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Reports

CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H2 2024. Read here.

Cushman & Wakefield: EMEA Data Centre Update H2 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Solaria obtains 225 MW to connect data centers in the Basque Country. Read here.

Spain’s grid operator gives Solaria greenlight for two data center projects totaling 438MW. Read here.

Stoneshield plans 6.8 million sq ft data center campus outside Santander, Spain. Read here.

Eni partners with UAE’s MGX and G42 to develop 1GW of data centers in Italy. Read here.

Decision due on £10 billion datacentre plans for Cambois in Northumberland. Read here.

Data center to be built in former bunker in Leverkusen, Germany. Read here.

Drax considering using Selby biomass generators to power data centre (UK). Read here.

Telecom Italia has connected its data center outside Milan to a local district heating scheme. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

e& to sell 40% stake in Khazna Data Center Holdings for $2.2bn. Read here.

DataVolt leases land from MODON for new AI data centre in Riyadh. Read here.

Sudlows Consulting announced its acquisition by Kent, a global leader in engineering services. Read here.

iXAfrica unveils first phase of NBOX1 data centre with new KIXP PoP. Read here.

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APAC

Alibaba Group to invest $53bn in cloud and AI infrastructure in next three years. Read here.

South Korea’s Jeollanam-do province secures $35bn deal for world’s largest AI data centre. Read here.

Billionaire Robert Kuok’s Grandson Drives $10 Billion Bet On AI Data Centers. Read here.

PLDT explores new data centre investment as CVC talks conclude. Read here.

Gaw Capital, Sinar Primera build Indonesia-Singapore digital bridge with new data centre. Read here.

Turkish satellite firm Türksat to build 21MW data center outside Ankara. Read here.

Colt DCS expands hyperscale data centre footprint with Inzai 4 launch in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Blackstone and Panchil Realty to build 500 MW hyperscale data center in India. Read here.

ISPT files to build 170MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres announced the groundbreaking of its first data centre facility in the STT Johor data centre campus – STT Johor 1. Read here.

Singapore unveils guidelines for data centre and cloud operators. Read here.

Bytedance’s TikTok to invest $8.8 bln in Thailand data centres. Read here.

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North America

Meta in talks for $200 billion AI data center project. Read here.

Meta in Talks to Raise $35 Billion for Data-Center Financing Led by Apollo. Read here.

Microsoft (MSFT) Cancels Data Center Leases While Maintaining $80 Billion Infrastructure Spending Plan. Read here.

Data center in Waukee to expand as part of Apple’s new $500 billion U.S. investment plan. Read here.

Nvidia Reports Record-Breaking Revenue on Blackwell Earnings. Read here.

CoreWeave eyes $4 billion IPO, valuation could exceed $35 billion. Read here.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure announced it closed a further $1.24 billion of construction financing to build the second phase of a flagship hyperscale data center campus in Maryland. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers commits $1.75 billion to expand Canadian hyperscale infrastructure. Read here.

New Era Helium and Sharon AI Announce Letter of Intent to Acquire 200-Acre Site for 250MW Net-Zero AI/HPC Data Center in the Permian Basin. Read here.

Core Scientific Stock Surges After $1.2B Expansion of Data Center With CoreWeave. Read here.

Hyperscale Data to scale Michigan data center to 300MW. Read here.

PowerHouse and Provident to develop 1.8GW campus in DFW, Texas. Read here.

TECfusions Expands Data Center Footprint with 73-Acre Virginia Acquisition. Read here.

Cipher Mining acquires more than 500 acres across two sites in Texas for crypto and HPC use. Read here.

JK Land Holdings gets approval for Greenlin Park in Leesburg, Virginia. Read here.

Direct-to-chip cooling specialist Accelsius has partnered with Nordik Data Centers to build an AI data center in Montreal, Canada. Read here.

Hoffman Estates could see third data center campus with sale of Plum Farms property (Illinois). Read here.

Edged Data Centers Opens New AI-Ready Data Center in Aurora (Chicago). Read here.

Continent 8 launches data center in Missouri. Read here.

Iron Mountain has broken ground on it’s first data center in Miami. Read here.

Schneider Electric launches R&D data center in Massachusetts. Read here.

Illinois Teachers commits $300m to US data centre and residential debt funds. Read here.

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South America

Entel Bolivia opens new datacenter and announces fiber expansion. Read here.

ODATA Announces Energization of Mexico’s Largest Data Center Campus. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Factories: Separating Hype From Reality. Read here.

