Weekly Data Centre News – 19th June 2026
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Reports
CBRE: Global Data Center Trends 2026. Read here.
Bloom Energy: 2026 Data Center Power Report. Read here.
Europe
AiOnX completes $500m Genesis Digital Assets deal, will pivot crypto data centers to AI. Read here.
IREN Completes Acquisition of Nostrum Group Expanding AI Cloud Platform to Europe. Read here.
HIVE Digital Technologies to Acquire 32 MW Data Center in Boden, Deepening an Eight-Year Community Partnership in Northern Sweden. Read here.
Europe Scales Down AI Ambitions With Smaller Data Center Tender. Read here.
Ireland’s Red Admiral receives approval for 600-acre data center and solar farm in Westmeath, Ireland. Read here.
In Northern France, Data4 launches its largest data center campus to support Europe’s AI growth. Read here.
Verne begins construction of the first 70 MW on its data center campus in Mäntsälä. Read here.
Plans for £9.5bn data centre next to Universal park. Read here.
Northumberland receives new £3.8bn data centre proposal. Read here.
Tritax Big Box progresses 125MW data center plan in Essex, UK. Read here.
British billionaire trader sues Dell in £50m data centre row. Read here.
Edinburgh council calls for Scottish Government moratorium on ‘green’ data centres. Read here.
Firstcolo breaks ground on data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, Germany. Read here.
Hyperco files to build another data center in Kouvola. Read here.
UK and Denmark join battle to meet data centre power demand. Read here.
nLighten seeks to scale AI with UK edge data centre upgrade. Read here.
Data centre companies eye struggling business park (Wales). Read here.
XTX Markets taps YIT to build third Finnish data center. Read here.
Polarnode divests Pori data center project. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Turkey commits $3bn to AI and data centre roadmap. Read here.
Egypt grants data centre license to Hassan Allam. Read here.
Saudi Arabia’s DataVolt to develop 12MW data center in Uzbekistan. Read here.
VisionWave Plans Israeli Tier IV Data Center Joint Venture. Read here.
APAC
Amazon becomes water positive in India, returning more water to communities than it uses. Read here.
Asia-Pacific’s 32 GW data centre pipeline is shifting power costs and reliability obligations onto developers. Read here.
AI company Firmus to become Tasmania’s biggest power user if three planned sites come to fruition. Read here.
CAF II Invests in Racks Central to Advance Southeast Asia Data Centre Corridor. Read here.
Galaxy DC secures $250m to fund data center platform. Read here.
Alibaba Cloud launches two data centers in Johor. Read here.
Alibaba’s cloud arm opens 5th Japan data center, adding new AI services. Read here.
SunCon announces massive funding increase for Johor DCs. Read here.
DayOne’s investor in talks for US$ 600 million loan to fund investment: Report. Read here.
NFD Korea Target Growing AI Infrastructure Demand With 300MW Data Center Campus. Read here.
STT GDC opens first data center in South Korea. Read here.
PLDT targets 4Q REIT listing of data centers; US$ 400 million potential raise. Read here.
North America
Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Read here.
Amazon strengthens its investment in Missouri to bring new community programs, new jobs, and hundreds of millions in tax revenue. Read here.
Meta signs new AI computing deals with data center firm Crusoe, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.
SWI Group Expands Transatlantic Digital Infrastructure Platform with closing of $500 Million USD Acquisition of significant shareholding in a 1.3 GW USA portfolio. Read here.
NVIDIA joins $54M bet on startup that gets AI data centres online three years faster. Read here.
DataBank secures $1.45bn for data center build-out. Read here.
Switch buys another site outside Las Vegas. Read here.
Oracle denies $3bn Microsoft data center deal collapsed over security and compliance concerns. Read here.
Microsoft breaks ground on new data center in LaPorte. Read here.
Crusoe could build 14-acre data center in unincorporated Missouri land. Read here.
Bitdeer looks to develop 750MW data center campus in Ohio. Read here.
50MW ‘Project Taurus’ data center gets go-ahead in Colorado. Read here.
Developer withdraws plans to build northern Ontario AI data centre over public opposition. Read here.
Worries over water as a giant data center moves into the New Mexico desert. Read here.
Proposed 5,000-acre data center near Broadview Montana would be among world’s largest. Read here.
Why Fisk University’s $1 Billion Master Plan Includes A Data Center. Read here.
Other interesting articles
London’s data centres use 750,000 homes’ worth of electricity. It’s bad news for the housing crisis. Read here.
Two mayors, one $10 billion AI data center, and a growing divide in small-town Texas. Read here.
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says. Read here.
Data centre investors navigate geopolitical strife as deals boom. Read here.
Nearly 80% of data center capacity is at elevated risk to climate hazards like flooding and fire, study says. Read here.
The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire. Read here.
More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026. Read here.
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