Weekly Data Centre News – 12th December 2025
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Reports
Dell’Oro Group: Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market Expands 18 Percent Y/Y in 3Q 2025, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.
Omdia: Cloud and Data Center Market Snapshot – December 2025. Read here.
DC Byte: The Hyperscale Build Race. Read here.
Goldman Sachs: Is There Enough Data Center Capacity for AI? Read here.
Europe
evroc and SUSE Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign European Cloud Solutions. Read here.
Historic investment lands in West Denmark as Microsoft announces new datacenter region. Read here.
Northumberland’s £10 billion data center set for major step forward. Read here.
Nuclear Industry Association warns of UK need to overhaul energy strategies for AI race. Read here.
Argyll Infrastructure Holdings, a Dunoon-based firm focused on building sustainable, high-performance data centres has announced an initial capital raise of £15 million. Read here.
Dunoon Argyll AI data centre complex plans take step forward. Read here.
Drax announces data centre plans as earnings expected at ‘top end’ of forecasts. Read here.
Plans for massive data centre at Corsham to be determined next week. Read here.
Decision due on plans for £250m data centre. Read here.
Polarnode Plans Major Data Centre Project in Kuopio’s Mustakorpi Area. Read here.
Equinix targets 150MW campus in Lelystad, Netherlands. Read here.
NEOIX PLC Announces 50 MW AI Data Center project in Nova Gradiska, Croatia. Read here.
Antin Infrastructure Partners acquires European data center firm NorthC. Read here.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board eyes half of Goodman European data centre fund. Read here.
Nu Quantum Raises $60M Series A in Largest Financing Round for Quantum Computer Networking. Read here.
Norway’s USD 2.1trn wealth fund shuns data centers. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Brookfield and Qai, an artificial intelligence company owned by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, have formed a $20 billion joint venture to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure in Qatar and select international markets. Read here.
UAE’s Khazna enters Saudi Arabia with first data centre. Read here.
Saudi Arabia eyes data embassies amid sovereign AI push. Read here.
Saudi’s Humain partners with Global AI for US data center deployment. Read here.
APAC
Microsoft invests US$17.5 billion in India to drive AI diffusion at population scale. Read here.
A-FLOW launches its first data centre in the Philippines. Read here.
Bain weighs multibillion-dollar options for Bridge Data Centres amid AI infrastructure rush. Read here.
Empyrion Digital cleared to build 200+MW data centre in Malaysia. Read here.
India’s Adani Group to establish 48MW data center in southern India. Read here.
HITC and Evolution Data Centres partner to build hyperscale data centers in Vietnam. Read here.
WinDC unveils portable, renewable-powered AI factories. Read here.
Australian Data Centres adds second operational campus in Canberra. Read here.
North America
Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment. Read here.
Oracle shares slide on $15bn increase in data centre spending. Read here.
KKR To Invest Billions In Portfolio Of Brookfield-Backed Compass Datacenters. Read here.
Blue Owl raises $1.7bn for digital infrastructure trust as data centre demand accelerates. Read here.
InfraRed Capital Partners announces strategic core-plus digital infrastructure vehicle with Pantheon. Read here.
SoftBank Looking at Potential Deal for Data-Center Operator Switch, Bloomberg Says, Citing Sources. Read here.
Argo Infrastructure Partners Increases Ownership and Capital Commitment to TierPoint. Read here.
NextEra Energy and Google Cloud Announce Landmark Strategic Energy and Technology Partnership to Accelerate AI Growth and Transform the Energy Industry. Read here.
Boom Supersonic pivots to develop turbines for AI Data Centers: AI Needs More Power Than the Grid Can Deliver. Supersonic Tech Can Fix That. Read here.
NextEra Energy partners with Google to develop at least three gigawatt-scale data center campuses. Read here.
3.7 million sq ft data center campus gets initial OK from officials in Florida. Read here.
Palm Beach County postpones 200-acre ‘Project Tango’ AI data center after community outrage. Read here.
Former aviation firm Jet.AI details plans for 350-acre data center campus in Winnipeg, Canada. Read here.
$10bn data center project recieves approval in Lacy Lakeview, Texas. Read here.
CyrusOne files to expand data center campus outside Waco, Texas. Read here.
Filing reveals initial piece of Google’s $40 billion investment in Texas. Read here.
Project Blue data center in Tucson, Arizona, secures utility connection with Tucson Electric Power – report. Read here.
Former coal plant site in Springdale sold for $14.3M to make way for massive data center. Read here.
Georgia Power proposes $16bn plan to add 10GW of new generation capacity to meet data center growth. Read here.
New data center could be coming to Woodlawn area in Baltimore County. Read here.
AI Data Centers Have Paid $6B+ In Tariffs In 2025 — A Cost To U.S. AI Competitiveness? Read here.
South America
Mexico’s KIO cuts ribbon on new Querétaro data center. Read here.
Brazilian fiber firm Nicnet to open two Edge data centers in São Paulo. Read here.
Space
Aetherflux, a space-based solar technology company hoping to beam power down to Earth, is now throwing its hat into the orbital data center ring. Read here.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers. Read here.
‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up. Read here.
Billionaires are racing to build data centers in space. Read here.
Other interesting articles
DCD>Awards 2025: Winners announced! Read here.
Data centre boom sparks deals rush. Read here.
Certainty through transparency: A new planning paradigm for data center loads. Read here.
How data centre developments can enrich society. Read here.
Shaky data centre tenants could choke off AI boom. Read here.
Big global investors see gold in AI but don’t buy the rush. Read here.
Blackstone’s Gray says data centers still an attractive investment. Read here.
Five debt hotspots in the AI data centre boom. Read here.
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