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Reports

Aurora Energy Research, a global provider of energy market analysis, has published a new report highlighting how data centres are becoming critical infrastructure in the Iberian Peninsula. Read here.

KPMG: Data centres in Ireland. Read here.

Nvidia’s Data Center Revenue Hits Record High as Results Top Estimates. Read here.

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Europe

Data4 broke ground on Greek data center outside Athens. Read here.

Mainova subsidiary secures €475m loan for data centre projects. Read here.

Planning application lodged for data centre in north Mayo. Read here.

TIM announced it will invest around €130 million to grow TIM Enterprise in the cloud and build a new data centre near Rome. Read here.

Firms hatch plan to use data-centre heat to grow food in Scandinavia. Read here.

EU to raid data centre builders over anti-competitive practices. Read here.

FOI requests show the vast majority of UK data center applications are approved. Read here.

Solaria enters the UK and continues to expand its data center business through the creation of joint ventures. Read here.

Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data center provider Deep Green. Read here.

Ireland can cope with data centres and should build more. Read here.

Ferrovial taps data centre veteran to lead digital infrastructure push as CEO. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Pure Data Centres and Dune Vaults to develop multiple hyperscale data centre campuses in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Industry 4.0 and AI driving Hyperscale Data Center development in UAE. Read here.

Saudi Arabian data centre operator Ezditek has formed a joint venture with AI cloud infrastructure provider GCore to develop AI training models in the Kingdom. Read here.

Ezditek Breaks Ground on Data Center Facility in Riyadh. Read here.

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APAC

Keppel DC REIT secures full ownership of key data centres in Singapore. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services and RMZ announced a joint venture to invest $1.7 Billion in the Indian Data Centre market. Read here.

AirTrunk has partnered with solar developer Pekat Solar to develop a rooftop solar array at its JHB1 data center campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Read here.

Di Pilla’s $4b data centre play books December debut on ASX. Read here.

South Korea, India, Indonesia the next three markets for AirTrunk, says Robin Khuda. Read here.

JLL secures significant plot for digital firm in Thailand. Read here.

Fuelled by AI boom, India’s Data Centre capacity to surge 66% by 2026. Read here.

Mawson Infrastructure Group reports 222% revenue surge in digital colocation business. Read here.

CPP Investments and Pacific AMC form JV to develop data centres in South Korea. Read here.

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North America

Facebook parent Meta plans $5 billion AI data center in Louisiana. Read here.

Cologix Plans $7 Billion, 800-MW Data Center Complex in Ohio. Read here.

CleanArc to develop 600MW campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.

Yondr Group has launched its first data center in Northern Virginia. Read here.

Vantage is to develop a data center campus outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Amazon picks Sunbury as site for $2 billion data center investment. Read here.

Iron Mountain Expands Planned Data Center Capacity in Virginia by more than 350 MW. Read here.

Core Scientific and Port Muskogee Break Ground on 100 MW HPC Data Center. Read here.

Corscale topped out 72MW Gainesville Crossing facility in Northern Virginia. Read here.

US hosting firm Patmos to convert former printing press in Kansas City into 100MW data center. Read here.

Elon Musk raising up to $6 billion to buy technology for Memphis data center. Read here.

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

Data center development proposed in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Read here.

Colovore opens second 9MW high-density, liquid-cooled data center in Santa Clara. Read here.

Microsoft launched two data center infrastructure chips to speed AI applications. Read here.

Massive Dallas Data Center Campus to Drive $25B Market Boom by 2027. Read here.

CPS Energy to invest upwards of $1.3bn in transmission and generation to meet rapid data center growth in Texas. Read here.

Duos signs 850MW deal with Fortress to deploy fleet of mobile gas turbines for data center sector. Read here.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure has appointed Charley Daitch as CEO, effective immediately. Read here.

LogicMonitor, which optimises data centre operations through technology is targeting UK growth after securing $800 million in funding. Read here.

CETY signs MoU with Metis to develop microgrid solutions for data center and crypto market. Read here.

Crusoe, a rumored OpenAI data center supplier, has secured $686M in new funds. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The good neighbour theory: how data centres can strike a better balance between technology, community and nature. Read here.

Is Greece Ready for Energy-hungry Data Centers? Read here.

What’s El Capitan? And Other Big Data Center Questions. Read here.

Data centres could aid offshore wind development. Read here.

This hyperscale data center developer thinks about power differently. Read here.

