Weekly Data Centre Digest – 2nd August 2024
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Q2 Earnings
Microsoft beats revenue forecasts but poor performance of cloud services drags share price. Read here.
Meta Earnings Deliver: Stock Jumps As Profits Soar 73%. Read here.
Google Earnings Top Estimates With $24 Billion Quarterly Profit. Read here.
Amazon Boosts Spending to Expand Warehouse, Data Center Networks. Read here.
Meta, Microsoft, and Google blew blinding amounts of AI smoke during earnings — here’s what we actually learned. Read here.
Europe
NTT to develop 500MW data center campus on former Army base outside Frankfurt. Read here.
The local government of Andalucía in Spain is to build a new data center in Seville. Read here.
Three new data centers on Green Belt between Buckinghamshire and Slough. Read here.
The UK government has opened a consultation to update the country’s national planning policy, including around the development of data centers. Read here.
Almost 400 jobs will be created after plans for “one of Europe’s largest data centres” were approved (North Lincolnshire, UK). Read here.
Heat concerns raised over AkzoNobel site data centre. Read here.
Plans for a large scale data centre on a site outside Naas in Co Kildare will be lodged in the coming days. Read here.
Data centre demand drives Winvic profit boost. Read here.
Kao Data appoints Pete Judson as new COO. Read here.
A heating firm hopes a new plan to build a small data centre among houses in Llanbradach could help heat homes. Read here.
The UK government has shelved £1.3bn in funding for tech and AI projects that had been announced by the previous administration. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Saudi to build more sustainable data centres as part of cloud-first strategy. Read here.
SDAIA launches new data center projects in Riyadh. Read here.
Dubai bets on AI-driven data centres to unlock $3.89 billion in economic growth by 2028. Read here.
APAC
BDx Data Centers Launches First Phase of 500MW Renewable-Powered AI Campus in Indonesia. Read here.
AirTrunk unveils flagship AI ready data centre in Malaysia. Read here.
Singapore’s Temasek to Invest $30 Billion in US AI, Semiconductors, and Data Centers. Read here.
TikTok may be considering Australian data center. Read here.
Booming GenAI demand to propel doubling of Asia-Pacific data centre capacity by 2028. Read here.
North America
Microsoft plans to expand its presence in San Antonio, Texas, with a new $482 million data center in the town of Castroville. Read here.
Microsoft buys more land in Mount Pleasant near data center development. Read here.
Microsoft is planning a five-building data center campus on land it acquired outside Columbus, Ohio, earlier this year. Read here.
Groundbreaking announced for 2 Google data centers in Dorchester Co. Read here.
Mesa planning officials recommend approval for CyrusOne and Pacific Proving data center campuses. Read here.
CalEthos has purchased a larger site in Southern California’s Lithium Valley as it plans its first 420MW data center campus. Read here.
Fairfax plans to regulate data centers amid concerns about industry’s growth. Read here.
An office building in Chicago, Illinois, has been bought and is set to be converted into a 50MW data center. Read here.
Warehouse Developer Panattoni Plans Data-Center Push, Sparked by AI Boom. Read here.
A cryptomining company is exploring the potential of deploying a micro nuclear reactor at its data center in New York. Read here.
TC Energy taps data centre boom for growth. 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.Google granted approval for Uruguay data center. Read here.
Cirion buys land for 60MW Rio De Janeiro Data Centre. Read here.
OData has broken ground on its fourth Mexican facility, QR04, in the Querétaro region. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Why the Nordics are closing in on Ireland’s data-centre hub leadership. Read here.
Building the elusive AI data center: What we’re doing wrong. Read here.
‘Very Concerning’: Data Centers Still Far Behind On Tracking Emissions. Read here.
Demand for data centres offers UK real estate opportunity. Read here.
What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom? Read here.
The Data Centre Dilemma: Keeping Up With AI Innovation. Read here.
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