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Europe

Microsoft’s $3.2 B UK data centre plans threatened by grid delays. Read here.

Microsoft skirts around rumors that it has cancelled several data center projects worth billions of dollars. Read here.

CyrusOne to develop second data center in Milan, Italy. Read here.

Edgnex by Damac acquires Finnish data center developer Hyperco. Read here.

Telehouse has announced plans to invest €1 billion in four data centres across France. Read here.

PPC Group has presented a multi-billion euro plan to convert former lignite sites in Western Macedonia into a green energy and technology hub for Greece and south eastern Europe. Read here.

Britain risks ‘losing out to France on data centres’. Read here.

Hemiko to develop UK’s first data center waste heat network. Read here.

Pulsant expands UK portfolio with SCC data centre acquisition. Read here.

AI cloud provider Fluidstack is teaming up with Nvidia, Dell, and Borealis Data Center for the deployment of exascale GPU clusters. Read here.

One of Switzerland’s biggest data center operators Green, owned by InfraVia Capital Partners, has attracted initial interest from insurance companies, pension funds and private equity firms. Read here.

The Iliad Group and InfraVia have closed the transaction aimed at developing OpCore into a major European hyperscale data center platform. Reads here.

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Middle East & Africa

MGX, Silver Lake acquire minority stakes in Khazna Data Centers. Read here.

Equinix expands Lagos Data Center amid Africa’s digital boom. Read here.

Raxio Secures $100 Million from IFC to Develop Leading Sub-Saharan African Data Center Platform. Read here.

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APAC

Softbank seeks $16.5 billion loan to fund Stargate Commitments – report. Read here.

Oracle, Blackstone, Amazon and OnlyFans lineup TikTok bids as deadline looms. Read here.

GLP launched maiden data center fund in China with asset under management of $358 million. Read here.

AirTrunk seeks US$1.7bil loan to build Singapore data centres. Read here.

Morgan Stanley trims PT on Goodman Group over data centre caution. Read here.

Japan plans offshore floating green data centre to meet AI boom. Read here.

Metavisio, BKB team up to build data center in South Korea. Read here.

Japanese consortium to build offshore floating green data center. Read here.

Singaporean firm GK Hyperscale Ltd will participate in the construction of two major data processing centers in Kazakhstan’s Akmola and Karaganda regions. Read here.

China’s AI data center boom goes bust: Rush leaves billions of dollars in idle infrastructure. Read here.

NTT breaks ground on data center campus outside Tokyo, Japan. Read here.

China-based data center firm EPG has announced the official groundbreaking of its second factory in Malaysia. Read here.

SUNeVision begins Phase II of ‘Mega IDC’ in Hong Kong. Read here.

DCI Data Centers submits plan for 25MW data center in Canberra, Australia. Read here.

Keppel, JBIC ink MoU to support clean energy and data center development across Asia. Read here.

Iron Mountain Data Centers takes over Web Werks. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft pulls back on data Centres from Chicago to Jakarta. Read here.

Elon Musk combines xAI and X, valuing social media platform at $33bn. Read here.

Google in talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell GPUs from CoreWeave – report. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure unveils workforce development program. Read here.

133-acre data center approved in Hampton, Georgia. Read here.

Northwest Fort Worth could soon be home to a $2.1 billion data center. Read here.

Data farm proposed near Salton Sea could be first major development in Lithium Valley. Read here.

Apple data center in Maiden to get $175 million expansion. Read here.

Minnesota developer plans to build data center north of Austin. Read here.

$6 billion data center proposal draws mixed reactions in Oldham County. Read here.

Developer Terra Ventures has proposed a two-building data center complex in San Jose Alviso district. Read here.

Real estate firm NorthPoint Development is looking to develop a data center park outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read here.

PhoenixNAP set to build its second Valley data center. Read here.

Application filed for 8.6 million sq ft data center project outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

New data center in Fort Worth could be $2 billion investment. Read here.

Developer pitches $12B data center near Kansas Speedway. Read here.

