Weekly Data Centre News – 27th March 2026
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Reports
BloombergNEF: AI Data Center Build Advances at Full Speed: Five Things to Know. Read here.
Microsoft: AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future. Read here.
Colliers: Facilitating AI with Unprecedented Infrastructure Investment. Read here.
Equinix Expands Investments in Global Data Center Workforce Development. Read here.
RLB: Data Centre Trends Report 2026. Read here.
Announcing Arm AGI CPU: The silicon foundation for the agentic AI cloud era. Read here.
Europe
Pure DC and SEGRO joint venture unlocks major AI infrastructure development in London. Read here.
Echelon Data Centres Owners Said to Weigh Options Including Sale. Read here.
Echelon Data Centres secures €1.7bn loan financing from Morgan Stanley. Read here.
Fluidstack Drops Out of Marquee €10 Billion AI Project in France. Read here.
EdgeMode Expands AI Infrastructure Pipeline to 4.35GW in Spain, Establishing One of Europe’s Largest AI Development Platforms. Read here.
Digital Realty Further Expands Mediterranean Presence with Strategic Land Acquisitions in Milan. Read here.
CyrusOne Breaks Ground on First Data Center in Italy. Read here.
Germany’s Maincubes breaks ground on second Berlin data center campus. Read here.
atNorth Heat Reuse partnership with Kesko goes live, delivering recycled data center heat to Finnish retail store. Read here.
Locals object to $14 billion British neocloud latest plans, Nscale pushes on. Read here.
Labour bypasses councils to build AI data centres (UK). Read here.
UK Government to decide whether to approve 300MW data center in Buckinghamshire. Read here.
Sembcorp probes 1m sq ft Wilton International data centre. Read here.
GCRE draws interest for South Wales data centre plan. Read here.
Plans For Old IBM Site in Greenock Switch From Housing To Hi-Tech And Energy Uses. Read here.
APG invests in European data center company NorthC. Read here.
Denmark urges Commission to fast-track sovereign data centre capacity. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Mubadala exits AI cooling firm in $4.75 billion deal amid data centre surge. Read here.
Saudi Arabia’s Edarat secures data center contract from major regional bank. Read here.
AWS Bahrain Region disrupted by ongoing conflict. Read here.
UAE data centre power demand to double by 2030 as regulatory gaps constrain clean energy procurement. Read here.
APAC
Adani Eyes Partnerships With Meta, Google Amid Data Center Boom. Read here.
AWS cloud business is ramping up its operations in India, signing letters of intent with several co-location providers, according to a report from local media outlet Economic Times. Read here.
PDG plans two more data center campuses in India, totaling 210MW. Read here.
Sembcorp gets approval for AI-ready data centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT to invest S$ 1.3 billion in Singapore and Japan assets. Read here.
Bridge Data Centres seeks up to US$6 billion loan for Thailand expansion. Read here.
NSW moves 15 data centres worth AUD 51.9bn into IDA pipeline. Read here.
Armenian bank Ameriabank invests $60m in Firebird.ai’s planned 100MW data center. Read here.
North America
Aligned Data Centers Closes on $2.58 Billion Credit Facility to Fuel Continued U.S. Expansion. Read here.
Core Scientific Expands Strategic Financing Facility to $1 Billion with Additional $500 Million Commitment from J.P. Morgan. Read here.
CyrusOne Upsizes and Extends $8.0 Billion in Loan Facilities to Support Strategic Growth and Sustainability Goals While Strengthening Liquidity Position. Read here.
Meta: Big Things Are Happening, El Paso! Read here.
Meta Partners With Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon. Read here.
OpenAI will raise an additional US$10 billion as part of its latest funding round, potentially the last before an IPO later this year. Read here.
Metrobloks Selects Liberty, Missouri, for $1.4 Billion Data Center Investment. Read here.
In-Q-Tel invests in US data center firm Prometheus Hyperscale. Read here.
Blackstone Nears Deal to Buy Data Center Firm Rowan. Read here.
SoftBank and AEP plan massive Ohio gas-fired AI data center campus. Read here.
Microsoft to Rent Texas Data Center Dropped by Oracle, OpenAI. Read here.
Musk unveils “Terafab” chip venture spanning Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Read here.
Carlyle and KKR to build two data centres for US Army at a cost of $2bn each. Read here.
NextEra Energy receives approval from President Donald J. Trump to develop up to 10 GW of natural gas‑powered generation to meet nation’s historic power demand. Read here.
Form Energy and Crusoe Announce Agreement for 12 Gigawatt-Hours of Iron-Air Batteries for AI Data Centers. Read here.
Crusoe and Redwood Materials Expand Strategic Partnership, Scaling to 7x the Original AI Infrastructure Density. Read here.
Property developer Drox looking to build 129-acre data center near Greensboro, North Carolina. Read here.
Cipher Digital Lands Third AI Data Center Lease, Secures $200M Credit Facility. Read here.
Butler County industrial park site sale paves way for data center construction, sets valuation benchmark. Read here.
432MW data center campus eyed in Virginia’s Data Center Alley. Read here.
Google just bought your Minnesota vacationland for a data center. Read here.
Google affiliated company buys 430 acres of land in Kansas City, Missouri. Read here.
Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall. Read here.
Microsoft looks to buy 57.8 additional acres in Gaines Township, Michigan. Read here.
Approval given to $20bn data center near Chicago, Illinois. Read here.
Krambu could open Bonner Data Center within months. Read here.
DNREC board affirms decision to prohibit Starwood Digital data center in coastal zone. Read here.
Wealthy banking tycoon shrugs off outrage after selling 644 acre farm for a data center. Read here.
Proposal to turn warehouse into data center approved by local authorities near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Read here.
South America
Conecta Infra’s US$350m plan to connect South American data centre hubs. Read here.
Space
Orbital Data-Center Startup Aetherflux Raising New Financing at $2 Billion Valuation. Read here.
Other interesting articles
US Family rejects $26m offer to sell farmland for AI Data Center. Read here.
NVIDIA 800 VDC Architecture. Read here.
Construction of Data Centers, Power Plants, Factories, and Office Buildings: Boom & Bust. Read here.
Meta’s $27 billion AI data center is causing chaos in small town Louisiana. Read here.
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction. Read here.
Can Europe’s AI gigafactories close the gap with the US? Read here.
Stressed US grid forcing data centers to get more flexible. Read here.
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