Weekly Data Centre News – 6th March 2026
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Reports
CBRE: North America Data Center Trends H2 2025. Read here.
Europe
Amazon increases investment in Spain to €33.7 billion to expand data center infrastructure and drive AI innovation across Europe. Read here.
Solaria reaches a new agreement with Merlin for a second data centre (213 MW) powered by a hybrid PPA. Read here.
Digital Realty Enters Portugal, Strengthening Southern Europe’s Digital Backbone. Read here.
New Vinci Energies Portugal chief eyes data centres as key growth driver. Read here.
Å Energi and Bulk Infrastructure have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement in connection with the construction of the Øygard hydropower plant in Åseral, Norway. Read here.
New policy coming on data centres, City Hall (London) says. Read here.
Ada Infrastructure Celebrates Groundbreaking of its 210 Megawatt Docklands Data Center Campus in London. Read here.
Digital Realty Enters Bulgaria with Acquisition of Highly Connected Interconnection Hub in Sofia. Read here.
Construction firm Hochtief has broken ground on a new wooden Edge data center it is building for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. Read here.
Green Mountain partners with Norwegian paper mill company for potential data center development. Read here.
Zeus Data Center plans first data center, Big Nuage, in Saumur, France. Read here.
Boosteroid and DL Invest to build massive data centre in Poland. Read here.
Croatia plans biomass-powered data centre using olive oil industry waste. Read here.
East Havering Data Centre – What we know about development. Read here.
East Havering Data Centre consultation approved by council. Read here.
Greencoat Renewables targets AI data centre boom with infrastructure platform. Read here.
Floating AI data centre set to enter UK waters in 2028. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes. Read here.
Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive. Read here.
Amazon’s Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says. Read here.
APAC
ByteDance locks in 500MW of Vnet capacity for Doubao buildout: report. Read here.
Macquarie Takes on $410M Korean Hyperscale Data Centre Partnership. Read here.
Taipower forecasts over 5GW new power demand by 2030 amid semiconductor and AI data center expansion. Read here.
Stockland finalises EdgeConneX data centre JV as CEO plots more investment. Read here.
LG launches containerized data center offering, plans 60MW deployment in Busan, South Korea. Read here.
Sydney-Based Iren Orders 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to Supercharge AI Data Center Expansion. Read here.
Firmus secures “multi-billion-dollar” AI contract for Melbourne. Read here.
Goodman breaks ground on 90MW Sydney DC as pipeline reaches AUD 18bn. Read here.
Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU Infrastructure in Vietnam, Enabling Cloud Gaming and AI Services. Read here.
Bridge DC, Concord New Energy assess barge-based hydrogen for data centres. Read here.
North America
Trump tells AI companies they need ‘PR help’ over data centre backlash. Read here.
Oracle plans to again cut thousands of jobs to free up AI data center cash flow. Read here.
NVIDIA and Coherent Announce Strategic Partnership to Develop Optics Technology to Scale Next-Generation Data Center Architecture. Read here.
Blackstone Plans Public Company for AI Data-Center Buying Spree. Read here.
Super Micro Computer Targets Scalable AI Growth With Modular Data Center Push. Read here.
xAI expansion: $659M permit filed for Memphis Colossus 2 site. Read here.
CoreWeave aims to add 5GW more data center capacity by 2030, anticipates capex in 2026 to double. Read here.
Core Scientific Announces Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Results. Read here.
NTT secures four data center leases in US totaling 115MW. Read here.
Amazon has bought a university campus in Virginia and is eventually planning to develop it into a new data center campus. Read here.
Google files for fifth data center at Midlothian campus in Texas. Read here.
Meta signs pre-development agreement for data center in Beloit, Wisconsin. Read here.
Prometheus Hyperscale details plans for Dallas data center campus. Read here.
Penzance targets 600MW data center campus in West Virginia. Read here.
TransAlta, CPP, Brookfield ink MoU for 230MW Alberta data center project. Read here.
Prologis reveals site plan, begins work on hyperscale data center in Butler County. Read here.
Birmingham City Council votes to pause new data center applications for six months. Read here.
Oregon moves toward 1-year moratorium on some data center tax breaks. Read here.
Data centers propelled Turner to record $29.2B in revenue in 2025. Read here.
GI Partners Acquires Two Baltimore-Area Data Centers. Read here.
Babcock & Wilcox has been cleared to deliver a $2.4 billion gas-fired power project that will supply electricity to Applied Digital’s expanding artificial intelligence data center campuses. Read here.
Harrison Street sells two powered shell data center sites in Maryland. Read here.
HighBrook Investors Closes Inaugural Data Center Fund to Develop 300 MW in Northern Virginia. Read here.
La Caisse invests CAD 240 million to advance Cologix’s AI-ready MTL8 data centre in Montréal. Read here.
Atlantic Energy Selected by Viking Data Centers to Power 380,000 Sq. Ft. Akron Facility, Expandable to 150 MW. Read here.
Tax breaks for an 800MW Nebius data center campus in Independence, Missouri, have been approved. Read here.
$5bn data center project in the works around Columbus, Georgia. Read here.
Proposed Clinton data center will be the largest economic development project in city history. Read here.
Glass-walled Edge data center dubbed the ‘Fish Bowl’ proposed for South Miami-Dade, Florida. Read here.
West Louisville data center approved despite opposition. Read here.
Microsoft hosts open house on proposed data center in Lowell Township. Read here.
New York data mining company to open data center in Grand Island. Read here.
Data center developer withdraws Apex project after community opposition. Read here.
Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Google’s Data Center Buildout Could Top $1 Trillion. Read here.
Data centres in space: less crazy than you think. Read here.
Meta Grants Are Fueling Innovation in Local Data Center Communities. Read here.
How states are trying to keep AI data centers off your power bill. Read here.
Powering the AI Revolution: Why grid stability is the next frontier in sustainable data center growth. Read here.
How Data Centers Became a Casualty of War. Read here.
Resisting the Data Center Boom. Read here.
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