Weekly Data Centre Digest – 25th April 2025
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Europe
A second significant data centre is on the cards for North Lincolnshire. Read here.
Plans to build another new data centre have been put forward on the edge of Bucks near the M25 and Slough. Read here.
Frontier and Ethos Partner on 5GW UK Data Centre Plan. Read here.
Data centres: Scotland is poised to slash the environmental cost of the AI boom. Read here.
Operator Of Planned Ennis Data Centre (Ireland) Claims Project At Risk Due To “Bureaucratic Intertia”. Read here.
Digital boom makes Marseille a global data hub – but at what cost? Read here.
German investment bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank has launched a new data center firm. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Khazna Breaks Ground on Two New AI-Ready Data Centers in Abu Dhabi. Read here.
Dubai’s du signs $544.5mln hyperscale data center deal with Microsoft. Read here.
Saudi Arabia offers data sovereignty to foreign countries with ‘AI hub’ law. Read here.
Israel’s NED DC breaks ground on data center in Tel Aviv. Read here.
Firms submit Jeddah 15MW data centre bids. Read here.
APAC
Keppel Data Center Fund (III) achieves first closing at US$580 million. Read here.
Adani’s $10B AI Power Play: India’s Data Center Race Leaves the West Behind. Read here.
PLDT opens first hyperscale data centre, second one in the works. Read here.
PDG launches billion-dollar AI-ready data center in Japan. Read here.
Viettel breaks ground on Vietnam’s first hyperscale data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.
SoftBank breaks ground on data center campus in Hokkaido, Japan. Read here.
NEXTDC to start developing SC2 at Maroochydore, Sunshine Coast. Read here.
NTT Data to invest ₹10,500 crore for AI data centre cluster in Hyderabad. Read here.
Data Center Operator Princeton Seeks $400 Million Private Loan. Read here.
Oracle in talks to establish Batam cloud region: Reports. Read here.
North America
Amazon and Nvidia say AI data center demand is not slowing down. Read here.
Amazon joins Microsoft in pausing global data centre projects. Read here.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its data center footprint into Maryland, and is set to take space in TPG’s Quantum Frederick park. Read here.
Digital Realty Rises With Increased Demand For Data Centers. Read here.
Stonepeak announced the launch of Montera Infrastructure, a new, North American hyperscale-focused data center company, with a $1.5 billion equity commitment. Read here.
Sabey Data Centers Announces 30-Megawatt Capacity Expansion in the Pacific Northwest. Read here.
Designs come in for data centre project in Nanaimo. Read here.
80,000-acre data center campus proposed in West Texas. Read here.
Soluna plans 145MW wind-powered data center campus in Texas. Read here.
Bit Digital’s Enovum buys textile manufacturing site for data center in North Carolina. Read here.
Minnesota firm expands data center footprint with new Albuquerque project. Read here.
775-acre data center campus proposed outside Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.
CoreWeave leases another 260MW capacity from Galaxy in Texas. Read here.
QTS files to expand upcoming data center campus in Dallas, Texas. Read here.
Other interesting articles
How AI data centers can support grid reliability in Texas and across the US. Read here.
Within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200B. Read here.
US tariffs: Impact on data centre construction. Read here.
This is the state of play in the global data centre gold rush. Read here.
Deep Data Center: Neoclouds as the ‘Picks and Shovels’ of the AI Gold Rush. Read here.
Five datacenter concepts to know for Malaysia’s cloud-first transformation. Read here.
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