Weekly Data Centre News – 5th December 2025
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Reports
BloombergNEF: AI and the Power Grid: Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Read here.
Baker McKenzie: Data Centers Unlocked: What’s New and What Matters. Read here.
S&P Global: The Saudi Arabia data center market: a catalyst for economic innovation. Read here.
S&P Global: Navigating the US data center power crunch: On-site solutions offer a faster path to power. Read here.
Europe
Amazon planning Oxfordshire data centre on old coal plant. Read here.
‘Biggest ever’ private investment set to bring giant data centre to Teesworks. Read here.
Northumberland’s £10 billion data centre set for major step forward. Read here.
First phase of data centre works given go-ahead. Read here.
Council seeks views on Ratcliffe power station data centre plans. Read here.
Data centre development could undermine London housebuilding, panel warns. Read here.
Bitzero Begins Phase I at 1GW Finland Data Centre Campus. Read here.
Deutsche Telekom and Schwarz Group to build AI data centre, German newspaper reports. Read here.
WBS, Prime Capital to combine German PV/BESS project with data centre. Read here.
Two data center campuses planned outside Warsaw, Poland. Read here.
Nostrum Group Selects AECOM to Build Data Centre in SW Spain. Read here.
Magnora adds 100 MW data center project to its Norwegian portfolio. Read here.
ASP DC acquires site of planned 300MW data center campus in Pori, Finland. Read here.
Digital Realty Starts Work on New Frankfurt Data Centre. Read here.
Investment firm Asterion Industrial Partners has acquired Altice Portugal’s flagship data center. Read here.
Nscale chief says power-first strategy is driving its rise in Europe’s AI boom. Read here.
Equinix has secured the first energy-capacity reservation from French small modular reactor startup Stellaria, marking a significant step in the companies nuclear power partnership. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Ooredoo partners with Oracle to launch sovereign cloud in Qatar. Read here.
APAC
OpenAI, NextDC Plan to Build $4.6 Billion Sydney Data Center. Read here.
$7 billion infrastructure deal to boost AI in Australia. Read here.
Sydney’s only new 2026 AI data centre reaches major milestone with Macquarie’s 47MW build. Read here.
Singapore opens call to develop 200MW of data center capacity. Read here.
Digital Realty partners BW Digital to rollout new subsea cable connecting Singapore, Batam. Read here.
Sharon AI poised to launch $100m pre-IPO round; eyes March IPO. Read here.
Vantage Data Centers completes Cyberjaya campus with launch of fully leased 16MW fourth facility. Read here.
Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers in talks for $2.6 billion in upsized funding: Sources. Read here.
APAC data center firm Flow Digital Infrastructure has launched a data center outside Manila, the Philippines. Read here.
OpenAI strives for Tata hand to grow footprint in India. Read here.
SC Capital Partners’ Zeus DC break ground on facility in Osaka, Japan. Read here.
North America
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers. Read here.
Nvidia CFO says $100bn OpenAI deal has yet to complete. Read here.
OpenAI data center planned for farmland in Saline. Read here.
Oracle in talks for $38 billion loan to support Vantage Data Centers-led campus. Read here.
NTT DATA Lands Hyperscale Agreements Totaling Over 130MW Across Four Campuses. Read here.
600MW natural gas-powered data center campus proposed in Hubbard, Texas. Read here.
Nexus Data Centers to develop a new sustainable AI data center in Texas. Read here.
Jet.AI & Consensus Core Announce Strategic Interest in Midwestern Canadian Data-Center Campus. Read here.
CBRE’s Trammell Crow files to develop 12 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.
NJFX plans 10MW liquid-cooled data hall in New Jersey. Read here.
AI Data Center Firm Iren Seeks $2 Billion in Convertibles. Read here.
Biggest US power grid operator moving forward with plan to manage data centers. Read here.
Applied Digital Leads $25 Million Funding Round for Corintis to Advance Innovation in Data Center Technology. Read here.
CoreWeave Lands $555M for $1.8B New Jersey Project. Read here.
Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Water-Saving Hybrid Cooling Agreement for World’s Largest Private Energy Grid. Read here.
Morgan Stanley Considers Offloading Some of Its Data-Center Exposure. Read here.
South America
Actis launches new Latin American hyperscale data center platform, TERRANOVA, To Accelerate Latin America’s Digital Expansion. Read here.
TikTok to Invest More Than $37 Billion in Brazil Data Center. Read here.
Brookfield and ByteDance circle multibillion-dollar Brazil data-centre parks. Read here.
Brazil’s BNDES works to create fund for AI and data centers in 2026. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data Centers Are a ‘Gold Rush’ for Construction Workers. Read here.
Data centres are booming – how can architects improve their design? Read here.
What the CEO of the world’s largest data center company—with 273 locations in 36 countries—predicts will drive the business forward. Read here.
New AWS AI Factories transform customers’ existing infrastructure into high-performance AI environments. Read here.
How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust. Read here.
Why energy traders are sceptical of the data centre build-out. Read here.
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west. Read here.
Meet the trucks-and-bulldozers companies getting rich from the AI boom. Read here..
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