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Weekly Update! This weeks newsletter is being written in McDonalds (the coffee is shocking!) while I wait to have some new tyres fitted on my car. The glamourous life of a Data Centre Newsletter writer!

The world of data centres has had another busy week…

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Europe

Plans continue for East Havering Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Norway to introduce regulated Data Centre law. Read here.

Microsoft eyes more data centers across EMEA region. Read here.

Microsoft invests in renewable energy to power data centres in Ireland. Read here.

Microsoft signed a 3.33 million-tonne carbon capture deal in Sweden. Read here.

Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat of Catalonia are exploring building a data center in a basement in the La Sagrera area of Barcelona. Read here.

Telia to add 4MW to Helsinki data center. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Iozera is building a massive 386MW AI data center in Morocco. Read here.

Dubai aims to close the Skills Gap with AI Index for Universities. Read here.

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APAC

Industrial property giant Goodman Group says data centres account for 40 per of its $13 billion of projects underway around the world. Read here.

Amazon plans to spend $9 billion expanding its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore. Read here.

Digital Realty announced it has commenced construction of its third data center at its NRT campus in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in Japan. Read here.

PLDT is reportedly considering offloading its data centre business to Japan-based NTT Group. Read here.

Global Switch has filed to add 47MW of capacity to Ultimo data center site in Sydney. Read here.

DataVolt has broken ground on data center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Read here.

South Korean telco LG Uplus is to build a new data center in Paju, Gyeonggi-do. Read here.

Syntec Construction has formed a dedicated team to address the escalating demand for data center construction projects in Thailand. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has secured a green loan to fund the build-out of its campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

New Zealand’s T4 Group leads surge in AI-focused Data Centre infrastructure. Read here.

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North America

Meta is building what could become the largest high-tech project in Wyoming in south Cheyenne. Read here.

Apple Is Building AI Data Center Chips Under Codename ‘ACDC’. Read here.

Biden announced $3 billion investment by Microsoft to build new AI data center in Racine. Read here.

EdgeCore, Stack Infrastructure and Yondr launch Data Center Safety Council. Read here.

Massive scale of data center development plans in Frederick County addressed by company co-founder. Read here.

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks. Read here.

Digital Realty sold $1.5 billion worth of stock. Read here.

Bloom Energy announced a power capacity agreement with Intel Corporation that will result in Silicon Valley’s largest fuel cell-powered high-performance computing data center. Read here.

Atlanta City council members propose bill to block data center developments. Read here.

Tonaquint completes upgrades to Oklahoma City data center. Read here.

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South America

New ordinance reveals some exceptions for data centres outside Brazil. Read here.

Equinix completes US$57mn expansion of Mexican datacenter. Read here.

Cryptomining firm Genesis Digital Assets Limited has launched a new data center in partnership with state-owned utility YPF Luz in Argentina. Read here.

Microsoft has signed a reforestation deal in Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

DigitalBridge CEO: Data Centers To Run Out Of Power In 2 Years Or Less. Read here.

The opportunities and the challenges of a data centre building boom. Read here.

The inner workings of Asia’s largest data centre, in Navi Mumbai. Read here.

Here’s how utilities are thinking about nuclear power for data centers. Read here.

The Data Center Demand Surge and Its Implications. Read here.

JLL Says AI Demand Turns Data Centers Into ‘Hottest Asset Class’. Read here.

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Weekly Update! Another crazy week in the world of data centres. Major investment announcements, land acquisitions, ground broken, and new facilities going live. ‘Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know.. Turn off the lights and ill glow..’ One for all the 90’s music fans!

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Europe

Blackstone completed the purchase of Britishvolt site in Northumberland for £10bn data centre project. Read here.

Sisk officially announced for Vantage Data Centers Dublin campus. Read here.

Vantage Data Centres has been confirmed as the new owner of the former Ford site in Bridgend, Wales. Read here.

Vantage looks to raise £600 million securitization funding against Cardiff data centers. Read here.

Data4 plans to create a new campus in the Milan area to be named “Mil2″. Read here.

Amazon eyes data centres on Bord na Móna’s new ‘energy park’ (Ireland). Read here.

PGIM Real Estate has acquired land in Munich, Germany, for the development of a data center. Read here.

Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure energy from a wind farm in Ireland. Read here.

