Weekly Data Centre News – 7th November 2025
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Reports
Turner & Townsend: Data centre construction cost index 2025-2026. Read here.
Savills: AI to become key driver of data centre demand across EMEA. Read here.
Statista: Number of data centers worldwide as of November 2025, by country or territory. Read here.
Synergy Research Group: Cloud Market Growth Rate Rises Again in Q3; Biggest Ever Sequential Increase. Read here.
Europe
Nebius AI Cloud arrives in UK with one of the country’s first advanced NVIDIA AI infrastructure deployments. Read here.
Trio of hyperscale data centers dubbed ‘The Stoics’ could be built in Scotland. Read here.
Colt DCS Receives Approval to Expand West London Hyperscale Campus with £2.5 Billion Investment in UK’s AI Economy. Read here.
Work to start next year on expanded £2.5bn Hayes data site. Read here.
Three huge new data centre schemes for London worth £10bn revealed. Read here.
Microsoft lodges plans for data centre campus at former power station in Leeds. Read here.
Data center campus to be built on former jam factory site in Southall, UK. Read here.
Blackpool forges ahead with first £60m data centre at Silicon Sands. Read here.
Guldborgsund Municipality has sold 35 hectares of commercial land to the company GARBE Data Center, which will build a large AI data center in North Falster (Denmark). Read here.
Bulk Infrastructure has successfully closed a €410 million senior secured loan to support the continued development of its N01 Data Center Campus in Vennesla municipality, outside Kristiansand, Norway. Read here.
Google set to reveal “largest ever” investment plan for Germany – report. Read here.
Germany’s Rostock government breaks ground on data center. Read here.
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA Launch Industrial AI Cloud — a ‘New Era’ for Germany’s Industrial Transformation. Read here.
Polarise Expands AI Factory Portfolio in Germany with New Munich Data Center. Read here.
TotalEnergies agrees renewable power deal with data centre operator Data4. Read here.
Qilimanjaro launches world’s first multimodal Quantum Data Centre in Barcelona. Read here.
Antin and EQT do battle for control of NorthC, sale could fetch €2bn. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Microsoft’s $15.2 billion USD investment in the UAE. Read here.
HUMAIN, DataVolt to jointly build multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
Bahrain’s Beyon launches data center, expands solar park. Read here.
Digital Realty Launches First Data Center in Ghana to Power Africa’s Digital Growth. Read here.
APAC
Google planning powerful AI data centre on tiny Australian Indian Ocean outpost. Read here.
KKR, Singtel seek to fully own Singapore data centre firm in $3.9 billion deal. Read here.
Vietnam’s developer KBC sets out 200 MW, $2 billion AI data centre project. Read here.
Goodman targets 500MW data centre pipeline as WIP hits $17.5bn. Read here.
Australian neocloud Sharon AI has signed a 50MW capacity expansion agreement with NextDC. Read here.
Basis Bay, STT GDC launch eco-green data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Read here.
NVIDIA and South Korean tech giants to build sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.
CtrlS and NTPC Green Energy to establish 2 GW Renewable Energy projects. Read here.
North America
IREN Secures $9.7bn AI Cloud Contract with Microsoft. Read here.
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership. Read here.
OpenAI discussed government loan guarantees for chip plants, not data centers, Altman says. Read here.
AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership. Read here.
Google to sell €3bn in bonds for AI build-out. Read here.
Lambda, Microsoft agree to multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Nvidia chips. Read here.
Nvidia-backed start up Starcloud sends AI-equipped satellite to space. Watch here.
New Era Energy & Digital Enters into Land Option Purchase Agreement for 3,500 Acres in New Mexico for 7GW AI Data Center Hub. Read here.
Amazon pays $700M for Prince William County data center site. Read here.
Blue Energy and Crusoe plan Texas nuclear-powered data centre. Read here.
Deep Green proposes $120 million ‘ultra-efficient’ data center in Lansing. Read here.
Data center developer Tract proposes Mountain Road Tech Park in western Hanover County. Read here.
Beacon AI Center and VoltaGrid may build data center in Saint John, Canada. Read here.
Beale breaks ground on Tulsa data center campus in Oklahoma. Read here.
Another 22 data center buildings proposed in Archbald, Pennsylvania. Read here.
Chuck Kuhn Sells Leesburg Land to Data Center Developer for $615 Million. Read here.
US data center firm Centra has secured $230 million in backing to fuel its data center build-out. Read here.
Babcock & Wilcox expands into AI Data Center power market with $1.5B APLD project. Read here.
Fermi secures preliminary approval for 6GW of natural gas generation at up to 11GW campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.
CyrusOne signs 210MW energy deal with Calpine for Texas data center campus. Read here.
Vantage invests $2bn in Stafford data centre, appoints new CCO. Read here.
Salute acquires Northshore, bringing first-in-the-industry AI-driven capabilities and sustainability services to data center companies worldwide. Read here.
South America
Patria’s Omnia joins construction of TikTok linked data centre in Brazil. Read here.
Elea Signs MoU With Tapestry to Enhance Assurance of Rio AI City’s 1.5 GW Energy Capacity. Read here.
Other interesting articles
How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far? Read here.
Boom or bubble? Inside the $3tn AI datacentre spending spree. Read here.
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics. Read here.
How KKR plans to survive a potential AI bubble. Read here.
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