Data Center News

DayOne Begins Construction Of Data Center In Tokyo, Japan

DayOne

APAC data center operator DayOne has started construction on its new Kodaira data center in Tokyo, Japan. Phase I will provide 15MW of IT capacity, while the full Kodaira campus is planned to reach 42MW. DayOne CEO, Jamie Khoo, said: “Today’s groundbreaking marks a beginning, not only of a new fa...

Edged Completes Construction Of Data Centers In Council Bluffs, Iowa

Edged Energy

US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage. "Reaching this milestone reflects our continued commitment to investing in communities that are positioned ...

S+B Gruppe Plans Data Center In Bucharest, Romania

Romania

Real estate developer S+B Gruppe has secured approval to build a 12MW Tier III data center in northern Bucharest, Romania. Named NIMB, the facility has received a building permit and grid connection approval. It will provide 36,597 sq ft (3,400 sqm) of white space and is expected to open in 2028....

GLP Begins Development Of 200MW Data Center In Foshan, China

GLP

GLP has begun developing a 200MW data center campus in Foshan, Guangdong, China. The first 40MW phase is now under construction, with GLP investing RMB 4 billion ($600m) in the project. The campus is being built for an unnamed internet and cloud services company and is expected to be one of the l...

Telxius To Build Edge Data Center In Cancún, Mexico

Canada15Edge Data Centers Inc

Telxius is developing a carrier-neutral cable landing station and Edge data center in Cancún, Mexico. The facility will combine submarine cable connectivity, terrestrial networks, and computing infrastructure, serving as a landing point for the Tikal submarine cable linking Guatemala and Florida....

Hyperscale Data Ends Cryptomining Operations At Michigan Data Center

Hyperscale Data, Inc.

Hyperscale Data has ended Bitcoin mining at its Michigan data center as it prepares the site for AI infrastructure. The company said mining operations stopped on September 1, 2026, ahead of a neocloud customer’s planned AI deployment. The unnamed California-based customer signed a lease in June f...

Cerebras Begins Construction Of 165MW Data Center In Mikkeli, Finland

Finland

Cerebras has begun construction on a 165MW data center campus in Mikkeli, Finland, with the first 50MW phase now underway. The campus is being developed with Compute Nordic Finland and will use closed-loop cooling and waste-heat recovery to supply heat to the local community. “This partnership wi...

Digital Realty Begins Construction On Fourth Data Center In Zurich, Switzerland

Digital Realty Bersama

Digital Realty has started construction on a new data center in Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland. The ZUR4 facility will provide 15MW of IT capacity across around 6,300 sqm (67,810 sq ft) and is expected to go live in 2028. The project will expand Digital Realty’s existing Zurich campus, which inc...

Nexspace Begins Construction On New Data Center In Graz, Austria

Austria

German data center firm Nexspace has started construction on a new facility in Graz, Austria. The project will double Nexspace’s capacity in Graz, adding around 600 sqm (6,460 sq ft) of IT space and 2.2MW of capacity. “With today's groundbreaking ceremony, we are starting the construction of our ...

Nexspace Begins Construction On Data Center In Graz, Austria

Austria

German data center company Nexspace has started construction on a new facility in Graz, Austria. The project will double Nexspace’s capacity in Graz, adding around 600 sqm (6,460 sq ft) of IT space and 2.2MW of capacity. “With today's groundbreaking ceremony, we are starting the construction of o...

Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near Berlin

Berlin

European data center operator Virtus has begun construction of a 204MW facility outside Berlin, Germany. Located around 12km (7.4 miles) west of the capital in the municipality of Wustermark, the company plans to invest a total of €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in the project.“This ambitious undert...

Amazon Confirms 16,000 Layoffs, Including at AWS

Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to cut some 16,000 workers across the company, in its latest round of layoffs. Job losses were first rumored last week, and then accidentally leaked when a draft email written by Colleen Aubrey, a SVP at cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS), was included in a calendar invitati...

Amazon Plans 14,000 More Job Cuts

Amazon AWS

Amazon is gearing up to lay off as many as 14,000 white-collar workers, with cuts starting as soon as next Tuesday. Jobs at cloud division Amazon Web Services are among those at risk, along with retail, Prime Video, and human resources units.The cuts follow layoffs at AWS last July, which impa...

Rowan Starts Work on 300MW Data Center in Temple, Texas

Texas

 US data center firm Rowan Digital Infrastructure this week announced it has broken ground on a new $700 million project in the Bell County city. The company is developing on some 700 acres along Bob White Road. At full build-out, the campus could reach 300MW. “This campus will help unlock the...

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

New Jersey

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer (...

OADC Acquires NTT Data Centers in South Africa

NTT Data

Pan-African data center firm Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is acquiring a portfolio of NTT data centers in South Africa. According to CCSA, the deal is set to see OADC affiliates, OADC Propco and OADC Opco, acquire seven data centers currently owned and operated by NTT Data SA.The facilities...

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Georgia

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios...

Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

Delaware

A new data center has been proposed in New Castle County, Newark, Delaware. The proposed data center would sit just off of Ogletown Road, on a 44-acre site currently occupied by the White Clay Center Industrial Park.The application describes consolidating the seven buildings of the campus into...

Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations

Finland

Finnish telco Elisa has confirmed it will cut 357 jobs. The announcement comes after the company launched its transformation program in October, when the carrier hinted up to 450 jobs could be lost."As part of the transformation program, Elisa is streamlining its organization and optimizing it...

Trump Media & Technology Group Merges with TAE Technologies

Google-backed nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies has merged with President Donald Trump's social media firm, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), in a $6 billion deal.The new company is expected to encompass several businesses, including Truth Social, TAE Power Solutions, and TAE Li...