Weekly Data Centre News – 18th July 2025
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Reports
Unlocking Portugal’s Digital Potential: The €26 Billion Opportunity. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: EMEA Data Centre Market Update H1 2025. Read here.
Engines of AI primed to accelerate new breakthroughs, economic growth, and transform the UK into an AI maker. Read here.
Europe
Ireland’s Red Admiral to submit plans for 600-acre data center in Westmeath. Read here.
QTS invests €1.4 billion in Dutch data center. Read here.
Oracle to Invest U.S. $2 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure in Germany. Read here.
Oracle to Invest U.S. $1 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure in the Netherlands. Read here.
Secretary of State (UK) allows appeal for Hyperscale Data Centre within the Green Belt. Read here.
New UK compute roadmap says country needs 6GW of AI-capable data center capacity by 2030. Read here.
Apatura files for 300MW data center campus in Scotland. Read here.
Wales could get billions in AI investment as growth zone announced. Read here.
New supercomputing centre announced for Edinburgh as government publishes AI strategy. Read here.
One thousand objections lodged against Corsham data centre application. Read here.
InfraVia to exit Green Datacenter in €1bn deal with IFM Investors. Read here.
Google pulls plug on planned data center in Berlin, Germany. Read here.
Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. Read here.
AllianzGI takes minority stake in Yondr alongside DigitalBridge and La Caisse. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Morocco plans to build 500MW renewable energy data center. Read here.
Elon Musk’s xAI in talks to lease data centre capacity in Saudi Arabia: Report. Read here.
XDS and ICS Arabia ink 15-year deal for 10MW data centres in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
APAC
NTT data center unit to invest $3 billion amid AI computing boom. Read here.
Stonepeak Invests $1.3 Billion In Warburg Pincus-Backed Data Center Operator Princeton Digital. Read here.
Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres plans new 150MW campus in Sydney. Read here.
CapitaLand partners with Alibaba Cloud to boost AI in China ops. Read here.
Gamuda, IJM and Sunway top contenders for US$ 2.35 billion data center jobs. Read here.
Vietnam’s CMC Corp to build US$ 250 million hyperscale data center. Read here.
Edgnex Data Centers by DAMAC builds $2.3-B data centre in Jakarta. Read here.
AI OS company claims it will build quantum data center in Indonesia. Read here.
North America
Meta’s Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push. Read here.
Trump Hails $90 Billion in A.I. Infrastructure Investments at Pennsylvania Summit. Read here.
Google to invest $25 billion in data centers and AI infrastructure across largest U.S. electric grid. Read here.
Amazon accelerates US’ leadership in AI with $20bn data centre investment. Read here.
CoreWeave commits $6 billion to Pennsylvania data center amid Trump AI push. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers Invests $3 Billion to Deliver AI Campus in Growing Nevada Market. Read here.
Powerhouse forms JV with new data centre firm for 1.35GW Pennsylvania deployment. Read here.
Woodland Cree First Nation to develop 650MW data center in Alberta, Canada. Read here.
Developer looks to build 30-plus data centers in North Pocono. Read here.
No plans to pursue $832m ‘Project Maize’ data center, says Michigan City Mayor. Read here.
Google confirmed to be behind ‘Project Flo’ Indianapolis, Indiana, data center proposal. Read here.
QTS plans 15-building data center campus in Madison, Wisconsin. Read here.
Westbridge Renewables starts work on maiden data center in Colorado. Read here.
Edged eyes second Dallas-Fort Worth campus. Read here.
Canada’s Maple 8 are pouring billions into AI data centres. Read here.
University of Michigan tells residents $1.2bn data center won’t impact water supply or energy costs. Read here.
City officials in Wisconsin are hoping to find a partner to turn a former car manufacturing site into a new data center campus. Read here.
South America
RT-One Sets Sights on Brazil with US$1.2bn Data Centre. Read here.
Chateau, Odata receive approvals for new Brazil data center projects. Read here.
Other interesting articles
AI giants made ‘epic mistake’ trusting grid power says $300bn ‘Trump’ plan tycoon. Read here.
There aren’t enough AI chips to support data center projections, report says. Read here.
How Construction Robots Are Helping GCs Meet Unprecedented Demand. Read here.
Seven fascinating sustainable data-centre projects. Read here.
Data centre boom helps push US contractors’ backlogs further out. Read here.
British astronaut Tim Peake wants to ‘put the data centers into space’: Here’s why. Read here.
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