Does It Matter If Microsoft Is Cancelling AI Data Center Leases? Read here.

How to build data centers without raising grid costs — and emissions. Read here.

Data Center 50: The Hottest Data Center Companies Of 2025. Read here.

Nope. You probably can’t cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter. Read here.

A rocket was just fired into space containing the first data center to land on the moon, which is both incredible and incredibly corporate in equal measure. Read here.

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Reports

The Data Center Coalition: Economic contributions of U.S. data centers, 2017-2023. Read here.

EightAdvisory: Creating value from the data centre opportunity. Read here.

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Europe

Microsoft to invest $704m into expanding Polish data centers. Read here.

Real estate investment trust Prologis is looking to expand its data center footprint in Europe. Read here.

Fluidstack to Build 1GW AI Supercomputer in France. Read here.

French cloud computing provider Sesterce is investing €450 million ($471.85m) into developing an AI data center in Valence, France. Read here.

French modular data center operator Eclairion has raised €50 million ($52m) and revealed it is hosting AI lab Mistral’s new training cluster. Read here.

Heijmans will build a new data center in the Dutch province of North Holland, with a floor area of 11,000 square meters. Read here.

NorthC breaks ground on 4.5MW expansion in Amsterdam. Read here.

Oxigen opens its largest data centre in Spain in partnership with Vertiv. Read here.

Keppel sells data center in Frankfurt, Germany, for €50m. Read here.

A data center development has been proposed at the Krofdorf-Gleiberger Augarten in Wettenberg, Germany. Read here.

Scandinavian Data Centers launches its first ecosystem site integrating battery energy storage, data center and heat recovery. Read here.

Residents face relocation as Heathrow data centre plans move forward. Read here.

Havering Council is seeking legal advice after a developer started works on a huge data centre without approval. Read here.

Data centre project at UK’s first AI Growth Zone attracts significant private sector interest. Read here.

British Gas is carrying out a trial using excess heat from data processing to provide free hot water in homes (UK). Read here.

UK-based digital infrastructure provider Pulsant is set to expand its data centre portfolio with the backing of its shareholders. Read here.

Ireland to force new data centres to match power use with generation. Read here.

“Foundational infrastructure” needed as Northern Ireland risks “lagging behind” data centre boom in the south, says MLA. Read here.

Nokia’s $2.3bn Infinera buy set to make company world’s second-biggest vendor of optical networking gear for data centres. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

DataVolt has signed an agreement with The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones to launch a new AI-ready data centre in Riyadh. Read here.

The case for Gulf ‘free data zones’. Read here.

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APAC

World’s largest ‘mega’ data center planned for South Korea in $35bn project. Read here.

Goodman Group plans A$4bn raise for data centre expansion. Read here.

Infratil increases stake in Canberra Data Centres close to 50%. Read here.

CDC announces new data centre campus at Laverton, Melbourne. Read here.

Highlander adds new module to Hainan underwater data centre. Read here.

AI giant OpenAI in talks to set up Indian data centre operations. Read here.

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North America

Musk’s xAI considering second data center, $5bn Dell server deal. Read here.

QuadReal and T5 to support data centers platform growth to $8.0 bn. Read here.

Majorana 1: Microsoft Set to Accelerate Quantum Computing. Read here.

Aligned Data Centers announced its expansion in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area with a new data center campus in Mansfield, TX. Read here.

Amazon requests permit for 11-building data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.

Amazon Web Services is aiming to develop a data center in each county between Northern Virginia and the city of Richmond. Read here.

Amazon expanding data center presence in Oregon; buys 400 acres. Read here.

Microsoft has filed to build two more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

Core Scientific announced its expansion into Auburn, Alabama, with a new high-performance computing facility. Read here.

Data center developer ImpactData has partnered with Raeden for its debut data center in North Carolina. Read here.

Teton Digital gets go-ahead for 100MW data center in North Dakota. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is asking to rezone 618 acres of farmland for a data center development in Pittsboro, Indiana. Read here.

Liquid-cooled data center provider Colovore has begun work on its first facility outside California. Read here.

Avangrid, the US arm of Spanish utility Iberdrola, will construct six new power projects with a combined capacity of 800MW to help meet the soaring energy demand of data centers in the US. Read here.

Hyperscale Data announced that its subsidiary Alliance Cloud Services has reached an agreement in principle with a local utility to increase its Michigan data center power capacity from 30 MW to 300 MW. Read here.

Bloom Energy Expands Data Center Power Agreement with Equinix Surpassing 100MW. Read here.

