Weekly Data Centre Digest – 20th December 2024
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Reports
Clean Power 2030 Action Plan: A new era of clean electricity (UK). Read here.
CBRE: 2024 India Data Centre Market Update. Read here.
Europe
Vantage Data Centers announced a €1.4B Investment in the company’s EMEA Data Center Platform. Read here.
atNorth announced it has secured a 30 hectare plot in the Sollefteå Municipality, in Hamre Industripark in Långsele, Sweden. Read here.
Verne unveils plans for next-generation sustainable 70MW+ data center campus in Finland. Read here.
IPTO and Serverfarm Join Forces to Spearhead Hyperscale Data Center Development and Operations in Greece. Read here.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has entered a power purchase agreement with Google in the Netherlands. Read here.
Huge data centres up to 23.5m (77ft) high could be built on the site of a planned film studio (UK). Read here.
TerraByte Data Centers launches exascale digital infrastructure platform. Read here.
Contract awards fall (UK) but data centres to drive 2025. Read here.
National Grid unveils £35bn plan to upgrade UK’s transmission infrastructure. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Microsoft completes construction of Saudi Arabia data center region. Read here.
Africa50 announces US$ 15 million investment in Raya Data Center. Read here.
APAC
Indonesian officials are reportedly looking to try and convince Elon Musk to bring his xAI startup to South East Asia, including building new data centres in the country. Read here.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Uttar Pradesh in India for the development of an “AI City.” Read here.
Empyrion digital expands to Taiwan with new AI data centre planned for 2027. Read here.
Yotta Data Services seeks $500m for India data center expansion. Read here.
Giga Computing and Empyrion Digital Partner on AI-Ready Data Center in Taiwan. Read here.
Vantage announces inaugural bonds in the APAC region. Read here.
North America
WS to invest $23bn in Ohio by 2030. Read here.
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank to invest $100bn in US projects. Read here.
Duos Edge AI and Duos Energy to partner with Pampa Economic Development Corporation and Pampa Energy Center to develop high-density Data Center Development Parks. Read here.
Serverfarm Secures $747 million of Additional Financing Capacity to Capitalize on Rapidly Accelerating Demand from Hyperscale Customers for Cloud and AI Deployments. Read here.
Rowan Digital Infrastructure has received the go-ahead for two of its data center projects in Frederick County, Maryland. Read here.
A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers unveiled plans to invest $1 billion in six data centres in Virginia’s Data Centre Alley. Read here.
Denver-based data center operator Cologix is set to invest $7 billion in Licking County, Ohio. Read here.
Cohere secures federal backing to build multibillion-dollar Canadian AI data centre. Read here.
Data center planned on 114-acre plot in Rome, Georgia. Read here.
Microsoft, QTS plan big data centers in Irving. Read here.
Applied Digital announces Ellendale HPC data center development milestone. Read here.
Lincoln Property Company Acquires Operational Data Center in Atlanta Metro. Read here.
Data center could be on its way to Covington. Read here.
Biden drafting plan for construction of AI data centers on federal lands. Read here.
NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to provide energy services for a developer planning new data centers in Montana. Read here.
Nuclear startup Oklo and data center operator Switch are aiming to deploy 12 gigawatts of new nuclear power by 2044. Read here.
NANO partners with Digihost on nuclear-powered AI data centre. Read here.
Databricks Raises $10bn In Huge AI Funding Round. Read here.
South America
Brazil approves legislation for Latin America’s first mega $90bn data centre city. Read here.
The datacenter projects set to be activated in 2025. Read here.
Other interesting articles
How big tech builds data centres. Watch here.
London calling: The outlook for the UK’s data center market in 2025. Read here.
Top 10 tips for data centre development in urban areas. Read here.
Data centres are sleeping giants and AI is making them wake up hungry. Read here.
Will Bitcoin and Data Centers Soon Heat Your Home? Read here.
Key trends shaping the UK data centre landscape in 2025. Read here.
Ireland wanted to build data centres for the AI boom. Now they fear blackouts. Read here.
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