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Read Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A re...

Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

June 17, 2026 London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...

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Read Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo
Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo

Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo

October 27, 2025 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 to...

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Read Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations
Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

August 23, 2024 Northern Virginia

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global...

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Read Ada Infrastructure launches second Tokyo campus
Ada Infrastructure launches second Tokyo campus

Ada Infrastructure launches second Tokyo campus

May 31, 2024 Ada Infrastructure

GLP Capital Partners' data center firm Ada Infrastructure this week announced it has started working on the second building at the 31MW Tokyo West 1 (TKW1) campus. The new four-story building will offer 10MW to accommodate the increased demand from enterprise and hyperscale customers.“We are...

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Read Viasat launches new headquarters in London
Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

April 15, 2024 London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for the...

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Read Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding
Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

March 29, 2024 London

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to...

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Read Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue
Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

February 29, 2024 London

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said strong...

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Read Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners
Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

January 10, 2024 London

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...

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Read Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert
Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

November 18, 2023 London

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its current...

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Read ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio
ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

October 23, 2023 London

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

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Read GLP launches new global data center business, Ada Infrastructure
GLP launches new global data center business, Ada Infrastructure

GLP launches new global data center business, Ada Infrastructure

September 25, 2023 Ada Infrastructure

APAC logistics real estate firm GLP recently unveiled Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business, and detailed its development pipeline across Europe, APAC, and South America. The DC campus launches with 850 megawatts of secured IT capacity across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, and...

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Read GLP Unveils Ada Infrastructure: An Ambitious Data Center Initiative Spanning Multiple Continents
GLP Unveils Ada Infrastructure: An Ambitious Data Center Initiative Spanning Multiple Continents

GLP Unveils Ada Infrastructure: An Ambitious Data Center Initiative Spanning Multiple Continents

September 22, 2023 Ada Infrastructure

GLP, a prominent APAC logistics real estate company, has launched Ada Infrastructure. The new company focuses on data center projects outside of China, with a current secured IT capacity of 850MW across Japan, the UK, and Brazil. The company has roadmapped an expansion to nearly 1.5...

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Read Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun
Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

August 16, 2023 Northern Virginia

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

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Read Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage
Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

July 27, 2023 London

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much water...

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Read 98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

July 05, 2023 London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up to...

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Read Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville
Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

Prince William County locals want a data center developer to buy property outside Gainesville

June 28, 2023 Northern Virginia

Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to...

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Read Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans
Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

June 14, 2023 London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the...

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Read Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses
Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

Virginia's Culpeper County Receive Permit Requests For Zoning of Two 4.46M Sq Ft Data Center Campuses

May 25, 2023 Northern Virginia

The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border...

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Read Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks
Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

Poll in Northern Virginia reveals local opposition to data center development near national parks

May 15, 2023 Northern Virginia

A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions. Of those polled, 77%...

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Read Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania
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Data Center Expansion in Spotsylvania

May 14, 2023 Northern Virginia

Spotsylvania County officials are planning to capitalize on data center building expansion. They are modifying the county's Comprehensive Plan as part of their efforts. The county Planning Commission scheduled data center-specific Comprehensive Plan amendment public hearings Wednesday night after...

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