Waste heat from a data center in Bochum, Germany, could be stored in an abandoned mine and used in a district heating system. Read here.

German colocation firm Maincubes has launched its second data center in Frankfurt. Read here.

Waste data centre heat to power university campus as part of Scottish net zero drive. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Abu Dhabi-based telco e& is considering a potential acquisition of eastern European carrier United Group BV. Read here.

Mauritius Telecom plans to build a subsea cable connecting Africa, the Indian Ocean islands, and Asia. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft CEO pledges $1.7 bn AI, cloud investment in Indonesia. Read here.

Microsoft announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand. Read here.

Microsoft has committed to investing $2.2 billion in cloud computing and artificial intelligence services in Malaysia over the next four years. Read here.

India’s Yotta to help build Nepal’s first supercloud data centre. Read here.

Billionaire Adani-Backed JV To Raise Up To $1.4 Billion To Bankroll Indian Data Centers. Read here.

Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law. Read here.

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North America

Google announced $3 billion in investments to build or expand our data center campuses in Virginia and Indiana. Read here.

Microsoft to power data centres with big Brookfield renewables deal. Read here.

Microsoft has commenced construction of it’s ‘Boyd Farms’ (North Carolina) Data Center. Read here.

Meta plans to build $800 million, next-generation data center in Montgomery. Read here.

Tract has broken ground on a 810MW data center campus outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced its plan to develop a 220MW campus south of Dallas, Texas. Read here.

T5 Data Centers announced the development of a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois. Read here.

Davenport City Council advances discussions for high-tech data center project. Read here.

Coreweave announced it has secured $1.1 billion in new funding. Read here.

DC Blox is planning to build a second cable landing station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Read here.

PSEG to explore selling nuclear power to data centers. Read here.

Seven-building data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Ardent Data Centers, has announced it has broken ground on construction at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania data centre site. Read here.

Global Data Center Division of NTT Data Adds to Texas Pipeline. Read here.

CyrusOne looks to raise $1.175bn in securitized notes. Read here.

Iris Energy accelerates data center expansion. Read here.

Nscale announced its official launch this week, offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators. Read here.

US Edge computing provider Greensparc has delivered an Edge data center to an electric energy company in Cordova, Alaska. Read here.

Equinix unveiled it’s 2023 sustainability report. Read here.

Digital Realty Reports First Quarter 2024 Results. Read here.

Other interesting articles

A Data Center Building Boom Is About to Begin. Read here.

AI Boom’s Secret Winners? Read here.

Generational Growth: AI, data centers and the coming US power demand surge. Read here.

Data Centers Now Need a Reactor’s Worth of Power, Dominion Says. Read here.

Futuristic AI Needs Futuristic Data Centers, And It’s Just Starting. Read here.

Keep It Cool: Can A Data Center Ceiling Contribute To Energy Savings? Read here.

Navigating uncharted waters: key challenges in the data centre boom. Read here.

Decarbonising data centres will shape the green transition. Read here.

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Weekly Update! What a crazy week.. A number of $1bn+ campuses announced across the world, significant investment from the major hyperscale organizations, and the newsletter topped 21,000 subscribers. The growth continues!

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Hyperscale Data Centers Hit the Thousand Mark; Total Capacity is Doubling Every Four Years. Read here.

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Europe

Google announced an investment of $640m for a new data centre in Groningen, Netherlands. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced they are to develop their first Dublin Campus. Read here.

Northumberland County Council has agreed to remove a buy-back clause on the former Britishvolt site paving the way to a Blackstone backed data center. Read here.

AtlasEdge enters Portuguese market with Lisbon acquisitions. Read here.

U.S. investment and development giant Hines is planning moves into the UK data centre and self-storage sectors. Read here.

Heat from one of Edinburgh University’s large server rooms is to be used to keep students in some buildings warm, it has been announced. Read here.

Digital Realty is set to partner with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund agreed a deal with STC to create tower company. Read here.

Acronis announced the opening of a new Cyber Cloud data center in Dubai. Read here.

UAE, Kenya join hands to boost digital cooperation. Read here.

Kenya to establish ‘revolutionary’ data centre for Africa. Read here.

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APAC

DigitalBridge-backed Vantage considering offloading Hong Kong assets. Read here.