Data center stakeholders must collaborate to meet clean energy targets. Read here.

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Reports

Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers By 2027. Read here.

Ensuring U.S. Leadership in AI: Industry Perspective on Data Center Growth. Read here.

Anthropic CEO: AI training data centers to be $10bn in 2026, $100bn from 2027. Read here.

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Europe

DTCP announced the launch of a new data center platform, GreenScale. Read here.

Aermont to buy European data centre firm Nabiax from Asterion and Telefónica. Read here.

Construction firm ACS plots 5GW data center investment strategy. Read here.

Portugal’s national grid CEO says group has 2GW of data centre capacity in the making. Read here.

EDPR is exploring locations across Spain and Portugal to build data centers powered by renewable energy. Read here.

Skanska signs additional contract to build a data center in Telemark, Norway. Read here.

Digital Core REIT has announced plans to hold an EGM on December 4, 2024, to discuss its proposed acquisition of an additional interest in a data centre in Germany. Read here.

ING supports Ark Data Centres with the expansion of Union Park data centre campus. Read here.

New data centre platform EdgeNebula has launched its operations with a focus on addressing the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Read here.

Drax Group Plc is exploring options to sell power to a data-center provider in the UK, guaranteeing income for its biomass-fired plant. Read here.

Fighting Abbots Langley (UK) data centre plan cost council £108k. Read here.

Permission for new battery plant and data centre ‘undermines Welsh planning policy’. Read here.

Pretax profits at Irish arm of data centre company Equinix more than halve. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia launches $100bn AI, digital infrastructure mega investment package. Read here.

Beeah and Khazna sign Sharjah data centre pact. Read here.

Ethiopian natural gas may be used to power data centres. Read here.

Teraco begins construction of 120MW Solar Plant to Power South African Data Centers. Read here.

Africa Data Centres intends to expand its presence across West and North Africa. Read here.

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APAC

Australian HMC Capital to launch £2bn data centre IPO. Read here.

Amazon appears to have shelved plans for a 40MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Malaysia’s Data Center Bet: New Planning Guidelines Set to Drive Growth. Read here.

Shanghai DC-Science Co., a leading Chinese data center developer and operator, is actively seeking a substantial private debt financing of between $600 million and $700 million. Read here.

Goodman completes third data centre building in Tsuen Wan West, Hong Kong. Read here.

Empyrion Digital Expands into Thailand with a New Data Center. Read here.

State-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited has started work on a $70m Indian Coast Guard’s data center in Mahipalpur, New Delhi. Read here.

Nxtra planning 200 MW data center in Hyderabad. Read here.

STT GDC has broken ground on two facilities in Mumbai, India. Read here.

Tencent Holdings is set to invest $500 million as part of plans to develop a third data center in Indonesia. Read here.

Chinese data center firm Zdata eyes Hong Kong IPO. Read here.

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North America

FERC’s Talen Energy-Amazon decision unlikely to impact NuScale data center plans. Read here.

Dataprana Inc. began the construction of its 30-megawatt (MW) data center in La Marque (Texas). Read here.

Bloom Energy has signed a supply agreement with American Electric Power for up to 1GW of its products, the largest commercial procurement of fuel cells in the world to date. Read here.

Meta launched it’s Gallatin Campus. Read here.

Prime Data Centers today announced the opening of its Los Angeles Data Center. Read here.

Why Fluor sees good news in Trump and data centre ‘sweet spot’. Read here.

Turner to build $2bn Ohio Vantage Data Centers campus. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has filed to build two more data centers outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Patmos to convert Kansas City Star building into a state-of-the-art 100 MW data center. Read here.

Balico LLC is revising plans to develop a 300MW Data Center campus in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.

California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company is to develop three data centers in San Jose totaling 200MW. Read here.

Amazon buys 350-acre parcel in Becker, Minnesota, for data center. Read here.

Stillwater residents vote to approve Data Center Project. Read here.

Ark has broken ground on Green Bay data center expansion in Wisconsin. Read here.

Wichita Falls council approves land rezoning for 300MW data center in Texas. Read here.

Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. Read here.

A 900-acre data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia, has been granted zoning permission. Read here.

Sharon AI plots 90MW natural gas-powered data center in New Mexico. Read here.

Logistix gets planning commission approval for data center project outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Read here.

Talen eyes options for Amazon data center after regulator rejection. Read here.

