Weekly Data Centre Digest – 2nd May 2025
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Reports
DC Byte: 2025 Global Data Center Index. Read here.
The 1st data center industry survey on the post-AI energy crunch is here. Read here.
KAO Data: The North West. The UK’s next AI Growth Zone. Read here.
iMasons State of the Digital Infrastructure Industry Report – 2025 Edition. Read here.
Europe
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments. Read here.
At its London Summit, AWS unveiled an ambitious plan to create 14,000 jobs annually and contribute $19 billion to the economy by 2028. Read here.
TikTok plans to build 1 bln euro data centre in Finland. Read here.
Nscale looks to raise $2.7bn for AI infrastructure – report. Read here.
EcoDataCenter strengthens focus on large-scale data center campuses through strategic sale to CapMan Infra. Read here.
Data storage centre of ‘regional importance’ to be built in south Wales. Read here.
Global Switch House data centre in Poplar set to expand. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure is selling its European colocation data centers to investment fund Apollo. Read here.
Three arrests in Microsoft data centre build bribery investigation. Read here.
UK data center firms could build gas power plants to expedite projects – report. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Khazna targets 25% of Saudi data centre market in ambitious expansion: report. Read here.
Khazna eyes US expansion. Read here.
APAC
Khazna to build data center near Ankara, Turkey. Read here.
Spark seeking co-investors for its data centre portfolio. Read here.
GuocoLand mulling data centers in Malaysia. Read here.
Negeri Sembilan’s first two data centers (Malaysia) construction on track. Read here.
CtrlS Datacenters to invest Rs 500 crores into DC in central India. Read here.
ESR and STACK break ground on 72MW DC campus in Japan. Read here.
North America
Meta lifts CapEx to $72bn as AI ambitions fuel data centre push. Read here.
Microsoft rejects data centre pullback talk as AI demand outpaces supply. Read here.
Equinix raises annual revenue, FFO forecasts on robust demand. Read here.
Google is still undersupplied with capacity to meet cloud demand. Read here.
IBM to spend $30bn on quantum & mainframes, as part of $150bn US investment pledge. Read here.
Solaris Energy Infrastructure Q1 2025 slides: Fleet expansion targets data center growth. Read here.
Digital Realty files to develop 400MW data center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read here.
Mystery developer plans $1bn data center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.
Jet.AI has signed a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture with Consensus Core Technologies to pursue development of two hyperscale data-center campuses. Read here.
Dominion to build new high voltage lines to supply proposed 900MW data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.
Decommissioned Kansas City, Kansas, power plant eyed for data center redevelopment. Read here.
Residents voice concerns over Amazon’s plan to fill wetlands for New Carlisle data center. Read here.
NOVA completes a majority investment in DartPoints. Read here.
South America
Hive Digital completes 100MW Bitcoin data center in Paraguay. Read here.
Brazil to offer tax breaks to lure data center investments, sources say. Read here.
Rio de Janeiro set to host Latin America’s largest data center campus. Read here.
ODATA launches Mexico’s largest data centre with $3bn investment in Querétaro. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Yondr and CBRE launch global data centre apprenticeship scheme. Read here.
AI data center boom isn’t going bust but the ‘pause’ is trending at big tech companies. Read here.
Bursting The AI Data Center Bubble Buildout. Watch here.
Tech firms to prioritise soft skills in 2025 hiring drive. Read here.
What businesses can learn from 15 years of data growth. Read here.
AI Factories, Hyperscalers, and the Path to $1 Trillion. Read here.
Global Data Centre Services Market Surges Amid AI and Cloud Boom. Read here.
Hyperscalers prepare for 1MW racks at OCP EMEA; Google announces new CDU. Read here.
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