Data Center News

WIOCC Secures Additional $65m in Sustainability-Linked Loans

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, Emergi...

AtlasEdge Sells Nine Data Centers Across Europe to Spanish Operator Templus

AtlasEdge

European Edge data center company AtlasEdge has sold a portfolio of facilities to Spanish operator Templus.The companies announced the deal this week, with nine data centers trading hands. Templus will be taking over data centers in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; Milan, Italy; Zurich, Switzerlan...

Microsoft Signs Two PPAs with Iberdrola in Spain

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Iberdrola in Spain representing 150MW of contracted capacity. The power is tied to two onshore wind power projects in the country, the 94MW Iglesias Wind Farm, in Burgos, Castilla y León and the 101MW El Escudo Wind Farm, in Cantabr...

InfraRed Acquires Majority Stake in NxN Data Centers

NXN Datacenters

Infrastructure asset manager InfraRed this week announced its majority investment in NxN Data Centers. InfraRed, alongside minority investor Adequita, will support the development of NxN’s first data center, a 5MW facility located in Valencia, as well as ongoing expansion opportunities across ...

Pure DC Secures Hyperscale Customer for 78MW Facility

Pure Data Centres Group

Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC) this week announced it has signed “2025’s largest standalone hyperscale data center lease in Europe,” taking all available capacity at a planned site in Amsterdam.An unnamed hyperscale customer is leasing the entire 78MW campus, situated in Westpoort, Amsterda...

Top Data Center Stories for 15th- 20th December

United States

Panattoni Looks to Develop 1GW Data Center Campus outside DetroitLogistics real estate firm Panattoni is looking to develop a gigawatt-scale AI data center campus outside Detroit, Michigan. The company is said to be targeting 282 acres on the north side of I-94, east of Haggerty Road, for this...

Element Critical Announces New Data Center Platform in US

United States

Element Critical this week announced the launch of a new US data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Two enterprise data centers in Houston and Austin. will anchor the platform. They are existing Safanad-owned sites, managed by Element Critical, which are...

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data ce...

Keppel Sells Stake in Two Singapore Data Centers to Keppel DC REIT

Keppel Data Center REIT

Singaporean asset manager Keppel has sold stakes in two data centers in Singapore to its data center real estate investment trust. Keppel Ltd.’s Connectivity Division has agreed to sell the remaining ten percent interest in Keppel DC Singapore 3 (KDC SGP 3) and one percent interest in Keppel D...

Microsoft to Purchase CO2 Removal Credits from InPlanet

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with Brazilian enhanced rock weathering (ERW) firm InPlanet for more than 28,500 tons of carbon credits. The removals will be generated through InPlanet’s ERW program in Brazil, which is the largest in the country, spanning more than 12,000 hectares o...

AlphaTon Leases 2.2MW IT Capacity from atNorth Data Center in Sweden

atNorth

AlphaTon Capital Corp has signed a data center leasing agreement for 2.2MW of capacity from atNorth for a data center in Sweden. AlphaTon is a technology company that says it "bridges institutional capital with the Telegram-based crypto ecosystem." However, it seems to be seeking to launch a G...

AIC Partners with Romania’s ClusterPower on 800MW Data Center Build-out

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 a...

Google Partners with ReNew to Develop 150MW Solar Plant in India

Google

Google has partnered with global renewable developer ReNew Energy to develop a 150MW solar project in Rajasthan, India. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will receive the associated environmental attribute certificates (EACs) generated by the project and allocate them to its Scope 3 emi...

Radiant Raises $300m in Latest Funding Round

Equinix

Equinix-backed microreactor firm Radiant Industries has raised more than $300 million as part of its latest funding round. Draper Associates and Boost VC led the funding round, with additional financial commitments from current investors.According to the company, the latest funding round will ...

Vema to Supply Verne with Hydrogen to Power Data Center Operations

United States

Hydrogen producer Vema Hydrogen has signed a hydrogen purchase and sale agreement with Verne, a provider of on-site power and cooling systems for data centers. Under the terms of the agreement, Verne will use hydrogen supplied by Vema to generate ‘low-emissions’ power for data center customers...

Panattoni Looks to Develop 1GW Data Center Campus outside Detroit

Michigan

Logistics real estate firm Panattoni is looking to develop a data center campus outside Detroit, Michigan. The company is said to be targeting 282 acres on the north side of the I-94 and east of Haggerty Road for a potential gigawatt-scale campus."We've been talking to the community, understan...

Bolt Data Partners with TPL to Develop data Center Campuses Across West Texas

West Texas

Texas Pacific Land Corporation (TPL) has partnered with Bolt Data & Energy to develop data center campuses across TPL-owned land. As part of the deal, Bolt raised $150 million in capital, including $50m from TPL. In return, TPL will receive equity interest, warrants, and a right of first r...

TNE Partners with Data District to Support 1GW Data Center Pipeline in Canada

Canada

Technologies New Energy (TNE) has partnered with Data District to support the development of AI-ready data centers in Alberta, Canada. According to the partners, the data centers will be designed to support advanced computing workloads, including high-density AI applications.Julio Perez, chief...

Saudi Telecom Company Signs MoU with Humain to develop 1GW of Data Center Capacity

stc

Saudi Telecom Company (STC), through its Center3 subsidiary, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Humain to form a data center joint venture (JV) in Saudi Arabia. The JV will develop and operate AI-focused data centers in the Kingdom, aiming to develop 1GW of capacity.According ...

Oracle Denies OpenAI Data Center Delays

Oracle has denied that it is suffering delays in completing the data centers it is providing to OpenAI.Oracle spokesperson Michael Egbert has since told Reuters: "There have been no delays to any sites required to meet our contractual commitments, and all milestones remain on track. We remain ...