Weekly Data Centre News – 17th July 2026
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Reports
DC Byte: Trends in Hyperscaler Build Strategies Report. Read here.
A&O SHEARMAN: Data center insights: the forces shaping the AI infrastructure boom. Read here.
Europe
ACS Group, Global Infrastructure Partners Launch Coravel, Secure First Major Hyperscaler Customer Agreement. Read here.
ACS is joined by Global Infrastructure Partners to launch a global data center development platform with initial 1.7 GW portfolio. Read here.
Nebius Group to build leading European AI infrastructure company. Read here.
Nebius introduces business model to scale AI cloud globally through infrastructure partnerships. Read here.
AI startup Reflection signs over $1 billion computing deal with Nebius. Read here.
Pure DC Launches One of Europe’s Largest Ever AI Infrastructure Projects. Read here.
Submer invests more than €1 billion in AI data center in northeastern Spain. Read here.
Spain’s Ferrovial to invest €1 billion in Madrid data center campus. Read here.
EdgeMode looks to sell multiple data center development sites in Spain. Read here.
Krolmap plans 150MW data center campus in Aragón, Spain. Read here.
Valfortec plans €300m data center campus in Alicante, Spain. Read here.
Nscale’s £2bn UK data centre hit by grid delays. Read here.
World’s first gas-powered data centre set for Norfolk coast. Read here.
BEC showcases nuclear powered A.I data centre, Pioneer Park (Cumbria, UK). Read here.
Residents outraged as planning is approved for new Microsoft Datacentres (Leeds, UK). Read here.
Go-ahead for data centre on site of former Southall cereal factory. Read here.
Ignis to unlock solar power for Apto’s new data centre near Madrid. Read here.
Uniper aims to unlock new revenue potential by attracting data centers to its power plant sites. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
US Expands Côte d’Ivoire Tech Footprint with Starlink Approval and $170m Data Centre Project. Read here.
Mindstream Energy proposes 400MW gas-powered data center in Jordanian gas field. Read here.
Approval for rezoning given to pair of proposed Equinix data centers in Cape Town, South Africa. Read here.
I Squared Capital to invest $1bn in digital infrastructure with Saudi Arabia’s PIF. Read here.
Raxio’s TZ1 to add 6 MW and 800 racks to Tanzania’s data center market. Read here.
Letsia to invest US$ 13.32 million into green data center development in Riyadh. Read here.
APAC
Sharon AI Announces US$1.32 Billion Five-Year Cloud Computing Service Agreement. Read here.
Macquarie Technology secures land for $3b Sydney data centre. Read here.
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT sells Singapore data centre for S$200m. Read here.
Bill Gates and the dream to take data centres to the Outback. Read here.
Nvidia has partnered with Japanese consortium Noetra for the deployment of a Vera Rubin ‘AI Factory’ in Japan. Read here.
IFC backs AirTrunk’s Johor expansion with $175 million package. Read here.
AWS breaks ground for new DC in Hyderabad, plans US$ 21 billion investment in India. Read here.
HCLTech to invest up to US$ 363 million to establish AI data centers in India. Read here.
Mitsubishi Estate to debut in Japan with 2,500MW data centers at US$9.3 billion investment. Read here.
North America
Csquare, Inc. Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering. Read here.
Switch lines up $10 billion IPO at potential $80 billion valuation. Read here.
Databricks secures $188bn funding round to advance AI strategy. Read here.
IDF, Oaktree to invest $1.7bn to support Bloom Energy’s fuel cell deployments across Nebius data centers in US. Read here.
CleanSpark Secures Twenty-Year Lease with High-Investment Grade Global Technology Company for Data Center in Sandersville, Georgia. Read here.
3M and Microsoft announce strategic partnership to advance AI data center infrastructure and enterprise transformation. Read here.
Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas. Read here.
Crusoe linked to potential data center project in Franklin County, Virginia. Read here.
Google is customer behind 2.7GW data center campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read here.
New York imposes landmark one-year ban on large data centres. Read here.
Trump criticizes New York data center moratorium. Read here.
Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center. Read here.
Palm Beach County rejects major data center proposal after daylong meeting. Read here.
Protests planned across US as opposition to AI data centers grows. Read here.
A Texas Farmer Provided 87 Acres for a Park. The City Sold It Off to Build a Data Center. Read here.
Concerns Raised in Trinidad and Tobago Over Planned Data Centre Project. Read here.
Mara acquires 1,200-acre Texas site from HIF USA for up to 2GW data center campus. Read here.
Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia. Read here.
Plans for data center submitted in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, just two days before local moratorium vote. Read here.
Nebraska carbon black plant set to host data center. Read here.
Developer promises ‘a better data center’ in revealing Salem project. Read here.
QTS to build 11 data centers on Lancium campus in Hall County, Texas. Read here.
Plug Power sells Texas site to Stream Data Centers. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Europe’s data centre crisis has a hidden answer, and it’s already in the ground. Read here.
Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom. Read here.
America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren’t as great as they seem. Read here.
Data-Center Builders Are Racing to Offload Stakes Worth Billions. Read here.
Land set aside for green hydrogen projects in Chile could be reallocated to data centres. Read here.
The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects. Read here.
Among AI crowd, some investors position for slower hyperscaler spending growth. Read here.
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