Canadian power generator TransAlta is in talks with major data center operators interested in building sites in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Modular Data Centers mulls expansion. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

It’s not getting any easier to keep data centres cool, warns ABI Research. Read here.

AI takeoff turns data centers into America’s new building boom. Read here.

Texas boffins come up with new cooling material for data centres. Read here.

The data center industry needs a thicker skin. Read here.

These Silicon Valley apartments will get their heat from nearby data centers. Read here.

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Reports

CyrusOne announced new research which revealed that public attitudes towards data centers are more favorable than expected. Read here.

Blackstone: The Convergence of Data Centers and Power. Read here.

Synergy Group: Cloud Market Growth Surge Continues in Q3. Read here.

AI, Data Center And Energy Startups Get Large Capital Infusion In October. Read here.

Q3 2024 Colo earnings. Read here.

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Europe

Amazon to invest $1.3bln in Italy data centre business. Read here.

EDF in talks with providers to power 1GW data centres in France. Read here.

atNorth announced the substantial expansion of two of its data centers in Iceland. Read here.

UK poised to follow the trend of private SMRs to power AI data centres. Read here.

techUK: Data Centre Sector Could Be Fastest Growing UK Industry. Read here.

The 12th-century village battling against the boom in AI data centres (UK). Read here.

The UK government is set to recommend the creation of special ‘computing zones’ for easier building of data centres, as well a simplified visa process for foreign workers with AI skills. Read here.

Box2bit plans €3.4bn data center in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

Telefónica said to close in on Nabiax sale to Aermont Capital. Read here.

Jones Engineering enjoys near doubling in profit as overseas business takes off. Read here.

US colocation giant Equinix has launched a new data center in Istanbul, Türkiye. Read here.

Baltic operator Delska has topped out its 10MW data center in Riga, Latvia. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

UAE’s Hodler Investments and China’s GCL Energy to power AI data centres in Ethiopia. Read here.

Batelco and Qareeb Data Centers sign MoU at Gateway Gulf Forum. Read here.

Equinix, Omantel launch new data centre in Oman. Read here.

Emerging Markets to watch out for in the Middle East. Read here.

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APAC

GDS International received approval to build a hyperscale data centre in Thailand. Read here.

Thai Board of Investment approves two major data centre projects worth $1.7 billion. Read here.

Keppel has acquired an under-development data center being constructed in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Goodman expands data centre services to meet global demand. Read here.

Markham Real Estate has filed plans for a 38MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Nxtra to set up a 200 MW data centre in Hyderabad. Read here.

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital is expanding into Taiwan. Read here.

South Korea’s KIOST signed an agreement to develop underwater data center in Ulsan. Read here.

SK Telecom to Launch AI Data Centers in Seoul. Read here.

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North America

Google, Meta and Nvidia co-found initiative to address data center power dilemma. Read here.

Digital Realty Trust, L.P. Announces Pricing of $1.0 Billion Exchangeable Senior Notes Offering. Read here.

Rare bees foil Meta’s position in data centre arms race. Read here.

Huge gigawatt-scale data centre projects join Alberta’s power lineup. Read here.

Province Group data center campus gets green light in Powhatan County, Virginia. Read here.

Switch is planning to expand its data center campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read here.

DataBank files for second Red Oak data center in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Amazon has filed to develop a large data center campus in Louisa County, Virginia. Read here.

Microsoft acquires 1,385 acres of land in North Carolina. Read here.

Duos Edge AI Acquires Additional Edge Data Centers. Read here.

AES reports 900MW of new data center load growth across Ohio. Read here.

Hyperscaler capex forecasts to hit $300B in 2025: Morgan Stanley. Read here.

TVA approves Elon Musk’s controversial data center plan for more power. Read here.

Duke Energy’s new 2 GWs of US data centers to include minimum take agreements. Read here.

Constellation Energy has reaffirmed its commitment to developing data centers on the sites of its US power plants. Read here.

TA Realty files for 1 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Bristow residents may soon have another massive data center campus as their new neighbour. Read here.

Solarbank announced its strategic expansion into the rapidly growing data center market. Read here.

Turner Wins $2B Ohio Data Center Campus Contract. Read here.

Soluna Holdings reports progress in green data center projects. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Changing Face of Data Centre Design & Construction. Read here.

The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres. Read here.

Concerned about your data use? Here is the carbon footprint of an average day of emails, WhatsApps and more. Read here.

