Weekly Data Centre Digest – 11th October 2024
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Reports
Turner & Townsend: Data Centre Cost Index. Read here.
Europe
Newham Council expected to approve Canning Town data centre (UK). Read here.
AVK launched the AVK Academy, a dedicated training hub that will play a pivotal role in developing the next generation of data centre engineers. Read here.
Apto joins the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. Read here.
Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital has acquired a majority stake in new Nordic data center firm Polar. Read here.
Switch Data Centers have acquired a 50,000 sqm Data Center site in Poland. Read here.
Microsoft is reportedly looking to build several data centers in Northern France. Read here.
Invesco Real Estate acquired it’s first data center asset in Europe (France). Read here.
French startup Denv-R has launched its debut floating data center in Nantes. Read here.
DSM Group officially launched its cutting-edge Eco Data Centre in Peterborough. Read here.
Elite UK REIT has submitted a planning application to build an 80MW facility next to an office campus at Peel Park used by the DWP. Read here.
Nebius is tripling Nvidia GPU capacity at its AI data centre in Finland. Read here.
AN Bord Pleanála have told the High Court it will not oppose an appeal to the decision to grant planning permission for a €1.2 billion data centre campus on the outskirts of Ennis. Read here.
Meta experiencing labour issues at Clonee data centre. Read here.
OpenAI confirms Paris and Brussels offices as company sets sights on Europe. Read here.
Stelia, Centersquare partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across North America and Europe. Read here.
Beyond.pl and Veolia partner to heat Poznan with data centre waste heat. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Israeli data centre operator NED Data Centers is working on a joint venture to build 500MW of AI data centre capacity throughout Israel. Read here.
DAMAC Group announced a $1 Billion investment in Thai-Based Data Center with Tech Provider ‘PROEN Corp’. Read here.
Wolters Kluwer widens global footprint via new data centre in UAE. Read here.
APAC
A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand. Read here.
Johor, Malaysia, has experienced a phenomenal surge in data center development. In just two years, the state’s capacity has skyrocketed from a modest 10MW to over 1,000MW, making it a regional powerhouse. Read here.
The government of the Western Indian state of Maharashtra is reportedly planning to build data center parks totalling an IT capacity of 1.5 GW in and around Mumbai. Read here.
Ares Management has reached an agreement to purchase Singapore-based logistics specialist GLP Capital Partners. Read here.
Hydrogen-powered data center planned in New Zealand. Read here.
Chinese data center firm ZData is expanding into Malaysia with a project in Johor. Read here.
North America
Blue Owl Capital has agreed to the $1bn acquisition of digital infrastructure fund manager IPI Partners from ICONIQ Capital and Iron Point Partners. Read here.
Strategic Real Estate Partners is seeking permission to develop a $1B, 2.1M SF data center campus on 320 acres South of Atlanta. Read here.
Real estate firm COPT Defense Properties has acquired land outside Des Moines, Iowa, likely for a data center campus. Read here.
Green data center developer Soluna has signed term sheets for power and land with an unnamed renewable energy developer for its 187MW Project Rosa development. Read here.
Cipher Mining to develop 300MW cryptomining data center site in West Texas. Read here.
Talen acquires full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine facility. Read here.
Enerfore Digital gets go-ahead for data center proposal in North Dakota. Read here.
DC Blox has broken ground on 216MW data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
JLL are to develop a data center on STAMP site in Genesee County, New York. Read here.
Amazon may be looking to develop more data centers in Pennsylvania. Read here.
Tract is looking to develop a 2,000 acre data center park outside Austin, Texas. Read here.
Google leases more than 2 million sq ft across two sites in DFW, Texas. Read here.
OpenAI looks to use data center providers beyond Microsoft. Read here.
Microsoft to build $420m data center in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.
Flexential has broken ground on a 22.5MW data center in the southern district of Parker (Denver). Read here.
Data centre boom threatens U.S. power supply, economic growth, warns CoBank. Read here.
AMD’s new GPU lineup aims to rival Nvidia in data centre AI market. Read here.
MARA announces micro data center project powered by natural gas. Read here.
South America
Nokia and Furukawa expand Brazilian data centre partnership. Read here.
GTD launches 20MW Peruvian data center. Read here.
Other interesting articles
UK risks losing AI leadership without a national data strategy, experts warn. Read here.
How North East people will be trained for high quality jobs at £10 billion Cambois datacentre. Read here.
A Data Centre on the Moon – From Sci-Fi to Necessity. Read here.
Can Data Centres in Urban Spaces Improve Lives? Read here.
Data Centres ‘Should be Part of Residential Developments’. Read here.
The wicked problem delivering data center capacity in an uncertain world. Read here.
Utilities Must Reinvent Themselves to Harness the AI-Driven Data Center Boom. Read here.
How the data-centre boom became a political battleground. Listen here.
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