Data Center News

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

Summit Gains Nine Data Center Following HorizonIQ Acquisition

Summit

Managed IT infrastructure provider Summit has acquired HorizonIQ, a global private cloud, bare-metal, and GPU provider. Announced at the start of December, the acquisition sees Summit gaining a presence in nine data centers as well as expanding its private cloud offering with HorizonIQ's Proxm...

Racks Central Breaks Ground on Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Malaysia

Singapore-based data center operator Racks Central has broken ground on a data center in Johor, Malaysia. Racks Central’s campus, dubbed RCJM 1, will be located in Iskandar Halal Park, an industrial park in the eastern portion of Johor Bahru. The company acquired a five-acre plot in the park i...

Jet.AI Details Plans for 350-Acre Data Center Campus in Winnipeg, Canada

Canada

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, has provided more details on a planned campus in Canada. The company last week announced that it aims to develop a 350-acre site 10 miles south of Winnipeg, Manitoba.“[The site] sits adjacent to an electrica...

NextEra Energy Partners with Google to Develop at Least Three Gigawatt-Scale Facilities

NextEra Energy has partnered with Google Cloud to develop several gigawatt-scale data center campuses and the associated generation and capacity needed to power them. The companies are currently developing the first three campuses and are collaborating to identify additional locations and expa...

Microsoft Signs 3.6 Million Ton Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with low-carbon fuel firm Beaver Lake Renewable Energy for 3.6 million tons of carbon removal units (CRU) over a 12-year period. The carbon removal units will be delivered from the company’s Beaver Lake biomethanol plant near Pineville, Louisiana, whi...

Argo Infrastructure Boosts Investment in TierPoint

United States

Argo Infrastructure Partners this week announced it has acquired the equity interests of the majority of minority shareholders in TierPoint.“TierPoint is a high-quality, diverse platform, positioned for growth with a long operational track record. This places it in a uniquely differentiated po...

Microsoft Plans $17.5bn AI Infrastructure Investment in India

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed today that it would be spending $17.5 billion on AI infrastructure in India during the next four years starting in 2026, as well as a $5.42bn pledge to Canada in the next two years. A post on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said: "Thank you, PM Narendra Modi, for an inspiri...

150MW Data Center Proposed for Baltimore County, Maryland

Maryland

A report by Fox45 News revealed that applicant Security Land and Development LP is seeking to develop the data center campus on a 42-acre site in the Woodlawn area of the county. In addition to the campus, the applicant will donate five acres to BGE to develop an electrical substation and will...

Helios and Fipar Merge Maroc Datacenter, Munisys, and Medasys into New Company

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 wit...

Evolution Partners with HTC for Data Centers in Vietnam

Vietnam

APAC operator Evolution Data Centers has partnered with HTC International Telecommunication JSC (HITC) to develop data centers in Vietnam. EcoDC Data Centre (Hanoi) will be an expansion of HITC's existing facility in the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park. The Ho Chi Minh City development will be a new, lar...

Top News Stories for 1st - 5th of December, 2025

United States

WBS Power to Develop 500MW Data Center in GermanyEuropean renewable energy developer WBS Power has established a joint venture with Prime Capital to construct a 500MW hyperscale data center at a former military airfield in Brandenburg, Germany, with its total cost estimated at €500 million ($5...

Magnora Plans 100MW Data Center Project in Kristiansund, Norway

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 T...

Aventos Sells Planned Data Center Site in Berlin to Tristan Capital Partners

Germany / Deutschland

German real estate firm Aventos this week announced the sale of a property in the immediate vicinity of its Luxwerk business park to Tristan Capital Partners’ EPISO 6 fund. Terms of the deal were not shared.The 28,400 sqm (305,695 sq ft) site can reportedly support up to three three-story data...

A2A Announces Plans for First Data Center in Lombardy, Italy

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 ($1.86b...

Equinix's Jeremy Mickler Joins OpenAI

Equinix

Jeremy Mickler has joined OpenAI's growing internal data center team to support its Stargate buildout. Mickler spent nearly ten years at Equinix, most recently as the design director of the global design and construction team."This transition comes with tremendous gratitude — for the people, c...

Project Blue in Tucson, Arizona Secures Utility Connection

Arizona

The Arizona Corporation Commission has approved an energy-supply agreement between local utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and the company behind Project Blue, a controversial data center development being advanced in Tucson, Arizona.TEP was approved to supply power to the project under a co...

250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition

California

A proposal to build a 250,000 sq ft (23,225 sqm) data center in Monterey Park, California, is facing opposition from residents. The Monterey Park City Council was set to consider whether to approve the construction of the facility on Wednesday, but significant public hostility towards the prop...

NTT Signs 130MW of Capacity Leases

NTT

NTT this week announced agreements between its Global Data Center business and unnamed “leading hyperscale cloud providers,” leasing space across its campuses in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, and Virginia.“These agreements reflect the trust our clients place in NTT Global Data Centers to deliver t...

Vodacom Increases Stake in Safaricom in $2.1bn Deal

Vodacom Business

Vodacom announced today (December 4) it had reached a deal with the Government of Kenya to spend $2.1 billion to acquire a 15 percent stake in Safaricom PLC and an additional five percent from Vodafone.If the deal is approved and receives regulatory approval, Vodacom will increase its stake in...