Data Center News

Omnia Joins TikTok's $9bn Data Center Project in Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Omnia, the data center company owned by Brazilian investment fund Pátria, is to develop a data center in Brazil, with an estimated investment of 50 billion reais ($9.4bn), which will exclusively serve TikTok.The project is expected to consume an estimated 300MW of electricity, making it the la...

Harmoni Towers Secures $620m in Private Placement Financing

United States

Harmoni Towers has completed the closing of its inaugural $620 million private placement financing. According to Harmoni, the financing is backed by more than 1,700 high-quality macro tower sites underpinned by master lease agreements with major US wireless carriers."This inaugural financing m...

Lincoln Re-Purchases Arizona Data Center

Arizona

Real estate firm Lincoln has re-acquired a data center in Phoenix, Arizona at 2500 W. Frye Road in Chandler. Located on 14.5 acres, the 191,000-sq ft (17,740 sqm), 28MW facility features four data center halls, one of which is fully leased to a Fortune 500 enterprise user.“We are grateful to t...

Norway's Bulk Secures €410m Senior Secured Loan

Norway

Bulk Infrastructure has successfully closed a €410 million ($472.1m) senior secured loan to support the continued development of its N01 data center campus in the Vennesla municipality. The N01 data center campus is located on a three-square-km site next to a transformer station just outside o...

Vertiv Plans $1bn PurgeRite Acquisition

United States

Vertiv plans to acquire Purge Rite Intermediate, LLC, (PurgeRite) for $1 billion in cash plus up to $250 million based on achieving certain 2026 performance metrics. The deal represents approximately 10x expected 2026 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) inc...

OpenAI Signs $38bn Multi-year Cloud Deal with AWS

Amazon AWS

OpenAI has signed a $38 billion seven-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see the generative AI giant run its workloads on AWS infrastructure. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will have access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200s and GB300s via Amazon EC2 UltraSe...

Microsoft Signs $9.7bn Cloud Deal with Iren

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a $9.7bn deal with Iren to access the neocloud's GPUs. The agreement will give Microsoft access to Iren's Nvidia GB300s. The total value of the contract is $9.7bn, with Microsoft providing 20 percent in prepayment.Daniel Roberts, co-founder & co-CEO of Iren, said: “We’...

Fluence targets AI data centers with battery storage

TLDR: Fluence used its Q3 FY2025 call to spotlight AI data centers as a new growth vector for battery storage, saying it is working directly with leading operators while it tests ultra‑fast response solutions. Revenue rebounded QoQ to $602.5M and backlog held at $4.9B, but FY2025 revenue is no...

AtlasEdge Secures €253m Financing for Data Center Expansion in Lisbon, Portugal

AtlasEdge

European data center operator AtlasEdge this week announced it has secured €253 million ($294.8m) in green financing to support the development of its campus in Lisbon. The funds will be used to build out the first and second buildings at the company's new campus, delivering a 21.1MW capacity ...

AWS to Invest $5bn in South Korea Data Centers

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest a further $5 billion in data centers in South Korea, which will include the construction of new AI data centers in the Incheon and Gyeonggi regions. This investment builds on a previous $4 billion commitment to the country made in June of this year.Pre...

Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo

Tokyo

Stack Infrastructure has secured a 39.7 billion yen ($247.7m) green financing package to develop its data center campus in Japan's capital, Tokyo. The first stage of the 36MW TKY01 campus in Inzai, Greater Tokyo, is set to come online next year, offering 18MW, with the additional capacity set ...

Switch Raises $659m with Green Bond Issue

United States

Las Vegas-based data center operator Switch has raised another $659 million, closing its fourth asset-backed securities (ABS) offering and taking the total it has received across the quartet to $3.5 billion.“The success of this transaction, and the overall growth of our platform, clearly demon...

Ardian Closes Latest infrastructure Fund with $20bn

Ardian

Investment firm Ardian has raised $20 billion for its latest infrastructure platform. The fund, dubbed Ardian Infrastructure Fund VI (AIF VI), reached its $13.5bn hard cap, raising a further $6.5bn in co-investments, making it 90 percent larger than its predecessor.“Data infrastructure is now ...

ChipAgents Raises $21m to Support Development of AI Chip

United States

AI chip design startup ChipAgents has raised $21 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, seeing participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, and Ericsson, in addition to unnamed semiconductor companies.In addition to closing the funding round, ChipAgents has als...

Mastercard to Invest €250m in Three Data Centers in France

France

Mastercard is planning to develop three new data centers in France with plans to invest around €250 million ($289.81m) in the data centers, which will build on around a dozen data centers already operating in Europe.In a company announcement written by Kelly Devine, Mastercard's president of E...

Redcentric Offloads Data Center Business for £127m

United Kingdom

UK managed services provider Redcentric announced it had agreed the sale of its data center unit, Redcentric Data Centres Limited, to Stellanor Datacenters Group Limited, a UK data center operator launched last month and backed by a fund managed by DWS Group.Michelle Senecal De Fonseca, Redcen...

Exa Infrastructure Secures more than €1.3bn in Latest Refinancing

EXA Infrastructure

Fiber firm Exa Infrastructure has refinanced its existing facilities and raised more than €1.3 billion ($1.52bn) in new financing which will support Exa's "continued growth ambitions and network expansion plans."“This move gives us an unrivalled ability to continue investing in our network, at...

BGO Secures $260m for US Data Center Development

United States

Real estate investment firm BentallGreenOak (BGO) this week announced the successful close of its data center co-investment fundraise, totaling approximately $260m, which was established in connection with its US Industrial Strategies I fund.BGO said it is now in the advanced stages of securin...

QumulusAI Arises $500m to Expand AI Compute Infrastructure

United States

QumulusAI has secured a $500 million blockchain-backed facility to fund its AI compute infrastructure buildout. The debt funding will enable QumulusAI to borrow stablecoins against up to 70 percent of its approved GPU deployments, enabling faster access to capital."This partnership represents ...

Bloom Energy Signs $5bn Partnership with Brookfield

United States

US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy has signed a $5 billion AI infrastructure partnership with global investment firm Brookfield, which will see an investment of up to $5bn to support the deployment of Bloom’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology in AI data centers worldwide.KR Sridhar, fou...