Weekly Data Centre News – 21st August 2026

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Reports

Goldman Sachs: Global AI Investment Is Forecast to Exceed $1 Trillion in 2026. Read here.

CBRE: European Data Centres Figures Q2 2026. Read here.

Data Center Physical Infrastructure Market Forecast to Reach $120 Billion by 2030, According to Dell’Oro Group. Read here.

JLL: North America Data Center Report Midyear 2026. Read here.

LSE: Who pays for AI? Data centres, electricity costs and regional energy equity. Read here.

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Europe

Nebius upsizes debt sale to $5 billion to fund data centers, AI platform. Read here.

H&MV Engineering valued at €1.4 billion in new funding transaction. Read here.

Phoenix ME has completed an investment deal with HIG Capital. Read here.

DataVita secures £300 million for data centre rollout in Scotland’s AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers and Nebius Expand UK AI Infrastructure with First Deployment in South Wales AI Growth Zone. Read here.

Kingspan buys data centre specialist BMC Manufacturing in deal worth up to €900m. Read here.

Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia. Read here.

Caverion to expand Estonian data centre by 22 MW. Read here.

More data centres approved for west London. Read here.

Reform leaders at Norfolk County Council have given a degree of support to contentious proposals for a new AI data centre on the edge of Norwich. Read here.

Manchester AI-ready data centre proposal tabled. Read here.

Harworth Group enters exclusivity agreement for sale of land suitable for data centre. Read here.

Kildare Microsoft data centre faces local opposition. Read here.

M40 data centre approval sparks power supply concerns. Read here.

Data centre the size of 14 football pitches planned for South London riverside industrial area. Read here.

Plans unveiled for huge data centre by the Thames in London. Read here.

Application filed for data center campus near QTS’ site in Northumberland, UK. Read here.

RWE nears completion on two data center deals. Read here.

Calls to scrap plans for huge new AI data centre in rural Kent. Read here.

Helios plans new data center project in Tervola, Finland. Read here.

Danish real estate firm Thylander has broken ground on a new data center in Esbjerg. Read here.

Global Switch breaks ground on second Madrid data center. Read here.

Data center rumored to be coming to Hofheim in state of Hesse, Germany. Read here.

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APAC

Alphabet eyes up to $3.5 billion debut Australian bond. Read here.

Australia’s CDC mulls new data center in New Zealand. Read here.

Goodman Secures First Hyperscale Lease for 1GW Tokyo Campus. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea data centre. Read here.

Plans filed for 10-story data center outside Brisbane, Australia. Read here.

STT GDC secures up to $1.37bn in funding for 166MW data center in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

Stecon eyes US$ 1.5 billion data center jobs; in talks to invest in new DCs in Thailand. Read here.

Firmus’ Bell Bay data centre gets green light from council planners. Read here.

Digital Realty, STT GDC among data centre operators awarded 50 MW of new capacity in Singapore. Read here.

DayOne seeks loan to fund Hong Kong data centre ahead of US IPO. Read here.

YTL Power and JLand to partner to build up to 1.5GW data center in Johor. Read here.

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North America

NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital. Read here.

NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to Exclusively Host NVIDIA AI Compute. Read here.

Saragon Launches as New U.S. Data Center Company Purpose-Built for AI Inference and Edge Colocation. Read here.

Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and GIC announce strategic partnership to develop dedicated data center infrastructure at scale. Read here.

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project. Read here.

AWS pledges $6bn investment in data center campus in Shreveport, Louisiana. Read here.

Core Scientific Completes Acquisition of Polaris DS, Advancing Planned Muskogee Expansion to 1.5 GW of Gross Power. Read here.

Riot Platforms strikes deal with Anthropic as bitcoin miners shift focus to AI infrastructure. Read here.

Fermi Announces Binding Lease Agreement with TensorWave. Read here.

Google reveals it is behind 506-acre Project Clydesdale data center in Oklahoma. Read here.

Super Micro forecasts upbeat annual revenue on data center adoption. Read here.

CoreWeave Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Results. Read here.

Flexential Secures $800 Million to Fund Data Center Development Across Four High-Growth Markets. Read here.

Pennsylvania Governor Restricts Data Centre Development. Read here.

InfraTech to invest $2.7bn to develop data center campus in Carson County, Texas. Read here.

Eagle Point loan greenlights first phase of Nexus’ hyperscale campus. Read here.

100MW data center proposed in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Read here.

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South America

Actis’ Terranova breaks ground on US$500mn data center in Brazil. Read here.

KIO Data Centers considering 100 MW expansion in Mexico. Read here.

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Other interesting articles

SpaceX Plans to Power $16.8B Terafab Without the Grid. Read here.

Navigating the AI data center capacity crisis. Read here.

‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm. Read here.

There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for water. Read here.

AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections. Read here.

The war on data centres is a bit fake. Read here.

Where are authorities restricting data centres amid AI boom? Read here.

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