Singapore and the Philippines are to embark on a Digital Transformation journey. Read here.

CtrlS unveiled its upcoming Data Center in Hyderabad. Read here.

AirTrunk and CLP Power Partner to boost renewable energy in Hong Kong. Read here.

The water demands of China’s data centers are set to soar in the coming years as demand for AI increases. Read here.

Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator. Read here.

Eco-friendly data centers help drive $6.3 billion of green investment in Southeast Asia. Read here.

TCS to set up BSNL data centres across India. Read here.

SunCon is on track to achieve its new contract wins target of RM3bil for 2024, driven by data centre projects. Read here.

TCS to set up BSNL data centres across India. Read here.

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North America

AWS announced plans to invest $11 billion in Indiana. Read here.

Google expects to spend $12bn per quarter on technical infrastructure. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced it has secured a $3 billion green loan from a bank syndicate led by structuring bank Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. Read here.

Apple data centers consumed some 2.344 billion kWh of electricity in 2023 to power its data centers and colocation facilities around the world. Read here.

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest bottleneck to building out AI data centers. Read here.

Meta has filed to build a new data center at its campus in Gallatin, Tennessee. Read here.

Meta plans to spend billions of dollars more on servers and data centers. Read here.

Tesla spent $1bn on AI infrastructure in Q1. Read here.

Microsoft may be planning to develop a new data center campus in Plano, Illinois. Read here.

Microsoft secured a US$ 1.1 Billion deal with Coca Cola for Cloud and AI services. Read here.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters. Read here.

Apple hires former Google data center AI exec to lead multi-cloud effort. Read here.

Thomas & Mack Development Group sells ‘Sin City’ data centre to DataBank. Read here.

OVH launched a $145m data centre project in Canada. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The AI frenzy could fall flat as companies hoard chips without enough data centers to host them. Read here.

Data4 CEO’s vision for European data centres in the AI era. Read here.

The Subplot | Gigafactories are out, data centres are in. Read here.

10GW Clean Energy Zones, the solution to the data centre industry’s problems? Read here.

Is Scotland Emerging as the Next Big Data Centre Market? Read here.

AI Is Making Older Data Centers Obsolete, Yet Upgrades Are Rare. Read here.

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Weekly Update! It has been a very busy week this week.. The major cloud organisations continue to fill the news with new investments announced nearly every week. We have also seen some significant new campuses announced across the world.

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Reports

Arcadis: International Construction Costs 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Blackstone is planning to develop a data centre campus on the former Britishvolt site in Blyth (UK). Read here.

Blackstone acquired a controlling stake in Winthrop Technologies. Read here.

Colt DCS plans hyperscale data centre expansion with land purchase in Hayes, West London. Read here.

EirGrid is to provide national grid connection for proposed Echelon data centre in Wicklow (Ireland). Read here.

Greencoat Renewables has signed a power purchase agreement to power two data centres in Dublin, Ireland. Read here.

Engineering firm Mercury has been chosen to deliver Digital Realty’s next expansion phase of its Paris campus in France. Read here.

Opponents of a €1.2 billion ($1.28bn) data center complex planned for County Clare, Ireland, will seek a judicial review to try and block the development. Read here.

Spanish energy company Iberdrola is seeking a data centre partner. Read here.

Norway plans law to close the door on cryptomining data centers. Read here.

maincubes has appointed Martin Murphy as Chief Operating Officer. Read here.

Sweden Busts 18 Data Centers for Secretly Mining Crypto. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion for a minority stake in G42, an AI firm in the UAE. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Data Center expansion draws big Tech investment. Read here.

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APAC

Macquarie Technology Group has purchased land and buildings at Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus. Read here.

Sizing Perth’s potential as a data centre hub for South East Asia. Read here.

Viettel opens largest scale data center in Vietnam. Read here.

T4 Group has acquired a plot of land in Invercargill on New Zealand’s south island for a data center. Read here.

Adani-EdgeConneX JV to invest $5 billion in 5 years to scale data centre business. Read here.

Oracle to Spend $8 Billion in Japan on Cloud Services, AI. Read here.

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North America

Edged Energy announced a new state-of-the-art sustainable data center in Irving, Texas. Read here.

Microsoft to double new data center capacity this year. Read here.

