Weekly Data Centre News – 25th September 2026
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Reports
Q2 2026: Data Center Watch Report. Read here.
Artificial intelligence data centers could reach one percent of global electricity demand by 2030. Read here.
The Tech Capital Women 100. Read here.
Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative. Read here.
Europe
VIRTUS Data Centres announced the successful completion of a £2.45 billion financing package. Read here.
Alibaba’s AI push reaches deeper into Europe with new cloud regions and data centres. Read here.
Nscale Limited announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares. Read here.
Civo unveils first of 40 UK edge data centres built to power sovereign AI compute. Read here.
AI data centre giant to create 2,100 new jobs in Scotland. Read here.
The company behind plans for a large data centre at Hunterston has contacted more than 100 local businesses and suppliers ahead of a major Ayrshire trade fair next week. Read here.
£3bn M40 data centre plans face petition signed by more than 1,600. Read here.
Huge 60-hectare data centre campus planned for Little Bollington. Read here.
TBC Partners explores second Cambois data centre. Read here.
‘Various ambitious plans for that site’: Swiss tech firm acquires Northern Ireland data centre in multi-million-pound AI investment. Read here.
Nabiax breaks ground on 100MW data center in Madrid, Spain. Read here.
Polcom to build 40MW data center in Skawina, Poland. Read here.
Plans progress for 200MW data center in Schladen-Werla, Germany. Read here.
Valorem eyes data centers in Savonlinna and Kankaanpää, Finland. Read here
Middle East & Africa
Oman’s O-Green targets 200MW of data center capacity by 2028. Read here.
Egypt Reviews Plans for $270 Million, 80MW Data Centre in Suez Canal Zone. Read here.
Microsoft’s $10 billion Gulf AI bet puts resilience at centre of strategy. Read here.
APAC
BlackRock, IFM close in on $25 billion Stack data center deal, Bloomberg News reports. Read here.
GreenSquare signs long-term AI infrastructure customer at SYD1. Read here.
Amazon Buying Hong Kong Data Centres From Grand Ming for Up to $312M. Read here.
Andhra Pradesh secures agreements for 6.5 GW data centre capacity, projects moving to execution. Read here.
SharonAI buys former printing press outside Albury, Australia. Read here.
BDx breaks ground on AI data center in West Java; first 120MW building to be ready by early 2027. Read here.
Tera Data Centers buys 221.7 acres Negeri Sembilan land in US$ 250 million deal. Read here.
CDC plans AUD 15bn, 1.4GW data centre campus near Wagga Wagga. Read here.
AirTrunk proposes AUD 3.7bn NSW data centre with AUD 37m community offer. Read here.
North America
Oracle’s $18bn data centre debt under strain amid local pushback. Read here.
Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center. Read here.
OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag — 20-30 MW facilities to provide capacity as mega structures undergo construction. Read here.
Anthropic in Talks for 1-Gigawatt Data Center Lease With Apollo-Backed Developer. Read here.
Applied Digital confirms $3.2 billion data center campus in Brookwood. Read here.
Meta Paid $300.1M For 1,754-Acre Sturgeon County Data Centre Site In Alberta. Read here.
SOS Limited Reports Digital Assets of $75.57 Million and Outlines Data Center Development Plans. Read here.
CoreWeave-Tied Data Center Raises $1.1 Billion in Junk Bonds. Read here.
Bain Capital Ventures closes $1.6 billion fund targeting AI. Read here.
California governor signs broad data center oversight bill package. Read here.
‘This industry won’t have carte blanche’: Spanberger cracks down on data centers. Read here.
INNIO Secures 450 MW Order to Power Next-Generation Data Centers. Read here.
Woodway Energy Infrastructure announced the execution of definitive agreements to develop, construct, own and operate a 22-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline for a hyperscale data center development. Read here.
South America
Brazil’s Eveo plans data center in Recife. Read here.
Space
Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space. Read here.
Google is sending an AI Data Center to outer space. Read here.
Other interesting articles
What It’s Like to Work in One of America’s Data Centers. Read here.
Rare look at the remote engine rooms fueling China’s AI boom. Watch here.
EU pressures Big Tech to go green with new data center sustainability label. Read here.
Scotland’s AI revolution: the people shaping its future. Read here.
Local opposition blocked 45 data center projects worth $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026 — data center investments reportedly still on track to hit $32 trillion by 2050. Read here.
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