Weekly Data Centre News – 12th June 2026
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Reports
FT: The unlikely corporate winners of AI. Read here.
Savills: UK data centre take-up continues to concentrate on London as lack of power capacity intensifies. Read here.
Goldman Sachs: The Outlook for Data Centers in Asia. Read here.
Amazon: Amazon’s data centres are seven times more water-efficient than the industry average. Here’s how we do it. Read here.
Europe
Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities for agentic and enterprise AI. Read here.
Nebius chooses Kao Data’s Harlow campus for major AI infrastructure deployment. Read here.
Larbert Data Centre Campus – Plans Submitted to Falkirk Council for Larbert Data Centre Campus. Read here.
Industry Launches Green Data Centre Charter (Scotland). Read here.
Era4 and Cosine Sign MoU to Scale Britain’s Sovereign AI Capability. Read here.
Corscale appoints McLaren Construction and Phoenix ME to start predevelopment of 140MW Iver data centre. Read here.
Multibillion pound data centre project in Wales risks collapse over government delays. Read here.
Ark DC to add new building to Longcross data center campus outside London, UK. Read here.
Viridor and Rivington Energy Announce Strategic Partnership to Support UK AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Major data centre in Slough gets government go-ahead. Read here.
UK – New backing for open-source AI builders, data centre design challenge and robotics partnership. Read here.
Hyperscale data center proposed for car boot sale site in Buckinghamshire, UK. Read here.
Ignis to build DayOne’s 300MW data center in Aragon, Spain. Read here.
Grupo Fotones eyes €1.15bn data center campus in Murcia, Spain. Read here.
Data centre firm EdgeMode to acquire 51% of Spain’s Ibersun to access BESS. Read here.
AmpTank Announces 200 MW AI Data Center Project in Utajärvi, Finland. Read here.
Microsoft acquires 470 acres on Finland’s west coast for data center. Read here.
Real estate firm Trevian partners with Glesys for a data center in Oulu, Finland. Read here.
Exyte secures three major AI-driven data center projects near Frankfurt – supporting 400 jobs in Germany. Read here.
Romania to build Quantum AI data center. Read here.
Green Horizon targets 36MW data center in Stavanger, Norway. Read here.
A major seven-figure sum in development contributions is being levied by Westmeath County Council on the developers of a proposed multi-billion-euro data centre and energy campus. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
While South Africa depends on Lesotho’s water, a $6.2 billion US deal could help Lesotho depend less on South African electricity. Read here.
Israeli-listed energy company Stark Power has signed a deal to acquire Sagebrush Infrastructure Partners, a US-based data center and powered land developer. Read here.
APAC
Meta Partners With Reliance on AI-Enabled Data Center in India. Read here.
DayOne Data Centers Announces Final Closing of its Series C Equity Financing at US$4.5 Billion. Read here.
Blue Owl set to unload $US30b Asia-Pacific data centre business. Read here.
China Preps $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout. Read here.
Data center proposed next to public school in Katoomba, southeastern Australia. Read here.
Digital Edge acquires land in Seoul, South Korea, for 60MW data center. Read here.
SK Telecom, NTT and Chunghwa Telecom set up US$ 500 million global fund for AI investments. Read here.
China firm to invest US$ 5 billion in AI data center in Batam. Read here.
STT GDC expands Jakarta AI DC to advance 360MW pipeline. Read here.
Keppel acquires land in South Korea for AI data center. Read here.
Digital Realty debuts in Malaysia with 3-facility campus in Cyberjaya. Read here.
Thailand’s richest man plans to spend US$ 4.3 billion to build data centers up to 2,000MW. Read here.
North America
Oracle to spend $70bn on Capex in the coming year. Read here.
KKR Launches Helix Digital Infrastructure, a New Company to Finance and Deliver the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Anthropic Pursues First Data Center Leases, Seeks Financial Backing From Google. Read here.
Amazon secures $17.5bn loan for AI data center buildout. Read here.
Switch Expands Corporate Revolving Credit and Letter of Credit Facilities to Nearly $10 Billion. Read here.
Keel Infrastructure Announces Closing of $458 Million of Convertible Senior Notes. Read here.
Crusoe’s Contracted AI Infrastructure Capacity Approaches 5 Gigawatts Across Data Centers and Cloud. Read here.
Applied Digital Signs 210 MW Lease at Delta Forge 2, Expanding Its AI Factory Franchise Model to a Fifth Campus. Read here.
Applied Digital Announces Proposed Offering of $1.59 Billion of Senior Secured Notes to fund the Fourth Building at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.
Applied Digital Secures Revolving Credit Facility of Up To $550 Million in Support of Strategic Growth. Read here.
Blue Owl provides $975m financing for Northern Virginia data center. Read here.
Bitzero Holdings Inc. Receives Approval to List on The Nasdaq Stock Market. Read here.
OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio. Read here.
Hamilton rejects plan to partition Stelco lands for AI data centre. Read here.
Canada’s QScale breaks ground on second building at Québec campus. Read here.
Cipher looks to build 500MW campus near coal plant outside Waco, Texas. Read here.
California-based medical equipment manufacturer BaRupOn LLC is developing a data center and energy campus in Liberty County, Texas. Read here.
Massive data center plan dropped in SC after latest public outcry against projects. Read here.
DC Blox’s proposed 24-acre data center near Nashville Zoo could be blocked by moratorium. Read here.
South America
Latin America’s Data Center Gold Rush: Myth and Reality. Read here.
Voltalia secures 322 MW grid connection for data centers in Brazil. Read here.
Plant-covered Rio AI City set to be Latin America’s largest data centre. Read here.
Space
SpaceX details AI1 satellite ‘data center,’ claims 150kW peak compute. Read here.
Other interesting articles
America’s Workforce Academy: The Future Is for Everyone. Read here.
Wall Street Is Rushing to Fund the AI Bonanza in Every Conceivable Way. Read here.
Americans wary of AI-driven data center boom, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. Read here.
Cities, communities and brownfield: the planning pressures reshaping data centre development. Read here.
The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown. Read here.
Data center opponents have blocked or delayed projects worth nearly $130 billion in 2026, study finds. Read here.
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