January 28, 2026 Norway
Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager and...
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January 24, 2026 United Kingdom
The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg. The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal...
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January 22, 2026 United Kingdom
UK construction firm Mace Construct has been tapped by Pathfinder Clean Energy Limited (PACE) to construct a portfolio of data centers with a combined capacity of 168MW. The two companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding under which Mace will support the development of three data...
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January 15, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Indian cloud and managed IT service provider Zoho Corp has opened two data center locations in the UAE. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are part of a AED 100 million ($27.23m) investment plan for the region Zoho announced in 2023."The opening of our data centers is part...
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January 14, 2026 United Kingdom
A data center could be built as part of a housing development on a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire, UK. Property developer Harworth Group wants to build the data center on the land that used to house the Rufford Colliery, located near the village of Rainworth.Drawings included as part of...
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January 10, 2026 Turkey
Turkish Airlines has laid the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned development at Istanbul Airport in Turkey (Turkiye), including a data center. In total, the company is building eight new facilities at the airport and investing more than TRY 100 billion ($2.32bn)....
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January 07, 2026 Bucharest
The government of Chad is investing €175.1 million ($204.7m) in developing a National Data Center and in expanding its fiber optic networks. The investment represents Phase I of the State Connectivity Infrastructure Modernization Project (PMICE), seeking to improve digital infrastructure in the...
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January 04, 2026 Norway
VivoPower International has signed an exclusive heads-of-agreement to acquire the facility from an undisclosed firm. According to Vivo, the data center has a further 40MW of capacity earmarked for potential approval in 2026 and is powered exclusively by hydroelectric energy.Vivo intends to...
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January 03, 2026 Romania
Data center investment company Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) is partnering with Romanian operator ClusterPower for a new campus.The companies this week announced an equity partnership agreement to co-develop a new 800MW AI data center region in southwestern Romania.“ClusterPower brings...
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January 03, 2026 Poland
Polish renewable energy firm R.Power has signed a virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Cisco Systems, a US networking firm. Over the term of the 15-year agreement, R.Power will supply approximately 486MWh of power to Cisco for its Polish operations.According to the companies, the...
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December 31, 2025 Finland
Finnish data center FCDC is planning a new campus in western-central Finland. FDFC Corp Oy aims to develop a 66,000 sqm (710,420 sq ft) campus in GigaVaasa, located in the Laajametsä business area near the airport. Two data center buildings are planned."The data center project supports Vaasa's...
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December 30, 2025 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 its...
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December 27, 2025 Sweden
Swedish small modular reactor (SMR) start-up Blykalla has closed a $50 million (€42m) financing round to accelerate development of its lead-cooled SMR, with a focus on meeting growing demand from the data center sector.Blykalla said that it will use the capital to scale testing and validation...
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December 23, 2025 Africa
African digital infrastructure provider WIOCC Group has raised $65 million in debt financing to fund the expansion of digital infrastructure across Africa. The funding is secured through sustainability-linked debt financing, arranged by International Finance Corporation (IFC), Proparco, Emerging...
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December 19, 2025 Romania
Data center investment company Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) is partnering with Romanian operator ClusterPower for a new campus, announcing an equity partnership agreement to co-develop a new 800MW AI data center region in southwestern Romania.“ClusterPower brings the secured land and...
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December 16, 2025 Norway
Cryptomine and HPC data center firm Bitzero announced it had secured a new 10MW power purchase agreement (PPA) at its data center site in Namsskogan, Norway. The company said the deal locks in power at approximately $0.02 per kWh. The new total blended cost of $0.03–0.035 per kWh for the 40MW...
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December 12, 2025 United Kingdom
UK quantum computing firm Nu Quantum this week closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round led by National Grid Partners, including participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures.The company claimed it is the largest financing round ever raised by a pure-play quantum...
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December 09, 2025 Morocco
Helios Investment Partners and Fipar-Holding, a subsidiary of CDG Invest, this week announced the creation of 3MDC, a new digital infrastructure platform, as they have merged three Moroccan companies into a new IT services player.The new unit brings together three existing Moroccan players with...
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December 08, 2025 Norway
Norwegian renewable investment firm Magnora this week announced it has launched Magnora Scale Averøya, a new 100MW data center project in Kristiansund. Timelines to develop the 120,000 sqm (1.29 million sq ft) site haven’t been shared.Magnora is working with owners of Averøy Industripark and Tore...
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December 06, 2025 Italy
Italian utility company A2A is planning its first data center in Lombardy, Italy. The utility plans to commence construction in 2027, with operations at the data center expected to begin the following year.Its CEO, Renato Mazzoncini, said the utility plans to invest around €1.6 billion ($1.86bn)...
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