Dominari: How the Trump Family are Investing in Data Centres. Read here.

American Real Estate Partners Fund IV Oversubscribed at $309M. Read here.

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South America

Alibaba Cloud opens its first data centre in Mexico. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Data Centre Demand Fuelling a New ‘Age of Electricity’. Read here.

Turning AI opportunity into AI reality: Why the UK’s data centres are central to its AI ambitions. Read here.

Intelligent Design: Constructing next generation data centers for the AI boom. Read here.

The crypto pivot to AI. Read here.

Fundraising Sector Spotlight: Data Centers. Read here.

Data Centers Investing in Nuclear, Fuel Cells, and Li-ion Batteries. Read here

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Reports

How to Power AI (UK). Read here.

CBRE: Europe Data Centres Figures Q4 2024. Read here.

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Europe

France unveils €109 billion AI investment plan. Read here.

Brookfield and Data4 to spend €20bn on AI infrastructure in France. Read here.

Mistral AI to invest billions building data centre in France. Read here.

G42, AMD to Boost AI Compute in France with New Data Center. Read here.

The iliad Group has announced intentions to invest €3 billion in AI infrastructure from data centres to be a European market leader. Read here.

Evroc announced plans for a 96MW data center outside Cannes, France. Read here.

French energy giant EDF offers up land for data centre projects. Read here.

Salford City Council has approved plans for a £250m data centre at Peel Waters’ Halo West site, in Greater Manchester (UK). Read here.

Yondr broke ground on 40MW London data centre in London campus expansion. Read here.

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds. Read here.

UK Government opens bidding for AI Growth Zones. Read here.

UK government pledges 500MW of data center power for its AI Growth Zones. Read here.

Tech giants back UK energy reform to create Scottish data centre boom. Read here.

DTRE steps up Europe expansion with Milan data centre mandate. Read here.

Greenlandic telco Tusass is planning a new data center in the capital city, Nuuk. Read here.

Germany’s DataHall plans data center outside Leipzig. Read here.

Green Mountain and KMW top out data center outside Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Segro has reported a double-digit jump in profit driven by demand for data centres and improving investment market conditions. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

LEAP 2025: Saudi scores big with over $20bn in AI Investments. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Neom signs deal with Datavolt to build $5bn data centre in Oxagon. Read here.

Startup Groq secures $1.5bn AI chip investment. Groq expects to receive the latest funds throughout this year to expand its Dammam data centre in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Equinix commits to $1bn data centre in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Stc Group and AWS come together to advance Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation agenda. Read here.

Qareeb Data Centres and Bitcoin mining service provider Pantheon have partnered to rollout Bitcoin mining data centers across the Middle East. Read here.

Ooredoo and Iron Mountain Partner to Accelerate Data Centre Growth Across MENA. Read here.

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APAC

Singtel Lands S$643M Green Loan for AI-Ready Data Center. Read here.

Microsoft announces partnership with TAFE NSW to deliver Datacentre Academy. Read here.

NTT Global Data Centers inaugurates 40 MW DC facility in Kolkata. Read here.

AirTrunk unveils second data centre in Malaysia. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its second data center in Thailand. Read here.

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North America

Equinix anticipates 7%-8% revenue growth in 2025, driven by AI demand and capacity expansion. Read here.

Data centre REIT Digital Realty exceeds Q4 expectations, tempers 2025 outlook. Read here.

Applied Digital Agrees to Build a Partnership with Macquarie Asset Management for Funding of up to $5.0 Billion to Drive HPC Growth

T5 Data Centers is looking to develop multiple gigawatt-scale campuses, starting with a site outside Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced plans for a 144MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. Read here.

EdgeConneX plans 120MW gas plant to power Ohio data center. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid establish partnership to deploy more than One Gigawatt of Power Generation. Read here.

PATRIZIA, a global real estate manager, has invested in US-based Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

Rayburn Electric (Dallas) is preparing for the future as best it knows how: building more generation to meet Data Center requirements. Read here.

Tesla completed the deployment of its 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU training cluster during Q4 2024. Read here.

Dominion boosts capital expenditure plan amid rising data centre demand. Read here.

Riot Platforms expands board amid AI data center push. Read here.

GDS Holdings mulls $500m US IPO for international data centre arm DayOne. Read here.

Overwatch Capital has partnered with Nautilus Data Technologies to deploy modular, AI-ready data centers. Read here.

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South America

$110m Tecto data centre project ‘Mega Lobster’ underway in Fortaleza. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

‘Every data center is becoming an AI data center’: The state of data centers in 2025. Read here.

