Weekly Data Centre Digest – 30th May 2025
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Reports
Colliers: The digital backbone: Data center growth prospects in India. Read here.
Coresite: 2025 Industry Trends, Strategy and Innovation. Read here.
Europe
CBRE: Data Centre Take-up in Europe to Reach New Peak in 2025. Read here.
German tech giants collaborate on AI Data center bid with EU support. Read here.
Iron Mountain to expand Amsterdam data center campus by 10MW. Read here.
New firm Polarnode plans data center campuses across Finland. Read here.
APL targets 100MW data center campus in Finland. Read here.
Up to 1,000 jobs could be created by a new artificial intelligence data centre in North Lincolnshire. Read here.
‘AI data centre campus’ proposed in North Lincolnshire that would cost at least £5.5bn to develop. Read here.
Data centre blitz threatens Labour’s net zero hopes (UK). Read here.
Parish council objects to plan for major data centre on North Weald airfield (UK). Read here.
Plans in for first phase of Cambois Data Centre Campus (UK). Read here.
Westmeath €1bn data centre not classed as strategic infrastructure, told to go local. Read here.
The development of a data centre in Killala is on hold after an appeal was lodged with An Bord Pleanala. Read here.
Construction approval for 1.6GWh flow battery and associated Data Center in Switzerland. Read here.
German landlord Aroundtown looks to convert offices into data centres. Read here.
Greykite to redevelop Warsaw logistics site as 65MW data center in Poland. Read here.
European operator Penta Infra is to connect its data center in Leeuwarden to a new district heating network. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
UAE grapples with ‘overwhelming’ demand for more energy amid data centre boom. Read here.
Saudi Arabia’s AI co. Humain looking for US data center equity partner, targets 6.6GW by 2034 with subsidized electricity. Read here.
Abu Dhabi to invest over $10 billion to power data center industry, says TAQA CEO. Read here.
APAC
BRIGHTRAY breaks record by completing data center in 8 months (China). Read here.
Alibaba Cloud reaffirms $52.7bn global buildout plans. Read here.
Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region. Read here.
Pakistan allocates 2,000 megawatts of electricity to bitcoin mining, AI data centres. Read here.
S. Korea’s KT plans to set up AI data center in Vietnam. Read here.
Trendyol, Castle Investments to build $500M data center in Turkish capital. Read here.
Microsoft opens its first data center in Indonesia. Read here.
S. Korea’s 90 billion won AI data center sits half-empty amid budget shortfall. Read here.
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT to buy data center and business park for S$700 million. Read here.
High security data center soon to launch in West Auckland, New Zealand. Read here.
North America
Oracle ‘To Spend $40bn’ On Nvidia Chips For Stargate Campus. Read here.
Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73%. Read here.
Blue Owl, Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers Announce Next Phase of $5 Billion Joint Venture Development Partnership. Read here.
Neuron Factory Announces $6 Million Seed Funding, Strategic AI Partnership with Construction Innovators Cordeel Group. Read here.
Amazon Web Services suspends plans for Minnesota data center. Read here.
Aligned looks to develop three more data centers at Quantum Frederick park in Maryland. Read here.
Indian American real estate tycoon Anita Verma-Lallian closes $51m Data Center deal in Arizona. Read here.
Bell Canada has announced it will open six artificial intelligence data centres in British Colombia as part of a plan to create the largest AI compute project in Canada. Read here.
Multibillion-dollar data center proposal makes its way to Kansas City, Kansas. Read here.
Snow Lake, Exodys form SMR venture targeting US data center market. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Eveo inks contract to host infra at Atlantic Data Centers. Read here.
Brazil’s data center boom puts Nokia in the right place at the right time. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Inside OpenAI’s Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman. Watch here.
Trump Nuclear Power Plans Target Data Centers And National Security. Read here.
Navigating regulatory challenges in data centres. Read here.
Spain’s first Data Center Academy promotes young talent and equal access to job opportunities in technology. Read here.
Stargate and beyond: The global data centre arms race. Read here.
Lithuania: Europe’s emerging green data center investment opportunity. Read here.
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