Weekly Data Centre News – 21st November 2025
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Reports
Gartner Says Electricity Demand for Data Centers to Grow 16% in 2025 and Double by 2030. Read here.
Oxford Economics: Estimating Data Centre ‘Phantom Demand’. Read here.
Deloitte: 2026 Engineering and Construction Industry Outlook. Read here.
Synergy Research Group: Cloud Market Share Trends – Big Three Together Hold 63% while Oracle and the Neoclouds Inch Higher. Read here.
Europe
Google Opens Data Center in Winschoten to Help Power the AI Economy in The Netherlands. Read here.
Europe’s AI adventure starts in Narvik: The digital hub of the future is taking shape. Read here.
Microsoft gets initial approval for data center campuses in Aragón, Spain. Read here.
EdgeMode Executes Definitive Agreement with Blackberry AIF to Develop 1.5GW+ Tier 3 AI Data Center Portfolio in Spain. Read here.
Forestalia to invest US$ 14 billion in three Aragon data centers. Read here.
Newly founded Carbon3.ai pledges £1bn to build ‘sovereign’ AI infrastructure. Read here.
Downing, has announced its first, pioneering project in the data centre sector, with a landmark agreement to develop, build and operate a 40MW solar photovoltaic farm for Kao Data. Read here.
UK Plans £10 Billion Wales Data-Center Hub in AI Push. Read here.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it’s now working with CX Power as the strategic developer to support the delivery of the hub masterplan on land next to the former power station. Read here.
EDF, OpCore to develop 4-billion-euro data centre in France. Read here.
Schwarz Group launches billion-euro project for new data center capacity in Lübbenau. Read here.
500MW data center campus in the works outside Leipzig, Germany. Read here.
AWS plans more data centers near Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.
Digital Realty opens 27MW data center campus in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read here.
Solaria taps Goldman Sachs to secure funding partner for 3.4GW European data center platform – report. Read here.
Nscale and Verne to expand sustainable, high-performance AI infrastructure with a 15-megawatt deployment in Iceland powered by renewable energy. Read here.
Data centre could be built on paint factory site (UK). Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Elon Musk’s xAI partners with HUMAIN and NVIDIA to launch 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
South Korea agrees to join UAE’s Stargate AI data centre project. Read here.
UAE To Invest $50 Bln In Canada In AI, Energy, Mining Sectors. Read here.
Abu Dhabi’s ADIA to sell 5% stake in Qatar telco Ooredoo. Read here.
APAC
Malaysia’s palm oil giants pivot to AI data centres, solar projects to meet US$34 billion investment boom. Read here.
TCS, TPG join forces in Rs 18,000 cr AI data centre play. Read here.
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI datacentres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world. Read here.
EGAT to invest 3bn baht to upgrade power grid for Thailand’s data-centre push. Read here.
Princeton Digital starts USD $1 billion data centre in Jakarta. Read here.
Multiplex tops out Stage Two of $110 million P1 Perth data centre. Read here.
Groq partners Equinix to bring global AI footprint to the Asia-Pacific region. Read here.
ESR debuts 80-MW data center in South Korea. Read here.
PDG debuts in South Korea with USD 700 million investment. Read here.
South Korea’s Innospace and the UAE’s Madari Space to collaborate on space data centers. Read here.
North America
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2026. Read here.
Nvidia Doubles Cloud Spending Commitment to $26 Billion. Read here.
Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships. Read here.
AI Cloud Company Lambda Raises Over $1.5 Billion. Read here.
Brookfield Launches $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Program. Read here.
DigitalBridge closes $11.7bn DBP III fund. Read here.
Real estate services firm La Rosa Holdings raises $1.25bn for data center play. Read here.
Crusoe raises $1.375bn in latest funding round. Read here.
SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers. Read here.
CleanArc Data Centers Breaks Ground on 900MW Flagship Hyperscale Campus in Virginia. Read here.
Amazon plans $3bn data centre campus in Warren County. Read here.
Harlingen’s data center will be bigger than the $1.5 billion one Meta is building in El Paso. Read here.
TRG Datacenters Broke Ground on a 24MW Houston Expansion. Read here.
Sabey targets Indianapolis for 250MW data center campus. Read here.
“Project Marvel” data center could come to Bessemer, Alabama. Read here.
XYZ Reality Powers Construction Precision at Applied Digital’s Landmark AI Factory Campus. Read here.
CloudBurst breaks ground on gigawatt-scale data center campus in Texas. Read here.
Cloverleaf targets 200-acre data center development in Michigan. Read here.
Developer in talks with Festus about $1B data center after St. Charles project stalled. Read here.
2.6 million sq ft data center campus proposed in Pennsylvania. Read here.
400MW Prologis data center campus chosen as preferred project on city-owned land in San Jose, California. Read here.
Palantir said to mull data center at Fermi campus in Texas. Read here.
Schneider Electric seals $2.3 billion in US data centre deals to power AI boom. Read here.
Cryptomine data center firm Blockfusion to go public via $450 million deal. Read here.
Fluidstack signs additional 39MW lease with Cipher Mining in Texas, backed by Google. Read here.
South America
Data center investments in Brazil may surpass R$60bn by 2030. Read here.
TIP Brasil invests R$500m in Campinas data center. Read here.
Other interesting articles
AI Data Centers Are Banging on Crypto’s Door. Read here.
Data centre in the shed reduces energy bills to £40. Read here.
Overcoming energy constraints is key to delivering on Europe’s data centre goals. Read here.
Powering the AI era: Why energy efficiency defines the future of data center networking. Read here.
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