Core Scientific announced the start of a project to complete a 72MW expansion of the Company’s Denton, Texas data center. Read here.

Equinix has formed a joint venture to develop a hyperscale data center in Silicon Valley, California. Read here.

New plans shared for Convergent Technology Park in Fauquier County, Virginia. Read here.

Cold War bunker data center up for sale in Nebraska. Read here.

Chip startup Cerebras Systems is leasing space at Nautilus Data Technologies’ floating barge data center in California. Read here.

Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors has approved the 1.3million sq ft Belmont Innovation Campus. Read here.

9 million sq ft data center campus has been proposed in Virginia’s King George County. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 136 acres of land for data center development outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired five parcels of land for Phase II of its data center project in Malaga, Washington. Read here.

A former gym site in Ashburn, Virginia, is set to become a data center. Read here.

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South America

Equinix is planning $130m data center in Santiago, Chile. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The building blocks of the digital age could reach one trillion dollar investment per year by 2027. Read here.

NVIDIA datacentre chief to Europe: GPUs are coming, but have you got the power? Read here.

Fine porcelain maker Maruwa becomes the hottest bet for cooling AI data centres. Read here.

The rewarding career prospects data centres offer. Read here.

Booming AI demand threatens global electricity supply. Read here.

Data Centres’ Lean Towards Nuclear-Powered Future to Combat Energy Needs. Read here.

Keeping It Cool: How Data Centers Can Prepare For The Future. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Michael Crabb at Last Energy. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! I may be on holiday this week but the data centre news never stops. This week we have seen billions of dollars flood into the sector, major new developments announced, and new facilities go live. Data Centres never sleep!

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Reports

RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Plan for 200MW Ennis (Ireland) data centre gets green light. Read here.

Google has announced plans to invest €1 billion in the construction of a new data centre in Farciennes, near Charleroi. Read here.

High-speed trader XTX Markets to build 250MW data centre in Kajaani district in central Finland. Read here.

1.35 Billion PLN for Expansion of Atman Data Centers. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers announced that it will open a second Zurich campus this summer. Read here.

EdgeConneX announced it secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA digital infrastructure expansion. Read here.

Microsoft announced London AI hub. Read here.

Plans outlined for jobs at major data centre in North Lincolnshire. Read here.

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources. Read here.

European cloud provider OVHcloud has launched a new cloud region in Paris, France. Read here.

Data centre specialist LCL will invest €30 million in a fifth data centre in Diegem, Belgium. Read here.

Keepit announced the opening of two new Data Centers in Switzerland. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Africa Southern Africa have broken ground on a solar farm in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Read here.

OpenAI CEO wants UAE Dubai into his plan for a global AI cabal. Read here.

Race for AI Supremacy in Middle East Is measured in Data Centers. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft will spend $2.9 billion building out data center capacity in Japan. Read here.

AWS invests $15bn into Japans data ecosystem amidst AI boom. Read here.

Goodman is planning to build a 126MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited has acquired a data center firm and plans to develop facilities in Malaysia. Read here.

NextDC raising $860 Million amid record Data-Center demand. Read here.

A new 160MW data center campus and tape library is being proposed in Sydney, Australia. Read here.

Quinbrook closed financing on BESS for new ‘Supernode’ data centre in Queensland, Australia. Read here.

Singtel sold 20% stake in data center business to KKR for $807 million. Read here.

Adani Group company Terravista Developers has acquired 25 acres of land in Pune to build a data center. Read here.

Spark announced plans to invest more than $15 million into digital infrastructure in the Waikato (New Zealand). Read here.

Invercargill (New Zealand) to get first Tier 4 Data Centre with T4 Group move. Read here.

Viettel launches AI-ready data centre in Hanoi. Read here.

STT GDC Breaks Ground on second Tokyo Data Center. Read here.

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North America

Google unveils Arm-based data center processor, new AI chip. Read here.

Google has filed to build a second data center at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Google plans two new subsea cables from US to Japan. Read here.

Equinix signed deal to procure up to 500MW of nuclear power from Oklo SMRs. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced a cumulative fundraise of $3.3 billion in green financing for global data center development. Read here.

DataBank announced that it has established a new $725 million credit facility. Read here.

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet. Read here.

Data from Cloudflare showed that Tuesday’s eclipse caused a drop in internet traffic in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Read here.