How Mercury Plugs Power Gap in Data Centre Construction. Read here.

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Reports

Data centers account for half of US clean energy procurement but only 20% in Europe. Read here.

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Q3 Cloud results

Google: Q3 earnings call: CEO’s remarks. Read here.

Microsoft reported better than expected results. Read here.

Meta rides AI boom to stellar quarterly earnings, but slightly less than expected. Read here.

Amazon shares pop on earnings beat, cloud growth. Read here.

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Europe

DigitalBridge to buy Yondr in major data centre development deal. Read here.

Bain Capital and Aquila Group partner to build a leading sustainable data center platform across Europe. Read here.

NTT plans to build new data centre in Nierstein (Germany) in 2026. Read here.

Iberdrola on precipice of signing data center joint venture in Spain. Read here.

Global Switch could raise £1.5bn by selling stake in UK business. Read here.

Major new data centre set for Norwich Research Park. Read here.

German data center firm Envia Tel is expanding its data center in Leipzig. Read here.

Soben announced senior leadership promotions to support continued global growth. Read here.

Wycombe Film Studios plans data centre amid ‘uncertainty’. Read here.

UK data center investment hampered by interconnection delays: Segro CEO. Read here.

Project Clover Update: Data migration to TikTok’s Norwegian data centre has begun. Read here.

CVC DIF to acquire leading data centre operator Adam Ecotech. Read here.

CORD to acquire stakes in two Belgian data centre providers. Read here.

Schneider Electric opens new Leeds critical power and cooling hub to address data centre skills shortage. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Google Cloud to develop AI Hub in Saudi Arabia with PIF. Read here.

Oxagon — NEOM’s industrial city and the site of Saudi Arabia’s $8.5 billion green hydrogen project — is in talks to build a one-gigawatt artificial intelligence data center. Read here.

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APAC

Equinix to invest US$500m in Thailand over next decade. Read here.

China officially launched a new pilot program that allows 100 percent foreign ownership of data centers and value-added telecom services in Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, and Shenzhen. Read here.

GDS raised $1 Billion for Data Center Operations outside China. Read here.

STT GDC set to launch Philippines’ largest data centre. Read here.

Saigontel Plans New Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.

Bridge DC signs 200MW data center JV with Malaysia’s Mah Sing. Read here.

Johor: From 10MW to 1,500MW in three years. Read here.

US Navy to build data center at Camp Blaz base in Guam. Read here.

Thailand’s Board of Investment said it had approved US$2 billion worth of new investments in data centres and electronics manufacturing. Read here.

Macquarie Bets on AI Data-Center Boom Even After AirTrunk Sale. Read here.

SunCon Eyeing 4 More Data Centre Projects. Read here.

RackBank announces 80MW Madya Pradesh data center in India. Read here.

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North America

KKR and Energy Capital Partners announced a $50 billion strategic partnership to accelerate the development of data center and power generation and transmission infrastructure for the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud computing globally. Read here.

Equinix posted revenues of US$2.2 billion for the third quarter of 2024, a 2% increase from the previous quarter. Read here.

Equinix Touts Major Shift In Data Center Development Strategy. Read here.

A developer looking to build a $1.5 billion data center near Niagara Falls, New York, wants to change zoning requirements to help push the 140MW project forward. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers broke ground on a 192MW Campus in Ohio. Read here.

New $750M data centre to be built in Calgary area, the largest in Alberta. Read here.

$5B data center campus on former Landover Mall footprint could break ground by 2026. Read here.

COPT Defense Properties is planning a gigawatt-scale campus in Iowa. Read here.

Microsoft to invest $1bn in data center campuses in Central Ohio. Read here.

Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions. Read here.

Green light for a data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. Read here.

Goldman Institute calls for ‘data center diplomacy’ as U.S. competes in global AI race. Read here.

Peter Thiel’s VC leads Crusoe Energy’s $500M round. Read here.

TECfusions Secures Landmark 1 GW Capacity Commitment from TensorWave for AI-Ready Infrastructure. Read here.

Exelon sees 80% increase in Data Center spending. Read here.

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South America

Hosting firm G2K plans data center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space. Read here.

The Convergence of Data Centers and Power: A Generational Investment Opportunity | The Connection. Read here.

UK data centre investment stalled by lack of electricity supply. Read here.

AI power: Expanding data center capacity to meet growing demand. Read here.

