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Microsoft Receives Approval for Data Center Campuses in Aragón, Spain

Microsoft has received the initial approval for its planned data center campuses in the Aragón region in Spain, dubbed MSFT Region, that will see the development of three campuses in La Muela, Villamayor de Gállego, and Zaragoza, as well as their interconnection via fiber optics.The project is...

November 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google signs 15-year PPA with TotalEnergies in Ohio

Google has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with French energy firm TotalEnergies for power from a solar farm in Williams County, Ohio. Under the terms of the PPA, Total will supply Google with 1.5TWh of power from the 49MW Montpelier solar farm, which is expected to reach opera...

November 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google to Invest €5.5bn in Data Centers in Germany

Google has revealed a €5.5bn ($6.38bn) commitment to expanding its data center and office footprint in Germany.On the data center side, this will include a new facility in Dietzenbach – a town to the south of Frankfurt – as well as continued investments in Google's existing campus in Hanau. Th...

November 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Vantage Plans 192MW Data Center Campus in Virginia

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its footprint in Virginia with a $2 billion, 192MW campus near Fredericksburg in Stafford County. The campus will be Vantage’s fourth in Virginia and brings the company’s statewide capacity to 782MW with a combined investment of approximately $8bn.“The Frederi...

November 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Microsoft Reveals Plans for Cloud Region in Johor, Malaysia

Microsoft has detailed its plans for a second cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, just months after Microsoft launched its Kuala Lumpur cloud region. The region will be known as Southeast Asia 3, and was first revealed by the company in October. YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of Digital...

November 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google to Purchase 200,000 Tons of Carbon Removal Credits from Mombak

Google has signed its second carbon removal agreement with Brazilian reforestation firm Mombak, covering 200,000 tons of carbon removal credits tied to projects in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, will commence a research collaboration wit...

November 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CyrusOne Signs 210MW Energy Deal with Calpine

Calpine Corporation this week announced the second phase of its 400MW power supply agreement with CyrusOne to serve a new data center adjacent to the Thad Hill Energy Center in Bosque County, Texas."Our partnership with Calpine exemplifies the innovation required to meet the growth in data cen...

November 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

Microsoft X G42 Expand Data Center Capacity Plans in UAE

Microsoft and G42 are teaming up to expand their data center capacity in the UAE by 200MW, as part of the previously announced $15.2 billion investment in the country. The expanded data center capacity will be provided by G42's subsidiary, Khazna Data Centers, and is expected to go live before...

November 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

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

November 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Signs $9.7bn Cloud Deal with Iren

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’...

November 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

TeraWulf and Fluidstack to Develop Texas Data Center

TeraWulf has formed a new joint venture with AI cloud firm Fluidstack, backed by Google, to develop a data center campus in Texas. Under the agreement, the companies will develop and deliver 168MW of critical IT load (240MW gross) at a new 120-acre data center campus in Abernathy, Texas. The f...

November 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

AWS to Invest $5bn in South Korea Data Centers

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...

October 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Google Behind 390-acre Data Center Development in Indiana

Google is planning to develop a data center campus on 390 acres of land near Monrovia, Indiana. An application for the project was submitted earlier this year for land located in Morgan Township, east of Monrovia, between Keller Hill Road, North Antioch Road, Indiana 42, and West Union Church ...

October 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

OpenAI Plans Another Stargate Data Center Cluster

OpenAI plans to deploy another Stargate data center cluster, this time in Port Washington, Wisconsin, to be developed alongside Oracle and Vantage Data Centers, on a site from powered land provider Cloverleaf Infrastructure.The Wisconsin site, codenamed Lighthouse, is planned to support 'close...

October 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on G...

October 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

IBM Cloud

Cologix Acquires Carrier Hotel in Calgary, Canada

US data center firm Cologix this week announced its acquisition of DataHiveOne, Calgary’s primary carrier hotel, as well as most of DataHive’s colocation and interconnection assets. The move marks Cologix's first move into Calgary."This acquisition is a pivotal step in our continued investment...

October 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cologix

Vantage Plots Second Italian Data Center Campus

Data center operator Vantage this week announced plans for MXP2, expanding its footprint in Lombardy. The €350 million ($407m) campus, located in Castelletto some 15 kilometers from central Milan, will feature two three-story data center buildings delivering a combined 32MW of critical IT capa...

October 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Data Centers

Google Confirms $15bn Data Center Project in India

Google is spending $15 billion on new data centers and other digital infrastructure in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The company will work with Indian firms AdaniConneX and Airtel to build an “AI hub” in the city of Visakhapatnam, on India's east coast.Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud,...

October 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google to Invest €5bn in AI Infrastructure in Belgium

Google has committed to investing an additional €5bn ($5.8bn) in cloud and AI infrastructure in Belgium over the next two years. The investment will go towards expanding the company's data center campuses in Saint-Ghislain and aims to add a further 300 full-time jobs.“With today’s announcement...

October 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Aligned Data Centers Sold in $40bn Deal

Aligned Data Centers is being sold to BlackRock and MGX in a deal worth $40 billion, the biggest ever acquisition in the digital infrastructure space. Macquarie Asset Management selling it to a group comprising the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), MGX, and BlackRock-owned Global Infrastruc...

October 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Aligned

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