$6B data center project proposed for Oldham County. Read here.

Plans filed for 2.55 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta. Read here.

Huge AI Data Center Planned for Pennsylvania Coal Plant Site. Read here.

US energy department invites AI data centre development at Los Alamos and other federal lands. Read here.

NTT acquires 173-acre planned data center park in Mesa, Arizona, for $300m. Read here.

Hut 8 and Eric Trump Launch American Bitcoin to Set a New Standard in Bitcoin Mining. Read here.

Mawson Infrastructure Group signs 64MW crypto colocation deal with Canaan. Read here.

Hyperscale Data announced it has entered into an agreement for up to $50 million in new equity financing from a single, unaffiliated institutional investor. Read here.

PGIM Real Estate has closed a $2 billion fund to back data center developments around the world. Read here.

Northstar Technologies acquires Compass’ Quantum Edge data center unit. Read here.

1547 and Harrison Street acquire Hawaii’s DRFortress from GI Partners. Read here.

Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks. Read here.

Trump tariffs could end Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree. Read here.

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South America

Equinix’s services ‘operating normally’ after fire in São Paulo datacenter. Read here.

Takoda Data Centers advances sale process with Itaú, Citizens Bank. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Top 10: Data Centre Influencers. Read here.

What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you. Read here.

Global colocation market shift: Emerging metros poised for high growth. Read here.

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday. Read here.

Trump Tariffs: Will the Data Centre Industry be Impacted? Read here.

How Tariffs Could Impact Data Centers, AI, and Energy Amid Supply Chain Shifts. Read here.

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Europe

A new £1 billion data centre at Park Royal ‘will power London’s digital growth’. Read here.

SEGRO and Pure Data Centres Group announce joint venture to develop a c.£1bn fully fitted data centre. Read here.

UK pledges £13bn to boost infrastructure projects. Read here.

Greek PPC unveils EUR 5 billion plan for data centers. Read here.

Art Data Centres Ennis campus judicial review gets dismissed. Read here.

Iliad plots European data centre leadership with eye on sovereignty needs. Read here.

Planned €2bn sale of Energia reignited following data centre planning approval (Ireland). Read here.

Start Campus to start work on second €8bn building at Sines Data Centre in June. Read here.

Nscale to expand Glomfjord data center in Norway with 30MW building. Read here.

Nscale, InfraPartners to launch 60MW AI data centre in Norway. Read here.

Digital Realty has launched a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Eurazeo, through its newly launched fund EZORE, announces a €100 million strategic partnership with Metrobloks, a US-based developer and operator of highly connected data centers in metropolitan areas. Read here.

GreenScale, a new leader in sustainable digital infrastructure, announced a strategic partnership with Soben. Read here.

Arcadis completed the acquisition of KUA Group, strengthening its position across the European data center market. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Cassava Technologies to build Africa’s first AI factory powered by NVIDIA. Read here.

Rack Centre launches 12MW AI-ready data centre in Nigeria. Read here.

Emirates Group co-locates to world’s largest solar-powered data centre. Read here.

MGX buys stake in Dubai’s Khazna Data Centers. Read here.

Enlight Renewable Energy announced that it won an Israel Land Authority tender to develop a state-of-the-art $1.1bn integrated data center and renewable energy complex on a 50-acre site in Ashalim, southern Israel. Read here.

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APAC

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd chairman Joe Tsai warned of a potential bubble forming in data center construction. Read here.

Proposal Lodged by Goodman for ‘Project Apollo’ Macquarie Park Data Centre (Australia). Read here.

Nvidia’s Asian suppliers sink on data center oversupply doubts. Read here.

A consortium consisting of NYK Line, NTT Facilities, Eurus Energy Holdings, MUFG Bank, and the city of Yokohama has signed a memorandum of understanding to build an offshore floating green data center. Read here.

Empyrion Digital enters Thailand with BOI approval for 12MW data center. Read here.

Metavisio Thomson Computing and BKB Energy to build 260 MW data center in South Korea. Read here.

