Weekly Data Centre Digest – 26th July 2024
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Reports
Moody’s Report Reveals Surge in Data Center Demand Driven by AI Boom. Read here.
APAC data centre capacity to double by 2028: Moody’s. Read here.
Europe
Turner Construction Company to Acquire Dornan Engineering Group. Read here.
Yondr opens first UK data centre, on track for 100MW+ Campus in Slough. Read here.
Yondr received approval for a third data centre on the AkzoNobel site in Slough. Read here.
Japanese Tech Giant NTT to establish Major Data Center Hub in Germany. Read here.
AkzoNobel data centre in Slough ‘well under’ maximum size. Read here.
Spanish real estate firm Merlin has raised €921 million to fund its data center business. Read here.
CyrusOne breaks ground on billion dollar data centre in Germany. Read here.
Blackstone, Brookfield, PFA, Vauban, and Wren House among investors reportedly preparing offers for Spanish data centre player Nabiax. Read here.
Iberdrola starts new company to build data centres for likes of Amazon and Meta. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Türkiye ambitions as regional data centre hub boosted by Turkcell. Read here.
Waste-to-energy plant to power Burkina data centre. Read here.
Africa Data Centres announced additional 6MW capacity now live in Cape Town. Read here.
APAC
Macquarie breaks ground at new AI, cloud facility in Sydney, Australia. Read here.
Plans filed for 202MW data center campus in Sydney, Australia. Read here.
Equinix buys three data centres in the Philippines. Read here.
TM and Nxera held a groundbreaking ceremony for their data centre campus in Iskandar Puteri, Johor. Read here.
Datagrid New Zealand received OiO approval for data center park extension. Read here.
Singapore data centre company Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC) to raise nearly $950 million in fresh funds to tap the global AI boom to spur its growth. Read here.
North America
Investment management company Blackstone has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers has secured a loan to build out its data centers in Québec, Canada. Read here.
H5 Ashburn data center site fully leased to hyperscale client. Read here.
Stillwater’s Planning Commission has voted unanimously in favor of a $3bn data center campus development in north-central Oklahoma. Read here.
Prologis plans to spend between $7B and $8B in the next five years launching the data centre business. Read here.
DataBank begins developing third data centre on Ashburn Virginia campus. Read here.
AAIM Data Centers will commence construction of one of their new data centers in Blue Earth very soon. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers has topped out its PDX-01 data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. Read here.
QTS confirmed as customer for 620-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.
QTS acquires 200 acres in Avondale area of Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.
DC Blox plans additional 80MW building at data center campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Amazon Web Services plans to sign a 15-year 20MW power purchase agreement with fuel cell company Bloom for a planned data center in Silicon Valley. Read here.
Prologis is looking to potentially expand its data center footprint in Sterling, Virginia. Read here.
AI cloud provider Nscale acquires modular data center company Kontena. Read here.
South America
HIVE Digital Technologies to build hydro powered data center in Paraguay. Read here.
The city council of Limeira in the São Paulo state, Brazil, has rejected a bill for the build of a large data center campus. Read here.
Peru’s WIN Empresas invests in expansions and new datacenter. Read here.
Uruguay approves reformulated Google datacenter project. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Can Bitcoin miners turn AI data centres into a new goldmine? Read here.
How Energy Intensive Are Data Centers? Read here.
New study favors co-locating data centers with nuclear plants. Read here.
Bubble Fears Emerge About Trillion-Dollar AI Bet Fueling One Of Real Estate’s Hottest Sectors. Read here.
AI data centre back-end networks to hit $80bn. Read here.
AI is pushing data center growth, but labor is limited. Read here.
Paris 2024: Excess Data Center Heat Used to Warm Olympic Swimming Pools. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
On this week’s episode, Andy Davis talks Data Centres with Alistair Law of Vertical Meadow. Listen here.
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