Weekly Data Centre Digest – 21st February 2025
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Reports
The Data Center Coalition: Economic contributions of U.S. data centers, 2017-2023. Read here.
EightAdvisory: Creating value from the data centre opportunity. Read here.
Europe
Microsoft to invest $704m into expanding Polish data centers. Read here.
Real estate investment trust Prologis is looking to expand its data center footprint in Europe. Read here.
Fluidstack to Build 1GW AI Supercomputer in France. Read here.
French cloud computing provider Sesterce is investing €450 million ($471.85m) into developing an AI data center in Valence, France. Read here.
French modular data center operator Eclairion has raised €50 million ($52m) and revealed it is hosting AI lab Mistral’s new training cluster. Read here.
Heijmans will build a new data center in the Dutch province of North Holland, with a floor area of 11,000 square meters. Read here.
NorthC breaks ground on 4.5MW expansion in Amsterdam. Read here.
Oxigen opens its largest data centre in Spain in partnership with Vertiv. Read here.
Keppel sells data center in Frankfurt, Germany, for €50m. Read here.
A data center development has been proposed at the Krofdorf-Gleiberger Augarten in Wettenberg, Germany. Read here.
Scandinavian Data Centers launches its first ecosystem site integrating battery energy storage, data center and heat recovery. Read here.
Residents face relocation as Heathrow data centre plans move forward. Read here.
Havering Council is seeking legal advice after a developer started works on a huge data centre without approval. Read here.
Data centre project at UK’s first AI Growth Zone attracts significant private sector interest. Read here.
British Gas is carrying out a trial using excess heat from data processing to provide free hot water in homes (UK). Read here.
UK-based digital infrastructure provider Pulsant is set to expand its data centre portfolio with the backing of its shareholders. Read here.
Ireland to force new data centres to match power use with generation. Read here.
“Foundational infrastructure” needed as Northern Ireland risks “lagging behind” data centre boom in the south, says MLA. Read here.
Nokia’s $2.3bn Infinera buy set to make company world’s second-biggest vendor of optical networking gear for data centres. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
DataVolt has signed an agreement with The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones to launch a new AI-ready data centre in Riyadh. Read here.
The case for Gulf ‘free data zones’. Read here.
APAC
World’s largest ‘mega’ data center planned for South Korea in $35bn project. Read here.
Goodman Group plans A$4bn raise for data centre expansion. Read here.
Infratil increases stake in Canberra Data Centres close to 50%. Read here.
CDC announces new data centre campus at Laverton, Melbourne. Read here.
Highlander adds new module to Hainan underwater data centre. Read here.
AI giant OpenAI in talks to set up Indian data centre operations. Read here.
North America
Musk’s xAI considering second data center, $5bn Dell server deal. Read here.
QuadReal and T5 to support data centers platform growth to $8.0 bn. Read here.
Majorana 1: Microsoft Set to Accelerate Quantum Computing. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers announced its expansion in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area with a new data center campus in Mansfield, TX. Read here.
Amazon requests permit for 11-building data center campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.
Amazon Web Services is aiming to develop a data center in each county between Northern Virginia and the city of Richmond. Read here.
Amazon expanding data center presence in Oregon; buys 400 acres. Read here.
Microsoft has filed to build two more data centers in San Antonio, Texas. Read here.
Core Scientific announced its expansion into Auburn, Alabama, with a new high-performance computing facility. Read here.
Data center developer ImpactData has partnered with Raeden for its debut data center in North Carolina. Read here.
Teton Digital gets go-ahead for 100MW data center in North Dakota. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers is asking to rezone 618 acres of farmland for a data center development in Pittsboro, Indiana. Read here.
Liquid-cooled data center provider Colovore has begun work on its first facility outside California. Read here.
Avangrid, the US arm of Spanish utility Iberdrola, will construct six new power projects with a combined capacity of 800MW to help meet the soaring energy demand of data centers in the US. Read here.
Hyperscale Data announced that its subsidiary Alliance Cloud Services has reached an agreement in principle with a local utility to increase its Michigan data center power capacity from 30 MW to 300 MW. Read here.
Bloom Energy Expands Data Center Power Agreement with Equinix Surpassing 100MW. Read here.
Dominari: How the Trump Family are Investing in Data Centres. Read here.
American Real Estate Partners Fund IV Oversubscribed at $309M. Read here.
South America
Alibaba Cloud opens its first data centre in Mexico. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data Centre Demand Fuelling a New ‘Age of Electricity’. Read here.
Turning AI opportunity into AI reality: Why the UK’s data centres are central to its AI ambitions. Read here.
Intelligent Design: Constructing next generation data centers for the AI boom. Read here.
The crypto pivot to AI. Read here.
Fundraising Sector Spotlight: Data Centers. Read here.
Data Centers Investing in Nuclear, Fuel Cells, and Li-ion Batteries. Read here
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