Weekly Data Centre Digest – 13th June 2025
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Europe
European data centre investment to reach $114 billion by 2030. Read here.
Hypertec Expands into Europe with 5C and Together AI; a Strategic AI Infrastructure Alliance driving up to $5 billion in Private Investments. Read here.
Keir Starmer’s £2bn Pledge: How the UK Plans to Advance AI. Read here.
‘AI Maker, Not an AI Taker’: UK Builds Its Vision With NVIDIA Infrastructure. Read here.
Nebius launches in UK, boosts national AI infrastructure with Nvidia Blackwell Ultra deployment. Read here.
CyrusOne announces plans for 90MW data center campus in Buckinghamshire, UK. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers Completes Industry’s First Euro-Based Data Center Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) with €640M Transaction. Read here.
Team Group, Firebird, NVIDIA launch a $500 million AI project in Armenia. Read here.
Crusoe to lease Polar data center in Norway for AI cloud. Read here.
CloudHQ unveils $1.4 billion data centre in France. Read here.
UNEP releases guidelines to curb the environmental impact of data centres. Read here.
North East (UK) stakes claim for leading data centre role as report highlights AI and cloud demand boom. Read here.
Havering (UK) Data centre development project sparks local strife. Read here.
Campaigners oppose AWS-linked data center in Bedfordshire, UK, over water and power fears. Read here.
New data center firm Arcem targets projects across Finland. Read here.
Finland sees 2 GW of data centre demand underway. Read here.
Virtus breaks ground on data center campus in Berlin, Germany. Read here.
This is what the huge new data centre to be built in Malaga will look like. Read here.
Schneider Electric and Nvidia unite to accelerate Europe’s AI factory ambitions. Read here.
CoreWeave has “large scale” solar and wind PPA in Spain. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
UAE’s Khazna, NVIDIA partner to build AI-capable mega data centres across MEA. Read here.
US-UAE AI Data Centre Deal ‘Far From Finalised’. Read here.
APAC
Agreement Signed for First Offshore Wind-Powered Underwater Data Centre in China. Read here.
Koramco targets $7 bn bets on Korea data centers. Read here.
CPP Investments commits $1.3bn to Ares’s Japan data centre fund. Read here.
DayOne secures $3.54bn financing for Malayasian data centers. Read here.
Data centre giant NextDC is building a $2b billion digital tech campus in Melbourne. Read here.
DC investors in Korea, Japan struggling to find powered land: CBRE report. Read here.
OpenAI exec tours APAC for possible Stargate data center sites – report. Read here.
Digital Edge partners B.Grimm to invest US$1 billion in 100MW data center in Thailand. Read here.
WHA Settles Land Sales with Top Chinese Provider for 300MW Hyperscale Data Center. Read here.
Pilot project to launch €185m sustainable data centre in Uzbekistan. Read here.
North America
Amazon plans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation. Read here.
Amazon Signs Data Centre Nuclear Power Deal with Talen Energy. Read here.
TD Cowen: AWS data center leasing returning, company scores 1GW+ customer. Read here.
TD Cowen: Oracle seeking 5GW US data center capacity for OpenAI training workloads by end of 2026. Read here.
Oracle will build more cloud infrastructure data centers than all its competitors combined, says Larry Ellison. Read here.
CoreWeave to develop 180MW data center at Digital Crossroads campus in Hammond, Indiana. Read here.
GridFree AI Planning ‘Oil and Gas’ Approach To Building Self-Powered Data Center Campuses. Read here.
Google acquires 85 acres in New Albany, Ohio. Read here.
Sabey looks to develop data center campus outside Austin, Texas. Read here.
Applied Digital has more gigawatt-scale data centers up its sleeve. Read here.
New Era Helium eyes major AI Data Center expansion in Texas as enterprise talks advance. Read here.
Crusoe secures $750m credit facility from Brookfield to accelerate the development of Energy-First AI Factories. Read here.
Soluna secures $20M to launch Project Kati 1. Read here.
Vantage explores data center development on Cloverleaf site in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Read here.
Data centers bemoan Florida plans for rate hike plan. Read here.
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AWS Builds Custom Liquid Cooling in 11 Months for AI Chips. Read here.
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