Lawmakers in Minnesota are proposing bills that would grant new tax breaks for data centers in the state. Read here.

US operator DC Blox is planning to build a data center and cable landing station on Florida’s east coast. Read here.

Chirisa is planning a new 20MW data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

A viral TikTok is igniting a debate over data centers taking over Virginia’s countryside. Read here.

US electric utilities brace for surge in power demand from data centers. Read here.

Is Microsoft & OpenAI’s 5GW Stargate supercomputer feasible? Read here.

AI could add 1 million tonnes to copper demand by 2030. Read here.

Data Centers Are Born To Run. Read here.

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Weekly Update! A quieter week this week, but still some interesting news stories from the world of data centres. The big news was the potential $100bn investment from Microsoft and OpenAI to develop an AI supercomputer campus. Is this a sign of things to come?

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Europe

Luxembourg’s Economy Minister Lex Delles has said Google may yet still build a data center in the Grand Duchy. Read here.

NTT DATA to boost Berlin presence with third data centre campus. Read here.

nLighten acquired 7 data centres from Exa Infrastructure. Read here.

Digital Realty selected to house Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom Mozambique is investing $25m in constructing a data center in Matola, Mozambique. Read here.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has completed the acquisition of a 40 percent stake in DigitalBridge subsidiary Landmark Dividend. Read here.

Data Center Construction Market in Africa to Witness Investment Opportunities of $2.53 Billion by 2029. Read here.

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APAC

Is Meta planning to build a data center in India? Read here.

Meta may locate its first Indian data center at Reliance Industries’ campus in Chennai. Read here.

GDS partners with Gaw, plans 40MW data center campus in Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will invite Microsoft executive chairman and CEO Satya Nadella to the Government House next month to discuss investment in a data centre. Read here.

Nvidia eyes Indonesia for $200M AI center amid global AI scramble. Read here.

Gcore is making strides in the Korean market with its inaugural GPU-centric data center set to open in Incheon. Read here.

The view of APAC data centers in 2024. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft and OpenAI may build a $100 billion supercomputer campus to help develop artificial intelligence models. Read here.

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom. Read here.

Dallas-based CyrusOne is planning a $150 million data center development in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.

$3,000,000,000 A.I. data center potentially heading to Michiana. Read here.

Google Promises New Data Center in Kansas City, Mo. Read here.

QTS has filed to build a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

An application has been filed to expand the scope of a previously approved T5 data center campus in Augusta, Georgia. Read here.

CenterSquare Investment Management announced an equity investment in Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

DataBank completed lease Buy-Back for LAS1 Data Center in Las Vegas. Read here.

US data center firms Cyxtera and Evoque are rebranding under the new Centersquare moniker. Read here.

Canadian colocation provider Coloware is expanding its presence at the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in Toronto, Canada. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

AI Demand for Data Centers Vastly Underestimated, CoreWeave Says. Read here.

Can UK construction keep up with data centre expansion? Read here.

AI revolution will be boom for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses. Read here.

Data Center Construction Trends: Build Fast, Build Smart. Read here.

The Secret Weapon Of Smart Warehouses & Data Centers? Generative AI. Read here.

Data centre chip market to surge, aims for $23.8bn by 2032. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres with Doug Loewe of Kao Data. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! As I sit and write this on a wet Friday morning I am contemplating how this newsletter has reached 20,000 subscribers?! It blows my mind that every single week over 20,000 people are reading this. Imagine what this community could achieve…. 🤔

As long as the news doesn’t stop, I wont stop.. and the news has continued to flow this week.

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Reports

Cushman & Wakefield: 2024 Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.

DC Byte: 2024 Global Data Centre Index. Read here.

JLL: Secondary markets to drive data centre growth in Europe in 2024. Read here.

CBRE: Data Center Asking Rents. Read here.

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Europe

Kao Data secured planning permission for its new, 40MW data centre in Kenwood Point, Stockport. Read here.

Data centre power use ‘to surge six-fold in 10 years’ (UK). Read here.

Italian broadcaster RAI plans to invest €140 million ($151.6m) in developing data centers in the country. Read here.

NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin, with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers. Read here.

Sirius Real Estate has sold a Frankfurt business park site to a data center developer. Read here.