AI Data Centers And The New Era Of Unprecedented Demand. Read here.

Data centre industry may double in S Europe but hurdles remain. Read here.

Why the rise of data centres is good news for the industrial & logistics sector. Read here.

AI and data centres will transform US power market dynamics. Read here.

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Reports

Mckinsey: The role of power in unlocking the European AI revolution. Read here.

Blackstone earnings call: The Blackstone portfolio consists of $70 billion of data centers and over $100 billion in prospective pipeline development, including AirTrunk and facilities under construction. Read here.

Digital Realty earnings call: Reports record leasing volumes and strategic development growth, while addressing supply chain and market challenges. Read here.

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Europe

Italy set for single $33bn foreign data centre investment, Minister reveals. Read here.

Maincubes announced they have acquired a 14 hectare site in Nauen (Havelland) on the outskirts of Berlin. Read here.

Goodman receives approval for 100MW data centre in Frankfurt. Read here.

Russian crypto miner BitRiver and state fund announced BRICS data centre plans. Read here.

US tech firm praised for major new Oxfordshire centre plans. Read here.

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure makes Belgian Data Centre Acquisitions. Read here.

Iconic Lloyds Banking Group Data Centre in Calderdale village (Yorkshire, UK) goes on the market ahead of planned closure. Read here.

Northern Data AG considers divesting crypto mining business to focus on AI. Read here.

DataCrunch raises $13m in seed funding for AI infrastructure. Read here.

Dutch grid operators suggest limitation contracts to unlock 880MW capacity. Read here.

European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has appointed Benjamin Revcolevschi as CEO. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Raxio plots African growth with data center in Uganda. Read here.

Equinix closes $320M MainOne deal for African expansion. Read here.

Equinix has opened its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in South Africa, in the city of Johannesburg. Read here.

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APAC

Global Switch has agreed to sell its Australian assets to investment manager HMC Capital for AU$2.12 billion. Read here.

Keppel to double Data Center capacity to 1.2GW across Asia. Read here.

ByteDance is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia. Read here.

Macquarie Data Centres extends debt financing facility with access to a further AU$450m. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced the completion of the first facility on its new 36MW flagship Tokyo campus. Read here.

Ubitus plans nuclear-powered AI data centre in Japan. Read here.

Keppel to develop 80MW data center campus in Taiwan. Read here.

CDC Data Centres announces start of work at data centre campus at Marsden Park. Read here.

China opens the door to foreign-owned data centres under new pilot scheme. Read here.

New investment in Australian Data Centre capacity forecast to top $26 billion by 2030, according to Mandala. Read here.

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North America

Sabey completes first data center at Round Rock campus, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft confirms major land purchase in Kent Co. for possible data center. Read here.

Key Decision Near for Proposed Eastern Wash. $5B Data Center. Read here.

Aurum Launches $1B Tokenized Fund for Data Center Investments on XRP Ledger With Zoniqx. Read here.

Cologix Secures $1.5 Billion USD in Capital to Fund New Data Center Development. Read here.

Alaska’s governor has held talks with Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft in a bid to convince the hyperscalers to build data centers in his state. Read here.

TA Realty gets green light for data center outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Part of a US Navy Air Station outside Fresno in California could be turned into a 425MW data center and solar farm complex. Read here.

A.I. cloud startup CoreWeave to build $1 billion data center at Onyx’s NEST campus in Kenilworth. Read here.

CoreWeave to secure 120MW from Core Scientific for GPU cloud. Read here.

Edged topped out the company’s newest state-of-the-art data center in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

$4.8bn data center campus proposed in Walla Walla, Washington. Read here.

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has indefinitely shelved an Amazon data center campus ahead of its October 22 meeting. Read here.

Oregon’s Forest Grove data center gets city council approval. Read here.

AEP Ohio reaches agreement with stakeholders on data center interconnection rules. Read here.

Charter Development LLC seeks to develop area to northwest of Wallingford, Connecticut. Read here.

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South America

Atalait plans $100 million investment to expand data center in Metepec, Mexico. Read here.

ODATA Announces $1.3B Expansion in Colombia. Read here.

DigitalBridge is exploring a sale of Scala Data Centers. Read here.

Acronis posts 53% rise in Mexican revenues, doubles data centre capacity. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

From growth to gridlock: Why AI and data center capacity demands hinge on talent acquisition. Read here.

