Weekly Data Centre News – 7th August 2026
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Reports
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2026. Read here.
Colliers: Beyond FLAP-D: Where data centre growth is heading next. Read here.
JLL: EMEA data centre mid-year 2026 report. Read here.
CBRE: U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook Midyear Review 2026. Read here.
Europe
AVK Secures Majority Investment from Partners Group. Read here.
Volta, a fully vertically integrated artificial intelligence (”AI”) infrastructure platform and NVIDIA Cloud Partner, emerged from stealth with a mission to build The Utility of Compute™. Read here.
Polarise Plans to Participate in EU Tender for AI Gigafactories. Read here.
Bitdeer Announces $4.7 Billion, 16-Year AI/HPC Data Center Lease for Tydal, Norway Campus. Read here.
Microsoft revealed more plans for it’s Data Centre development in Langley, UK. Read here.
Developer makes case for landfill gas-powered data centre in Canterbury. Read here.
UK’s Harworth Group in talks with multiple parties about selling land for data center development. Read here.
Large data center rumored for Burgenland, Austria. Read here.
Redevelopment of the former Bekaert site in Figline Valdarno: it also includes a zero-impact data centre. Read here.
Germany’s Maincubes completes first module of new Frankfurt data center. Read here.
FiberCop to launch 100 edge data centres across Italy. Read here.
Tritax Big Box taps shareholders for data centre expansion. Read here.
Argyll hyperscale data centre stalled: Grid delays. Read here.
AtlasEdge starts next expansion phase of data center in Hamburg, Germany. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Neom to start building Oxagon AI data centre ‘in months’. Read here.
Qatari group Meeza secures $432m funding to boost data centre capacity. Read here.
APAC
CoreWeave Expands Cloud AI Platform to Indonesia, Marking First Move Into Asia-Pacific Region. Read here.
Firmus Announces Fully Subscribed USD$2 Billion Strategic Equity Investment. Read here.
Sharon AI Announces US$373m Five-Year AI Cloud Service Agreement. Read here.
Australia’s new data centres must be majority renewable powered, says minister. Read here.
Microsoft opens its largest India data center hub as AI race heats up. Read here.
China commissions world’s largest data center campus built for 2 GW, 1M accelerators. Read here.
RedNote could build 600MW data center campus in Inner Mongolia – report. Read here.
Australia’s GreenSquare expands into Melbourne with 240MW campus. Read here.
Australia’s CDC files for data center in Kemps Creek, Sydney. Read here.
North America
KKR Closes $19.2 Billion Infrastructure Fund. Read here.
Banks to offload $15bn of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google. Read here.
Startup Raises $700 Million to Replace Data-Center Wires With Light. Read here.
Ionic Digital Debuts on Nasdaq, Marking Its First Day of Trading. Read here.
Ocean-Powered Data Center Startup Set to Double Valuation to $2 Billion. Read here.
SpaceX earnings: 2GW of compute by year end, aiming for 10-20GW by end of 2027. Read here.
Internal Amazon documents reveal a major overhaul of one of the world’s biggest AI data centers. Read here.
TeraWulf plans high-density data center at former Maryland power plant. Read here.
Texas governor orders pause on new data center approvals pending audit. Read here.
Cipher eyes 900MW data center site outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.
Texas residents fume over proposal to put data center next to a Buddhist monastery. Read here.
Amazon abandons plans for data center campus at Calvert Cliffs. Read here.
Amazon eyes Homer City site for data center campus. Read here.
Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data center and gas power complex. Read here.
Crow and CleanArc target 245MW data center at Dallas Market Center in Texas. Read here.
NRG nears 1.2-GW hyperscaler deal amid Texas data center pause. Read here.
Salmon farm or server farm? AquaBounty weighs AI pivot. Read here.
Yondr Group and Cerberus acquire 40 acres for data center campus in Manassas, Virginia. Read here.
Google possible customer of MidAmerican data center in Salix County, Iowa. Read here.
PowerHouse files for 300MW data center campus outside Dallas-Fort Worth. Read here.
Blue Owl-backed Stack buys land in Culpeper County, Virginia. Read here.
South America
Grid connection authorization sought for 500MW Santiago data center. Read here.
What consultancies are saying about Latin America’s data center market. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Why Meta Builds Its Own AI Data Centers. Watch here.
AI data-centre race builds $1 trillion lease burden for Big Tech. Read here.
AI’s Arctic land grab. Read here.
The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This. Read here.
Bank of America’s ‘Robust’ AI Data Center Deal Pipeline: Q&A. Read here.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
The Gulf Region, AI Growth and the Future of Middle East Data Centres | Live at Datacloud Global Congress 2026. Listen here.
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