Weekly Data Centre News – 16th January 2026
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Reports
Microsoft: Building Community-First AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Arbonics: Europe’s data centres The nature report card. Read here.
Galaxy: Do We Have Enough Power? Read here.
Uptime Institute: Five Data Center Predictions for 2026. Read here.
AGC: Dampened expectations: The 2026 construction hiring and business outlook. Read here.
Europe
Amazon plans data centre at former power plant site. Read here.
Amazon ‘buys land in Oxfordshire for £200m’ at former power station. Read here.
East Havering Data Centre consultation date ‘error’ revealed. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers Completes £200M Tap of Existing £600M Industry-First EMEA Data Center Asset-Backed Securitization and Adds New £54M Class B Tranche. Read here.
Plans unveiled to redevelop former Anglesey chemical plant into AI data centre. Read here.
Blackstone could invest up to $4.65 billion for data center in Germany, Handelsblatt reports. Read here.
Prime targets data center development in Järvenpää, Finland. Read here.
Spanish data center firm Templus has completed the acquisition of three Grupo Aire data centers in Lisbon, Madrid, and Valencia. Read here.
NorthC Group to build new high-tech data center in Geneva, Switzerland. Read here.
Plans for 400 new Nottinghamshire homes and data centre could create hundreds of jobs. Read here.
EU regulations on AI and plans for limited data centre development to go to Cabinet. Read here.
Ireland hopes to grow data centre investments with new LEAP strategy. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Bahrain’s Arcapita acquires data centre in US. Read here.
Batelco and Qareeb to launch edge data centre in Bahrain. Read here.
APAC
CapitaLand Investment secures initial S$150m for India data centre fund. Read here.
Thailand Approves New Data Center Projects Worth $3.1 Billion. Read here.
Eurus, Toyota Tsusho to build 3-MW green data centre in Japan. Read here.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction announced that it has signed a multiparty agreement to develop two large-scale artificial intelligence data centers in South Jeolla Province (South Korea). Read here.
Australia’s GreenSquareDC expanding data center in Greater Western Sydney. Read here.
Keppel secures 720MW powerbank site Near Melbourne for AI DC campus. Read here.
TM Nxera secures 280MW power from TNB for Johor data center. Read here.
Malaysia tightens rules to prevent ‘phantom’ power demand by data centers. Read here.
North America
Meta establishes ‘Meta Compute,’ plans multiple gigawatt-plus scale AI data centers. Read here.
Meta signs nuclear power deals with Oklo, TerraPower and Vistra. Read here.
Cerebras scores OpenAI deal worth over $10 billion ahead of AI chipmaker’s IPO. Read here.
BlackRock Says AI Partnership Raises $12.5 Billion Toward $30 Billion Goal. Read here.
LightHouse Data Centers launches, plans 2GW pipeline. Read here.
Galaxy Digital Completes ERCOT Interconnection Studies and Secures Approval for Additional 830 Megawatts at Helios Data Center Campus, Doubling Total Approved Power Capacity to over 1.6 Gigawatts. Read here.
Metrobloks joins Soluna’s Project Kati 2 as neocloud LOI secured. Read here.
HC Capital Partners and Herrmann Family Companies announced plans for the development of Energy Ranch, a 1,500+ acre data center campus. Read here.
AVAIO Digital Announces New Large-Scale AI-Ready Data Center and Power Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas. Read here.
600MW and Growing: XYZ Reality Expands Partnership with Applied Digital to Accelerate AI Factory Delivery. Read here.
Nebius plans 800MW data center campus outside Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.
330MW Google-linked data center proposed in Southern California. Read here.
Blueprint Data Centers accelerates 85MW Texas capacity across greater Austin area. Read here.
CyrusOne and Eolian Partner to Enable Rapid Deployment of 200 Megawatt Data Center Campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Read here.
Eolian and CyrusOne team up to deploy Texas data centre at site of 100MW BESS. Read here.
CleanSpark acquires 447 acres for second Texas AI data center site. Read here.
Cipher Mining acquires land for 200MW data center site in Ohio. Read here.
RadiusDC announces 24MW data center campus outside Indianapolis, Indiana. Read here.
Proposed AI data center sparks debate in rural Montana. Read here.
Laramie County commission unanimously approves massive AI data center. Read here.
The $1.5 Billion Project the Niagara Falls Mayor Doesn’t Want Residents to Know About. Read here.
Microsoft, CoreWeave, Google, QTS and more attend DOE Savannah River Site data center meeting. Read here.
Tract expands Austin data center park to 3,000 acres. Read here.
QTS files to expand Fayetteville data center campus in Georgia. Read here.
Limerick eyes 1.4-million-square-foot data center proposal. Read here.
Virginia-based data center company tied to roughly 180-acre purchase in Bastrop County. Read here.
DC BLOX Secures $240 Million HoldCo Financing Facility from Global Infrastructure Partners. Read here.
TensorWave to lease 20MW across two TecFusions data centers in the US. Read here.
South America
Casa dos Ventos, Ascenty announce largest energy contract for data centers in Latin America. Read here.
Hive Digital Technologies to launch Buzz Cloud platform in Paraguay. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Could New Nuclear Feed Power-Hungry Data Centers? Read here.
Why repurposing industrial warehouses as edge data centres can be beneficial for all involved. Read here.
Honey, I shrunk the data centres: Is small the new big? Read here.
Interdependency: The Emerging Operational Security Dependencies Between Data Centers and Electric Utilities. Read here.
(UK) Construction ends 2025 on high as analysts predict ‘structural shift’ due to data centre demand. Read here.
Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust? Listen here.
State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy. Read here.
BlackRock: Investors Are Betting Big on Data Centre Energy. Read here.
The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians. Read here.
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