Weekly Data Centre Digest – 9th August 2024
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Reports
JLL: The enduring significance of edge data centers. Read here.
Khazna: Navigating the Economic Landscape of Data Centres. Read here.
Data Center Construction Market to Reach $416.4 Billion, Globally, by 2032 at 7.4% CAGR: Allied Market Research. Read here.
Cloud Market Growth Stays Strong in Q2 While Amazon, Google and Oracle Nudge Higher: Synergy Research. Read here.
Europe
UK Chancellor to set out data centre vision in US. Read here.
CyrusOne has proposed a new data centre in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Read here.
£3bn Humber Tech Park clears planning. Read here.
Is Havering Council stonewalling residents over the building of the Data Centre on greenbelt land? Read here.
Dozens of objections received for Ark’s Spring Park Campus expansion. Read here.
Start Campus SINES DC becomes Europe’s Largest and Most Sustainable Data Center Campus with Groundbreaking 1.2 GW IT Capacity. Read here.
Combilift founder to raise €1bn for six data centres in Naas (Ireland). Read here.
Eirgrid warns minister of risk firms will pull data centres out of Ireland. Read here.
Italian telco and data center provider Retelit will use waste heat from its Milan data center to heat 1,250 households in city’s Municipality 6. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Digital Dubai approves measures to support AI-powered Data Center economy. Read here.
Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Datalec nears opening of UAE data centre manufacturing plant. Read here.
APAC
Telkom Indonesia seeks investor for data centre business. Read here.
China’s GDS Holdings Ltd is seeking $1 billion in investment in its international data center unit. Read here.
Vantage Data Centres broke ground on new Cyberjaya campus. Read here.
Macquarie buys 40MW data center in Seoul, South Korea. Read here.
CtrlS Datacenters has unveiled plans to invest about Rs 400 crore (US$47 million) into the new data centre in Patna. Read here.
IDC predicts APAC data centers to hit 94.4GW by 2028, excluding Japan. Read here.
North America
Stack Infrastructure announced an additional $3 billion of green financing for four key U.S. projects. Read here.
California-based real estate group Panattoni Development is looking to develop data centers across North America. Read here.
Data Center Investments worth over US$70 Billion in the pipeline: Blackstone. Read here.
Hyliion and Flexnode to power high-performance flexible micro data centers. Read here.
Memphis utility company Memphis Light Gas and Water has hit back at claims it is subsidizing Elon Musk’s xAI to build a data center in the city. Read here.
Data center developer Tract plans a 1,700-acre data center campus in Phoenix’s West Valley. Read here.
Northern Nevada’s emergence as a haven for data center development recently took another step forward with the announcement from PowerHouse Data Centers to develop a 900,000-square-foot shell facility on 49 acres at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. Read here.
Plans to build a $3bn data center in Benton Township, Michigan, have stalled after pressure from environmental campaigners. Read here.
Finmarc Sells 25-Acre Site in Loudoun County for New Data Center For $60M. Read here.
Fluor expects growth in data center, semiconductor construction. Read here.
Equinix raises earnings forecast on strong data centre demand. Read here.
US announces $2.2bn in grid upgrades. Read here.
Big three US wireless carriers plan $49 billion CAPEX investment in 2024. Read here.
South America
Microsoft planning new Brazilian datacenter in Limeira. Read here.
Peruvian firm Win Empresas has announced plans to triple its data center business, including building a data center facility on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data: AI to create 12m new jobs by 2025. Read here.
AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool. Read here.
Big tech banks on AI boom as infrastructure spending heads for trillion-dollar mark. Read here.
AI data center chip demand to reach $151bn in 2029. Read here.
Cost, AI, and staffing are biggest concerns for data centers. Read here.
Nvidia Chip Delay Could Slow Big Tech’s AI Data Center Push. Read here.
Cloud growth puts hyperscalers on track to take up 60% of datacenter capacity by 2029. Read here.
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