Weekly Data Centre Digest – 18th October 2024
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Europe
The UK Government announced £6.3bn global investment into UK Data Centres. Read here.
Planning consent secured by L&G, Goldacre and sineQN for £750m hyperscale data centre investment in Newham. Read here.
CloudHQ confirmed a £1.9bn campus development in Oxford, UK. Read here.
Plans for huge energy park and data centre in Cardiff have been approved. Read here.
UK chancellor unveils AI-driven national wealth fund to boost investment in clean energy. Read here.
Apto and Dromeus Capital Group partner to develop hyperscale data centre in Athens. Read here.
Blackstone to develop 300MW data center campus in Aragon, Spain. Read here.
EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC Powers European Expansion with 40MW Data Center Investment in Spain. Read here.
MERLIN Properties and Edged Energy announced the start of construction on their new data center campus located in Vila Franca de Xira, within close proximity to Lisbon. Read here.
Nebius to triple capacity at Finland data center to 75 MW. Read here.
Trentino DataMine announced work had started to install a facility in an active mine in a mountain at Val di Non, 40 km north of Trento (Italy). Read here.
Cyprus makes key Data Center Projects deal with Khazna. Read here.
JetCool will provide its cooling technology to colocation customers at Start Campus’ 1.2GW Sines DC in Portugal. Read here.
Google in talks with Italy for Mediterranean undersea cable project. Read here.
Helsinki homes to be heated using excess heat from Equinix data center. Read here.
Schneider Electric to buy data centre cooling firm Motivair for $850 million. Read here.
Nokia eyes data center market growth as Q3 sales fall. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Khazna announces construction of 100 MW AI optimised Data Center in Ajman. Read here.
Amazon Web Services and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East. Read here.
APAC
Viettel has announced plans to develop 24 data centers in Vietnam. Read here.
GDS announced plans to establish its first data center in Singapore. Read here.
NextDC has acquired land for a new 550MW data center in Sydney, Australia. Read here.
Digital Edge opened a second Data Center in Seoul. Read here.
A ‘top secret’ data center valued at AU$500 million is being proposed for private land next to the HMAS Harman Military Base in Canberra, Australia. Read here.
The National Bank of Pakistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies Pakistan to establish a new national cloud data centre. Read here.
Area Group begins construction of 156-acre Malaysian data center campus. Read here.
Nvidia-backed firm eyes a data center near nuclear power in Japan. Read here.
Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd. Read here.
North America
Data center developer DataBank has raised $2 billion to build three facilities planned across the US. Read here.
Apple has launched the first data center at its new campus in Waukee, Iowa. Read here.
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres. Read here.
Amazon joins push for nuclear power to meet data center demand. Read here.
Major US electric utility Dominion plans to add 20GW of clean power generation resource. Read here.
Aurum Group and DigitalNexus Partners are teaming up to create AuNex Datacenters, a new joint venture aimed at developing and operating AI data centres. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers has acquired land in the Peoria area of Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.
Amazon Data Services pays over $37 million for 118 acres in Douglas County (Atalanta, Georgia). Read here.
Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty have acquired a data center in Hawaii. Read here.
Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers. Read here.
Digital Realty partners with Ecolab on AI water solution for US data centers. Read here.
South America
Brazil-based global digital infrastructure company V.tal has announced the creation of a new subsidiary focused on its data centre business. Read here.
LATAM Remains a Prevalent Data Centre Hub for AI Innovation. Read here.
Other interesting articles
What the real estate industry needs to know about data centers. Read here.
Why Labour is pushing through data centre projects (UK). Read here.
Nvidia’s Ian Buck shares his vision of the GPU data center. Read here.
Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online. Read here.
APAC sustainable data centre market to pass £16.9bn by 2029. Read here.
The challenges and opportunities of data centre delivery. Read here.
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