Weekly Data Centre News – 18th September 2026
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Reports
EnergyTag: POLLING | Anti-dirty AI: What Americans think about data centers. Read here.
The New Occupiers: How Neoclouds Are Reshaping APAC Data Centre Demand. Read here.
Europe
AI Data Center Developer LIAN Eyes IPO to Raise $500 Million. Read here.
Data centre quartet make switch to Astor with €5bn pipeline. Read here.
Thor Equities strikes Ireland with industrial development site acquisition. Read here.
What Backlash? Greek Mining Region Pins Revival Hopes on a Data Center. Read here.
Microsoft set to submit new data centre project (Langley, UK). Read here.
New guidance to assist planning decisions on new data centres will be issued by the Scottish Government before Christmas. Read here.
DataVita boss Danny Quinn is seeking to bring an end to the debate over the sector’s development by inviting critics to tour his facility in North Lanarkshire. Read here.
Data centre giant hails annual £9.6m community benefit fund. Read here.
Data centre could impact ongoing Unesco status. Read here.
Reading: Update on plans for new data centre in Thames Valley. Read here.
Calls for data centre plans to be scrapped near Caernarfon. Read here.
PGIM sells data centre development (Germany). Read here.
Magnora joins venture for Estonia data center project. Read here.
Planning authority overturns approval for new Mayo data centre. Read here.
More than 5,000 sign petition opposing major data centre beside Menai Strait. Read here.
Asp Data Center has raised 1.6 billion Norwegian Krone ($169.7m) in bonds for its data center in Stavanger, Norway. Read here.
NorthC breaks ground on data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.
Vertical Data expands into Sweden with 100MW data centre plan. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
AWS tells clients to quit Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes. Read here.
South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers. Read here.
Damac and Vodafone launch Turkish data center. Read here.
Digital Realty enters Turkey, plans 22MW facility in Ankara. Read here.
APAC
AI data centre provider Firmus courting investors ahead of IPO on Australian Securities Exchange. Read here.
EQT targets $50bn India investment programme with data centres in focus. Read here.
AirTrunk is seeking around S$2 billion (US$1.6 billion) in debt financing to support a potential listing of a real estate investment trust backed by its data centre assets. Read here.
Goodman Raises $455M for Hong Kong Data Centre Venture as Tsuen Wan Project Advances. Read here.
KKR, Brookfield lead global rush into Korea’s AI data centers. Read here.
Anthropic signs first Australia data centre agreement. Read here.
Amazon receives approval for AUD 2.17bn Sydney data centre. Read here.
Bitdeer AI signs 10-year agreement for 65.1 MW data center in Malaysia. Read here.
Fortune Hospitality & Infra plans US$ 6.2 billion hyperscale data center park in Telangana. Read here.
DayOne Breaks Ground on 42MW Kodaira Data Center Campus in Tokyo. Read here.
North America
House overwhelmingly passes bill to shield ratepayers from data centers. Read here.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers. Read here.
Crusoe raises $3.9 billion at valuation of nearly $31 billion as it bets on factory-built data centers. Read here.
Vantage Secures $2B Credit Facility, Expanding Financing to Support Growing Demand. Read here.
Manulife IM-Backed Serverfarm Increases Credit Facility to $3.895 Billion to Accelerate Data Center Development Across North America. Read here.
Blockfusion signs CoreWeave as a customer in Niagara Falls, New York. Read here.
Google considers data center development in New Mexico. Read here.
Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah. Read here.
Aligned Data Centers announced the groundbreaking of “Project Phoenix,” a new 2 GW data center campus located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Read here.
Thor Equities submits plans for 150MW data center in Georgia, US. Read here.
A 2,100 acre data centre project was proposed near a Civil War battlefield has been abandoned. Read here.
Microsoft files to build data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia. Read here.
Microsoft files to develop two-building campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
Canada’s Bell to quadruple capacity at planned Saskatchewan data center campus. Read here.
Digital Realty, Colovore, Hut 8, CoreSite, and DataBank file to build data centers in Texas. Read here.
Rune Debuts RELIC, the First Drama-Free Data Center Powered by Solar, With $40M in New Funding. Read here.
South America
Grid connection request filed for 100MW Chile data center project. Read here.
Brazil signs Redata tax regime into law to stoke data center investment. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Microsoft: What happens to a community when a datacenter is done right? Read here.
Data Center Pay Is Rising, but Turnover Remains High, Survey Finds. Read here.
Arcadis launches Data Center Growth Lab to build next generation of data center talent. Read here.
Are data centres actually noisy, and is this bad for our health? Read here.
In Silicon Valley, AI data center boom meets local resistance. Read here.
What does a good data centre future look like? And how do we get there? Read here.
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Data Centre Marketing Club: Strategy, Storytelling and Changing the Industry Narrative | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.
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