Weekly Data Centre News – 27th February 2026
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Reports
sightline climate: Data center outlook: half of 2026 pipeline may not materialize. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: Americas Data Center Update | H2 2025. Read here.
Rider Levett Bucknall’s 2026 Global Annual Report. Read here.
Aecom: Unlocking data centre growth in the UK: four recommendations. Read here.
BCG: Data Centres as Strategic Infrastructure: Unlocking Value for NZ Inc. Read here.
Hyperscaler compute capacity will double over next two years, says Wells Fargo. Read here.
MPs to examine data centres climate impact as Miliband says future demand “inherently uncertain”. Read here.
Europe
CPP Investments and Equinix join forces to acquire atNorth to further accelerate growth in the Nordics. Read here.
Echelon Data Centres has announced the successful closing of an initial €1.7 billion loan financing provided by Morgan Stanley. Read here.
Start Campus and EDP enter agreement to accelerate renewable-powered Data Center development in Portugal. Read here.
Altarea and Vantage Data Centers Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop AI and Cloud Data Center Campus in France. Read here.
Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group moves into AI compute with majority investment in Polarise. Read here.
Euronext Amsterdam listed SWI Stoneweg Icona Group expands digital footprint with agreement to acquire significant stake in US Data Center company. Read here.
atNorth confirmed plans to develop a 300MW data center in Sollefteå Municipality, Sweden. Read here.
EdgeConneX Looks to Enter Swedish Market as Part of European Data Center Expansion Strategy. Read here.
500MW data center campus planned for Bełchatów, Poland. Read here.
Yondr Group secures inaugural ABS financing for its London campus. Read here.
Tritax targets data center project in Chelmsford, UK. Read here.
Finland’s YIT plans data center in Kontiolahti. Read here.
Latos Data Centres has launched a public consultation on proposals for a new AI-ready Neural Edge data centre at Bower Street in East Manchester. Read here.
Plans for £1 billion Bucks data centre approved by council. Read here.
Havering Data Centre Row Deepens as Consultation Plans Revealed. Read here.
McLaren secures Docklands data centre shell-and-core job. Read here.
700MW data center could be built at Port of Dunkirk, northern France. Read here.
Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects designs structural stone data centre in Sweden. Read here.
Drax flicks switch on data centre plan. Read here.
Sales at Spanish construction group ACS saw its sales rise 19.7% in 2025. Read here.
Equinix committing up to $700M in New Hanley Energy Facility in Dundalk, Creating Hundreds of Skilled Jobs. Read here.
Altibox Carrier and DataVita Announce Strategic Partnership to Connect Scotland to the Nordics via the NO-UK Subsea Cable. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Dalia Energy, a utility firm, has announced plans for a 130MW AI data center outside the city of Ashdod, Israel. Read here.
QST considers cashing in on Saudi business. Read here.
APAC
Hyundai plans $7.5bn AI data center campus in South Korea – report. Read here.
ESR plans 60MW data center in Mumbai, India. Read here.
An Indian company is set to build a $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s GPUs and go public. Here’s what we know so far. Read here.
Kazakhstan plans Central Asia’s largest data centre campus. Read here.
Macquarie boosts profit as Sydney data centre spend rises. Read here.
Spark NZ completes sale of data center business, unit renamed to TenPeaks. Read here.
Staffing and consulting company Tryfacta signs MoU to develop 1GW Indian data center. Read here.
CDC opens Melbourne campus as Victoria positions for 800 MW. Read here.
Taiwanese whisky company contemplates foray into data centers! Read here.
North America
Scoop: Trump brings Big Tech to White House to curb power costs amid AI boom. Read here.
Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue. Read here.
Nvidia reports record quarterly data center revenue of $62.3bn, up 75% YoY. Read here.
Coreweave: A Defining Year for The Essential Cloud for AI. Read here.
OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030. Read here.
Amazon to invest $12 billion in first data center campuses in Louisiana. Read here.
STACK Infrastructure Announces Data Center Developments Supporting Economic Growth in Louisiana. Read here.
Amazon looks to build large-scale data center campus next to nuclear plant in Texas. Read here.
Brookfield Launches Radiant as first vertically integrated AI Infrastructure Company Through Merger with Ori Industries. Read here.
MARA Announces Strategic Partnership with Starwood to Accelerate Delivery of Cutting Edge Hyperscale, Enterprise and AI Capable Digital Infrastructure. Read here.
A $10-billion AI data centre races ahead in a rural Alberta town, population 9,679. Read here.
US utility PPL sees data center pipeline swell by 23 percent to 25.2GW. Read here.
Microsoft to start permitting for 1,385-acre data center campus in North Carolina. Read here.
D.C.-based real estate firm investing $4B for new data center development in Berkeley County, WV. Read here.
Plug Power sells New York hydrogen site to data centre developer for $132.5m. Read here.
Lenders committed $121bn to US data center construction in 2025. Read here.
South America
Why Google is hooking up to Uruguay’s Antel data center. Read here.
What is ReData? Inside Brazil’s new data centre tax scheme. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data centres seek credit ratings to unlock billions in funding for AI push. Read here.
AI data centres risk doubling Britain’s energy use and pushing up bills. Read here.
The AI Backlash Is Real. And It’s Winning. Read here.
‘It seemed to defy the laws of physics’: The everlasting ‘memory crystals’ that could slash data centre emissions. Read here.
US Data Center Construction Fell Amid Permit and Power Delays. Read here.
AI and the Data Center Backlash. Read here.
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Can we build Data Centers fast enough? | Episode 3 – Live at KickStart Europe 2026. Listen here. Watch here.
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