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August 01, 2026
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Europe
Exa Infrastructure has launched a new European fiber route, including a subsea cable connecting the UK to mainland Europe. The 1,200 km project includes a 115km submarine cable linking Margate in the UK to Ostend, Belgium. Exa is responsible for providing landing party and backhaul services on...
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United States
Insurance broker W Denis Group this week launched a new specialist division focused exclusively on insuring data centers and their integrated power generation infrastructure. The broker said the new unit will deliver “comprehensive, competitively priced solutions backed by multi-billion capaci...
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Pennsylvania
Data center and energy firms have pledged to invest $90 billion in the US state of Pennsylvania to help build out its digital infrastructure following a summit attended by President Donald Trump. The first Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit was held on Tuesday, with Trump and state sena...
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Texas
Duos Edge AI is set to deploy two of its Edge data centers in Corpus Christi, Texas which will serve as “central communications hubs for carriers delivering services to mobile operators, enterprises, local education, healthcare, and digital economy sectors while driving growth across the local...
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Switzerland
Investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners this week announced IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), advised by IFM Investors, has agreed to indirectly acquire 100 percent of Green Group AG. Terms were not shared, but the deal is set to close later this year.“We look forward to embarking on...
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Yondr Group
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has announced tthat its subsidiary Allianz Capital Partners GmbH has acquired a minority stake in Yondr Group, joining DigitalBridge and La Caisse (formerly CDPQ) as investors in the firm. The stake was acquired on behalf of the Allianz insurance companies ...
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Bahrain
The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has launched a new data center, a result of an 18-month effort to transform the bank's infrastructure, with support from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The data center is Tier III design certified by Uptime Institute and located on the 6th floor of NBB's headqu...
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Google has won a contract valued up to $200 million with the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Intelligence Office (CDAO) to provide infrastructure for AI. Under the contract with Google Public Sector, the DoD can access Google's cloud infrastructure, including its tensor proc...
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Oracle
Oracle plans to invest a combined $3 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years. $2bn has been earmarked for Germany, while $1bn will go to the Netherlands.Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Affairs, Karsten Wildberger, said: "Oracle's st...
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Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and Goog...
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Pennsylvania
A large data center campus is being proposed in Northeast Pennsylvania. 1778 Rich Pike LLC is aiming to develop a 1.5GW, 1,000-acre campus on either side of Interstate 380, just north of Clifton Beach Road. The project is known as the Gouldsboro Data Center in some documents.Each building woul...
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Virginia
Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...
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Pennsylvania
AI cloud firm CoreWeave has revealed plans to invest up to $6 billion in developing a data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania which will have an initial 100MW of IT capacity, though it will have the potential to scale up to 300MW, and will be "purpose-built" for AI use cases. Around 600 skilled...
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Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed, overhau...
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United States
Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data CenterData center firm Yondr has announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim which includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points, is now fully operational, just as it completes a resea...
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Michigan
Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...
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Delaware
Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...
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France
Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp announced this week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Thésée from state-owned French investment group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations/Banque des Territoires and Groupe IDEC Invest, the real...
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Microsoft Azure
Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomput...
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Yondr Group
Data center firm Yondr Group this week announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, is now fully operational. The site includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points. Yondr said it has also comple...
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