Weekly Data Centre News – 31st October 2025
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Europe
‘Huge vote of confidence’ as data centre giant announces £4bn British investment. Read here.
AI data center firm Volt launches, targets deployments in Netherlands, US, and UAE. Read here.
Mercure Hotel could be demolished for £2bn data centre (UK). Read here.
Amazon plans major new data centre in Buckinghamshire. Read here.
UK’s first sovereign data centre powered by renewable energy to be built in Scotland. Read here.
SAMCA Group plans 300MW data center campus in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.
Echelon Data Centres seeks planning permission for data center in Kilmeaden, Ireland. Read here.
Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom to build data center in Munich, Germany – report. Read here.
Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres. Read here.
Data center development planned for 180-hectare plot in Isojoki, Finland. Read here.
IFM Global Infrastructure Fund has acquired Green Group AG. Read here.
AtlasEdge secures €253 million in green financing for Lisbon campus expansion. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Saudi AI firm HUMAIN unveils 6 gigawatt data center plan and new AI operating system. Read here.
Blackstone’s AirTrunk partners with Saudi Arabia’s Humain in US$3bn data centre deal as Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds invest in AI infrastructure. Read here.
Qatar’s Meeza signs 6MW hosting deal with unnamed hyperscaler. Read here.
APAC
Singapore to build 700MW data centre park on Jurong Island, pilot biomethane imports: Tan See Leng. Read here.
Amazon subsidiary to invest $5 billion in South Korea, presidential office says. Read here.
Centuria plans 40MW data center in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.
NeutraDC Nxera Batam tops off new Tier III hyperscale data center. Read here.
Equinix tops out second data center in Johor. Read here.
Taiwan’s MediaTek targets billions in AI accelerator chip revenue by 2027. Read here.
North America
GOOGL, MSFT and META Reiterate Enormous Spending in AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Microsoft to Double Data Center Footprint in Two Years. Read here.
AWS activates Project Rainier: One of the world’s largest AI compute clusters comes online. Read here.
Core Scientific shareholders reject CoreWeave takeover bid. Read here.
OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Michigan. Read here.
AEP raises capital spending plan to meet data center power demand. Read here.
DTE inks first data center deal to grow electric load 25%. Read here.
Crusoe taps Blue Energy to supply nuclear power for up to 1.5GW data center in Port of Victoria, Texas. Read here.
CleanSpark Selects Submer as Its First Strategic Partner for AI Data Center Expansion in North America. Read here.
CleanSpark Enters Texas Market with Land and Large-Scale Power Acquisition to Rapidly Deploy an AI Data Center in Greater Houston. Read here.
Lambda Doubles Down on Midwest Expansion, To Build AI Factory in Kansas City, MO. Read here.
TeraWulf and Fluidstack to develop Texas data center in Google-backed deal. Read here.
HydraVault secures permit to build downtown Chicago AI data centre. Read here.
QTS Data Centers looks to build another facility near Madison, Wisconsin. Read here.
Calgary, Texas companies propose data centre for Saint John industrial park. Read here.
Two data center projects planned for Monticello, Minnesota. Read here.
Foxconn sets $1.4 billion budget for AI cluster and supercomputer. Read here.
Blue Owl-backed Beale Infrastructure is planning new data center campuses in Arizona and Oklahoma. Read here.
Goodman plans 97MW data center in Silicon Valley. Read here.
Fermi America has signed two more nuclear energy agreements to support the development of its planned giant data center campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.
Blue Energy Global Inc. is planning a power plant in Texas that will supply as much as 1.5 gigawatts of electricity to a new data center, initially using natural gas systems and eventually shifting to small reactors. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Tecto expands in Ceará with the launch of 20MW Mega Lobster data center in Fortaleza. Read here.
GTD to invest US$13 million in second phase of data center in Lurin, Peru. Read here.
Other interesting articles
There’s a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it’s not data centers. Read here.
Big Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree. Read here.
Inside the AI Data Center Rebuild. Read here.
A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres. Read here.
Data centre financing: A European perspective. Read here.
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