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Weekly Data Centre Digest – 24th January 2025

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Reports

Bloom Energy: The 2025 Data Center Power Report. Read here.


Europe

DC01UK, Europe’s largest cloud and AI Data Centre received approval. Read here.

Developer Tritax Big Box has has purchased a 74-acre site near Heathrow with plans for a £365m data centre. Read here.

Major data centre near M25, just 30 minutes from Harrow, set for approval. Read here.

Plans for large data centre on Slough green belt submitted to council. Read here.

Fears Donald Trump presidency could halt Cambois AI data centre development played down. Read here.

Swansea MS calls for data centres to be built on south Wales coast. Read here.

Wales hoping to land lion’s share of £12bn investment in the UK by US data centre venture Vantage. Read here.

XTX Markets plots €1bn data centre complex in Finland. Read here.

PIMCO is targeting €1bn for European Data Centre fund. Read here.

Start Campus launches SIN01 facility in Sines, Portugal. Read here.

Green light given for massive €286m business park (with data centers) in Kildare. Read here.

Data center proposed near Amazon logistics center in Dummerstorf, Germany. Read here.

Global Switch and City of Frankfurt in dispute over data center expansion. Read here.

Greece has completed it’s framework for Data Centre Development. Read here.

Lleida has become the first Spanish city to ban data centers. Read here.


Middle East & Africa

Qatar-based IT services provider MEEZA will expand its data centre capacity by 4MW. Read here.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is putting a halt to its plans to expand in Israel. Read here.

PAIX announces plans for Dakar data centre. Read here.


APAC

Billionaire Ambani is Building World’s Biggest ($30bn) Data Center. Read here.

STT GDC plans major 100MW data centre campus in India. Read here.

Real estate giant ESR Group is to be acquired and taken private in a deal which values the company at $7.11bn. Read here.

Asia Pacific Land Group and Global Compute Infrastructure plan 120MW campus in Japan. Read here.

AWS to invest US$ 8.3 billion in Cloud Infrastructure in Maharashtra. Read here.

CtrlS signs MoU with Telangana gov’t: To invest Rs 10,000 crores into AI DC cluster. Read here.

CtrlS Datacenters to erect 600MW facility in Hyderabad. Read here.


North America

OpenAI is teaming up with Oracle and Softbank to build data centres equipped to power artificial intelligence (AI), with plans to invest $100bn (£81bn) “immediately”. Read here.

OpenAI, SoftBank Each Commit $19 Billion to Stargate Data Center Venture. Read here.

Trump: “We need double the energy we currently have in the US for AI,” promises emergency declaration for more power. Read here.

1.2GW Lancium Clean Campus confirmed as home of Project Stargate. Read here.

Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas. Read here.

Quinbrook’s Rowan Digital Infrastructure Secures $975 Million Financing for Hyperscale Campus in Maryland. Read here.

Ryan Companies 2MSF Industrial Plan Pivots to $687M Data Center (Phoenix, Arizona). Read here.

Northpoint proposes 15-building, 1,280-acre data center campus in Pennsylvania. Read here.

Amazon has acquired 590 acres in Jefferson Township, Ohio, for a data center campus. Read here.

Another 2.5 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Digital Power Optimization, Inc. announced it has secured land and a firm power supply to develop a $200 million high-performance computing facility in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. Read here.

Digital infrastructure platform Edged has opened its latest data centre in Irving, Texas. Read here.

Lonestar’s moonshot: Firm aims to place data center on lunar surface. Read here.

Whispers of billionaire Musk buying Intel could be the cause of company stock increase. Read here.

TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers sign MoU to explore deployment of microreactors across SDC data centers. Read here.

Harrison Street secures $600m for data centres. Read here.

Blackstone to buy $1 billion Virginia power plant near data centers. Read here.


South America

Brazil’s Odata hires Atlas Renewable Energy to supply Chilean datacenters. Read here.


Other interesting articles

Breaking Barriers to Data Center Growth. Read here.

PTC’25 | The trillion-Dollar challenge: Powering the next generation of digital infrastructure. Read here.

Over Half of UK Adults Don’t Know What a Data Centre Is. Read here.

Data Center Firms ‘Getting Creative’ To Squeeze AI Into Older Buildings. Read here.

Relieving Growing Pains in the Booming Data Center Market. Read here.

Davos 2025: 10 key technology and digital infrastructure focus areas. Read here.

Ranked: The Top 25 Countries With the Most Data Centers. Read here.

Is nuclear energy the answer to AI data centers’ power consumption? Read here.


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