Fixed income asset management firm, PIMCO, has reportedly raised £257.3 million ($325 million) for a Europe-focused data centre fund. Read here.

Guy Willner joined Apto as Senior Advisor. Read here.

Oriole Networks, a new company that revolutionises the performance of AI systems and data centres, has raised £10 million in seed funding. Read here.

Regional Edge data center firm nLighten has deployed solar panels on the roof of its Milton Keynes data center in the UK. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria set to attract over $600 million investments through data centers. Read here.

Saudi Arabia plans to become world AI leader with US$40 billion technology fund. Read here.

Tencent Holdings is looking to expand its cloud business in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Read here.

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APAC

Google Sets Sights On Navi Mumbai For Its First India Data Center. Read here.

Data centre developer and operator GDS Holdings announced the signing of agreements to raise $587 million from private equity investors. Read here.

NTT broke ground on a Bangkok data centre. Read here.

Princeton Digital Group and Lendlease have completed construction of the 48-megawatt first phase of the data centre platform’s first project in Japan. Read here.

Bain Capital is reportedly looking for new backers for its Chinese data center operator ChinData. Read here.

Gamuda eyeing two data centre developments in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers required for AI Boom. Read here.

Google-linked corp gets green light for 181-acre data center campus in PWC, Northern Virginia. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. Read here.

Avant Technologies to Build First AI-Focused Data Center in Milwaukee. Read here.

Nautilus Data Technologies has launched a new modular data center offering. Read here.

Google’s Pick of Kansas City for Data Center Shows Midwest’s Growing Digital Allure. Read here.

$14B data hub proposed near Buckeye. Here’s why locals oppose it. Read here.

A proposal from a developer to build a two-story, 245,000-square-foot data center in Chicago was approved. Read here.

Microsoft has signed deals to procure renewable energy in Texas. Read here.

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South America

Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Inside Europe’s largest data hub in Slough. Read here.

Striking a balance for sustainable growth in the AI-driven data center. Read here.

What Nvidia’s Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators. Read here.

Here’s Why Data Center Cooling Is The Hottest Innovation In The Sector. Read here.

What’s behind Italy’s emergence as a key player in Europe’s digital landscape? Read here.

GenAI should factor in data centre design, sustainability. Read here.

9 of Europe’s most important submarine cable projects. Read here.

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On this weeks episode I talk data centres and football with Fraser Anderson and Lewis Cobb. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! A lot of news this week… Google has been busy. NVIDIA blew the roof off at GTC. The data center sector met at DCD New York. And I put a sticker on a pint of Guinness…

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We have to start with NVIDIA this week..

Nvidia’s data center market opportunities can be as much as US$250 billion. Read here.

Nvidia: US tech giant unveils latest artificial intelligence chip. Read here.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation plans to build a supercomputer in Denmark made up of an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD. Read here.

“Nvidia doesn’t build chips,” he said. “Nvidia builds data centers.” Read here.

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Report

Linesight: Construction Market Insights – Europe. Read here.

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Europe

Plans unveiled for huge North Lincolnshire (UK) data centre. Read here.

Microsoft has filed plans for a data center in Rennes, France. Read here.

Data centre designer Ethos Engineering secures backing of private equity player Exponent. Read here.

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund have investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. Read here.

Mercury delivers Frankfurt data center to Global Switch. Read here.

Schneider Electric collaborates with NVIDIA on designs for AI data centres. Read here.

Ardian acquires data center firm Verne in Northern Europe expansion drive. Read here.

Pulsant has expanded Manchester data center footprint to meet rising demand. Read here.

AtlasEdge unveiled largest purpose built data centre in Leeds. Read here.

Plans for a solar-powered data center south of Bordeaux, France, have reportedly been abandoned. Read here.

US data center firm CorScale has started work on the second facility at its Gainesville campus in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

A dispute over an alleged trespass on lands in Co Meath earmarked for a proposed data centre has been resolved “amicably”. Read here.

Data4 could use data center waste heat to grow algae. Read here.

A brand-new data centre was inaugurated on CERN’s Prévessin site (France). Read here.

Spain power demand may get 3 GW boost from data centres. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Nigeria’s digital expansion leads to Hyperscale Data Center investments. Read here.

Coupa, a leading announced the launch of its first data centre in the Middle East. Read here.

