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October 05, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
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EdgeConneX
ASX-listed real estate firm Stockland announced it had formed an exclusive arrangement with EdgeConneX to establish a partnership to develop, own, and operate a data center portfolio, and was “exploring opportunities across Stockland’s logistics pipeline.”This partnership will combine “Stockla...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is set to develop a data center on a 26-hectare site, around one kilometer (0.6 miles) south of Heppendorf, Germany.Elsdorf is in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis area in North Rhine-Westphalia, just west of Cologne. Positioned in the west of Germany, Microsoft is already developing data centers...
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United States
Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of an agreement to jointly develop custom data center and personal computing hardware. Both companies would work to connect Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia’s NVLink technology, with Intel set to build custom x86 CPUs that will integrat...
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United Kingdom
Power technology firm ABB is investing $110 million in manufacturing over the next three months to support growth in industries such as data centers. This investment is to “expand R&D and manufacturing of its advanced electrification solutions,” as customers “focus on improving energy effi...
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United Kingdom
Vantage Raises $1.6bn for APAC ExpansionVantage Data Centers has raised $1.6 billion to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt FinancingEcoDataCenter has secured €60...
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Digital Realty Trust
Global colocation data center developer Digital Realty has signed a solar supply agreement with US Independent Power Producer (IPP) Soltage for 13.4MW of capacity from a portfolio of community solar projects in Illinois. The deal is Digital Realty’s second community solar-linked agreement with...
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United States
Intel has announced a leadership shuffle, the largest change being the departure of Michelle Holthaus, chief executive of Intel Products, who will remain as a “strategic advisor over the coming months.”Kevork Kechichian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s...
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Atlanta
The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “T...
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Chicago
A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...
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DataVolt
LG Electronics this week announced a strategic partnership to provide cooling solutions for an AI data center under development in Oxagon, the industrial hub of Saudi Arabia’s Neom City project.“We are building a new generation of net-zero, AI-ready data centers designed for performance, scale...
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Finland
Helen, one of Finland's largest energy companies, has announced that it is open to supporting data center operators in joining its “comprehensive energy system” in Helsinki, where facilities can be connected to the city’s advanced district heating and cooling network."The synergy benefits of d...
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Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.6 billion to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.“This significant investment marks a pivotal milestone in our APAC growth journey,” said Jeremy Deutsch, presiden...
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United Kingdom
The UK government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Google Cloud a £400 million ($542.12m) contract. Google is to deliver a UK sovereign cloud capability to give the MoD a secure cloud platform. The offering will be built on Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped.“Google Cloud is dedicated ...
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South Korea
OpenAI is considering developing a data center in South Korea. OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said the company was open to partnerships regarding data center construction. He added that the ChatGPT-maker could expand its cooperation with the likes of Samsung and SK Telecom, and ...
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Portus Data Centers
Portus Data Centers has secured a new Chief Executive Officer. This week, it announced the appointment of Falk Weinreich as its new Group CEO."Portus Data Centers has quickly positioned itself as one of the most important providers in the regional colocation sector," Weinreich said. "We want t...
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Brazilian power generation firm Eneva has partnered with Google Cloud to use its cloud, data, and AI technologies to optimize its operations across the Brazilian market. Accenture migrated Eneva's infrastructure to Google Cloud to improve its access to data across the enterprise as a part of t...
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Minnesota
Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operatin...
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India / Bhārata
A state-owned Indian coal mining firm is considering building data centers in its decommissioned mines. The company initiated a feasibility study with the assistance of consultants. The studies will include site assessments, a comparative analysis of shortlisted locations, and a feasibility re...
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California
US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...
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Google has confirmed it is behind a data center project in West Memphis, Arkansas. Dubbed Project Pyramid, plans were submitted earlier this year to develop a five-building data center campus on a 1,178-acre property on the south side of Bollinger Road in West Memphis, Crittenden County. The c...
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