Weekly Data Centre Digest – 30th August 2024
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Reports
CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H1 2024. Read here.
JLL: U.S. Data Center Report – Midyear 2024. Read here.
Europe
euNetworks lands €2.1bn to spend on European data centre comms play. Read here.
Google plan for new data centre in Dublin rejected in face of electricity supply pinch. Read here.
New AI data centre in Cambois (UK) being enabled by Coal Authority permits. Read here.
Solar farm development proposed to support Blackpool Airport and associated Silicon Sands development. Read here.
Swiss data center firm Green has broken ground on a new 12MW data center in Zurich. Read here.
‘Malfunction’ at Dutch defense ministry datacenter causing mass disruption. Read here.
GPU cloud firm CoreWeave is to lease capacity from Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter. Read here.
DataVita launched a National Cloud for UK organisations. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Digital Realty’s iColo has announced the installation of solar panels at two of its Kenya data center facilities in Nairobi and Mombasa. Read here.
Egypt: One of North Africa’s Most Promising Emerging Markets. Read here.
APAC
Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam. Read here.
Epoch Digital, an Asian data centre platform backed by Actis, is in talks with existing fund investors to co-invest equity capital for a 200 MW portfolio that is being developed. Read here.
Final bids submitted for AirTrunk’s data centre portfolio by major consortiums. Read here.
China has invested over 43.5 billion yuan ($6.12 billion) in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past year. Read here.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres is collaborating with AI pioneer Phaidra to pilot an AI-based autonomous control system for optimising data centre cooling in STT GDC’s facilities in Singapore. Read here.
Reliance to build GW-scale AI-ready Data Center in Gujarat, India. Read here.
ESR completed core & shell of the first phase of a 25MW data center in Osaka, Japan. Read here.
Singtel and Hitachi partner to build AI data centers in Japan. Read here.
North America
Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital Inc., Chirisa Technology Parks, and PowerHouse Data Centers have executed a joint venture development agreement focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. Read here.
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. sponsored QTS Data Centers has a development pipeline valued at more than US$92 billion. Read here.
T5 finalized land acquisition in Atlanta to support a 300 MW Data Center Campus. Read here.
Tract announced confirmation of a 1.8GW data center park in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.
Meta, is behind a $800 million data center breaking ground in Aiken County. Read here.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms signs deal to purchase geothermal power from Sage Geosystems. Read here.
Compass Datacenters has celebrated the start of work on a hyperscale data centre campus in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, US. Read here.
Cipher Mining announced the acquisition of new 300 MW data center site in West Texas. Read here.
Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) has announced plans to expand its recently launched Texas data centre to 400 megawatts. Read here.
Soluna Breaks Ground on Project Dorothy 2, its Flagship Sustainable Data Center in Texas. Read here.
Nvidia earnings beat expectations, with $26.3bn in data center revenues – up 154% over last year. Read here.
Google is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into its data center footprint in Nevada. Read here.
Last Energy secures $40M to build ‘micro-nuclear’ plants for cleaner data center energy. Read here.
Deep Fission wants to build reactors a mile underground has emerged from stealth and announced a $4 million pre-seed funding round. Read here.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has chosen Sabey Data Centers as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Read here.
Culpeper tech zone attracts data centers. Read here.
South America
Google announced plans to invest $850m developing a second data center in Latin America, this time in Canelones, Uruguay. Read here.
Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP has launched a new data center in Manaus and launched a new data center unit. Read here.
Scala Data Centers has submitted a US$145mn project to expand its datacenter in the Huechuraba district of Chilean capital Santiago, which is currently under construction. Read here.
Scala Data Centers and Serena sign a renewable energy supply agreement to start in 2025. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Tech companies transforming decommissioned power stations into AI-driven data centres. Read here.
Here’s how data centers became a billion-dollar real estate investment. Watch here.
The Rise of Data Centres in Wales. Read here.
AI investors want to own their own compute power. Read here.
The Rise of Data Centre Startups Across Europe. Read here.
Top 10: Submarine Cable Projects. Read here.
The rise of the Levant region in the subsea industry. Read here.
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