Weekly Data Centre News – 24th July 2026
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Europe
UK’s Segro signals support for Prologis’ last-ditch $18.8 billion takeover bid. Read here.
Pure DC Secures Additional €1.3 Billion to Accelerate Growth of One of Europe’s Largest AI Campuses. Read here.
Vattenfall, Dutch AI Infrastructure Company Explore Wind-Powered Offshore Data Centres. Read here.
Polar Announces DRA02 Expansion at Flagship AI-Ready Data Center Campus in Norway. Read here.
Ealing Council insists electricity for new data centre won’t come from local grid as it pockets £18m. Read here.
Bromley green belt under threat as hundreds slam plan to build ‘monstrosity’ data centre. Read here.
Latos £100m Stockton data centre “on track” – will be UK’s first “neural edge” site. Read here.
Hochtief bags £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre. Read here.
Hochtief and Turner team up to build German data centre. Read here.
120MW data center announced for Lombardy, Italy. Read here.
YIT and atNorth agree on construction of a data center in Kouvola – value for YIT approximately €300 million. Read here.
Eurus breaks ground on wind-powered data centre in Hokkaido. Read here.
Croatia’s grid operator clears key milestone for €50bn Pantheon AI data centre project. Read here.
Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal. Read here.
NZ utility Mercury invests in data center firm Datagrid. Read here.
M-net to build new data center in Munich, Germany. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
MGX group pumps $5bn into US data centre developer. Read here.
Income to invest $280m in data center near Alexandria, Egypt. Read here.
e& UAE and Core42 partner to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.
Iran claims strike on AWS data centre as investors reassess regional risk. Read here.
APAC
IREN Signs $2.8bn in New Customer Contracts with Leading AI Developers, Raises 2026 ARR Target to over $4bn. Read here.
Gas-rich Australian region backs $28bn data centre project. Read here.
SK Telecom approves AI data center subsidiary, plans to invest US$ 500 million by 2030. Read here.
India’s HCLTech to set up $1.48 billion AI data center along with domestic startup. Read here.
Hong Kong property firm ITC inks memorandum to build 1GW data center near Shanghai. Read here.
AU$1.1 billion data center project proposed outside Melbourne, Australia. Read here.
NSW approves Goodman’s AUD 1.1bn Project Pluto data centre in Western Sydney. Read here.
Keppel DC REIT plans to redevelop older data center in Singapore to cater for hyperscaler demand. Read here.
Digital Halo among 11 assets set to benefit from US$ 15 billion funding raised by majority shareholder Partners Group. Read here.
Malaysia needs $20 billion to fund next wave of data centre growth. Read here.
Chinese AI developer Z.AI reportedly completes 1GW data centre using domestic chips. Read here.
North America
Google increases capex forecast again after cloud-driven quarterly beat. Read here.
OpenAI announces $20bn Data Center development in Effingham County, Georgia. Read here.
AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP Close Acquisition of Aligned Data Centers. Read here.
Hut 8 Fully Commercializes 1 GW Beacon Point AI Data Center Campus with Second 352 MW IT Lease, Bringing Campus-Level Base-Term Contract Value to $19.6 Billion. Read here.
Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre. Read here.
Meta and Anthropic in talks for up to $10bn data centre deal. Read here.
Meta faces higher borrowing costs in latest $12bn data centre financing. Read here.
SpaceXAI Explores Major Data Center Expansion in Texas. Read here.
Submer’s Rubix Data Centers proposes 2GW data center at former steelworks in Kentucky. Read here.
Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas. Read here.
Sabey starts construction on 120MW data center campus in Oregon. Read here.
Fluidstack raised $830M Series A. Read here.
AI cloud startup General Compute raises $400m in debt financing. Read here.
Proposed Wheatland County AI data centre hits close to home for concerned residents. Read here.
Liberty Energy, PowerBridge form JV to power planned 2GW data center in West Texas. Read here.
48MW data center eyed for Kane County, Illinois. Read here.
Atmosphere Data Centers challenges six-month data center moratorium in Montgomery, Maryland. Read here.
Details of four data centers planned for Petersburg, Virginia, revealed. Read here.
Meta starts operations at data center in Temple, Texas. Read here.
Southland community has questions about $3.5b AI data centre. Read here.
South America
Nuclear power deal for Latin American data centres. Read here.
Without federal deal, Brazilian states see little reason to cut data center taxes. Read here.
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