How the AI Revolution is Changing Data Center Construction. Read here.

Why global giants are betting on Italy for data centres. Read here.

Accelerating AI Infrastructure: Andy Hayes, CEO of Polar. Read here.

‘A $20 billion opportunity’: HMC Capital’s ambitious data centre punt. Read here.

JPMorgan: Bitcoin miners have nine-month window to get AI data center deals. Read here.

Infrastructure is destiny in the AI era. Read here.

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Europe

The UK Government announced £6.3bn global investment into UK Data Centres. Read here.

Planning consent secured by L&G, Goldacre and sineQN for £750m hyperscale data centre investment in Newham. Read here.

CloudHQ confirmed a £1.9bn campus development in Oxford, UK. Read here.

Plans for huge energy park and data centre in Cardiff have been approved. Read here.

UK chancellor unveils AI-driven national wealth fund to boost investment in clean energy. Read here.

Apto and Dromeus Capital Group partner to develop hyperscale data centre in Athens. Read here.

Blackstone to develop 300MW data center campus in Aragon, Spain. Read here.

EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC Powers European Expansion with 40MW Data Center Investment in Spain. Read here.

MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced the start of construction on their new data center campus located in Vila Franca de Xira, within close proximity to Lisbon. Read here.

Nebius to triple capacity at Finland data center to 75 MW. Read here.

Trentino DataMine announced work had started to install a facility in an active mine in a mountain at Val di Non, 40 km north of Trento (Italy). Read here.

Cyprus makes key Data Center Projects deal with Khazna. Read here.

JetCool will provide its cooling technology to colocation customers at Start Campus’ 1.2GW Sines DC in Portugal. Read here.

Google in talks with Italy for Mediterranean undersea cable project. Read here.

Helsinki homes to be heated using excess heat from Equinix data center. Read here.

Schneider Electric to buy data centre cooling firm Motivair for $850 million. Read here.

Nokia eyes data center market growth as Q3 sales fall. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Khazna announces construction of 100 MW AI optimised Data Center in Ajman. Read here.

Amazon Web Services and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East. Read here.

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APAC

Viettel has announced plans to develop 24 data centers in Vietnam. Read here.

GDS announced plans to establish its first data center in Singapore. Read here.

NextDC has acquired land for a new 550MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Digital Edge opened a second Data Center in Seoul. Read here.

A ‘top secret’ data center valued at AU$500 million is being proposed for private land next to the HMAS Harman Military Base in Canberra, Australia. Read here.

The National Bank of Pakistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies Pakistan to establish a new national cloud data centre. Read here.

Area Group begins construction of 156-acre Malaysian data center campus. Read here.

Nvidia-backed firm eyes a data center near nuclear power in Japan. Read here.

Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd. Read here.

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North America

Data center developer DataBank has raised $2 billion to build three facilities planned across the US. Read here.

Apple has launched the first data center at its new campus in Waukee, Iowa. Read here.

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres. Read here.

Amazon joins push for nuclear power to meet data center demand. Read here.

Major US electric utility Dominion plans to add 20GW of clean power generation resource. Read here.

Aurum Group and DigitalNexus Partners are teaming up to create AuNex Datacenters, a new joint venture aimed at developing and operating AI data centres. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers has acquired land in the Peoria area of Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Amazon Data Services pays over $37 million for 118 acres in Douglas County (Atalanta, Georgia). Read here.

Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty have acquired a data center in Hawaii. Read here.

Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers. Read here.

Digital Realty partners with Ecolab on AI water solution for US data centers. Read here.

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South America

Brazil-based global digital infrastructure company V.tal has announced the creation of a new subsidiary focused on its data centre business. Read here.

LATAM Remains a Prevalent Data Centre Hub for AI Innovation. Read here.

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What the real estate industry needs to know about data centers. Read here.

Why Labour is pushing through data centre projects (UK). Read here.

Nvidia’s Ian Buck shares his vision of the GPU data center. Read here.

Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online. Read here.

APAC sustainable data centre market to pass £16.9bn by 2029. Read here.

The challenges and opportunities of data centre delivery. Read here.

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Reports

Turner & Townsend: Data Centre Cost Index. Read here.

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Europe

Newham Council expected to approve Canning Town data centre (UK). Read here.

AVK launched the AVK Academy, a dedicated training hub that will play a pivotal role in developing the next generation of data centre engineers. Read here.

Apto joins the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. Read here.

Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital has acquired a majority stake in new Nordic data center firm Polar. Read here.

Switch Data Centers have acquired a 50,000 sqm Data Center site in Poland. Read here.

Microsoft is reportedly looking to build several data centers in Northern France. Read here.

Invesco Real Estate acquired it’s first data center asset in Europe (France). Read here.

French startup Denv-R has launched its debut floating data center in Nantes. Read here.

DSM Group officially launched its cutting-edge Eco Data Centre in Peterborough. Read here.

Elite UK REIT has submitted a planning application to build an 80MW facility next to an office campus at Peel Park used by the DWP. Read here.

Nebius is tripling Nvidia GPU capacity at its AI data centre in Finland. Read here.

AN Bord Pleanála have told the High Court it will not oppose an appeal to the decision to grant planning permission for a €1.2 billion data centre campus on the outskirts of Ennis. Read here.

Meta experiencing labour issues at Clonee data centre. Read here.

OpenAI confirms Paris and Brussels offices as company sets sights on Europe. Read here.

Stelia, Centersquare partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across North America and Europe. Read here.

Beyond.pl and Veolia partner to heat Poznan with data centre waste heat. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Israeli data centre operator NED Data Centers is working on a joint venture to build 500MW of AI data centre capacity throughout Israel. Read here.

DAMAC Group announced a $1 Billion investment in Thai-Based Data Center with Tech Provider ‘PROEN Corp’. Read here.

Wolters Kluwer widens global footprint via new data centre in UAE. Read here.

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APAC

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand. Read here.

Johor, Malaysia, has experienced a phenomenal surge in data center development. In just two years, the state’s capacity has skyrocketed from a modest 10MW to over 1,000MW, making it a regional powerhouse. Read here.

The government of the Western Indian state of Maharashtra is reportedly planning to build data center parks totalling an IT capacity of 1.5 GW in and around Mumbai. Read here.

Ares Management has reached an agreement to purchase Singapore-based logistics specialist GLP Capital Partners. Read here.

Hydrogen-powered data center planned in New Zealand. Read here.

Chinese data center firm ZData is expanding into Malaysia with a project in Johor. Read here.

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North America

Blue Owl Capital has agreed to the $1bn acquisition of digital infrastructure fund manager IPI Partners from ICONIQ Capital and Iron Point Partners. Read here.

Strategic Real Estate Partners is seeking permission to develop a $1B, 2.1M SF data center campus on 320 acres South of Atlanta. Read here.

Real estate firm COPT Defense Properties has acquired land outside Des Moines, Iowa, likely for a data center campus. Read here.

Green data center developer Soluna has signed term sheets for power and land with an unnamed renewable energy developer for its 187MW Project Rosa development. Read here.

Cipher Mining to develop 300MW cryptomining data center site in West Texas. Read here.

Talen acquires full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine facility. Read here.

Enerfore Digital gets go-ahead for data center proposal in North Dakota. Read here.

DC Blox has broken ground on 216MW data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

JLL are to develop a data center on STAMP site in Genesee County, New York. Read here.

Amazon may be looking to develop more data centers in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Tract is looking to develop a 2,000 acre data center park outside Austin, Texas. Read here.

Google leases more than 2 million sq ft across two sites in DFW, Texas. Read here.

OpenAI looks to use data center providers beyond Microsoft. Read here.

Microsoft to build $420m data center in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

Flexential has broken ground on a 22.5MW data center in the southern district of Parker (Denver). Read here.

Data centre boom threatens U.S. power supply, economic growth, warns CoBank. Read here.

AMD’s new GPU lineup aims to rival Nvidia in data centre AI market. Read here.

MARA announces micro data center project powered by natural gas. Read here.

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South America

Nokia and Furukawa expand Brazilian data centre partnership. Read here.

GTD launches 20MW Peruvian data center. Read here.

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UK risks losing AI leadership without a national data strategy, experts warn. Read here.

How North East people will be trained for high quality jobs at £10 billion Cambois datacentre. Read here.

A Data Centre on the Moon – From Sci-Fi to Necessity. Read here.

Can Data Centres in Urban Spaces Improve Lives? Read here.

Data Centres ‘Should be Part of Residential Developments’. Read here.

The wicked problem delivering data center capacity in an uncertain world. Read here.

Utilities Must Reinvent Themselves to Harness the AI-Driven Data Center Boom. Read here.

