Weekly Data Centre News – 29th May 2026
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Reports
Cushman & Wakefield: Global Data Center Market Comparison. Read here.
Data Centres appg: Insights from the APPG’s inaugural Call for Evidence | May 2026. Read here.
Goldman Sachs: US Data Center Power Demand Projected to Double by 2027. Read here.
Cushman & Wakefield: From Megawatts to Meaning: Why Cost per Token Matters in AI Data Centres. Read here.
CBRE: 2026 Asia Pacific Data Centre Trends & Outlook. Read here.
Clean Energy Resources to Meet Data Center Electricity Demand. Read here.
InfraPartners: The First End-to-End, AI-Ready Power + AI Factory Platform. Read here.
Europe
Pure DC Secures $2.7 Billion to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Growth Across Europe and the Middle East. Read here.
Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI. Read here.
Mistral AI plans AI deployment at Digital Realty data center in Paris, France. Read here.
AtlasEdge Gets €1.2 Billion in Loans for European Data Centers. Read here.
HSCALE Closes Second Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in Milan, Committing Over €2 Billion to the Region. Read here.
Italy plans to build ‘Europe’s largest data center’ in former Trino power plant. Read here.
Plans revealed for AWS data center in Maintal, Germany. Read here.
French consortium to bid for EU’s AI datacentre fund. Read here.
AI data centre plans on outskirts of Canterbury would be powered by landfill site and solar panels and use ‘minimal water’. Read here.
Plans revealed for major North East data centre (UK). Read here.
Glencar lands green data centre in Brent Cross. Read here.
High Court refuses to allow appeal of failed challenge to €1.6bn data centre. Read here.
Equinix opens its MD5 data center in Spain. Read here.
€70 Million Gaia AI Factory to be established in Poland. Read here.
Data center planned for Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Read here.
Hochtief breaks ground on data center in Herne, Germany. Read here.
Campaigners oppose 600MW hyperscale data centre planned for Fife. Read here.
LVL Energy announces plans to build 50MW data center in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. Read here.
‘A £billion proposal on protected greenbelt land In Havering demands a democratic vote’-Say Residents. Read here.
E.ON unit signs 200 MW grid connection for atNorth AI data centre in Sweden. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
HSBC has agreed to provide $550m to Core42 to support the deployment of sites across the US and Europe. Read here.
Du unveils UAE’s cloud platform purpose-built for Chinese enterprises expanding into the UAE. Read here.
Oman, UAE, and Italy sign green data center agreement. Read here.
With 44 billion dirhams.. Asprofen Bank establishes 3 data centers in Dubai. Read here.
APAC
SoftBank to launch AI data center GPU cloud in Japan. Read here.
Swiss-backed GreenSquareDC withdraws application for 120MW data center in Perth, Australia. Read here.
Amazon to spend $39 billion in Southeast Asia over next 13 years. Read here.
PDG looking to sell China data centers – report. Read here.
Goodman eyes new data center development outside Tokyo, Japan. Read here.
Malaysia and India top growth as power availability redraws data center footprint: CBRE. Read here.
Data centers in Southeast Asia are winners amid war: Report. Read here.
North America
TeraWulf Expands Infrastructure Platform with Acquisition of 1+ GW Eastern Kentucky HPC Campus. Read here.
Applied Digital Reaches Significant Milestone, Surpassing 1 GW of Contracted Capacity with U.S. Based High Investment-Grade Hyperscaler Lease at Fourth Campus, Polaris Forge 3. Read here.
Rowan Closes $3B Green Financing for Turnkey Hyperscale Campus in High-Growth Texas Market. Read here.
Missouri Secures $15 Billion Investment from Google in Montgomery County. Read here.
Edged US Announces Nearly $2 Billion in Year-to-Date Financing to Accelerate Growth Across Strategic U.S. Markets. Read here.
I Squared Capital launches U.S. AI inference and edge colocation data center platform with $1b commitment. Read here.
DigitalBridge agrees $1.05bn acquisition of PE firm ArcLight. Read here.
Nebius and Bloom Energy partner to power AI infrastructure build-out. Read here.
AI cloud firm Iren has signed a $1.6bn contract with Dell to acquire air-cooled Blackwell systems. Read here.
$100B data center project proposed at Berry Hill megasite advances. Read here.
Alaska’s North Slope proposed as home for massive AI data center. Read here.
Louisiana announces $3.6 billion AI data center campus planned for Rapides Parish. Read here.
Shelby County data center campus signs $1B deal with AI company. Read here.
New Hampshire data center developer withdraws plans hours before opponents were to pack town meeting. Read here.
Real estate developer Panattoni takes over Meta-backed data center proposal in southern Wisconsin. Read here.
Prime Data Centers breaks ground on three out of five buildings at its 240MW campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Read here.
Fleet breaks ground on data center outside Reno, Nevada. Read here.
Armada raises $230 million to scale modular AI data centres. Read here.
Dell lifts forecasts as AI data center buildout fuels demand, shares soar. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Big Tech’s big data-centre problem. Read here.
Data Center Investment in 2026: AI Demand, Power Constraints, and Private Equity Trends. Read here.
Not all data centers are created equal. Read here.
The scramble by data centres for hefty financing is getting more exotic. Read here.
Ascenty announces $1.2bn investment to deploy 150MW data center capacity across Brazil. Read here.
Erin Brockovich launches a crowdsourced AI data center map. Read here.
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