Data Center News

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Texas

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milesto...

Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

AVAIO Digital Partners

Data center developer Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new $6 billion data center campus in Mississippi's Rankin County. The campus, known as Avaio Digital Taurus, will total 600,000 sq ft (55,742 sqm) of data center space and 116MW of capacity. The company said the proje...

Ooredoo Inaugurates Data Center in Oman

Oman

Middle Eastern telecoms firm Ooredoo has inaugurated a new data center and cable landing station (CLS) in Salalah, Oman, in the presence of Sayyid Marwan bin Turki, Governor of Dhofar, alongside Ooredoo Oman CEO Saoud Al Riyami. The company said the data center was a “milestone project that re...

Applied Digital Plans AI Data Center Campus in North Dakota

Applied Digital

Former cryptomine company turned AI data center firm Applied Digital this week announced plans for Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280MW campus near Harwood in Cass County.  "We believe Polaris Forge 2 represents the next stage in Applied Digital’s rapid growth and our position as a leader in d...

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Michigan

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

AirTrunk Secures $1.75bn Financing for Data Center Development

APAC data center firm AirTrunk this week announced a new S$2.25 billion (US$1.75bn) green loan in Singapore to support the development of a new hyperscale data center, AirTrunk SGP2. AirTrunk said the transaction was Singapore’s largest-ever loan and green loan for a data center.Crédit Agricol...

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

United States

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in IowaQTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data CenterUS...

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of ...

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

Finland

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Spain

Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...

NextDC Expands Debt Facility by AU$1.3 billion

NEXTDC

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced that, following the successful completion of general syndication, it has secured new senior debt facilities totaling AU$3.5 billion (US$2.28bn).NextDC CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, said: "In light of recent record contract wins that are acce...

Rio de Janeiro City Hall Partners with Oracle and Nvidia for AI City

Oracle

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil Eduardo Paes, during Rio Innovation Week this week, announced an agreement to accelerate the development of the "Rio AI City" project, which aims to transform the city into one of the main global hubs for artificial intelligence."We've signed with the worl...

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

United States

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

South Korea

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

Republic of Ireland

County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at oth...

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

Sweden

EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), imm...

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Canada

Canadian telecoms firm Rogers this week announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Communications’ data center business, on behalf of InfraRed’s value-add strategy. Rogers said it will continue to sell data center services on behalf of InfraRed and will provide netw...

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

New York

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

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 t...