How the data-centre boom became a political battleground. Listen here.

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Reports

DC Byte: The London Data Centre Market. Read here.

The Insight Partners: Hyperscale Data Center Market Size Worth $355.87 Billion, Globally, by 2031. Read here.

AI market poised to reach $990B by 2027. Read here.

Data Center Vacancy Falls to 3% in the Americas with 80% of New Construction Pre-Leased. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft invests €4.3B to boost AI infrastructure and cloud capacity in Italy. Read here.

Sepia Infrastructure has announced its augural fundraising round. The funding round was led by Ankaa Ventures and Engie New Ventures. Read here.

Elite UK Reit applies to develop 80 MW data centre campus in Blackpool. Read here.

DTCP announced investment in Data Center developer Atlantic Hub. Read here.

Aruba unveils €300m hyperscale data centre campus in Rome. Read here.

Questions over Cambois AI centre’s 4,000 jobs claim (UK). Read here.

Spain’s Merlin Properties bets on AI boom to drive revenue growth. Read here.

IBM is setting up a quantum data center in Ehningen, Germany. Read here.

Kao Data commenced work on £350m Manchester data centre. Read here.

State of Michigan co-invests in Nordic data centre firm Bulk via BGO. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Kyriba Opens New Data Center in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

DataVolt and Center3 partner for Saudi Arabian data center operations. Read here.

ICS Arabia has begun construction of the first facility in its 187MW Desert Dragon project in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Intro Technology and Oman Data Park sign $450m MoU for Egypt data center. Read here.

Equinix has abandoned its plans to invest in IXAfrica Data Center. Read here.

Oman Data Park to build $450m data centre in Suez Canal zone. Read here.

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APAC

Oracle plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to develop a data center in Malaysia. Read here.

Google said that its investments in Malaysia is estimated to support more than US$3.2 billion in positive economic impact and will create 26,500 jobs by 2030. Read here.

Google To Invest $1 Billion For Data Centre In Thailand. Read here.

Google is looking to expand data centres in India. Read here.

Amazon India to buy land from Lodha for new generative AI data centre. Read here.

Goodman is planning to develop a 90MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Goodman Group has announced the completion of the third building at its 225MW Tsuen Wan West data centre campus in Hong Kong. Read here.

Yondr is reportedly looking to sell its stake in its Indian data center joint venture. Read here.

Mapletree Acquires Mixed-Use Facility Comprising Data Centre in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

HMC Capital in talks to buy Global Switch Australia and other data centers. Read here.

T4 Group looks beyond Auckland for data centre strategy. Read here.

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North America

Equinix forms $15bn joint venture to expand AI-ready data centres. Read here.

T5 has broken ground on 250,000 sqft Northlake facility. Read here.

Skanska wins another billion-dollar order to build data centers in the US. Read here.

Microsoft’s mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases. Read here.

New Albany City Council approves 15-year tax break for $420 million Microsoft data center. Read here.

CyrusOne breaks ground on 40MW Illinois data center campus. Read here.

Salute announces new investment to support data center growth. Read here.

Compass Datacenters starts building $300 million expansion at Dallas-area campus. Read here.

Google is spending billions on new data centers and subsea cables to connect them. Read here.

Google’s CEO said that the company is considering whether to power its data centers with nuclear power plants. Read here.

Asset manager TPG is seeking a court order to remove data center company Quantum Loophole from its role as manager of a $5 billion campus planned near Frederick, Maryland. Read here.

Amazon has been confirmed as the end user for a large new data center campus being developed in Herndon, in Virginia’s Fairfax County. Read here.

A Digital Realty data center outside New Haven, Connecticut, is up for sale. Read here.

Digital Realty adds $450 million to credit facility. Read here.

Texas Regulator Wants Data Centers to Build Power Plants. Read here.

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South America

New operator 247 Data Centers launches targeting hyperscalers in Brazil. Read here.

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Data center owners turn to nuclear as potential electricity source. Read here.

Going With The Flow: How To Construct Data Centers With Liquid Cooling In Mind. Read here.

10 biggest impacts to the data center market in 2024–2025. Read here.

Looking for a pay rise? Try data centre construction. Read here.

What makes nuclear power plants attractive to data center owners? Read here.

Tech giant pledge billions for Britain’s data centre push – but building them won’t be easy. Read here.

Only Lenders With The Deepest Pockets Can Sit At The Data Center Table. Read here.

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