Weekly Data Centre News – 13th February 2026
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Reports
AI Boom Drives Data Center Capex to $1.7 Trillion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.
Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market to Surpass $80 Billion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.
Synergy Research Group: GenAI Helps Drive Quarterly Cloud Revenues to $119 Billion as Growth Rate Jumped Yet Again in Q4. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre H2 2025 Update. Read here.
Europe
Nscale Signs a $1.4bn Delayed Draw Term Loan Backed by GPUs to Finance Multiple Cluster Deployments Across Europe. Read here.
Elite UK REIT has secured planning consent for a major data center development in Blackpool. Read here.
Mistral AI and EcoDataCenter Partner to Build AI-focused Data Center in Sweden. Read here.
AtNorth files to expand planned data center campus in Kouvola, Finland. Read here.
Magnora has secured attractive land for a new 100 MW data center development project. Read here.
Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France. Read here.
Former sugar refinery near Caen, France, could become AI data center. Read here.
Plans approved for £250m data centre. Read here.
Pulsant injects £10m into Milton Keynes data centre. Read here.
CyrusOne tops out latest Frankfurt data center in Germany. Read here.
Merlin abandons plans to build data centers in Andalusia due to lack of guaranteed power supply. Read here.
Glencar tipped for latest London data centre. Read here.
Cisco to build data center in Krakow, Poland. Read here.
GIC Weighs Selling Stake in European Data Center JV for Up to €1 Billion. Read here.
Croatia plans biomass-powered data center using olive oil industry waste. Read here.
Vantage denied permission for data center outside Frankfurt. Read here.
Submer acquires Radian Arc to provide full-stack AI infrastructure, from core datacenters to edge compute. Read here.
AEW enters German data center sector with Nuremberg acquisition. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Microsoft Confirms Saudi Arabia Datacenter Region Available for Customers to Run Cloud Workloads from Q4 2026. Read here.
Middle East’s AI and data centre surge spotlighted at Datacloud market address. Read here.
Henox and CloudOne AI sign strategic partnership to enable 50MW AI-driven data centre infrastructure. Read here.
APAC
Firmus Secures US$10 Billion Financing led by Blackstone and Coatue to Scale Energy-Efficient AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Abu Dhabi’s G42 Leads $1 Billion Data Center Project in Vietnam. Read here.
OpenAI, Samsung SDS and SK Telecom set to start building data centres in Korea in March, minister says. Read here.
New York funds giant to pour $1.2b into Melbourne data centre. Read here.
Sharjah signs tripartite MoU to develop data centers and AI infrastructure. Read here.
Nxera opens 58MW green data center in Singapore. Read here.
Stack breaks ground on second Tokyo data center. Read here.
NTT buys land in Bangkok, Thailand, for new data center. Read here.
North America
Meta breaks ground on $10bn data centre campus in Lebanon, Indiana. Read here.
Meta purchases additional 1,400 acres for Hyperion mega-data center expansion. Read here.
Anthropic pledges to cover data center electricity costs. Read here.
Equinix forecasts 10-11% revenue growth in 2026 amid AI demand. Read here.
Google secures nearly $32bn in debt following major data center capex commitment. Read here.
Google Backs TeraWulf Shift From Bitcoin Mining To AI Data Centers. Read here.
Energy Vault and Crusoe Announce Strategic Framework Agreement for Deployment of Crusoe Spark Modular AI Factory Units to Deliver Crusoe Cloud. Read here.
Ares Arranges $2.4 Billion Debt Facility to Vantage Data Centers. Read here.
White House eyes data center agreements amid energy price spikes. Read here.
CyrusOne partners with Constellation for 760MW data center campus in Texas. Read here.
CleanArc Data Centers Selected to Lead Development and Leasing for Crow Holdings’ 245MW Flagship Campus in Central Dallas. Read here.
New York moves toward data centre moratorium as energy fears grow. Read here.
Google enlists TotalEnergies for solar power at Texas data centre. Read here.
Telecom giant Bell Canada plans to build an “AI data centre campus” south of Regina, according to documents filed with the Rural Municipality of Sherwood. Read here.
Data center coming to Rapid City: Sequitor Edge plans facility in industrial park on south side. Read here.
AWS likely behind $4.8bn data center in Walla Walla, Washington. Read here.
Data center developer Stack to expand Hillsboro campus by 121MW. Read here.
Cologix acquires land in Ashburn, Virginia, for data center. Read here.
Global AI set to develop data center outside Denver, Colorado. Read here.
Intersect Power files to develop data center in Texas. Read here.
‘AI factory’ being proposed along Lakeshore Parkway in Birmingham. Read here.
South America
Millicom, NJJ Holding secure $1.2bn acquisition of Telefónica’s Chilean unit. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Here’s a way to use the data center boom to build a new economy in some communities. Read here.
At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I. Read here.
The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’. Read here.
Anthropic’s Data Center Ambition—and the Ex-Google Execs Who Could Make It Happen. Read here.
Can high-temperature superconductors transform the power infrastructure of datacenters? Read here.
AI Data Center Expansion Poses High Risk of Child Labor Issues. Read here.
Europe risks losing ground in AI race as data centre demand outpaces power and policy. Read here.
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AI, Frankfurt & the future of Europe’s Data Centres | Episode 1 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Watch here.
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