and Schwarz Group to build AI data centre, German newspaper reports. Read here.

WBS, Prime Capital to combine German PV/BESS project with data centre. Read here.

Two data center campuses planned outside Warsaw, Poland. Read here.

Nostrum Group Selects AECOM to Build Data Centre in SW Spain. Read here.

Magnora adds 100 MW data center project to its Norwegian portfolio. Read here.

ASP DC acquires site of planned 300MW data center campus in Pori, Finland. Read here.

Digital Realty Starts Work on New Frankfurt Data Centre. Read here.

Investment firm Asterion Industrial Partners has acquired Altice Portugal’s flagship data center. Read here.

Nscale chief says power-first strategy is driving its rise in Europe’s AI boom. Read here.

Equinix has secured the first energy-capacity reservation from French small modular reactor startup Stellaria, marking a significant step in the companies nuclear power partnership. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Ooredoo partners with Oracle to launch sovereign cloud in Qatar. Read here.

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APAC

OpenAI, NextDC Plan to Build $4.6 Billion Sydney Data Center. Read here.

$7 billion infrastructure deal to boost AI in Australia. Read here.

Sydney’s only new 2026 AI data centre reaches major milestone with Macquarie’s 47MW build. Read here.

Singapore opens call to develop 200MW of data center capacity. Read here.

Digital Realty partners BW Digital to rollout new subsea cable connecting Singapore, Batam. Read here.

Sharon AI poised to launch $100m pre-IPO round; eyes March IPO. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers completes Cyberjaya campus with launch of fully leased 16MW fourth facility. Read here.

Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers in talks for $2.6 billion in upsized funding: Sources. Read here.

APAC data center firm Flow Digital Infrastructure has launched a data center outside Manila, the Philippines. Read here.

OpenAI strives for Tata hand to grow footprint in India. Read here.

SC Capital Partners’ Zeus DC break ground on facility in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

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North America

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

Nvidia CFO says $100bn OpenAI deal has yet to complete. Read here.

OpenAI data center planned for farmland in Saline. Read here.

Oracle in talks for $38 billion loan to support Vantage Data Centers-led campus. Read here.

NTT DATA Lands Hyperscale Agreements Totaling Over 130MW Across Four Campuses. Read here.

600MW natural gas-powered data center campus proposed in Hubbard, Texas. Read here.

Nexus Data Centers to develop a new sustainable AI data center in Texas. Read here.

Jet.AI & Consensus Core Announce Strategic Interest in Midwestern Canadian Data-Center Campus. Read here.

CBRE’s Trammell Crow files to develop 12 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

NJFX plans 10MW liquid-cooled data hall in New Jersey. Read here.

AI Data Center Firm Iren Seeks $2 Billion in Convertibles. Read here.

Biggest US power grid operator moving forward with plan to manage data centers. Read here.

Applied Digital Leads $25 Million Funding Round for Corintis to Advance Innovation in Data Center Technology. Read here.

CoreWeave Lands $555M for $1.8B New Jersey Project. Read here.

Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Water-Saving Hybrid Cooling Agreement for World’s Largest Private Energy Grid. Read here.

Morgan Stanley Considers Offloading Some of Its Data-Center Exposure. Read here.

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South America

Actis launches new Latin American hyperscale data center platform, TERRANOVA, To Accelerate Latin America’s Digital Expansion. Read here.

TikTok to Invest More Than $37 Billion in Brazil Data Center. Read here.

Brookfield and ByteDance circle multibillion-dollar Brazil data-centre parks. Read here.

Brazil’s BNDES works to create fund for AI and data centers in 2026. Read here.

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Data Centers Are a ‘Gold Rush’ for Construction Workers. Read here.

Data centres are booming – how can architects improve their design? Read here.

What the CEO of the world’s largest data center company—with 273 locations in 36 countries—predicts will drive the business forward. Read here.

New AWS AI Factories transform customers’ existing infrastructure into high-performance AI environments. Read here.

How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust. Read here.

Why energy traders are sceptical of the data centre build-out. Read here.

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west. Read here.

Meet the trucks-and-bulldozers companies getting rich from the AI boom. Read here..

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Reports

Boston Consulting Group: AI Data Centers: An Opportunity in the Middle East. Read here.

AKERLOF: Consumption to contribution The role of data centres in creating sustainable value. Read here.

M3 Property: Data Centre growth in Australia. Read here.

Uptime Institute: Cost Comparisons: Enterprise Data Centers vs Colocation vs Cloud. Read here.