South Korean cloud firm Okestro plans 40MW data center in Sejong. Read here.

TECO buys 80% stake in Malaysian MEP engineering firm to service data centers. Read here.

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North America

Microsoft pulls back from more data center leases in US and Europe. Read here.

OpenAI could build dedicated storage data center to host ‘billions of dollars’ of hardware. Read here.

Related Companies announced the formal launch and capitalization of Related Digital. With a near-term $45 billion development pipeline. Read here.

Critical Data House plans $10B data center in Williston North Dakota. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Announces New 36MW Data Center in Chicago. Read here.

Crusoe Energy sells bitcoin mining unit to focus on ‘huge opportunity’ in AI. Read here.

Apple Joins AI Data Center Race After Siri Mess. Read here.

Data center firm Serverfarm has filed to build two new data centers at sites in Texas that it acquired last year. Read here.

T5 plans 36MW data center in Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Frasier Cole Announces New 190-Acre Data Center Site in Glen Rose, Texas. Read here.

700-acre data center in Bessemer, Alabama, approved despite opposition. Read here.

Lincolnshire-based developer Scott Greenberg is moving forward with data center plans in the Near South Side region of the city. Read here.

Up to 5GW data center with behind-the-meter hydrogen power promised for Laredo, Texas. Read here.

Four-building data center campus proposed in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.

Two data center campuses totaling 38 buildings proposed in Yorkville, Illinois. Read here.

The US government is trying to gauge industry interest in developing a 500MW+ commercial data center on an Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona. Read here.

A data center planned for Hobart, Indiana, has been given the green light by the city’s council. Read here.

DataOne USA and Northeast Precast Forge Strategic Partnership. Read here.

Data center operator Sabey raises another $435 million. Read here.

US data center operator Switch has raised $3.5 billion, which it will use to refinance its existing debt. Read here.

Norges Bank Takes $3.86 Billion Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Read here.

Soluna Holdings Secures Financing with Galaxy Digital to Accelerate Data Center Expansion. Read here.

Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure. Read here.

Oklo boosts Aurora reactor capacity to 75MW to power AI data centers. Read here.

Deep Atomic Begins Pre-Application Process for Data Centre Nuclear Reactors. Read here.

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South America

Brazil aims to attract $350bn in data centre investments over next decade. Read here.

The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) announced the approval of a line of credit, initially worth R$180 million, for Scala Data Centers. Read here.

250MW natural gas-powered data center campus announced in Durango, Mexico. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Planning for the Future: Navigating the UK’s Data Center Development Maze. Read here.

Building Data Centers for Tomorrow’s AI Era. Read here.

Constructing the digital future: Legal challenges in data centre projects. Read here.

The Power Play: How Data Centers and Utilities Are Reinventing Energy Strategies. Read here.

Breaking the AI Bottleneck: The Future of High-Density Data Centers. Read here.

Data: UK women lead in STEM roles, but BAME inclusion lags. Read here.

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Reports

Synergy: Hyperscale Data Center Count Hits 1,136. Read here.

RLB: 2025 Data Center trends report. Read here.

Dell’Oro Group: Data Center Capex Surged 51 Percent to $455 Billion in 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Oracle to invest $5bn in UK cloud infrastructure. Read here.

Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe. Read here.

New UK data center firm SUB1 secures investment from Boultbee Brooks. Read here.

Clean Energy Capital plans solar farm directly connected to IBM data center in Hursley, UK. Read here.

Drax handed boost in biomass plant data centre plans (Yorkshire, UK). Read here.

Telehouse inks 10-year PPA with RWE to power London Docklands data hub. Read here.

‘Small number’ of redundancies at Meta data centre in Co Meath. Read here.

Spain’s grid operator gives Solaria green light for two more data center projects totaling 130MW. Read here.

Solaria consolidates 1 GW of demand to connect data centers in Spain. Read here.

Portugal eyes $13bn investment in data centres. Read here.

AtlasEdge and Colt join forces to drive Portugal’s digital and sustainable future. Read here.

