Weekly Data Centre News – 10th October 2025
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Europe
Google invests an additional €5 billion in Belgian data center. Read here.
European private capital firms target €17bn in data centre deals. Read here.
Diggers move in to start build on £10billion data centre complex in Northumberland. Watch here.
Colt DCS plans three new data centers in Hayes, UK. Read here.
First stage of plans approved for new data centre in Bridgend. Read here.
Blykalla, Studsvik and Evroc and have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of Sweden’s first nuclear-powered data centres at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping on the country’s east coast. Read here.
Spanish renewables firm Solano plans 100MW data center campus in Finland. Read here.
Portuguese DC power demand already toppled current total production. Read here.
Spain’s Adam Ecotech breaks ground on third Barcelona data center. Read here.
Dutch economy faces billions in losses as Amsterdam data center expansion halts. Read here.
Macfarlanes advises L&G on the development financing of a £750m data centre in Newham. Read here.
Pulsant Completes Five-Year, £187M Refinancing Deal. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Cameroon’s ST Digital opens data center in Côte d’Ivoire. Read here.
Africa’s data center power demand grows 25% annually, to reach 8,000 GWh – Experts. Read here.
APAC
Google plans 1GW data centre cluster in India, ending talk of stalled hyperscaler commitments. Read here.
TCS to build 1 GW AI data centre. Read here.
Oracle and SoftBank come together to provide Sovereign Cloud and AI services in Japan. Read here.
China: World’s first commercial underwater data centre with 1,433-ton cabin goes live. Read here.
U.S. tech giants hit pause on India data center deals under weight of trade uncertainty. Read here.
Mongolia to join data center frenzy with Chinggis Khaan sovereign wealth fund. Read here.
Indonesia’s NeutraDC Nxera targets Batam go live by H1 2026. Read here.
BW Digital tops off data center in Batam, Indonesia. Read here.
North America
Applied Digital and Macquarie Asset Management Execute First Funding Milestone in $5.0 Billion AI Infrastructure Partnership. Read here.
OpenAI considers Stargate data center capacity in Canada. Read here.
AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. Read here.
Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026. Read here.
Billionaire Behind Blackstone’s Data Center Bet Readies Next Act – QII. Read here.
Meta, Pembina near deal to build massive Alberta AI data centre. Read here.
120-acre data center to be built between Calgary and Edmonton, Canada. Read here.
Google looks to build up to six data centers near nuclear power site in Linn County, Iowa. Read here.
Related Digital’s $1.2B Wyoming Data Center Will Be Anchored By CoreWeave. Read here.
CoreSite Achieves Key Construction Milestone for New DE3 Data Center in Denver. Read here.
Data center and powered land provider Lancium has reportedly secured new debt financing. Read here.
Talen Energy seeks to rezone land in Montour County, Pennsylvania, for data center project. Read here.
Data center planned on 795 acres of farmland in south Joliet, Illinois. Read here.
Microsoft scraps plans for Caledonia data center site, working to find an alternate location. Read here.
Data center could come to Hermantown, Minnesota. Read here.
Prometheus Hyperscale has revealed plans for a second AI data center campus in Wyoming, which it says could eventually deliver 1.5GW of IT capacity. Read here.
SHARON AI Initiates Phase Two Engineering for Its Flagship 1GW AI Data Center Campus Joint Venture in Texas. Read here.
CleanArc buys more land for debut Virginia campus, taking site to potential 900MW. Read here.
IREN prices $875M convertible debt offering. Read here.
Entergy to build 600MW solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas to power Google data centre. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Eletrobras plans to develop its own data center in Campinas, São Paulo. Read here.
Kio Data Centers to invest more than $20m in second Guatemala data center. Read here.
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Supersized: The no-limit AI data center build-out. Read here.
Data center boom brings risks of overbuilding, Ares says. Listen here.
AI Growth Is Outpacing Moore’s Law: $500 Billion Needed Every Year To Build Data Centers, Says The Kobeissi Letter. Read here.
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