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Europe

Digital Realty, Equinix Said to Vie for Nordic Data Center Firm. Read here.

Echelon Iberdrola Digital Infra is created to invest more than 2 billion euros in data centres in Spain. Read here.

Pure Data Centres Secures Approval for €400m Madrid Campus. Read here.

Nscale and Aker buy land in Fauske, Norway, for data center. Read here.

Major Equinix data centre (Slough) plan approved by councillors. Read here.

The edge of the visible: Cambois data centre. Read here.

UK data centres approved by parliament as ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’. Read here.

UK’s Blackpool Council looking for provider to develop £300m data center after granting planning permission for project. Read here.

Microsoft facing ‘painful’ delays over Leeds data centre plans. Read here.

BGO plans €2bn European value-add fund. Read here.

GTR begins construction of first Swiss data center. Read here.

Thésée Datacenter launches €500M data center campus in Aubergenville. Read here.

Digita Group Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by GI Partners. Read here.

atNorth to supply waste heat from DEN01 data center to district heating network in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Qatar poised as regional powerhouse for AI and quantum computing. Read here.

UAE to invest $1bn in AI infrastructure across Africa. Read here.

Oracle deploys the Middle East’s first AI supercluster to power sovereign AI in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

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APAC

Vantage Data Centers Completes $1.6B Investment in APAC Platform from GIC and ADIA; Closes Acquisition of Yondr’s 300MW+ Hyperscale Campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Core AI Holdings claims $5bn AI data center plan for Malaysia and Uzbekistan. Read here.

Macquarie Technology explores JV, capital recycling for $3bn data centre. Read here.

Go-ahead for giant $3.1b data centre in Sydney suburb. Read here.

NEXTDC helps launch Data Centres Australia: Marking a new era for the nation’s digital infrastructure. Read here.

‘Ruthless’ Allen govt chases data centre boom (Australia). Read here.

AIMS Data Centre triples capacity as Malaysia’s digital infrastructure demand surges. Read here.

Digital Connexion to Invest $11 Billion in 1GW AI-Ready Data Centre Campus in Andhra Pradesh. Read here.

Reliance Industries & US-Based Digital Realty Co-Steer Joint Venture To Invest ₹98,000 Crore To Build 1 Gigawatt Data Centres In Andhra Pradesh. Read here.

Tillman Global Holdings to develop a 300 MW hyperscale DC campus in Visakhapatnam. Read here.

DigitalBridge, KT team up for gigawatt scale AI data centres in Korea. Read here.

Overwatch Capital and Japan’s Idemitsu to develop 1GW data centers in the US. Read here.

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North America

CME trading halt due to fault at Data Center disrupts global markets. Read here.

Hyperscaler borrowing closes in on $100 billion to fund AI infrastructure build out. Read here.

Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees. Read here.

Amazon to invest $15 billion in Indiana to boost data center infrastructure. Read here.

$21B data center proposal aims to become one of Georgia’s largest. Read here.

Serverfarm targets 135-acre data center campus in Arkansas. Read here.

OpenAI must find $207bn to meet AI data center spending commitments – HSBC. Read here.

OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions. Read here.

Banks in talks to lend $38 billion to fund sites for OpenAI, FT reports. Read here.

AWS Commits US$50bn to New Federal AI Data Centres in the US. Read here.

Amazon Data Services gains approval for data center on 56 acres in Gilroy, California. Read here.

In Minnesota farm country, a plan for a $4 billion data center takes root with vast wind, solar and battery projects. Read here.

CleanArc Data Centers Breaks Ground on 900MW Flagship Hyperscale Campus in Virginia. Read here.

Serverfarm seeks ABS funding to the tune of $589m. Read here.

Data center proposed for 500-acre site in Page, Arizona. Read here.

Equinix plans $835 million data center in west Dallas. Read here.

Turner Construction doubles data center revenue in 2025 with major AI-infrastructure projects. Read here.

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South America

Brazilian company plans solar-powered data centre in Paraguay. Read here.

BNDES approves 200mn reais for Scala to acquire machinery and equipment for data centers. Read here.

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Top 10: Data Centre LinkedIn Voices. Read here.

Lease Structure Key To Liquidity As Investors Maintain Data Centre Appetite. Read here.

Is the race to build data centres in space a planet-saver or pie in the sky? Read here.

The hyperscalers’ building programmes: How enterprises are affected. Read here.

New industrial era or early signs of an AI bubble – what does the UAE data centre industry think? Read here.

Autumn Budget 2025: How the UK plans to scale AI data centres. Read here.

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