Weekly Data Centre News – 8th August 2025
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Reports
Data Center Capex to Grow at 21 Percent CAGR Through 2029, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.
CBRE: 2025 Global Data Center Investor Intentions Survey. Read here.
Europe
Permission Granted for Massive Teesworks Data Centre Despite Objection From BP Hydrogen Scheme. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers has secured approval for another major data centre project in Wales. Read here.
Deutsche Telekom partnering with Nvida, Brookfield on AI data centre -CEO. Read here.
maincubes to Begin Development of ‘mainHub Berlin’ Data Centre Campus in Nauen. Read here.
Vesper Infrastructure agrees to invest in Terakraft, building one of the most cost competitive and fully-sustainable Data Centres in Europe. Read here.
OpCore to develop data center on EDF-owned land outside Paris. Read here.
CRA announces major data centre project in Czech capital. Read here.
Planned data center could overlap with golf course in Rauma, Finland. Read here.
Ireland’s National Trust appeals against data center project in County Louth, Ireland. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Alpha Dhabi ‘exploring’ building UAE data centres amid AI boom. Read here.
Saudi’s center3 unveils plans for 1 Gigawatt of data centre capacity by 2030. Read here.
Airtel Nigeria to Build 38MW Hyperscale Data Centre in Eko Atlantic. Read here.
APAC
Singapore’s Keppel raises $4.9 billion in private funds for education and data centre assets. Read here.
Thailand data center investments hit US$16.1 billion from 28 projects in 1H 2025. Read here.
Southeast Asia data center market projected to double to USD 30.47 billion by 2030: Report. Read here.
Sify data center unit planning to IPO in India. Read here.
Bridge DC to use wastewater for data center cooling in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.
DCI & Koramco to develop 40MW data centre in South Korea. Read here.
Galaxy Data Center Announces Thailand Expansion in Landmark Meeting with Acting Prime Minister, Paving Way for Green Digital Hub. Read here.
North America
Quantica Infrastructure unveiled its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure, a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus outside Billings, Montana. Read here.
Apollo Funds to Acquire Majority Stake in Stream Data Centers, Forming a Scaled Digital Infrastructure Leader. Read here.
Meta taps PIMCO, Blue Owl for $29 billion data center expansion project, source says. Read here.
Tallvine Partners Acquires TRG Datacenters and Launches Digital Infrastructure Platform. Read here.
Bitfarms Announces Partnership with T5 Data Centers to Advance HPC/AI Development at Panther Creek Campus. Read here.
CoreWeave buys New Jersey data centre site in $322 million deal. Read here.
Amazon acquires 1,000 acres of land outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Tucson says no to Project Blue, but Amazon’s controversial data center isn’t going away. Read here.
Riot Platforms acquires additional 238 acres at Corsicana, Texas, campus. Read here.
New York-based real estate developer Mag Partners may build data centers on a 235-acre development in Baltimore. Read here.
US data center firm Centra has broken ground on a new facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.
Google to develop new cable landing stations in Azores and Hawaii for upcoming subsea cable systems. Read here.
Hyundai to deliver nuclear power to Fermi America’s 11GW AI campus in Amarillo, Texas. Read here.
We Energies strives to meet 2027 deadline for Port Washington data center project. Read here.
Michigan utility Consumers Energy is set to provide 1GW of new power load to a planned hyperscale data center. Read here.
PPL Electric’s data center pipeline soars to 14GW. Read here.
Jacobs cashes in on data center, AI boom despite tariff uncertainty. Read here.
Brookfield Asset Management to launch dedicated strategy for AI data centers. Read here.
CPP Investments to provide $225 million in funding for Ontario data centre. Read here.
South America
Inside RT-One’s plans for its LatAm data center rollout. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Google: How we’re making data centers more flexible to benefit power grids. Read here.
How tech giants are transforming old European power plants into data centers. Read here.
AI Supercharges Hyperscale: Capacity, Geography, and Design Are Being Redrawn. Read here.
How more efficient data centres could unlock the AI boom. Read here.
Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy. Read here.
Why utilities should bring water into the data center energy conversation. Read here.
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