Weekly Data Centre Digest – 4th April 2025
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Europe
Microsoft’s $3.2 B UK data centre plans threatened by grid delays. Read here.
Microsoft skirts around rumors that it has cancelled several data center projects worth billions of dollars. Read here.
CyrusOne to develop second data center in Milan, Italy. Read here.
Edgnex by Damac acquires Finnish data center developer Hyperco. Read here.
Telehouse has announced plans to invest €1 billion in four data centres across France. Read here.
PPC Group has presented a multi-billion euro plan to convert former lignite sites in Western Macedonia into a green energy and technology hub for Greece and south eastern Europe. Read here.
Britain risks ‘losing out to France on data centres’. Read here.
Hemiko to develop UK’s first data center waste heat network. Read here.
Pulsant expands UK portfolio with SCC data centre acquisition. Read here.
AI cloud provider Fluidstack is teaming up with Nvidia, Dell, and Borealis Data Center for the deployment of exascale GPU clusters. Read here.
One of Switzerland’s biggest data center operators Green, owned by InfraVia Capital Partners, has attracted initial interest from insurance companies, pension funds and private equity firms. Read here.
The Iliad Group and InfraVia have closed the transaction aimed at developing OpCore into a major European hyperscale data center platform. Reads here.
Middle East & Africa
MGX, Silver Lake acquire minority stakes in Khazna Data Centers. Read here.
Equinix expands Lagos Data Center amid Africa’s digital boom. Read here.
Raxio Secures $100 Million from IFC to Develop Leading Sub-Saharan African Data Center Platform. Read here.
APAC
Softbank seeks $16.5 billion loan to fund Stargate Commitments – report. Read here.
Oracle, Blackstone, Amazon and OnlyFans lineup TikTok bids as deadline looms. Read here.
GLP launched maiden data center fund in China with asset under management of $358 million. Read here.
AirTrunk seeks US$1.7bil loan to build Singapore data centres. Read here.
Morgan Stanley trims PT on Goodman Group over data centre caution. Read here.
Japan plans offshore floating green data centre to meet AI boom. Read here.
Metavisio, BKB team up to build data center in South Korea. Read here.
Japanese consortium to build offshore floating green data center. Read here.
Singaporean firm GK Hyperscale Ltd will participate in the construction of two major data processing centers in Kazakhstan’s Akmola and Karaganda regions. Read here.
China’s AI data center boom goes bust: Rush leaves billions of dollars in idle infrastructure. Read here.
NTT breaks ground on data center campus outside Tokyo, Japan. Read here.
China-based data center firm EPG has announced the official groundbreaking of its second factory in Malaysia. Read here.
SUNeVision begins Phase II of ‘Mega IDC’ in Hong Kong. Read here.
DCI Data Centers submits plan for 25MW data center in Canberra, Australia. Read here.
Keppel, JBIC ink MoU to support clean energy and data center development across Asia. Read here.
Iron Mountain Data Centers takes over Web Werks. Read here.
North America
Microsoft pulls back on data Centres from Chicago to Jakarta. Read here.
Elon Musk combines xAI and X, valuing social media platform at $33bn. Read here.
Google in talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell GPUs from CoreWeave – report. Read here.
Stack Infrastructure unveils workforce development program. Read here.
133-acre data center approved in Hampton, Georgia. Read here.
Northwest Fort Worth could soon be home to a $2.1 billion data center. Read here.
Data farm proposed near Salton Sea could be first major development in Lithium Valley. Read here.
Apple data center in Maiden to get $175 million expansion. Read here.
Minnesota developer plans to build data center north of Austin. Read here.
$6 billion data center proposal draws mixed reactions in Oldham County. Read here.
Developer Terra Ventures has proposed a two-building data center complex in San Jose Alviso district. Read here.
Real estate firm NorthPoint Development is looking to develop a data center park outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read here.
PhoenixNAP set to build its second Valley data center. Read here.
Application filed for 8.6 million sq ft data center project outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
New data center in Fort Worth could be $2 billion investment. Read here.
Developer pitches $12B data center near Kansas Speedway. Read here.
$6B data center project proposed for Oldham County. Read here.
Plans filed for 2.55 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta. Read here.
Huge AI Data Center Planned for Pennsylvania Coal Plant Site. Read here.
US energy department invites AI data centre development at Los Alamos and other federal lands. Read here.
NTT acquires 173-acre planned data center park in Mesa, Arizona, for $300m. Read here.
Hut 8 and Eric Trump Launch American Bitcoin to Set a New Standard in Bitcoin Mining. Read here.
Mawson Infrastructure Group signs 64MW crypto colocation deal with Canaan. Read here.
Hyperscale Data announced it has entered into an agreement for up to $50 million in new equity financing from a single, unaffiliated institutional investor. Read here.
PGIM Real Estate has closed a $2 billion fund to back data center developments around the world. Read here.
Northstar Technologies acquires Compass’ Quantum Edge data center unit. Read here.
1547 and Harrison Street acquire Hawaii’s DRFortress from GI Partners. Read here.
Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks. Read here.
Trump tariffs could end Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree. Read here.
South America
Equinix’s services ‘operating normally’ after fire in São Paulo datacenter. Read here.
Takoda Data Centers advances sale process with Itaú, Citizens Bank. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Top 10: Data Centre Influencers. Read here.
What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you. Read here.
Global colocation market shift: Emerging metros poised for high growth. Read here.
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday. Read here.
Trump Tariffs: Will the Data Centre Industry be Impacted? Read here.
How Tariffs Could Impact Data Centers, AI, and Energy Amid Supply Chain Shifts. Read here.
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