How to get ahead of the data centre power crunch. Read here.

The forgotten workforce: Suicide in construction. Read here.

Data centers are getting a lot of buzz from GCC investors – it makes sense. Read here.

UK AI data center infrastructure – if they build it, will they come? Learnings from the US. Read here.

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Reports

Data Center Capex to Surpass $1 Trillion by 2029, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

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

Cushman & Wakefield: EMEA Data Centre Market Update H2 2024. Read here.

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Europe

The UAE will invest between €30 billion and €50 billion to build Europe’s largest AI data centre in France. Read here.

Virtus to build 70MW Milan data centre in European expansion push. Read here.

Verne expands Helsinki data center campus with strategic site acquisition. Read here.

Panattoni gets green light for 88MW Barcelona data center, Spain. Read here.

Scandinavian Data Centers launches its first ecosystem site. Read here.

Greece to Develop 18 Data Centers by 2030. Read here.

Data4 is raising EUR 3.3 bln in funding for the further development of the company across Europe, including the advancement of projects in Poland. Read here.

Data center operators in Norway have been given until July 1 to comply with new transparency regulations. Read here.

The UK government is set to overhaul planning rules for nuclear reactors, making it easier to build new clean energy sources for power data centres. Read here.

Concern UK’s AI ambitions could lead to water shortages. Read here.

MP seeks Government reassurance on Cambois (UK) datacentre after Chinese AI system spooks market. Read here.

An investigation is underway after works started on a controversial data centre (East Havering, UK) – while the proposal is “still being considered”. Read here.

The patch of land in Greater Manchester ‘critical’ for the country’s future. Read here.

Green Mountain selects TClarke to expand its London data center. Read here.

European data centre space shortage expected in 2025 as AI booms. Read here.

AVK is expanding its European footprint with a new service hub in Lelystad, Netherlands. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Batelco has signed a heads of terms contract at Capacity Middle East, for the development of the first White Space Data Centre in Bahrain. Read here.

Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has announced plans to build a subsea cable connecting seven countries in the Middle East. Read here.

Aramco Digital, Armada, and Microsoft deploy AI-driven edge computing in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Tlou Energy to build data center in Lesedi, Botswana. Read here.

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APAC

A donation of $100 million from the Khuda Family Foundation, the largest ever made to the University of Sydney, will fund an ambitious 20-year program, creating a pathway for girls from Western Sydney into STEM education and careers. Read here.

E& expands Fujairah SmartHub by launching 1.5 GW data center. Read here.

SingTel secures $476 million green loan to develop data centre. Read here.

Samsung C&T focuses on transport and data centre projects amid semiconductor slowdown. Read here.

The data-center boom drives growing profits for Singaporean asset manager Keppel. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters building 125 MWp of solar to power site in Mumbai. Read here.

Capitaland Investment commits over US$700 million to build its first data centre in Japan. Read here.

Converge ICT to Launch New Data Center in Caloocan. Read here.

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North America

Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI. Read here.

Alphabet expects to invest about $75 billion in capital expenditures in 2025. Read here.

OpenAI’s Stargate AI data centre expansion eyes new locations. Read here.

Prologis plans 10GW of data centers over 10 years. Read here.

Denver firm Tract seeks to rezone 700-plus acres for data center park in Chesterfield. Read here.

Yondr breaks ground on 27MW data center in Toronto, Canada. Read here.

SoftBank has invested $50m in cryptomine data center firm Cipher Mining. Read here.

New Era Helium and Sharon AI finalize JV to develop 250MW net-zero data center in Texas. Read here.

Crusoe, Kalina partner to develop natural gas powered AI data centers in Alberta, Canada. Read here.

Cryptocurrency mining firm Bitdeer Technologies Group has acquired a 101MW gas-fired power project in Canada where it plans to develop a 99MW Bitcoin mining operation. Read here.

520-acre data center campus planned in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Read here.

Amazon is looking to develop another data center in Ohio. Read here.

Corscale breaks ground on hyperscale data centre in Virginia. Read here.

Hundreds of acres in the western part of Chesterfield would be dedicated to data center projects. Read here.

FirstLight doubles capacity at former NATO data center in Maine. Read here.

TA Digital Group Announces Senior Leadership Team Comprised of Seasoned Data Center Industry Executives. Read here.

New York pension dives into data centers amid $2.1bn in alts commitments. Read here.

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South America

Latin America’s newcomers to the datacenter arena. Read here.