Sesterce to invest $500 million in AI data centre in France. Read here.

Data centre boom to boost role of gas in Italy. Read here.

Schneider Electric Collaborates with NVIDIA on Designs for AI Data Centers. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Laing O’Rourke achieves major milestone for Pure Data Centres in Abu Dhabi. Read here.

Alfanar Global Development is planning to spend $1.4 billion on developing data centers in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Wingu.Africa breaks grounds on data center expansion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read here.

The Algerian government has broken ground on an AI data center in Oran, Algeria. Read here.

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APAC

Microsoft Malaysia to launch three data centres in Q2 2025. Read here.

Thailand has reportedly approved an estimated US$2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services from both local and foreign firms. Read here.

DayOne breaks ground on hyperscale data center pioneering Thailand’s digital future. Read here.

Bridge Data Centres secures record US$ 2.8 billion senior secured bank financing to fuel expansion. Read here.

NTT announces 500MW NAV2 data center in Navi Mumbai, India. Read here.

Currenc to construct hyperscale AI data centre in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Digital Realty forms JV with BDIA to play in Indonesia’s data centre space. Read here.

Equinix issues $370m green bonds in Singapore market debut. Read here.

Beeinfotech PH HIVE Hybrid Data Center opens in Manila. Read here.

L&T to invest Rs 3,600 crores to build three new DCs in India. Read here.

Asia Pacific Cloud Park to be developed in South Korea. Read here.

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North America

Nvidia & xAI Join Big Tech in AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.

STACK Infrastructure Secures $4 Billion in Green Financing. Read here.

Microsoft chose not to exercise $12 billion Coreweave option. Read here.

Microsoft stops some construction work on massive data center in Mount Pleasant. Read here.

Microsoft is building more data centers outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.

Chevron advances plans to develop US data centers with power generation. Read here.

Goodman Group breaks ground on 49.5 MW data center LAX01 in Vernon, California. Read here.

Crusoe has begun construction on the second phase of its data center conglomeration on the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas. Read here.

Diode Ventures files for 515-acre data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.

Hut 8 secures 592 acres for 300MW Bitcoin and AI data center. Read here.

Core Scientific plans new AI data centers in Dalton, Georgia. Read here.

Data center campus of 6.2m sq ft proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Details emerge around Beacon AI’s planned 400MW Alberta data center campuses. Read here.

Reno approves first evaporative cooling data center. Read here.

QTS has leased a 756,000 sq ft building near Kansas City for a new data center development. Read here.

Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators. Read here.

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South America

ODATA announced a new 48MW Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.

Growth of data centre investments in Brazil. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Nearly Half of All UK Data Centres to Be Used for AI by 2030. Read here.

Footballer, rockstar, data center engineer? The industry’s battle to recruit. Read here.

Fixing the 8% problem: Solving the data centre industry’s gender imbalance. Read here.

Near Misses Instill Fears Over Widespread Data Center-Induced Blackouts. Read here.

The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages? Read here.

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Reports

Colliers: 2025 Data Center Marketplace. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Year-end 2024. Read here.

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Europe

Azora announced they are to invest €2bn developing a data center in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

CoreWeave partners with Bulk Infrastructure for one of the largest NVIDIA AI deployments in Europe. Read here.

Verne Strikes 10MW Deal with Nebius to Further Expand Europe’s AI Capacity. Read here.

Pinewood Studios (UK) puts data centre at heart of revised expansion plans. Read here.

Hillingdon Council has granted planning permission for the construction of a large data centre in Hayes. Read here.

Kao Data launches high-density AI data centre with liquid cooling in Harlow. Read here.

Data4 and Westinghouse to evaluate AP300 for data centre deployment. Read here.

Spanish data center firm Templus has announced plans to expand into Portugal. Read here.

firstcolo builds new data center in Rosbach (Germany). Read here.

Vodafone Spain targets 100 Edge data centers by year-end. Read here.

UK rips up planning rules to slash grid connection waits by 7 years. Read here.

