Weekly Data Centre Digest – 11th July 2025
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Reports
BCS Consultancy: 2025 Summer report. Read here.
LSE: Uncertainty and upward bias are inherent in Data Center electricity demand projections. Read here.
Europe
Plans to be lodged for €1bn data centre campus in Westmeath. Read here.
More clean energy pledged for proposed €3bn data center campus in County Kildaire, Ireland. Read here.
Sovereign European cloud Evroc launches. Read here.
Real estate investment management firm BentallGreenOak (BGO) has launched its own data center platform. Read here.
Logistics real estate firm Panattoni forms dedicated European data center team. Read here.
Groq leases space at Equinix data center in Helsinki, Finland. Read here.
Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has teamed up with IT services provider Edora to establish a data centre within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. Read here.
France poised to become a data centre powerhouse as electricity demand surges 74% by 2050. Read here.
New company claims plans for three data center campuses in Italy. Read here.
Eni, Khazna to build 500 MW AI data center campus in Italy. Read here.
Plans for a major new digital ‘green data’ campus on farmland in Coldstream (Scotland) have moved closer to reality. Read here.
Detailed plans unveiled for £1bn Data Centre at Pinewood. Read here.
Residents of two villages near Corsham are mustering to fight proposals for the construction of a sixth data centre near their homes. Read here.
Former Lloyds data centre in Pudsey set to be transformed into 124 homes. Read here.
Yondr Powers Up 40MW Frankfurt Data Centre as European Growth Accelerates. Read here.
The Schwarz Group, a German-based retailer which owns the supermarket chain Lidl, plans to lead the development of a major data center for AI. Read here.
Winthrop Technologies revenue surges past €1.5bn amid European expansion. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
XDS Datacentres and ICS Arabia partner to launch landmark 10MW immersion cooled data center in KSA. Read here.
Ooredoo taps Syntys for AI cloud data centres in Qatar. Read here.
Morocco to Build 500MW Renewable-Powered Data Centre. Read here.
KSA construction market thrives as data centres and diversification drive Middle East demand. Read here.
DataVolt seeks firms for Riyadh 70MW data centre. Read here.
APAC
China wants 115,000 Nvidia chips to power Data Centre in the desert. Read here.
Singapore data centre NTT DC REIT to raise around $773 million from IPO. Read here.
MOL and Karpowership Plan to Convert Car Carriers to Floating Data Centers. Read here.
Digital Edge secures US$582 million data centre green loan. Read here.
Consortium proposes $2 billion hyperscale data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.
Goodman Group forms AU$4.1bn fund for Hong Kong data centers. Read here.
NeutraDC Nxera Batam inks MOU with Medco Power to power its AI data center with renewables. Read here.
Empyrion Digital opens KR1 Gangnam data center. Read here.
North America
AI data centre group CoreWeave strikes $9bn deal to buy rival Core Scientific. Read here.
Westbridge Renewable Energy Announces Launch of First Data Centre Project: Fontus, a 380+ MW Strategic Hub in Colorado. Read here.
Why Google’s $75 Billion Data Center Bet is a Masterstroke in the AI Race. Read here.
Switch building “AI factories” in Las Vegas. Read here.
Starwood files to develop 1.2GW, 11-building data center campus in Delaware. Read here.
Energy Campus accelerates Alberta’s low-carbon data centre infrastructure. Read here.
Rainbow Energy plans data center powered by North Dakota’s largest coal plant – report. Read here.
BluSky AI Inc. Secures First Site with 9.3MW to Launch Flagship Data Center in Central, Utah. Read here.
Novva Data Centers Announces the Launch of Tahoe Reno Data Center. Read here.
NuQuest Energy II presents high-value data center and battery storage portfolio. Read here.
Denver Company To Build 263,000 Sq. Ft. Data Center At Busse & Howard. Read here.
Two data centers proposed for vacant lot in San Jose, California. Read here.
Developer lets slip who’s behind Indianapolis data center, and it’s a name you know. Read here.
EdgeConneX plans to develop more than 1 million sq ft of data center space outside Columbus, Ohio. Read here.
South America
Patria Investments partners with Casa dos Ventos for data center project in Ceará, Brazil. Read here.
Ascenty plans more data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. Read here.
Other interesting articles
The AI energy crunch: Meeting the data center surge. Read here.
Majority of top data centre hubs face climate change risks. Read here.
2025 AI infrastructure: What the data is telling leaders now. Read here.
Minister cautions that water demand represents ‘very large issue for data centres’. Read here.
Data centre colocation market to double, driven by AI demand. Read here.
AI data centres could be key to reducing billions in electricity constraint costs. Read here.
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