Microsoft partners with PwC Middle East to launch AI Center of Excellence in Riyadh. Read here.

Ooredoo and e& Upgrade DC Connectivity between UAE and Qatar. Read here.

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APAC

Macquarie and Canada’s PSP start AirTrunk data centre sales process. Read here.

DigitalBridge joins race to buy AirTrunk. Read here.

ePLDT’s first hyperscale data centre on track to go live in July. Read here.

AWS linked to fresh $450m Sydney data centre build. Read here.

Goodman Group Breaks Ground on 50MW Data Center in Tsuen Wan (Hong Kong). Read here.

Aboitiz InfraCapital and EdgeConnex forge ahead with Data Center Construction Plans in PH. Read here.

Vietnam emerges as fast-growing data centre market.

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North America

Data center park developer Tract is reportedly planning a new $14bn campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced the issuance of $240 million in green securitized notes. Read here.

Google has filed to construct a new data center building at its campus outside Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Google named as company behind proposed $576 million Cedar Rapids data center. Read here.

Google is developing a $1 billion data center in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.

Google to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects. Read here.

5 ways Google’s data centers support Loudoun County. Read here.

Hedge fund targets data centre giant Equinix. Read here.

Microsoft plans to build yet another data center in the San Antonio area of Texas. Read here.

A new 96MW data center campus is being planned in Fayette County, Georgia. Read here.

Planning officials have approved proposals to turn a former mall site in Maryland earmarked as the FBI’s new HQ to become a data center campus. Read here.

Loudoun County officials have partially backtracked on a decision to deny a data center campus proposal in Belmont, in Northern Virginia. Read here.

NeuReality raises funds to advance affordable, carbon-neutral AI data centres. Read here.

Exaion launched a new data center hosting a quantum computer in Quebec, Canada. Read here.

Virginia’s Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill that will limit data centers. Read here.

Sam Altman’s nuclear power startup Oklo is looking to hire a director of data center solutions. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Nuclear industry strains to meet demands of power-hungry data. Read here.

Wolff towers on a data building exercise. Read here.

Narrowing the digital divide over land, sea, and space. Read here.

Water use in data centers is not a black-and-white issue. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

On this weeks episode I am joined by Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned Data Centers. Listen here.

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Weekly Update! One of those weeks where I cant think of what to write in this section, so how about a joke?

Why couldn’t the restaurant owners open a new data center?.. They didn’t have enough servers. (sorry..).

Hit me with your data centre jokes!

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What has happened this week?

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Europe

Consultation has opened on Equinix’s plan to turn a former paint factory in Slough, UK, into a data center. Read here.

Kao Data’s plans to bring a £350 million data centre to a Stockport industrial estate have moved closer to being realised after garnering approval from local councillors. Read here.

The Irish High Court has issued an injunction preventing a man from letting horses graze on land set to house a new data center in County Meath. Read here.

Servecentric renewed its lease with data center provider Digital Realty in Dublin. Read here.

Commission adopts EU-wide scheme for rating sustainability of data centres. Read here.

Data centres swell TClarke’s order book. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Airtel started construction of its first data center in Lagos. Read here.

Oracle Cloud to launch cloud region in Morocco. Read here.

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia to develop Private Cloud & GPU services. Read here.

Abu Dhabi announced ambitious plans surrounding AI. Read here.

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APAC

BDx acquires freehold of flagship Singapore data centre. Read here.

Chinese operator GDS has confirmed it is looking to sell a stake in its international operations. Read here.

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. Read here.

Australian operator NextDC has acquired a 13.5MW data center in Sydney. Read here.

India announced $1.25 Billion investment into AI. Read here.

Japan’s NEC is reportedly considering a sale of its data centers. Read here.

Yondr Group has powered up its first campus in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Evolution Data Centres has entered into a partnership with Banpu NEXT to power its data centers in Thailand and Vietnam using sustainable energy sources. Read here.

Keppel and Mitsui Fudosan from Japan have announced their collaborative venture into exploring data center development and investment prospects across Japan and Southeast Asia. Read here.

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North America

Dell CEO: We Could Need 100X More Data Centers in 10 Years. Read here.

US-based multinational computer technology company Oracle estimated it will spend US$10 billion on new data centre construction and expansions in 2025. Read here.

