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August 01, 2026
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United Kingdom
UK-based renewable energy firm Innova has submitted ten data center projects as part of the National Energy System Operator’s (NESO) "Gate 2 to Whole Queue process" reform of the UK's grid connections queue. The projects have a combined capacity of 4.4GW. Of the projects, five are hybrid schem...
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Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian operator Elea Data Centers is to build a data center for oil and gas firm Petrobras. It is reportedly the largest information technology infrastructure initiative ever contracted by a Latin American company. The project includes the implementation of a high-capacity data center, set ...
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North America
US operator Centersquare this week announced the acquisition of 10 data centers across the United States and Canada. Acquired sites include two data centers in Boston and Minneapolis that the company had been operating under long-term lease agreements, along with eight additional colocation fa...
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US utility Entergy Arkansas has announced that it will power Google's planned data center in West Memphis, Arkansas. The deal was part of a larger announcement by Google, in which the search giant committed to investing $4 billion in the state through 2027. According to the company, it has now...
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United States
Enterprise software investment firm Thoma Bravoo this week announced a strategic minority investment in SDC Capital Partners, a digital infrastructure investment firm. Terms of the deal weren’t shared."Thoma Bravo is one of the world's most admired investment firms and shares our view on the b...
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Paraguay
Los Angeles-based startup X8 Cloud Infrastructure has announced plans to build an artificial intelligence and cloud services data center complex in Paraguay, leveraging hydroelectric power. They signed an agreement with Paraguay's National Electricity Administration (Ande), represented by Feli...
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Australia
Australian data center firm DigiCo Infrastructure REIT has secured a number of new deals in Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. The company announced customer wins across its Australian data center platform from a combination of hyperscale, neocloud, enterprise, and government clients, adding 14MW...
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Australia
An agency has been established to streamline data center investments in New South Wales, Australia. The Investment Delivery Authority (IDA), which began accepting Expressions of Interest (EoI) on September 30, promises to support major investment projects in the southeastern Australian state b...
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Fermi America
Fermi America, the company behind the planned 11GW data center mega campus in Amarillo, Texas, has signed two Letters of Intent (LOI) with Siemens Energy to support energy infrastructure build-out at the site.Under the first LOI, Siemens will negotiate the delivery of three F-class SGT6-5000F ...
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Russia / Россия
The Russian telco Rostelecom this week said it is beginning construction of a new data center for the PhosAgro Group at the Volkhov branch of PhosAgro subsidiary Apatit JSC. A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place, and construction is expected to be completed by 2026.Denis Novikov, general d...
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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, a...
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Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has partnered with DXC for the deployment of an AI platform within Digital Realty's data centers. They will deploy the Dell AI Factory within Digital Realty's data centers, including Dell PowerEdge servers, the Dell AI Data Platform, and Dell networking solution, which will be i...
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Belgium
Belgian operator Datacenter United (DCU) recently acquired by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure and TINC, raised a five-year senior financing package of €120 million ($140m) from a consortium of banks comprising DNB, Belfius Bank, and NIBC Bank.“Companies in Belgium and beyond count on us to sup...
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United States
Wafer-scale chip designer Cerebras Systems has raised $1.1 billion in an oversubscribed Series G funding round, at an $8.1bn valuation. The company said it would use the funds to expand its technology portfolio, including AI processor design, packaging, system design, and AI supercomputers. "F...
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United States
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) from companies seeking to build and power AI data centers at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Two sites at the reservation are available for consideration, one at the East Tennessee Technology Park a...
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North America
Avangrid, the North American arm of Spanish electrical utility Iberdrola, has announced a $18.5 billion investment plan into electric and gas network infrastructure within the US by 2028. The investment will focus on rebuilding and replacing aging infrastructure in electric and gas utilities, ...
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Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has launched a new OCI Dedicated Region in Oman, the second in the country. The launch was announced on September 29 by Nick Redshaw, SVP of Oracle Technology Cloud MEA, via a LinkedIn post."The new OCI Dedicated Region offers 200+ OCI AI and cloud services, a...
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Germany / Deutschland
Germany's Bavarian State Tax Office is set to get a new data center and construction has begun on the new data center, which is described as a "high-security" facility. The data center is a modular build and is being developed by Noris Network AG. It will be located in Nuremberg.Germany's Mini...
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Crusoe
Stargate's flagship data center campus in Abilene, Texas, is now live. The first two buildings on the planned 1.2GW site are now operational and being used by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for OpenAI. The two buildings span 980,000 square feet and support 200MW+ of IT.“One of the defining ...
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Saudi Arabia
ByteBridge has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi tech provider Naizak to form a data center business. The MoU is expected to lead to a joint venture based in Saudi Arabia, which is “designed to accelerate the growth of hyperscale clients and AI-driven data centers across th...
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