Weekly Data Centre News – 8th May 2026
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Reports
Goldman Sachs: Tracking Trillions: The Assumptions Shaping the Scale of the AI Build-Out. Read here.
Nscale: The AI Grid: A 2026 playbook for Telco AI. Read here.
Brookings: New evidence on data center employment effects. Read here.
Europe
Nscale to Deliver 66,000+ NVIDIA Rubin GPUs to Microsoft at Start Campus’ Site in Portugal. Read here.
OneQode signs 15-year 110MW lease at Bitzero data center in Norway. Read here.
TotalEnergies, in collaboration with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, announced the signing of a contract for the design and installation of Pangea 5, its next high-performance supercomputer. Hosted at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center in Pau, in the South of France. Read here.
Stellanor completes acquisition of eight data centers from Redcentric. Read here.
Castleforge and Galaxy Data Centers secure planning permission to redevelop Redhill data center campus outside London. Read here.
Giant data centres to end blight of former coal power sites in UK – EDF. Read here.
CPRE argues against building data centres in Hertfordshire (UK). Read here.
Essex data centre proposal deferred for determination. Read here.
Data centre near Houghton Regis approved again after legal challenge. Read here.
Therma Loop to establish new data center in Finland. Read here.
Deep Green taps Zendo Energy for Manchester data center renewable energy deal. Read here.
Opposition mounts to Brick Lane data centre plans as Reed decision awaited. Read here.
Spain’s MERLIN Sees Compelling Growth Prospects in Europe’s Data Center Sector. Read here.
Germany’s O2 lays out data centre expansion plan. Read here.
Fortum has started heat production at two large data centre sites in Finland. Read here.
Retelit breaks ground on new data center in Milan, Italy. Read here.
Middle East & Africa
Kenya suspends $1 billion Microsoft data centre as energy shortfall raises doubts over Africa’s AI ambitions. Read here.
APAC
CDC signs 555MW data centre contract with US customer. Read here.
NEXTDC bolsters liquidity to A$8.4 billion to accelerate AI infrastructure rollout. Read here.
STACK reported to seek $30 billion for APAC data centre portfolio. Read here.
Gorilla Technology acquires land in Thailand for 200 MW AI data centre campus. Read here.
Thailand Approves $29 Billion Investment Wave as Data Center Demand Surges. Read here.
PDG has raised US$ 856 million debt for data center expansion in Indonesia. Read here.
Digital Edge and B.Grimm Power secure Thailand’s largest data center loan of US$ 880 million to finance buildout. Read here.
India’s Yotta weighs $900 million Mumbai IPO – report. Read here.
Chinese cloud infrastructure spend up 26% in Q4 2025. Read here.
Karnataka plans three sustainable data center parks with combined capacity of 1 GW. Read here.
North America
NVIDIA and IREN Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Deployment of up to 5 Gigawatts of AI Infrastructure. Read here.
KKR Preparing New $10 Billion AI Firm Led by Ex-Amazon Web Chief. Read here.
Meta picks Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for El Paso data center financing, source says. Read here.
Applied Digital Completes Separation of Cloud Business, Establishing ChronoScale as Independent Public Company. Read here.
Fleet Data Centers Announces Closing of Upsized $4.6 Billion 6.500% Senior Secured Notes Offering to Fund Hyperscale Facility in Rapidly Growing Reno Hub. Read here.
Core Scientific Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results. Read here.
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX. Read here.
Hut 8 Commercializes First Phase of 1 GW Beacon Point AI Data Center Campus with 15-Year, 352 MW IT Lease with Base-Term Contract Value of $9.8 Billion. Read here.
Wall Street Readies Data Center IPOs as AI-Linked Debuts Surge. Read here.
Principal Eyes $3 Billion for Two Data Center Funds on AI Boom. Read here.
AI investor Coatue joins data center frenzy with new venture to buy land. Read here.
Coatue sets up data center venture, partners with Fluidstack for 430MW campus in Indiana. Read here.
Digi Power X Signs AI Colocation Agreement with Leading AI Compute Company for 40 MW Data Center in Columbiana, Alabama. Read here.
Cryptominer Mawson rebrands as Big Digital Energy, signs 75MW colo deal with Endeavor. Read here.
Core Scientific acquires cryptomine in Muskogee to expand AI data center campus. Read here.
IREN energises 1.4 GW Sweetwater data centre site in Texas. Read here.
Microsoft confirms plans for data center in Tyrone, Georgia. Read here.
DigiCo to sell Chicago data centre for $750 million, eyes further asset sales. Read here.
706-acre data center approved for development outside San Antonio, Texas. Read here.
365 Data Centers and Carter Funds to develop 200MW of data centers in the US. Read here.
PowerHouse looking to build 500-acre data center near Austin, Texas. Read here.
After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT. Read here.
Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves. Read here.
A data center may be on its way to Nueces County. Read here.
Community rallies against construction of giant data center in small NJ town. Read here.
Space
SpaceX Wants to Blast Data Centers Into Orbit. Here’s What It May Take. Read here.
Other interesting articles
Data center jobs aren’t at servers — they’re in energy. Read here.
Location, location, location: why data centre siting policy needs more than grid logic. Read here.
Data Center Panic Gets Electricity Prices Wrong. Read here.
Denmark faces data center reckoning amid power grid strains. Watch here.
The US Military Is Branching into Data Centers. Has It Thought This Through? Read here.
The data center clean energy debate gets granular. Read here.
School economics class: The great American data centre divide. Read here.
Campaigners fear Scottish data centre ‘greengrab’ of land. Read here.
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