Weekly Data Centre News – 28th August 2026
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Reports
Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Centre Investment Landscape. Read here.
CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H1 2026. Read here.
Oxford Economics: Data Centres Energy Demand Outlook in Australia. Read here.
Wood Mackenzie: China’s AI boom to drive data centre power demand to 774 TWh by 2030. Read here.
Results
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027. Read here.
IREN Reports FY26 Results. Read here.
Europe
Anthropic agrees $45bn AI data centre deal with UK start-up Nscale. Read here.
AI Cloud Firm Nscale Is Said to Seek Up to $3 Billion in US IPO. Read here.
Nebius Group announces closing of private offering of convertible senior notes, with aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $5.75 billion. Read here.
New German operator Data Center Capital launches. Read here.
EcoDataCenter to Establish Third Datacenter Campus in Sweden. Read here.
Pre-construction works start on Microsoft data center in Vaasa, Finland. Read here.
T1 Energy secures approval to convert solar manufacturing campus in Mo i Rana, Norway, into 50MW data center. Read here.
Lidl-owner to invest billions on data centre in northern Germany, FAZ says. Read here.
More than £100bn of data centre construction planned in UK. Read here.
MP infrastructure warning about UK’s biggest M40 data centre. Read here.
Manchester AI-ready data centre proposal tabled. Read here.
Over 7000 objections against ‘monster’ AI data centre in Larbert as deadline looms. Read here.
Huge data centre kept under wraps from Devon residents for over a year. Read here.
Data centre could be built next to recycling plant (Bristol, UK). Read here.
Skanska to build $1bn Prague data centre. Read here.
NDC-Garbe proposes data center development in Leopoldsdorf, Austria. Read here.
Digital Realty breaks ground on new state-of-the-art data center in Switzerland. Read here.
Spain drafts rules requiring data centers to source 80% of power from new renewables – report. Read here.
Vapat enters the data center market with a 160MW project in Valladolid, Spain. Read here.
Ireland reconsidering nuclear in response to surging data center power demands – report. Read here.
Data centers, boom in energy demands: 95 GW waiting for connection in Italy. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
UAE business giant Al Ashram joins forces with Africa’s largest network provider to build AI data centers across the continent. Read here.
HUMAIN Project Gets a Boost as Al-Moammar Adds 200 MW to AI Data Center. Read here.
APAC
VCI Global Announces Galatron AI Factory, a Modular AI Data Center Platform with Roadmap to 500MW of Compute Capacity. Read here.
AI giant Anthropic wanted ‘massive’ data centre capacity in NSW, emails reveal. Read here.
Zerra DC files plans for large data center campus in Queensland, Australia. Read here.
Tycoon Francis Yeoh’s YTL Power Doubling Data Center Capacity To 2.4 Gigawatts By 2030. Read here.
Mongolia positions itself as Asia’s next data centre hub. Read here.
SK set to sell 49% of AI data center to KKR, Korean PE consortium for $2.2 billion. Read here.
SK Telecom Launches AI Data Center Infrastructure Company ‘SK Horizon’ and Secures Investments from KKR and IMM. Read here.
Evolution leases 50,000 sqm land to build 52MW data center in Ho Chi Minh City. Read here.
Gateway plans $1bn, 81MW St Leonards data centre. Read here.
Application filed for 200MW data center in Melbourne, Australia. Read here.
Australia data centre firm NextDC reports rising water, energy use with profit beat. Read here.
Itochu to begin data center development, plans 10 new facilities by 2030. Read here.
Firmus seeks approval for Wesley Vale AI data centre. Read here.
Salim Group buys out IndoKeppel Data Centres, rebrands 500MW DC as IndoData Center. Read here.
North America
Anthropic-Tied Data Center Inks $1.3 Billion Private Credit Loan. Read here.
Nvidia backs data center powered land company Cloverleaf. Read here.
InfraTech Capital Advances $2.7 Billion Data Center Investment Initiative in Texas Panhandle. Read here.
Emerald AI Raises $150M Series A at $1.05B Valuation. Read here.
Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out. Read here.
Kentucky PSC Approves 482 MW Power Agreement for TeraWulf’s Justified Data Campus. Read here.
Soluna Closes Purchase of 397 Acres for Project Dorothy. Read here.
Soluna and Bitdeer Enter 28 MW Agreement at Project Kati 1. Read here.
Equinix Commits Additional $50 Million to the Equinix Foundation, Doubling Its Investment in Communities Worldwide. Read here.
OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia. Read here.
Applications filed for four more buildings in Cedar Creek, Texas. Read here.
A data center battle unfolds 30 miles north of Manhattan. Read here.
Prometheus Hyperscale partners with Istmo to develop up to 2.5GW gas powered data center in Reeves County, Texas. Read here.
Sphere 3D plans 50MW data center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Read here.
Switch files to develop data center on former Pittsburgh race track. Read here.
Rum Group signs up to $13.7bn lease agreement with unnamed US cloud customer. Read here.
South America
TERRANOVA begins construction of sustainable AI data centre campus in Brazil. Read here.
Claro Colombia allocates nearly US$26mn to data centers in 2026. Read here.
Alibaba Cloud’s first South American region goes online in Brazil. Read here.
Space
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Inside London’s data centres boom and the fierce local battles being waged around their future. Read here.
Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment. Read here.
US power demand soars as AI boom fuels growth. Read here.
The multiplying risks of financing data centres. Read here.
Digital cities: the future of Britain’s data centres. Read here.
Data-Center Disenchantment. Read here.
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Community, Legacy and Local Impact in Data Centre Development | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.
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