Meta to open data center in Rosemount in 2026. Read here.

Skanska announced they have secured a new Data Center development in Virginia. Read here.

Alphabet spinoff Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) unveiled Verrus, a new data centre unit. Read here.

Blackstone announced a credit facility with Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

AI demand and limited capacity drive US data center prices up 19%. Read here.

Google reaches clean energy agreement with SRP to power Mesa data center. Read here.

Hanley Energy opened North American HQ in ‘Data Centre Alley. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Our stressed-out power grids need help. Read here.

Surge in new data centre projects sparks new work opportunities. Read here.

Embracing the AI revolution – What’s in it for data centres? Read here.

Soaring AI Power Demand Poses Unanswered Questions for Data Centers. Read here.

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Inside Data Centre Podcast

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Weekly Update! I hope everyone survived Data Centre World London. Events are always a good way to see how much the sector has grown in the last few years: it was crazy busy! No surprise, it has been another busy week in the world of data centres.

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Europe

Digital Core REIT ups Frankfurt data centre stake with €117m acquisition. Read here.

maincubes seals first PPA contract with Stadtwerke Göttingen. Read here.

AtlasEdge announced the completion of a key acquisition in Vienna. Read here.

Waste heat from a new Microsoft data center in Denmark will warm up to 6,000 homes. Read here.

UK-based Amber Infrastructure is looking for a capital partner for its Australian data center business. Read here.

CWCS Managed Hosting has acquired a 9,300 sq ft building in Nottingham to increase the company’s data centre footprint. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Amazon Web Services among firms investing over $10 billion in Saudi Arabian data centers. Read here.

Zoho Corp announced the opening of its first two data centers in the Middle East. Read here.

President of Kenya unveils green-powered Mega Data Center in collaboration with the UAE. Read here.

IBM to invest $200 Million in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

G42 partners with EcoCloud to develop green DC in Kenya. Read here.

Airtel Africa set to build 34MW data center in Nigeria. Read here.

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APAC

Vantage Data Centers has secured a $64 million loan for its Taiwanese data center build-out. Read here.

A planned NZ$7.5 billion Amazon Web Services data center development in New Zealand has been put on hold. Read here.

Meta is reportedly considering building a data center in India. Read here.

Digital Realty unveiled NRT12, their Second Data Center in Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Read here.

Colt DCS announced plans new data centre in Chennai. Read here.

Keppel Data Centers has completed external construction work on a new data center in Singapore. Read here.

BW Digital to develop 80MW data center in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.

Australian data center operator NextDC is reportedly in talks to acquire some of Global Switch’s data center portfolio. Read here.

Philippines conglomerate SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is exploring moving into the data center space. Read here.

Youth For Tomorrow sold 70 acres in Virginia to Stack Infrastructure in November for $81.3 million. Read here.

Singtel trims stake in Bharti Airtel with $710m sale to invest in data centers. Read here.

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North America

Amazon has agreed to purchase Talen Energy’s data centre campus, located next to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Logistics real estate giant Prologis has hired Compass co-founder Chris Curtis to lead a new data center team. Read here.

DC BLOX has completed the expansion of it’s Birmingham Alabama data center. Read here.

Digital Realty, Mitsubishi form data centre development joint venture. Read here.

Modular data center startup Flexnode has raised $8.85 million in a Series A round. Read here.

Sabey Data Centers has entered a partnership with Elcairion, a modular, containerized data center solution company headquartered in Paris, France. Read here.

Core Scientific to provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center infrastructure to support AI and HPC workloads. Read here.

Construction firm Hourigan has filed to rezone hundreds of acres of land outside Richmond for data center development. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired 124 acres in Virginia’s Prince William County. Read here.

An unnamed data center developer has acquired 14 acres of land in the Itasca area of Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. Read here.

Council to vote on rezoning 640 acres for Razor5’s possible data center near New Carlisle. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

The AI revolution, are you ready? Read here.

Europe’s Emerging Tier 2 Data Centre Markets in 2024. Read here.

Equinix Boss Warns Data Centre Clampdown Risks ‘Techxit’. Read here.

The Irish Times view on the Cabinet row over data centres. Read here.

The future of hyperscale data centres. Read here.

Swaths of the US are at risk of power outages with artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mines doubling forecasted energy demand over the coming years. Read here.

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