Weekly Data Centre News – 30th January 2026
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Reports
Knight Frank: Data Centres Global Forecast Report – 2026. Read here.
Lockton: Data Centre Market Update: Q1 2026. Read here.
Data centre heat could warm more than 3.5 million UK homes. Read here.
Brookings: Why community benefit agreements are necessary for data centers. Read here.
Europe
Powering Britain’s AI Future: DataVita’s North Lanarkshire Site Named a UK AI Growth Zone. Read here.
Lanarkshire to become ‘one of the world’s most advanced AI sites’. Read here.
Google finally commits to much-anticipated Austria data centre. Read here.
Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. Read here.
250MW data center planned for Bordeaux, France, to boost national AI capabilities. Read here.
atnorth announce new 30MW metro data center in Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.
Romania preparing to build giant AI hub, data centers. Read here.
Bill Gates organizes Madrid utility summit to support data center buildout in Spain and Portugal. Read here.
Retelit to sell data center portfolio for $830 million – report. Read here.
Investec seeks buyer for £15.35m Trafford data centre. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
iXAfrica Data Centres Collaborates with Oracle to Deliver Kenya’s First Public Cloud Region. Read here.
Charles Russell Speechlys advises Qareeb Data Centres on strategic partnership to deliver Bahrain’s first edge data centre. Read here.
Tencent Cloud plans to boost Middle East data centre footprint. Read here.
Planned Saudi megacity ‘The Line’, designed for 9 million people across 170km, could be redesigned as a far smaller data center. Read here.
Active Energy explores UAE joint venture for data infrastructure, bitcoin mining. Read here.
APAC
Digital Edge to Build $4.5 Billion Data Center Campus in Indonesia. Read here.
Spark completes sale of 75% stake in data centre business to Pacific Equity Partners. Read here.
WinDC and Megaport partner on renewable-powered sovereign AI infrastructure. Read here.
Blackstone plans Rs 10,000 crore data center park in Chennai. Read here.
Goodman files plans for 500 MW Sydney campus as expansion continues. Read here.
Singapore’s EPG raises nearly $100 million in Series B for modular AI data centres. Read here.
NeutraDC, Japan’s Ishikari data centre partner to link Hokkaido with Singapore, Indonesia. Read here.
North America
Meta, Microsoft execs defend move to double down on record data center spending. Read here.
Microsoft Cloud and AI strength drives second quarter results. Read here.
Meta estimates 2026 capex to be between $115-135bn, as data center spend grows. Read here.
Elon Musk’s Tesla to invest $2bn in Musk’s xAI, which is considering merging with Musk’s SpaceX ahead of IPO. Read here.
Nvidia invests $2bn in CoreWeave in new data centre push. Read here.
NVIDIA and CoreWeave Strengthen Collaboration to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories. Read here.
Meta Announces Up to $6 Billion Agreement With Corning to Support US Manufacturing. Read here.
Blackstone reports record results, powered by data center investments. Read here.
SoftBank pauses talks to acquire data center operator Switch: report. Read here.
SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, source says. Read here.
EdgeMode Expands Joint Venture with BAIF, Adding Approximately 2GW of New AI Data Center Development Projects. Read here.
NextEra Energy targets 15GW of new generation for data center hubs by 2035. Read here.
Sam Altman-backed Exowatt launches arm to power data centers with clean energy. Read here.
CleanSpark Texas Land Move Puts AI Data Center Ambitions In Focus. Read here.
A $10B data centre is being proposed in Olds, among Canada’s largest. Read here.
1GW data center campus proposed in Alberta, Canada. Read here.
Mount Pleasant village board approves Microsoft data center expansion. Read here.
Oracle revealed as tenant of Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico. Read here.
$3.9bn data center approved for construction in Spalding County, Georgia. Read here.
Details on proposed $3 billion data center in Spartanburg made public. Read here.
QTS drops plan for data center near Madison, Wisconsin, amid opposition from local officials. Read here.
Atlas Development files for 12-building data center campus in Temple, Georgia. Read here.
TigerDC announces $3 billion data center, new jobs in Spartanburg County. Read here.
Archbald Council hears from data center developer eyeing 500-acre site, possible mine water use. Read here.
2 million-square-foot data center proposed for Florida village. Read here.
Cloverleaf Infrastructure proposes data center campus near St. Louis, Missouri. Read here.
180-acre data center set to be built in Lyon Township, Michigan. Read here.
South America
Engemon tapped to build AI data center in Brazil. Read here.
Other interesting articles
UK data centres: How to close the delivery gap. Read here.
Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers. Read here.
Execution, Not Demand, Is Now Defining Data Center Growth. Read here.
When AI Meets The Grid: Designing Data Centers For The Real World. Read here.
Why Portugal Is Becoming Southern Europe’s Next Data Centre Hub. Read here.
Australia’s data centre gold rush is coming — and 2026 looks like the starting gun. Read here.
2026 US Data Centers and Energy: Key Trends Shaping Power Demand. Read here.
Construction in 2026: A boon for data centers, but uncertainty elsewhere. Read here.
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