Weekly Data Centre News – 3rd April 2026
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Reports
JLL: EMEA year end data centre report 2025. Read here.
S&P Global: 2026 Trends in Data Center Services & Infrastructure. Read here.
Boston Consulting Group: Solving the US Data Center Power Crunch. Read here.
Europe
Nscale, a global AI infrastructure company, with support from Fortum plans to establish a data center in Harjavalta, Finland. Read here.
Council approves huge ‘AI data centre campus’ on unallocated farmland site despite heritage harm. Read here.
Nebius to construct 310 MW AI factory in Finland. Read here.
60MW data center colocated with solar and battery storage planned in Finland. Read here.
Mistral AI Strategy in Paris for $830m Data Centre Deal. Read here.
Prime Data Centers to develop 550MW campus in Esbjerg, Denmark. Read here.
Renewable energy developer Telis Energie Deutschland has announced plans to build a 500MW data center campus outside Hanover in Germany’s northwestern state of Lower Saxony. Read here.
Bitdeer taps contractor to begin conversion of Norwegian crypto mine to HPC. Read here.
Data centre plan risks turning Essex neighbourhood into soulless housing estate. Read here.
TikTok pulls plug on second Irish data centre. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Nexus Core Systems makes headway in data centre project (Morocco). Read here.
Amazon Bahrain Data Centres Damaged Following Recent Iranian Military Strikes. Read here.
Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare. Read here.
APAC
Microsoft Deepens Thailand Partnership with more than US$1 billion Investment, Spanning Technology, Trust, and Talent. Read here.
Microsoft announces $5.5 billion spend and new Microsoft Elevate programs to support every tertiary student, educator and nonprofit to power Singapore’s AI future. Read here.
Japan’s Sakura Internet jumps 20% as Microsoft plans $10 billion AI push with SoftBank. Read here.
AirTrunk hires Citigroup, DBS, Jefferies for Singapore REIT IPO: Report. Read here.
Anthropic may invest in Australian data center infrastructure. Read here.
DigitalBridge and JEXI acquire NEC data centre portfolio in Japan. Read here.
True IDC breaks ground on 250MW data center site in Thailand. Read here.
Airtel’s Nxtra secures $1 billion in investment for India expansion. Read here.
Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard. Read here.
Former Exodus data center in Sydney, Australia, to be replaced with 70MW facility. Read here.
North America
OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI. Read here.
CoreWeave Closes Landmark $8.5 Billion Financing Facility, Achieving First Investment-Grade Rated GPU-backed Financing. Read here.
Digital Realty Announces Final Close of $3.25 billion U.S. Hyperscale Data Center Fund. Read here.
Related Digital closes in on $16bn financing for Oracle data center in Michigan – report. Read here.
Blackstone agrees to acquire a 49% stake in Rowan Digital Infrastructure. Read here.
Google nears deal to help finance multibillion-dollar data centre leased to Anthropic. Read here.
WEED Inc Looks to Advance a High-Value AI Data Center Opportunity for The Four Winds of Lake Erie, LLC. On Our Prime Lake Erie Waterfront Property. Read here.
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant. Read here.
Poolside hunts data centre partners after CoreWeave deal falls through. Read here.
Developer withdraws plans to build second phase of 500-acre data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read here.
Switch buys more land at industrial park outside Las Vegas. Read here.
Cannabis company wants to turn former golf course in New York into data center. Read here.
Michigan approves 1,332MW of BESS with 332MW supporting Oracle data centre. Read here.
LandBridge & PowerBridge partner for 2GW data center campus in West Texas. Read here.
Stream DC to partner with New Era for gigawatt data center campus in Texas. Read here.
360MW data center to be built outside Austin, Texas. Read here.
Virginia appeals court halts data center near Civil War battlefield. Read here.
$500m data center approved for construction outside Indianapolis. Read here.
AWS proposes data center campus next to nuclear plant in Calvert County, Maryland. Read here.
Prologis files to develop data center outside Toronto, Canada. Read here.
Blackstone Extends the Data Center Buying Spree. Read here.
Ex-BP CEO Bernard Looney to Lead Data-Center Developer. Read here.
Oracle lays off up to 30,000 staff with 6am email. Read here.
Soma Energy, a startup founded by former Amazon energy managers, emerged from stealth Thursday with $7 million in funding. Read here.
South America
Latin America’s Data Center Dilemma: Sold on Renewables, Powered by Fossil Fuels. Read here.
Space
Starcloud Raises $170M Series A at $1.1bn Valuation Led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. Read here.
SpaceX confidentially files for IPO, setting stage for record offering. Read here.
Other interesting articles
When data centres become targets: It’s time to treat AI infrastructure as critical infrastructure. Read here.
Shifting sands: the regulatory landscape shaping large-load development globally. Read here.
Gridlocked: How Power Constraints Are Shaping the Future of Data Centers. Read here.
What Could the UK Government’s Proposed Grid Reform Mean for The Data Centre Sector? Read here.
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed. Read here.
New rules could make data centers grid assets. Read here.
A data center developer wants to buy an entire Virginia neighborhood, offering $4 million to each homeowner. But there’s a catch. Read here.
Data centres: Building opportunities on solid foundations. Read here.
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