November 03, 2025 Microsoft Azure
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’re...
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October 31, 2025 Equinix
Data center firm Equinix this week inaugurated its new MO2 data center in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. A $250 million investment, MO2 center offers more than 30,000 square feet (2,785 sqm) of colocation space."Since our arrival in Mexico in 2020, we have focused on strengthening and modernizing the...
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October 30, 2025 Equinix
Equinix will create a 250MW+ data center in Hertfordshire, UK, and has pledged to invest £3.9 billion ($5.2bn) in the project. The colo giant has purchased an under-construction facility formerly known as DC01UK, situated on an 85-acre site near the M25 motorway at South Mimms.James Tyler, UK...
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October 17, 2025 Bridge Data Centres
APAC data center developer Bridge Data Centres (BDC) has signed an industrial water purchase agreement with Thai utility Eastwater Stecon Utilities Co (EWS) for ‘sustainable’ water supply for its under-construction hyperscale data center campus in Chonburi Province, Thailand.Eric Fan, CEO, Bridge...
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October 09, 2025 Digital Edge DC
Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. this week announced the successful close of an IDR 5.5 trillion ($325 million) corporate facility from local financial firm PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA). The corporate facility is provided to Digital Edge’s Indonesia platform, comprising the...
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October 02, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Japanese energy firm Shizen Energy for 100MW of solar power in Japan.The power will be supplied from four solar projects in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions of Japan. According to Shizen, all four projects have reached financial close, and...
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September 25, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a deal with green steel company Stegra for the supply of low-carbon steel for use within its data centers. The agreement will see Stegra deliver green steel, which it claims is up to 95 percent less carbon-intensive than conventional steel, to Microsoft's data center...
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September 18, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a deal to rent $6.2 billion of AI computing power in Norway. The capacity will be provided by Nscale and Norwegian investment company Aker. The compute capacity will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and it seems to be from the same data center as announced earlier...
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September 18, 2025 Equinix
Equinix has launched its first data center in Chennai, India. Located in Siruseri, Tamil Nadu, on a nearly six-acre plot, the facility will be connected to Equinix's Mumbai campus, featuring three data centers. The $69 million CN1 provides 800 cabinets of capacity in its first phase, but the...
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September 17, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a ten-year partnership with Belgian water technology company Shayp to support the launch of its corporate water efficiency platform, Shayp 4IMPACT, designed to deliver verifiable and auditable water savings. It will commence with deployments across schools and public...
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September 16, 2025 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...
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September 16, 2025 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 in...
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September 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to...
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September 03, 2025 Digital Edge DC
APAC operator Digital Edge and local energy firm B.Grimm Power Public Company (BGRIM) this week celebrated the groundbreaking of their first joint data center in Chonburi. The companies said the project is part of a $1 billion investment plan to deliver hyperscale and AI-ready data center...
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August 28, 2025 EdgeConneX
Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced the acquisition of its second data center site in the Greater Osaka and Yawata areas of Japan. The new site will provide an additional 150MW upon completion, bringing EdgeConneX's total data center capacity in Japan to 350MW of utility power at full...
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August 21, 2025 Open DC
APAC operator Open DC has launched a new data center in Penang, Malaysia, a 30MW facility, PE2, which is located at Bayan Lepas Technology Park, is now the largest data center on the island of Penang.Yab Tuan Chow Kon Yeow, chief minister of Penang, said: “The establishment of PE2 marks a pivotal...
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August 20, 2025 Yondr Group
Data center developer Yondr Group this week announced it has secured a 163-acre site in Lancaster, Texas, just south of Dallas, to develop a data center campus able to offer 550MW critical IT load.“The US is a key market for Yondr’s next phase of growth, and Dallas is one of the largest and...
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August 14, 2025 Equinix
US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of the...
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August 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure
Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri...
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July 31, 2025 Princeton Digital Group
APAC data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week announced it has secured $160 million in green loans for its MU1 data center campus in Navi Mumbai, India. The financing, provided by local financial firms Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Canara Bank, will be used to fund the...
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