Weekly Data Centre News – 1st August 2025
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Reports
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey Results 2025. Read here.
LeanResearch: Data Center Market Outlook 2030: AI Capex, Power Constraints, and Regional Growth Leaders. Read here.
Turner & Townsend: Q2 2025 UK market intelligence. Read here.
Europe
Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway. Read here.
Introducing Stargate Norway. Read here.
Iberdrola and Echelon create a joint venture to develop data centres in Spain. Read here.
Switch Datacenters Secures Land and Permits for New 100MW Data Center in Warsaw, Poland, Expanding European Footprint. Read here.
Microsoft will open datacenter region in Austria. Read here.
UK data centre development accelerates amid ongoing confidence and regional growth. Read here.
Eclipse and Carlton Power agree joint development agreement for data centre (Manchester, UK). Read here.
Energy giant plots UK wood-fuelled data centre. Read here.
Europe sets its sights on multi-billion-euro gigawatt factories as it plays catch-up on AI. Read here.
Water company Anglian Water has called on North Lincolnshire Council to oppose the planning application for the country’s largest data centre, Elsham Tech Park. Read here.
Data centre planned for site on outskirts of Bradford city centre. Read here.
NTT and Mistral AI Target Sovereign European AI Data Centres. Read here.
Germany’s Max Planck Society eyes new data center in Munich. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Madari Space contemplates building data centers in space. Read here.
Northern Data nears deal to provide data center capacity to Abu Dhabi’s G42 – Bloomberg. Read here.
APAC
Google to invest $6 billion in southern India data centre. Read here.
iPhone maker Foxconn joins $1 trillion AI data center market with new alliance. Read here.
YTL inks $2.36 billion deal with Nvidia; Malaysia to create own LLM. Read here.
Yondr Group to exit EverYondr joint venture; sells stake back to Everstone Group. Read here.
FLOW Digital Infrastructure announces new data center in Central Tokyo. Read here.
A 300MW data center will be built in Uzbekistan with China’s Linkwise. Read here.
Princeton Digital Group secures $160 million Green Loan for Mumbai DC campus. Read here.
DayOne and Gaw Capital break ground on phase one of their new hyperscale data centre campus in Tokyo. Read here.
KKR considers acquiring ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at $5bn valuation. Read here.
DayOne breaks ground on 20MW data center in Singapore. Read here.
Submer to deploy ‘up to’ 1GW of liquid cooled data centers in Madhya Pradesh, India. Read here.
China Plans to Build a Mega Data Center with 115,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Read here.
North America
$33 billion data center development planned for Pinal County. Read here.
Blueprint Projects gets greenlight for data center in Taylor, Texas. Read here.
New Era Helium’s JV Closes on 235-Acre AI Data Center Site in Permian Basin. Read here.
Sabey Data Centers Announces Launch of Austin Building B, Expanding Presence in Key Technology Hub. Read here.
Texas Critical Data Centers closes 235-acre land acquisition for AI data center in Ector County, Texas. Read here.
QScale wants to build a multi-billion-dollar AI data centre near Toronto. Read here.
Energy Capital Partners (ECP) and global investment firm KKR have announced the development of a 190MW hyperscale data centre campus in Bosque County, Texas. Read here.
Data center powered land provider Cloverleaf is developing a campus in Georgia. Read here.
Proposal for data center in Leesburg, Virginia, approved. Read here.
A $1.4 billion data center campus in Cedar Creek could soon start construction. Read here.
Microsoft Adds 2GW Data Centre Capacity as Azure Use Soars. Read here.
EnCap Investments launches US data centre business. Read here.
Snowhawk and Nuveen Make Strategic Investment in Prime Data Centers. Read here.
eStruxture Data Centers, a Fengate portfolio company, announces C$1.35 billion financing and first Canadian data center sector asset-backed securities. Read here.
Hyperscale Data Enters into an Agreement for a Financing of up to $100 Million. Read here.
CyrusOne signs 190MW deal with Calpine Energy to power data center in Bosque County, Texas. Read here.
Helion Energy starts construction on nuclear fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers. Read here.
Detroit-based utility DTE Energy is in talks with data centers representing up to 7GW of potential new capacity around Michigan. Read here.
Exelon says potential data center demand is more than 30 gigawatts. Read here.
PG&E Data Center Demand Pipeline Swells to 10 Gigawatts with Potential to Unlock Billions in Benefits for California. Read here.
South America
Scala Data Centers taps Chile for sustainable infrastructure push. Read here.
Argentina free trade zone plans to attract data center investments. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Industry reaction to US AI Action Plan. Read here.
The UK’s growing ‘compute gap’ threatens AI ambitions. Read here.
How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power. Read here.
Inside the relentless race for AI capacity. Read here.
The Gulf bets big on AI as it seeks the ‘new oil’. Read here.
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