Weekly Data Centre News – 6th February 2026
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Reports
DWS: Hunger games: The data centre race for power, land and water. Read here.
AI and Data Centres: Climate and nature risks for investors. Read here.
AECOM: Inflation and labour shortages continue to hamper increasingly competitive London construction market, according to new AECOM report. Read here.
Europe
Armada and Nscale Sign Letter of Intent to Accelerate Sovereign AI Through Global Hyperscale and Edge Deployments. Read here.
Nvidia-backed UK AI firm Nscale hires banks for IPO, sources say. Read here.
Council rejects proposal for huge Scottish AI data centre. Read here.
Microsoft starts construction of data center in Bornasco, Italy. Read here.
900-space park and ride site in Cardiff could be transformed into data centre. Read here.
Campaigners fight to ‘save Brick Lane’ amid proposals for data centre on historic site. Read here.
Bucks council green lights major Equinix data centre. Read here.
Watford Mercure hotel data centre plan met with objections. Read here.
Government framework to build nuclear reactors to power Nottinghamshire data centre. Read here.
Court ruling tests Britain’s £1bn data centre power plans – and energy policy. Read here.
Infineon to invest €500m to meet ‘dynamic’ AI data centre demand. Read here.
Danish investors back Thylander Data Centers to expand national platform. Read here.
32MW, Israeli-backed data center coming to Albania. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Yellow Tulip announces Cleanwatts Mozambique to develop renewable-powered data centers in Southern Africa. Read here.
Dubai-based firm bets $1.6 billion on Africa’s AI data centres and farmland. Read here.
Saudi’s Neom megaproject review may focus on data centres. Read here.
STANLIB wins approval for Cassava Africa Data Centres acquisition. Read here.
Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon. Read here.
APAC
KKR-Led Consortium with Singtel Group to Fully Acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres at S$13.8 Billion Enterprise Value. Read here.
Blackstone is finalising a $3.5bn private credit loan to support the expansion of Australian data-centre operator Firmus Technologies. Read here.
South Korea’s SGC Energy to build 300MW data center in North Jeolla. Read here.
I Squared weighing up sale of BDX. Read here.
Telangana signs MoU with the UPC–Volt JV to build 100 MW AI data center. Read here.
Ubitus partners with Maizuru City, Kyoto to launch AI data center project in Japan. Read here.
North America
Google parent boosts data center spending with doubling of capital expenditure plans. Read here.
Amazon plans $200 billion capex in 2026 as AWS ramps capacity. Read here.
SpaceX to join with xAI in $1.25 trillion Musk merger. Read here.
Musk, Zuckerberg Accelerate Data Center Spending, Reveal Competing AI Visions. Read here.
Nvidia, Prologis, EPRI, InfraPartners target prefab data centers at substation sites. Read here.
Developer lands $3 billion to finance North American data center pipeline. Read here.
High-volume rail terminal opens to support construction of Meta AI data centre. Read here.
TA Realty sells first hyperscale data centre buildings in Northern Virginia campus deal. Read here.
Tennessee utility TVA projects data center load to double across service area by 2030. Read here.
UK-based powered land developer Eneus Energy is looking to develop a 2GW data center on a site in Cameron County, Texas. Read here.
PowerHouse files to develop second phase of Spotsylvania data center campus in Virginia. Read here.
$10B data center campus proposed for former Bruce Mansfield site. Read here.
Cipher Mining pursues $2 billion debt offering for Amazon data center. Read here.
Bitfarms files to convert cryptomine into AI data center. Read here.
900MW data center campus plan withdrawn in Hanover County, Virginia. Read here.
AI data center planned on 1,000+ acres at former Southland Paper Mill site. Read here.
QumulusAI gets approval for modular data center in Denton, Texas. Read here.
Investment firm Novacap and H5 Data Centers have launched a new data center venture and acquired three carrier hotels in the US from 365. Read here.
1,600-acre data center approved by local authorities in Forsyth, Georgia. Read here.
Igneo acquires 75MW US data centre platform from Northleaf, CVC DIF. Read here.
Space
Musk’s SpaceX applies to launch a million satellites into orbit. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Can AI De‑Risk Breakneck Data Centre Builds? Read here.
Why is Slough full of data centres? Read here.
Why the AI boom is different than the dot-com bubble. Read here.
Turning waste heat into value. Read here.
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