Weekly Data Centre News – 3rd July 2026
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Reports
Structure Research: AI Infrastructure Report. Read here.
Sijbrandij Foundation: The Data Center Power Playbook. Read here.
Energy & Innovation: Let The Sun In: Clean Energy Is The Cheapest Way To Meet Rising Demand. Read here.
Morrison – Listed Infrastructure: The AI Flywheel. Read here.
Savills: Spotlight: UK Data Centre Building Capacity – H1 2026. Read here.
Europe
Plans for massive data centre in north Devon. Read here.
150MW Data Center proposed for Norfolk, UK. Read here.
Data centre planned for Microsoft’s UK HQ. Read here.
Shell Energy renews deal with Kao Data, helping to power the UK’s AI ambitions with renewable electricity. Read here.
Virtus announces expansion with the addition of London19. Read here.
Petition launched against plans to develop Warrington AI data centre. Read here.
Major data centre planned at Mwyndy Cross to boost digital capacity. Read here.
New data centre could be built at Thames Valley Park. Read here.
UK Gov: Overhauls Planning Rules to Speed Infrastructure. Read here.
Kuok Group plans €5.3bn Milan data campus investment. Read here.
Developer Twenty20 Energy has announced its intention to construct two data centers in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Read here.
Microsoft reveals plans for data center in Sandnes, Norway. Read here.
Microsoft signs land purchase agreement for data center in Grevenbroich, Germany. Read here.
Bulk buys land in Arendal, Norway, for data center development. Read here.
Kyivstar announces plans for AI data center in Ukraine. Read here.
Alto Infrastructure breaks ground on 70MW AI campus in Granada, Spain. Read here.
Bitdeer Technologies Group Signs Colocation Lease Agreement for Tydal, Norway AI Data Center Site. Read here.
Arcus to acquire London data centre operator Volta from Verne. Read here.
Brookfield wants to build AI data centers in London’s answer to Wall Street. Read here.
Data Centre Industry Urges Investment in Iceland’s Digital Infrastructure. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Crusoe to invest $10bn in data centers in Israel over next 10-15 years – report. Read here.
Egypt Approves $400 Million Data Center Project to Boost Cloud Infrastructure. Read here.
Africa needs 500 data centers in nine years: AfCFTA secretary-general. Read here.
Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. Read here.
APAC
DigitalBridge and JEXI Announce Formation of Nippon Gateway Infrastructure, a New Data Center Platform in Japan. Read here.
DayOne Teams With Australia’s Firmus on 360MW Data Centre Campus Near Singapore. Read here.
Firmus secures 600 MW energy supply agreement in South Australia, linked to 1.2 GW of new renewable generation and battery storage. Read here.
Australian renewables and digital infrastructure developer Energy North has submitted Project Ares, a proposed 1GW hyperscale data centre campus with a co-located 16GWh battery energy storage system. Read here.
SKT to invest US$91.5 billion in new Korean data centres. Read here.
South Korea Unveils $880bn Tech Investment Plan. Read here.
Vietnam’s G-Group to invest $300M in building AI data center campus in Hanoi. Read here.
AirTrunk and ib vogt deliver Malaysia’s first data centre renewable VPPA. Read here.
Telangana reveals plans to build a 1,500-acre data center city. Read here.
North America
Cloud Capital Establishes Core Joint Venture Strategy Seeded with over $6 Billion of Assets with Realty Income and a Global Institutional Investor. Read here.
Oracle Warns Its Splurge on AI Data Centers May Not Pay Off. Read here.
Brookfield and Bloom Energy Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership to $25 Billion; Fivefold Increase to Build and Finance Rapid Power for AI Infrastructure. Read here.
Aligned raises $1.19bn in asset-backed securities. Read here.
Applied Digital Delivers Second Building at Polaris Forge 1. Read here.
Blackstone Offloads Stakes in Trio of Virginia Data Centers. Read here.
Data Center Firm Switch Seeks $2 Billion in Funding Round. Read here.
Digital Realty Announces Purchase of Blackstone Interest in Three Northern Virginia Data Centers. Read here.
Details revealed for Google’s Project Skye data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Read here.
Blackstone’s QTS ends Virginia data centre project after protests. Read here.
Skanska builds data center in Virginia, USA, for USD 94M, about SEK 870M. Read here.
900-acre data center could be built in Salix, Iowa. Read here.
Hyperscale Data completes land acquisition to expand Michigan campus. Read here.
South America
Elea Announces the Amazon Region’s First AI Data Center With Power Infrastructure From Axia Energia. Read here.
ByteDance begins construction of US$ 38.44 billion data center in Brazil. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Netherlands: Landmark data centre case to reclaim infrastructure for the public interest. Read here.
AI Data Centers Have Been Great for the Steel Industry. Now, a Power Crisis Looms. Read here.
How to Make AI Data Centers More Sustainable. Read here.
Neocloud providers to capture $53 billion of AI cloud market by 2030, Gartner says. Read here.
Building Europe’s AI factories: How Nebius, Azur Datacenters and Inflect are reshaping Northern France’s digital infrastructure. Read here.
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