Why battery storage will be key for Brazil’s booming datacenter sector. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Big Tech’s $1T Gamble. Read here.

Data Centres are booming – with and without AI. Read here.

European data centre space shortage expected in 2025 as AI booms. Read here.

AI to drive 165% increase in data center power demand by 2030. Read here.

Call to make tech firms report data centre energy use as AI booms. Read here.

PTC’25 | How local communities can shape global connectivity. Read here.

Building smart: An inside look at sustainability in data centre construction. Read here.

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Reports

Alantra’s 2024 Data Centre M&A Review. Read here.

Synergy: It’s Official – Data Center M&A Deals Smashed All Records in 2024 (updated). Read here.

Gleeds: Does the UK have a strategic edge in the global data centre race? Read here.

Southeastern US utilities to add 20GW of natural gas by 2040 to meet data center demand. Read here.

DeepSeek is Good for the Data Center Sector. Read here.

DeepSeek’s AI Breakthrough Signals Major Shifts for Data Centers. Read here.

Deepseek: Is the Data Center Industry Deep Sunk? Read here.

What is DeepSeek and what is its impact on the AI ecosystem? Read here.

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Europe

Oil Giant Repsol enters Data Center market With $4.2 Billion Investment (Spain). Read here.

Latos to accelerate AI in the UK with new edge data centres. Read here.

Outline plans for massive data centre win approval (UK). Read here.

€800m data center project proposed for Pasewalk, Germany, falls through. Read here.

EdgeConnex is looking to invest €600 million in data centers in Heusenstamm on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

300MW data center park planned in Pori, Finland. Read here.

Poland’s Polcom to build two data centers (44MW) near Krakow. Read here.

Pure DC to build world’s largest living wall at London data center. Read here.

Pinewood Group (UK) has launched a consultation on its expansion (including a data centre). Read here.

Plan for film Wycombe (Pinewood) studios switched to data centre cluster. Read here.

AI ambitions drive UK data centre construction boom. Read here.

Swiss data centre used to heat homes. Read here.

Data centre lifecycle services provider Salute has reached an agreement to acquire Keysource. Read here.

UK regional Edge provider Pulsant has launched a private cloud offering. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi Desert Dragon data centres get under way. Read here.

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APAC

Ambani’s Reliance plan $30bn largest data centre in the world. Read here.

TikTok to invest $3.8bn in Thailand data centre. Read here.

Tamboran Resources Pitches $5 Billion Natural Gas-Powered Data Center (Australia). Read here.

Blackstone, Tillman Global Holdings and Ursa Clusters to build data centers in Telangana. Read here.

Perri Projects Plots $1bn West Footscray Data Centre (Melbourne). Read here.

Blackstone wants AirTrunk to be a 1 GW business. Read here.

Microsoft Buys Johor Data Centre Site as Hyperscalers Ramp Up in Malaysia. Read here.

L&T to Build Uzbekistan’s First AI-Powered Data Centre. Read here.

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North America

Blackstone defends $80bn data centre investment as DeepSeek shakes market. Read here.

Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push. Read here.

Meta will spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” on AI infrastructure over the long term, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Read here.

Meta reports record Q4 revenue and profit amidst $65bn AI investment push. Read here.

Meta’s Mesa, Arizona, data center comes online. Read here.

Microsoft reports strong fourth-quarter earnings amid uproar over DeepSeek’s AI. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers’ Growth Continued in 2024 Driven by AI and Cloud Adoption; Secured a Record $13 Billion in Incremental Funding. Read here.

Elon Musk claims Tesla is investing in digital infrastructure to help train its humanoid robot, Optimus. Read here.

Solar power and batteries will form part of the energy solution for the first Stargate AI data center project being planned in the US. Read here.

AVAIO Digital and Prince Edward County IDA Agree to Bring $5 Billion Sustainable Hyperscale Data Center Campus to the Farmville, VA Community. Read here.

Blackstone to pay $1B For Natural Gas Power Plant In Data Center Alley. Read here.

Cedar Rapids city council to vote on $750 million data center near Eastern Iowa Airport. Read here.

Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. Read here.

Data center campus to be built on Van Wert’s Mega Site in Ohio. Read here.

North American investment firm Novacap has closed its first digital infrastructure fund ($1bn). Read here.

DigitalBridge announced participation in DataBank financing ($600m secondary share sale). Read here.

Chevron, Engine No1 Announce Power Solution Partnership for US Data Centers. Read here.

