Weekly Data Centre Digest – 28th March 2025
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Europe
A new £1 billion data centre at Park Royal ‘will power London’s digital growth’. Read here.
SEGRO and Pure Data Centres Group announce joint venture to develop a c.£1bn fully fitted data centre. Read here.
UK pledges £13bn to boost infrastructure projects. Read here.
Greek PPC unveils EUR 5 billion plan for data centers. Read here.
Art Data Centres Ennis campus judicial review gets dismissed. Read here.
Iliad plots European data centre leadership with eye on sovereignty needs. Read here.
Planned €2bn sale of Energia reignited following data centre planning approval (Ireland). Read here.
Start Campus to start work on second €8bn building at Sines Data Centre in June. Read here.
Nscale to expand Glomfjord data center in Norway with 30MW building. Read here.
Nscale, InfraPartners to launch 60MW AI data centre in Norway. Read here.
Digital Realty has launched a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.
Eurazeo, through its newly launched fund EZORE, announces a €100 million strategic partnership with Metrobloks, a US-based developer and operator of highly connected data centers in metropolitan areas. Read here.
GreenScale, a new leader in sustainable digital infrastructure, announced a strategic partnership with Soben. Read here.
Arcadis completed the acquisition of KUA Group, strengthening its position across the European data center market. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Cassava Technologies to build Africa’s first AI factory powered by NVIDIA. Read here.
Rack Centre launches 12MW AI-ready data centre in Nigeria. Read here.
Emirates Group co-locates to world’s largest solar-powered data centre. Read here.
MGX buys stake in Dubai’s Khazna Data Centers. Read here.
Enlight Renewable Energy announced that it won an Israel Land Authority tender to develop a state-of-the-art $1.1bn integrated data center and renewable energy complex on a 50-acre site in Ashalim, southern Israel. Read here.
APAC
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd chairman Joe Tsai warned of a potential bubble forming in data center construction. Read here.
Proposal Lodged by Goodman for ‘Project Apollo’ Macquarie Park Data Centre (Australia). Read here.
Nvidia’s Asian suppliers sink on data center oversupply doubts. Read here.
A consortium consisting of NYK Line, NTT Facilities, Eurus Energy Holdings, MUFG Bank, and the city of Yokohama has signed a memorandum of understanding to build an offshore floating green data center. Read here.
Empyrion Digital enters Thailand with BOI approval for 12MW data center. Read here.
Metavisio Thomson Computing and BKB Energy to build 260 MW data center in South Korea. Read here.
South Korean cloud firm Okestro plans 40MW data center in Sejong. Read here.
TECO buys 80% stake in Malaysian MEP engineering firm to service data centers. Read here.
North America
Microsoft pulls back from more data center leases in US and Europe. Read here.
OpenAI could build dedicated storage data center to host ‘billions of dollars’ of hardware. Read here.
Related Companies announced the formal launch and capitalization of Related Digital. With a near-term $45 billion development pipeline. Read here.
Critical Data House plans $10B data center in Williston North Dakota. Read here.
STACK Infrastructure Announces New 36MW Data Center in Chicago. Read here.
Crusoe Energy sells bitcoin mining unit to focus on ‘huge opportunity’ in AI. Read here.
Apple Joins AI Data Center Race After Siri Mess. Read here.
Data center firm Serverfarm has filed to build two new data centers at sites in Texas that it acquired last year. Read here.
T5 plans 36MW data center in Chicago, Illinois. Read here.
Frasier Cole Announces New 190-Acre Data Center Site in Glen Rose, Texas. Read here.
700-acre data center in Bessemer, Alabama, approved despite opposition. Read here.
Lincolnshire-based developer Scott Greenberg is moving forward with data center plans in the Near South Side region of the city. Read here.
Up to 5GW data center with behind-the-meter hydrogen power promised for Laredo, Texas. Read here.
Four-building data center campus proposed in Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.
Two data center campuses totaling 38 buildings proposed in Yorkville, Illinois. Read here.
The US government is trying to gauge industry interest in developing a 500MW+ commercial data center on an Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona. Read here.
A data center planned for Hobart, Indiana, has been given the green light by the city’s council. Read here.
DataOne USA and Northeast Precast Forge Strategic Partnership. Read here.
Data center operator Sabey raises another $435 million. Read here.
US data center operator Switch has raised $3.5 billion, which it will use to refinance its existing debt. Read here.
Norges Bank Takes $3.86 Billion Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Read here.
Soluna Holdings Secures Financing with Galaxy Digital to Accelerate Data Center Expansion. Read here.
Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure. Read here.
Oklo boosts Aurora reactor capacity to 75MW to power AI data centers. Read here.
Deep Atomic Begins Pre-Application Process for Data Centre Nuclear Reactors. Read here.
South America
Brazil aims to attract $350bn in data centre investments over next decade. Read here.
The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) announced the approval of a line of credit, initially worth R$180 million, for Scala Data Centers. Read here.
250MW natural gas-powered data center campus announced in Durango, Mexico. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Planning for the Future: Navigating the UK’s Data Center Development Maze. Read here.
Building Data Centers for Tomorrow’s AI Era. Read here.
Constructing the digital future: Legal challenges in data centre projects. Read here.
The Power Play: How Data Centers and Utilities Are Reinventing Energy Strategies. Read here.
Breaking the AI Bottleneck: The Future of High-Density Data Centers. Read here.
Data: UK women lead in STEM roles, but BAME inclusion lags. Read here.
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