Weekly Data Centre News – 15th August 2025
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Europe
AVAIO Digital Achieves Major Development Milestone at the Fully Powered, AI-Ready Algete Data Hub in Madrid, Spain. Read here.
Redcar and Cleveland Council (UK) granted outline permission for a 500,000-square-metre campus at the Teesworks site, a former steelworks billed as Europe’s largest brownfield redevelopment. Read here.
Edgemode and Vertical Data Announce Strategic Collaboration to Deliver 20 MW AI-Optimized Data Center in Sweden. Read here.
Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount. Read here.
Google plans for sprawling data centre campus on designated wildlife site (Thurrock, UK). Read here.
Data center campus planned for former oil rig factory in Dunoon, Scotland. Read here.
Scotland’s AI-Ready Zones: Three Locations with Grid and Land to Spare. Read here.
New DayOne data centre in Finland to drive hyperscale development. Read here.
Belgium to invest €1 billion in military data centres. Read here.
Algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets has signed an agreement with YIT Corporation for the construction of a second data center at XTX’s campus in Kajaani, Finland. Read here.
Irish government reveals date new state-of-the-art data centre set to open. Read here.
Will Finland’s move to cut data centre tax breaks damage investment? Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Gabon breaks ground for data center near capital. Read here.
Teraco finalizes JB4 hyperscale data center expansion. Read here.
Abu Dhabi’s Zero Two invests in APAC data center firm Evolution. Read here.
Saudi’s center3 targets 1GW of data center capacity by 2030. Read here.
APAC
CDC Data Centres plans WA’s largest AI and advanced technology campus. Read here.
Macquarie Data Centres partners Dell to introduce AI Factories. Read here.
Goodman secures data center financing from Aareal Bank. Read here.
South Korea’s LG CNS to develop hyperscale AI data centre in Vietnam. Read here.
Sime Darby Seeks Loan to Build Malaysian Data Center for Google. Read here.
Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters in the Pacific island nation Vanuatu. Read here.
ST Telemedia is mulling sale of its stake in GDS data center operator: Reports. Read here.
NEXTDC Secures A$6.4 Billion in Debt Facilities to Expand Data Center Operations. Read here.
New Zealand’s Spark has this week confirmed that it is spinning off its data centre arm and selling a majority stake to Sydney-based private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners. Read here.
CapitaLand to invest $2.2 billion in India across business parks, data centres, and more. Read here.
North America
DCBLOX Secures $1.15 Billion Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center Campus Development. Read here.
Blackstone’s QTS Raises $1.65 Billion of Debt for Data Centers. Read here.
Rumble plans $1.2 billion takeover of Northern Data. Read here.
Google announces new investments in Oklahoma data centers. Read here.
Cryptominer TeraWulf secures 200MW lease with Fluidstack, Google to take stake in company. Read here.
Barrio Energy announces two data center developments in Texas. Read here.
Related pitches 575-acre data center campus outside Detroit, Michigan. Read here.
Data center developer backs off $30 billion plans for Dale Earnhardt widow’s property. Read here.
World’s largest data center campus could be coming to central Utah. Read here.
The long-proposed Digital Gateway data center project in Virginia’s Prince William County has seen its zoning authorization revoked after a lawsuit by local residents. Read here.
Equinix partners with leading alternative energy providers, including nuclear providers Oklo, Radiant, ULC-Energy, Stellaria and fuel cell provider Bloom Energy, to power AI-ready data centre growth. Read here.
US-based New Era Helium will rebrand to New Era Energy & Digital, reflecting a shift from being a pure helium and natural gas company to a vertically integrated energy and digital infrastructure platform. Read here.
CoreWeave expects capex in Q4 2025 to exceed previous three quarters combined. Read here.
CoreWeave shares slide after bigger than expected losses. Read here.
DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation or under construction. Read here.
Vantage investor Silver Lake launches new powered land firm targeting data centers. Read here.
Rogers to Sell Nine Business Data Centres to InfraRed Capital Partners. Read here.
South America
Scala Data Centers secures funds for three data centers and a power substation in Chile. Read here.
Odata expands in Mexico with fourth hyperscale data center launch. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Nuclear power or windmills? The data centre industry is looking for a plan B to power AI. Read here.
Data centre construction failing to keep up with demand. Read here.
The data center balance: How US states can navigate the opportunities and challenges. Read here.
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over. Read here.
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