Dominion Energy is expanding its Possum Point Power Station in Prince William County, Virginia, to meet the growing power demand of the data center sector. Read here.

Price tag for Amazon’s Mississippi data centers jump 60% to $16 billion. Read here.

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South America

Equinix goes live with third Rio datacenter. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The Great AI Race: How Chinese & Open-Source LLM Models are Challenging the Titans. Winners and Losers in the Open-source Come Back. Read here.

Real estate firms pivot to energy development amid booming data center demand. Read here.

Bridging the gap: How the energy and data centre worlds can collaborate. Read here.

Multibillion-dollar data center projects to watch. Read here.

Forget mega yachts, AI data centers are quickly becoming the next battleground for billionaires as Zuckerberg pledges $65 billion CAPEX spend in 2025. Read here.

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Reports

Bloom Energy: The 2025 Data Center Power Report. Read here.

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Europe

DC01UK, Europe’s largest cloud and AI Data Centre received approval. Read here.

Developer Tritax Big Box has has purchased a 74-acre site near Heathrow with plans for a £365m data centre. Read here.

Major data centre near M25, just 30 minutes from Harrow, set for approval. Read here.

Plans for large data centre on Slough green belt submitted to council. Read here.

Fears Donald Trump presidency could halt Cambois AI data centre development played down. Read here.

Swansea MS calls for data centres to be built on south Wales coast. Read here.

Wales hoping to land lion’s share of £12bn investment in the UK by US data centre venture Vantage. Read here.

XTX Markets plots €1bn data centre complex in Finland. Read here.

PIMCO is targeting €1bn for European Data Centre fund. Read here.

Start Campus launches SIN01 facility in Sines, Portugal. Read here.

Green light given for massive €286m business park (with data centers) in Kildare. Read here.

Data center proposed near Amazon logistics center in Dummerstorf, Germany. Read here.

Global Switch and City of Frankfurt in dispute over data center expansion. Read here.

Greece has completed it’s framework for Data Centre Development. Read here.

Lleida has become the first Spanish city to ban data centers. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Qatar-based IT services provider MEEZA will expand its data centre capacity by 4MW. Read here.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is putting a halt to its plans to expand in Israel. Read here.

PAIX announces plans for Dakar data centre. Read here.

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APAC

Billionaire Ambani is Building World’s Biggest ($30bn) Data Center. Read here.

STT GDC plans major 100MW data centre campus in India. Read here.

Real estate giant ESR Group is to be acquired and taken private in a deal which values the company at $7.11bn. Read here.

Asia Pacific Land Group and Global Compute Infrastructure plan 120MW campus in Japan. Read here.

AWS to invest US$ 8.3 billion in Cloud Infrastructure in Maharashtra. Read here.

CtrlS signs MoU with Telangana gov’t: To invest Rs 10,000 crores into AI DC cluster. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters to erect 600MW facility in Hyderabad. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI is teaming up with Oracle and Softbank to build data centres equipped to power artificial intelligence (AI), with plans to invest $100bn (£81bn) “immediately”. Read here.

OpenAI, SoftBank Each Commit $19 Billion to Stargate Data Center Venture. Read here.

Trump: “We need double the energy we currently have in the US for AI,” promises emergency declaration for more power. Read here.

1.2GW Lancium Clean Campus confirmed as home of Project Stargate. Read here.

Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas. Read here.

Quinbrook’s Rowan Digital Infrastructure Secures $975 Million Financing for Hyperscale Campus in Maryland. Read here.

Ryan Companies 2MSF Industrial Plan Pivots to $687M Data Center (Phoenix, Arizona). Read here.

Northpoint proposes 15-building, 1,280-acre data center campus in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 590 acres in Jefferson Township, Ohio, for a data center campus. Read here.

Another 2.5 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Digital Power Optimization, Inc. announced it has secured land and a firm power supply to develop a $200 million high-performance computing facility in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. Read here.

Digital infrastructure platform Edged has opened its latest data centre in Irving, Texas. Read here.

Lonestar’s moonshot: Firm aims to place data center on lunar surface. Read here.

Whispers of billionaire Musk buying Intel could be the cause of company stock increase. Read here.

TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers sign MoU to explore deployment of microreactors across SDC data centers. Read here.

Harrison Street secures $600m for data centres. Read here.

Blackstone to buy $1 billion Virginia power plant near data centers. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s Odata hires Atlas Renewable Energy to supply Chilean datacenters. Read here.

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Is nuclear energy the answer to AI data centers’ power consumption? Read here.

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