Weekly Data Centre News – 13th March 2026
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Europe
AVK and Pure DC Deploy Europe’s First Data Centre Microgrid. Read here.
Apto Announces Largest Data Centre Campus in Madrid Cloud Region. Read here.
NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud. Read here.
Nscale Raises $2 Billion in Series C — the Largest in European History. Read here.
Powering AI: Europe switches on its first microgrid-connected data center. Read here.
‘Billions of pounds’ of AI investment could bring hundreds of skilled jobs to North Lincolnshire. Read here.
Spanish renewables firm FRV plans €2.8bn data center in Mérida. Read here.
Polarise Builds Artificial Intelligence Data Center in Amberg – Unterallgäu (Greater Augsburg Area). Read here.
Microsoft breaks ground on data center in Bergheim, Germany. Read here.
Plans in the pipeline for second data centre in Northumberland. Read here.
£1bn data center to be built next to UK studio where James Bond was filmed. Read here.
Pure Data Centres Wants to Triple Capacity With AI Boom. Read here.
Pure Data Centres appoints industry Leader Gary Wojtaszek as Executive Chairman and Interim CEO. Read here.
Pure DC Completes Europe’s First Successful Data Centre Biomethane Proof of Concept. Read here.
Scottish campaigners demand moratorium on hyperscale data centres. Read here.
Karatzis Group to build €240m data center in Boeotia, Greece. Read here.
Construction begins on Telia Lietuva data center in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read here.
Plans for ammonia plant in Norway dropped, company set to target site for data center development. Read here.
€48M deal may turn former Finnish paper mill into huge data hub. Read here.
East Havering Data Centre to generate hundreds of journeys. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
400MW data center could be built in eastern South Africa. Read here.
Humain secures 211 plots of land in Saudi Arabia for data centers. Read here.
APAC
AI giant Anthropic confirms Australian launch and data centre plans. Read here.
New Zealand’s Datagrid gets approval for 280MW campus near Invercargill. Read here.
Bridge DC plans $3.9 billion Singapore AI investment over coming years. Read here.
Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Taps $1.2 Billion Loan To Expand Tokyo Data Center. Read here.
Data centre giant AirTrunk bets big on Singapore, mulling Reit IPO. Read here.
DayOne partners Cortical Labs to develop Singapore’s first biological data center. Read here.
Datagrid secures approval for New Zealand’s first AI factory in Southland. Read here.
Warburg-backed Princeton to raise US$5 billion in debt for data centres. Read here.
Vietnam’s US$2 billion AI data center to start construction in April. Read here.
Macquarie Technology secures AUD 200m to expand sovereign digital infrastructure. Read here.
North America
Moody’s flags $662 billion risk at the heart of the data center build-out by just 5 companies. Read here.
Microsoft, Meta fuel near $1trn boom in data centre leases. Read here.
Core Scientific Secures Strategic Financing with Morgan Stanley for Up To $1 Billion. Read here.
Crusoe Unveils Crusoe Edge Zones to Deliver High-Performance AI Infrastructure, Powered by Crusoe Spark Modular AI Data Centers. Read here.
Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI’s Stargate skipped – report. Read here.
Nvidia Cloud Ally Nscale in Talks to Buy a Major U.S. Data Center Site Ahead of IPO. Read here.
Applied Digital Announces Pricing of $2.15 Billion of Senior Secured Notes to fund Polaris Forge 2 Campus. Read here.
Stream ups planned investment in New York campus to $19.46 billion. Read here.
AWS likely behind plans for $750m data center in Clinton, Mississippi. Read here.
Penzance to invest $4B for West Virginia data center build. Read here.
InfraPartners and Emerald AI partner to unlock grid capacity and cost-effectiveness for AI data centers. Read here.
Proposal for $20bn data center outside Chicago recommended for approval by local planning commission. Read here.
Stack set to acquire site in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Read here.
New data center construction confirmed in Adams County, Ohio. Read here.
MS regulators approve 41 gas turbines at xAI. Read here.
Underwater data center powered by tidal energy proposed off the coast of Maine. Read here.
Floating Wind Tech Developer Zooms In on AI | Aikido Unveils Data Centre Concept, Selected for NVIDIA Programme. Read here.
South America
KIO starts construction of 4MW MEX8 data center in Mexico City. Read here.
Brazil’s Serpro to build two data centers to expand processing capacity. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Australian Startup Develops Data Centres Using Human Brain Cells. Read here.
Data Center Developers Battle For Hearts And Minds For Their Projects. Read here.
Survey reveals Gen Z least likely to back data centres in their local area. Read here.
BlackRock is splashing $100 million on training plumbers, electricians, and HVAC technicians as its CEO flags a skilled trade worker shortage. Read here.
Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes (UK), builders warn. Read here.
How are Data Centres Supporting Local Construction Workers? Read here.
The AI boom beneath our feet: How data centres are rewriting mineral demand. Read here.
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