Weekly Data Centre Digest – 22nd November 2024
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Reports
Aurora Energy Research, a global provider of energy market analysis, has published a new report highlighting how data centres are becoming critical infrastructure in the Iberian Peninsula. Read here.
KPMG: Data centres in Ireland. Read here.
Nvidia’s Data Center Revenue Hits Record High as Results Top Estimates. Read here.
Europe
Data4 broke ground on Greek data center outside Athens. Read here.
Mainova subsidiary secures €475m loan for data centre projects. Read here.
Planning application lodged for data centre in north Mayo. Read here.
TIM announced it will invest around €130 million to grow TIM Enterprise in the cloud and build a new data centre near Rome. Read here.
Firms hatch plan to use data-centre heat to grow food in Scandinavia. Read here.
EU to raid data centre builders over anti-competitive practices. Read here.
FOI requests show the vast majority of UK data center applications are approved. Read here.
Solaria enters the UK and continues to expand its data center business through the creation of joint ventures. Read here.
Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data center provider Deep Green. Read here.
Ireland can cope with data centres and should build more. Read here.
Ferrovial taps data centre veteran to lead digital infrastructure push as CEO. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Pure Data Centres and Dune Vaults to develop multiple hyperscale data centre campuses in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Industry 4.0 and AI driving Hyperscale Data Center development in UAE. Read here.
Saudi Arabian data centre operator Ezditek has formed a joint venture with AI cloud infrastructure provider GCore to develop AI training models in the Kingdom. Read here.
Ezditek Breaks Ground on Data Center Facility in Riyadh. Read here.
APAC
Keppel DC REIT secures full ownership of key data centres in Singapore. Read here.
Colt Data Centre Services and RMZ announced a joint venture to invest $1.7 Billion in the Indian Data Centre market. Read here.
AirTrunk has partnered with solar developer Pekat Solar to develop a rooftop solar array at its JHB1 data center campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Read here.
Di Pilla’s $4b data centre play books December debut on ASX. Read here.
South Korea, India, Indonesia the next three markets for AirTrunk, says Robin Khuda. Read here.
JLL secures significant plot for digital firm in Thailand. Read here.
Fuelled by AI boom, India’s Data Centre capacity to surge 66% by 2026. Read here.
Mawson Infrastructure Group reports 222% revenue surge in digital colocation business. Read here.
CPP Investments and Pacific AMC form JV to develop data centres in South Korea. Read here.
North America
Facebook parent Meta plans $5 billion AI data center in Louisiana. Read here.
Cologix Plans $7 Billion, 800-MW Data Center Complex in Ohio. Read here.
CleanArc to develop 600MW campus in Caroline County, Virginia. Read here.
Yondr Group has launched its first data center in Northern Virginia. Read here.
Vantage is to develop a data center campus outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.
Amazon picks Sunbury as site for $2 billion data center investment. Read here.
Iron Mountain Expands Planned Data Center Capacity in Virginia by more than 350 MW. Read here.
Core Scientific and Port Muskogee Break Ground on 100 MW HPC Data Center. Read here.
Corscale topped out 72MW Gainesville Crossing facility in Northern Virginia. Read here.
US hosting firm Patmos to convert former printing press in Kansas City into 100MW data center. Read here.
Elon Musk raising up to $6 billion to buy technology for Memphis data center. Read here.
1.7 million sq ft data center proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Data center development proposed in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Read here.
Colovore opens second 9MW high-density, liquid-cooled data center in Santa Clara. Read here.
Microsoft launched two data center infrastructure chips to speed AI applications. Read here.
Massive Dallas Data Center Campus to Drive $25B Market Boom by 2027. Read here.
CPS Energy to invest upwards of $1.3bn in transmission and generation to meet rapid data center growth in Texas. Read here.
Duos signs 850MW deal with Fortress to deploy fleet of mobile gas turbines for data center sector. Read here.
Rowan Digital Infrastructure has appointed Charley Daitch as CEO, effective immediately. Read here.
LogicMonitor, which optimises data centre operations through technology is targeting UK growth after securing $800 million in funding. Read here.
CETY signs MoU with Metis to develop microgrid solutions for data center and crypto market. Read here.
Crusoe, a rumored OpenAI data center supplier, has secured $686M in new funds. Read here.
Other interesting articles
The good neighbour theory: how data centres can strike a better balance between technology, community and nature. Read here.
Is Greece Ready for Energy-hungry Data Centers? Read here.
What’s El Capitan? And Other Big Data Center Questions. Read here.
Data centres could aid offshore wind development. Read here.
This hyperscale data center developer thinks about power differently. Read here.
Data center stakeholders must collaborate to meet clean energy targets. Read here.
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