Soben to become part of Accenture. Read here.

Digital Realty is to host a quantum computer at one of its colocation data centers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read here.

Portugal positioned to capture significant share of data centre investment. Read here.

The revised NPPF recognizes that data centres are integral to economic growth (UK). Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Ooredoo spin-off Syntys enters growing MENA data centre market. Read here.

Riyadh emerges as Middle East’s fastest-growing market for data centers. Read here.

JLL has announced it has secured a landmark facilities management contract with Pure Data Centres for a data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Read here.

Attacq And Vantage To Develop R628M “Dark Shell” Data Centre. Read here.

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APAC

Chinese data center operator GDS Holdings is selling some of its data centers to a private real estate investment trust. Read here.

SM+ begins construction on Jakarta AI-ready data centre. Read here.

CapitaLand Investment to develop its first data center in Japan. Read here.

Mitsui & Co. Asset Management Holdings Ltd has announced plans to acquire, via a holding company, an operational 20MW hyperscale data center in Japan. Read here.

SoftBank and OpenAI to develop AI data center at former Sharp plant – Nikkei. Read here.

TECON Signs THB16 Billion Construction Contract for Google’s Data Center. Read here.

Oracle mulls data center investment in Indonesia’s Batam Island. Read here.

2MW data center planned in Armenia. Read here.

Asia data centre developer and operator Princeton Digital Group has converted a US$105 million loan into green financing for its JC2 data centre campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read here.

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North America

CoreWeave inks $11.9 billion contract with OpenAI ahead of IPO. Read here.

Microsoft is open to using natural gas to power AI data centers to keep up with demand. Read here.

Super Micro CEO Charles Liang said he teamed up with Elon Musk’s xAI to build the Colossus data center in just 122 days. Read here.

Crypto and AI data center firm IREN is planning to develop a 75MW AI data center in Texas. Read here.

Amazon Web Services has received the green light for its planned data center campus in Marysville, Ohio. Read here.

xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center. Read here.

An unnamed developer plans to build a $2.1 billion data center campus in Archbald, Pennsylvania. Read here.

Armbrust & Brown PLLC on behalf of Highlander SM One LLC have proposed a data center project for 199 acres of land in San Marcos, Texas. Read here.

1.5 million sq ft technology campus proposed in LaGrange, Georgia. Read here.

RadiusDC announces 12MW Nashville data center in Tennessee. Read here.

Energy trio, Diversified Energy, FuelCell Energy, and TESIAC, wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on. Read here.

Eaton to buy Fibrebond in $1.4 billion deal to boost data center market presence. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

From Billions to Trillions: Data Centers’ New Scale of Investment. Read here.

Steel shock: How Trump’s 25% tariffs could delay data centres and tower builds. Read here.

Nordics’ efficient energy infrastructure ideal for Microsoft’s data centre expansion. Read here.

Is The Data Center REIT Honeymoon Period Over? Read here.

Banks Are Putting Big Money Behind Data Centers, Sending Land Prices Soaring. Read here.

Delays, costs, and the role of AI in data centre construction. Read here.

The impact of AI on power and cooling in the data center. Read here.

Data center pipeline capacity exceeds 92 GW by end of 2024, says Wood Mackenzie. Read here.

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Reports

Deloitte study: the use of Gen AI will double global data centers’ electricity consumption by 2030. Read here.

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Europe

QTS Data Centers has received approval for a £10bn campus in Cambois, UK. Read here.

Stena Line submits data centre proposal that could bring over 1,000 jobs to Anglesey. Read here.

Immersion cooling firm Submer expands into data centre construction. Read here.

Microsoft to build another data center campus in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

NxN Datacenters is set to begin construction of its data center in Valencia, Spain. Read here.

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace is expanding one of its data centers in Prague. Read here.

EcoDataCenter secures €450M to drive green data infrastructure. Read here.

Google has launched a new cloud region outside Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

Arjun in Talks to Invest in Brookfield-Backed Data4’s Assets. Read here.

