Weekly Data Centre Digest – 9th May 2025
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Reports
Cushman & Wakefield: Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.
Data Center Watch: $64 billion of US data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition. Read here.
Europe
Data centre the height of three double decker buses planned at Molins site advances. Read here.
Tritax Big Box REIT closes in on hyperscaler letting for data centre development (Heathrow, UK). Read here.
SIN01: Inside Portugal’s new Sustainable AI Data Centre. Read here.
Schneider Electric, Start Campus debut new AI-ready data centre at Sines, Portugal. Read here.
$3 billion data centre investment destined for Spain’s Aragon region. Read here.
Project Clover: €1 Billion Investment in Finland for New Data Center. Read here.
Bulk Infrastructure has added three data halls to its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility in Norway. Read here.
Colocation firm Telehouse has completed a new data center at its campus in Paris, France. Read here.
Beyond.pl, Pure Storage to offer Nvidia Blackwell-powered AI factory platform. Read here.
Pre-planning application submitted for 12MW data centre (Wales). Read here.
Data centre plan strengthens Malaga’s technology position with 279-million-euro investment. Read here.
Slovenia starts construction of 150 mln euro AI data centre. Read here.
Portus expands Munich data centre campus with AI-ready, 5.5MW facility. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Nigeria is gearing up for a $1.6bn data centre surge, with capacity set to nearly quadruple in five year. Read here.
APAC
Bain Capital to sell China data centre business likely valued at over $4 billion, sources say. Read here.
NTT to take NTT Data private in $16.4bn deal. Read here.
STACK Infrastructure looking at $800 million loan for to invest into its Australian data centre presence. Read here.
India may need additional 50 mn sqft real estate for data centres by 2030. Read here.
Microsoft to Launch Data Centers in Malaysia in Q2 2025. Read here.
Google makes another major data centre investment in Malaysia. Read here.
Gamuda sells land for RM455m to Google affiliate, lands RM1b data centre project. Read here.
LG Uplus to invest $441.7m in Paju data center in South Korea. Read here.
South Korea’s own lofty AI data centre plan. Read here.
Equinix completes Phase 2 of KL1 IBX data center. Read here.
PDG switches on $1-B AI-ready data centre in Greater Tokyo. Read here.
RackBank launches AI Data Center Park in Chhattisgarh. Read here.
North America
OpenAI pitches Stargate beyond US, says it could work with 10 countries. Read here.
Black Chamber Partners raises $2bn for US data centre strategy. Read here.
Prince George’s County backs FifteenFortySeven’s data centre fund. Read here.
Prometheus Hyperscale to power Wyoming data center with natural gas, will offset through carbon capture. Read here.
Constellation Energy wipes out big losses to surge on AI data center deal hopes. Read here.
Google has signed a strategic agreement with advanced nuclear power developer, Elementl Power, to develop three nuclear energy projects in the US. Read here.
Aligned and Lambda Partner to Power Next-Generation AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Mystery developer plans $1bn data center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.
Amazon acquires 100 acres in Leesburg, Virginia, for potential data center development. Read here.
Tract acquires 1,515 acres outside Austin, Texas, for 2GW data center park. Read here.
Planned Georgia Data Center Would Be Worth At Least $16B. Read here.
Atlas Development plans 2.4 million sq ft data center campus outside Rome, Georgia. Read here.
Edged breaks ground on 13MW data center in Des Moines, Iowa. Read here.
ValorC3 announces new 10MW AI-ready data centre in Boise. Read here.
Massive data center proposed along Route 1 in South Brunswick nearing fruition. Read here.
TC Energy approves $900m pipeline expansion in US Midwest to serve data center market. Read here.
Dominion sees no slow down in Northern Virginia data center demand. Read here.
Core Scientific has seen a drop in cryptomining revenue as it pivots to focus on AI colocation. Read here.
Power utility TransAlta expects Alberta data centre deal this year. Read here.
South America
Amazon to invest $4bn in Chile data center region. Read here.
Argentina hopes to attract Big Tech with nuclear-powered AI data centers. Read here.
Roblox breaks ground on data center in Brazil for early 2026. Read here.
Elea Announces Rio AI City: A Landmark Brazilian Data Center Project With Capacity Up to 3.2 GW of Renewable Energy Supporting AI Growth. Read here.
Other interesting articles
AI is draining water from areas that need it most. Read here.
Data Centre Developers Waiting For Next Generation Of Buyers To Emerge. Read here.
AI Expansion Sparks Data Centre Overbuild Fears. Read here.
AI boom, GPU shortage: the complex equation of data centres. Read here.
Blackstone president sees ‘a ton’ of AI data center demand. Read here.
The World’s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas. Watch here.
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