Weekly Data Centre Digest – 11th April 2025
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Reports
Knight Frank: Data Centres Global Report – 2025. Read here.
IEA: Energy & AI. Read here.
AWS: Letter to shareholders. Read here.
Europe
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years. Read here.
European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent. Read here.
Colt DCS Expands German Data Centre Capacity by 117MW. Read here.
Spanish construction firm ACS is planning to develop a data center in Aragon, Spain. Read here.
Start Campus lights up one of the largest private digital infrastructure investments in Europe. Read here.
SG investment firm reportedly eyes UK data center operator deal. Read here.
Yondr Group Brings Second Data Centre Online at 100mw London Campus. Read here.
Bucks plans for another new data centre in green belt. Read here.
Digital Realty launches first data center in Crete, Greece. Read here.
Yorizon and Hochtief break ground on timber Edge data center in Bad Lippspringe, Germany. Read here.
TikTok now using all three data center buildings by Green Mountain in Norway. Read here.
Infrastructure works set to boost Newport (Wales) tech growth. Read here.
Heat from computer data centres will be used to keep 9,000 homes and business – as well as Central Middlesex Hospital – warm. Read here.
UK forms AI Energy Council to balance data centre growth with sustainability. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Awqaf Abu Dhabi considers data centre investment amid push into defensive sectors. Read here.
Lagos State is making major strides in digital infrastructure, with four data centres currently under construction. Read here.
APAC
Goodman files to develop 90MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.
GreenSquareDC files to upgrade and expand Sydney data center site. Read here.
EPG breaks ground on US$ 80.23 million data center solutions facility (Johor). Read here.
Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power. Read here.
India’s NBCC and RailTel plan to develop data centre projects. Read here.
CapitaLand building AI-ready DC in Chennai. Read here.
GLP sets up RMB 2.6 billion AUM maiden data center fund. Read here.
UAE company considers investing in data centres and AI infrastructure in Việt Nam. Read here.
North America
Meta’s secret Wisconsin data centre project to cost nearly $1bn: report. Read here.
Bloomberg: Meta is the developer behind planned Beaver Dam data center. Read here.
Alphabet committed to spend $75bn on data centre capacity in 2025. Read here.
Judge Dismisses Challenge to Meta’s $10bn Louisiana Data Center. Read here.
Spanish construction firm ACS is looking to develop a five-building data center campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.
Plans filed for 8 million sq ft data center and technology park outside Augusta, Georgia. Read here.
Diode Ventures has been given the green light by local officials for a data center campus outside Boise, Idaho. Read here.
Data center firm CyrusOne has broken ground on a new data center campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.
600MW data center campus proposed outside Kansas City, Kansas. Read here.
900MW data center campus proposed outside Macon, Georgia. Read here.
LS Power eyes 300-MW colocated data center at Virginia power plant. Read here.
DOE looks at Savannah River Site as potential data center location. Read here.
Plans for 300,000 sq ft data center put forward in Conway, Arkansas. Read here.
Firm to transform Bitcoin mining facility in Dickens Co. into AI data center. Read here.
Galaxy Digital pivots from crypto to AI – signs 200MW deal with CoreWeave. Read here.
IREN pausing Bitcoin expansion to focus on AI data center build-out. Read here.
TierPoint raises $500 million for data center growth. Read here.
Bitfarms gets $300m debt facility from Macquarie for Bitcoin and AI expansion. Read here.
US Power Utilities Receive Massive AI Data Centre Requests. Read here.
South America
Equinix launches ST2 facility expansion in Pudahuel, Chile. Read here.
Sparkle picks KIO’s datacenter in Querétaro for Mexico launch. Read here.
GIC has formed a joint venture with Brazilian asset manager Alianza to invest $328.8 million in data centres in the South American nation. Read here.
Chilean electric power sector player Generadora Metropolitana sees opportunities in the local datacenter segment. Read here.
Other interesting articles
The plans to put data centres in orbit and on the Moon. Read here.
Could data centres ever be built in orbit? Read here.
Data centre delays will cost developers a lot. Read here.
Inside Brussels’ blueprint to triple AI infrastructure across the EU. Read here.
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. Read here.
The geographies of data are changing – here’s how the industry can adapt. Read here.
Goldman Sachs: Data center demand is peaking in 2025. Read here.
Digital Garden Tokyo: Challenges and opportunities for Japan’s digital infrastructure. Read here.
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