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Middle East & Africa

Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has completed phase one of its data center in Limuru, Kenya. Read here.

Microsoft invests extra ZAR 5.4bn in South African cloud infrastructure. Read here.

Microsoft announces AI powered Azure Region for Kuwait. Read here.

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APAC

Partners Group will invest up to AUD$1.2 billion to transform GreenSquareDC into a next-generation data centre platform in Australia. Read here.

Asia Pacific’s co-location data centre pipeline will require more than $116 billion in funding for construction over the next five to seven years. Read here.

Saigon Asset Management announced the launch of SAM DigitalHub (Vietnam), a 50-hectare (124-acre), 150- megawatt data center campus initiative with a targeted investment of up to $1.5 billion. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has broken ground on a new data center in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

SKT joins forces with Schneider Electric on AI data center (Korea). Read here.

SM+ Breaks Ground on Flagship Data Center in Jakarta’s CBD. Read here.

Sify breaks ground for AI-Hub Data Center in Lucknow. Read here.

South Korea aims to secure 18,000 GPUs to power its ambitious AI plans. Read here.

ARB IOT signs MoU to build AI data center lab in Malaysia. Read here.

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North America

OpenAI, Oracle to build Texas AI data center with thousands of Nvidia chips. Read here.

JPMorgan Chase and Starwood Property agreed to lend $2B for a 100-acre data center campus in West Jordan, Utah. Read here.

A proposed $2.8 billion Data Center in South Carolina’s Upstate would have its own onsite power generation. Read here.

CIM Group and Novva Data Centers announced that they recently closed a new commitment of $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the build-out of Novva’s flagship 175MW Salt Lake City data center. Read here.

DataOne and Nebius Partner for New US 300MW AI Data Centre in New Jersey. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure files for $10bn data center in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Read here.

Stream proposes large data center in Genesee County, New York. Read here.

Data center the size of three city blocks proposed in this Central Jersey town. Read here.

Arizona Land buys 160 acres in Buckeye area of Phoenix for data center development. Read here.

A developer is looking to build a data center campus outside Chicago in northwest Indiana. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its existing data center campus in Québec, Canada. Read here.

55H has announced a phased expansion of its data center capacity in Brampton, Ontario. Read here.

Canadian First Nation Prophet River FN plans data center in British Columbia. Read here.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation has entered into agreements for a 50% interest in Greenlight Electricity Centre Limited Partnership, which is developing an electricity and data center complex in Alberta. Read here.

US utility First Energy has reported that its pipeline of potential data centers has surged to 2.6GW by 2029. Read here.

Last Energy plans 30 microreactors in Texas to power data centers. Read here.

Cathedra Bitcoin Sells North Dakota Data Center for $21 Million. Read here.

Kentucky utilities submit planning permission for 1.29GW of natural gas power to serve data center sector. Read here.

Baker Hughes, Frontier Infrastructure Partner on Carbon Capture and Data Center Projects in the U.S. Read here.

Soluna taps 166MW wind power to fuel data center. Read here.

AI Startup CoreWeave’s IPO Filing Reveals Its Data Center Footprint’s Growth — And Its Risks. Read here.

CoreWeave denies any canceled contracts with Microsoft ahead of IPO. Read here.

Blackstone’s Gray Sounds Bullish Call on Data Center Spending. Read here.

Principal Asset Management closed a $3.64bn dedicated data center fund. Read here.

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South America

Brazil’s data center boom raises concerns over energy access. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

Gen AI to double global data centres’ electricity consumption by 2030. Read here.

Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025: Industry leaders call for urgent grid reform. Read here.

Inside the US Data Center Boom: What’s powering the next tech revolution? Read here.

Europe risks losing AI race without urgent action on digital infrastructure. Read here.

The expansion of infrastructure: How AI data centres will change the sector. Read here.

Recent Missions Enable Lunar Data Centers And Human Archives. Read here.

World’s 1st modular quantum computer that can operate at room temperature goes online. Read here.

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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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AI Factories: Separating Hype From Reality. Read here.

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

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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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