Data Center News

Zettabyte Secures Undisclosed Investment from Headline Asia

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

Taiwan-based AI cloud provider Zettabyte has received investment from Headline Asia. The terms of the deal have not been provided, including the value of the investment, but it will be used to support Zettabyte's expansion in Japan."Japan is entering a new build cycle for AI infrastructure, dr...

Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers

Colorado (CO)

Colorado could offer tax breaks to data center developers that pledge to power their facilities with renewable energy.A new bill proposed in the state’s House of Representatives would offer a 20-year, 100 percent sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers. The bill would see a new...

Perplexity Signs $750m Cloud Agreement with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has signed a three year $750 million cloud computing agreement with Microsoft, reports Bloomberg. This is the first cloud agreement Perplexity has signed outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS), of which it has a long-term partnership.“We are excited to partner...

Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania-based data center provider Alerify has partnered with AI cloud provider Zadara on an AI Edge platform. Through the agreement, Alerify will combine its data center infrastructure and cloud platform with Zadara's offering, creating a sovereign AI solution in Pennsylvania.“We chose Z...

Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center

United States

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms is set to demolish a former Bitcoin mining facility in Washington state in order to redevelop it into an HPC/AI data center.  The revamped facility is expected to be completed by December 2026, adding to the region’s growing number of data centers that are making use...

20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore

Singapore

Managed hosting provider 20i has signed an agreement to lease capacity at an Equinix data center in Singapore. 20i providers hosting services, including reseller hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and cloud servers - including 20icloud, AWS, and GCP. It utilizes "autoscaling" and load balanci...

DayOne Targets 560MW Data Center Campus Outside Helsinki, Finland

DayOne

Data center developer DayOne is planning a third campus in Finland. The company this week announced “early-stage plans” for a data center project in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi.The Municipality of Nurmijärvi has initiated its handling of a preliminary sale of the data center site with DayOne. The co...

Equinix Launches Data Center in San Jose, California

Equinix

Equinix this week energized its SV12x facility, the first to do so under a new partnership between the city of San Jose and utility PG&E. The city and the utility partnered last year to guarantee power delivery for data centers. The deal promised infrastructure and speed improvements at a ...

Top Data Center News for 19th - 24th of January, 2026.

United States

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern IndiaAM Green Group (AMG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh which states that AMG will establish an $25 billion AI infrastructure hub in the Greater Noida re...

Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

Canada

Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “takin...

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India

India / Bhārata

AM Green Group (AMG), which specializes in the ‘green’ production of industrial materials and fuels like ammonia, hydrogen, and methanol, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.The memorandum, which is non-binding, states t...

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg.The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal ...

Amazon Plans 14,000 More Job Cuts

Amazon AWS

Amazon is gearing up to lay off as many as 14,000 white-collar workers, with cuts starting as soon as next Tuesday. Jobs at cloud division Amazon Web Services are among those at risk, along with retail, Prime Video, and human resources units.The cuts follow layoffs at AWS last July, which impa...

Wisconsin State Assembly Passes Bill Creating New Rate Class for Data Centers

Wisconsin lawmakers have passed a bill that aims to protect ratepayers from cost increases tied to data center expansion. The Wisconsin State Assembly passed AB 840 by a vote of 53-44. The bill sets out several protections for ratepayers, including preventing data center operators from passing...

KDDI Launches Data Center in Osaka, Japan

KDDI

Japanese telecoms firm KKDI has launched the first phase of a new data center in Osaka. The company this week announced that operations at the Osaka Sakai Data Center, located near the Osaka metropolitan area, started on January 22.The four-story facility, totaling 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft), ...

Sapience AI Secures $8.8m in Funding

Slovakian AI cloud startup Sapience AI has received investment from Southeast Asian holding company and e-commerce platform Society Pass Inc.Society Pass has made a minority investment worth $8.8 million in Sapience AI with the aim of expanding its presence in Europe. The investment marks Soci...

Humain and Infra Set up $1.2bn Financing Package to Fund 250MW of Data Center Space

Humain

Data center firm Humain and Saudi Arabia’s National Infrastructure Fund (Infra) has set up a financing agreement for the $1.2 billion it needs to build 250MW of data center capacity in the Kingdom.According to the partners, the agreement outlines non-binding financing terms for Humain’s develo...

Sharon AI Secures $500m Debt Facility from USD.AI

United States

Aussie neocloud Sharon AI has secured a $500 million debt facility to expand its AI infrastructure in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. The debt facility has been provided by USD.AI's on-chain credit system and will enable Sharon AI to deploy GPUs financed with stablecoin liquidity....

Google Confirmed as Company Behind 500,000 Square Feet Data Center

The Scioto County Commission has confirmed that Google is the company behind a 500,000 sq ft (46,452 sqm), $1 billion data center project in Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Google's identity was revealed after the commission awarded the cloud giant a tax abatement on the project.Google has been given ...

Fermi America Hit with Class Action Lawsuit

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the proposed up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit filed by national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague PC was made on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fermi securities dur...