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August 01, 2026
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Digital Realty Trust
Global colocation firm Digital Realty has officially opened its latest data center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The facility, AMS11, has a capacity of 27MW of IT capacity across 12,000 sqm (129,165 sq ft), increasing the company’s Dutch footprint to approximately 159MW.The facility is design...
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CleanArc Data Centers
US firm CleanArc Data Centers this week announced the groundbreaking of its flagship 900MW VA1 campus. The first 300MW is due to come online in 1Q 2027, the second 300MW is currently projected for 2030, and another 300MW in the 2033-2035 timeframe."Today marks an important milestone for CleanA...
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Fermi America
US technology firm Palantir, known for providing surveillance systems to government agencies, may be developing a data center in Texas at the planned Fermi campus outside Amarillo.“You’re blessed to sit on the best place to build AI in the country; I just met with Palantir, [who are the] tip o...
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Princeton Digital Group
APAC real estate firm ESR this week said it was developing an 80MW data center in South Korea, in partnership with Seoul-based Wide Creek Asset Management. The facility is set to be leased to APAC data center operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG).Stuart Gibson, co-founder and co-CEO, ESR, sai...
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Edged Energy
Data center firm Edged has broken ground on a second data center in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 2835 Bilter Road, the new facility will be purpose-built for high-density AI workloads and feature advanced closed-loop, waterless cooling. The facility will go live in Q2 2027.“Safety and perform...
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Germany / Deutschland
German tech company Siemens has partnered with Taiwanese power solutions firm Delta Power to provide prefabricated, modular power solutions for data centers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The modular, scalable design offering will reduce time-to-market for data centers by up to 50 perc...
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Oracle
Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Italy which will give organizations access to all of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's cloud and AI services. According to Oracle, its sovereign capabilities will also help ensure that data remains within Italy's borders to help meet regulatory requirem...
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OVH Group
European cloud and data center firm OVHcloud has launched a new availability zone for its cloud region in Germany, as well as an inferencing platform in partnership with SambaNova. The region in Germany is OVH's third three-availability zone region in Europe, following France and Italy, and is...
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Germany / Deutschland
The owner of German supermarket chain Lidl has broken ground on a new data center in Lübbenau, Germany, to host its cloud division. The 13-hectare brownfield site was previously the Lübbenau power plant. Schwartz said more than 20,000 cubic meters of concrete and stones, 110 tons of steel, and...
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi Arabia's Humain have expanded their partnership to include the deployment of some 150,000 AI chips. The AI chips will include Nvidia GB300s and AWS' Trainium AI chips, and will be used for both training and inference workloads. In addition to the deployment,...
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Texas
US operator TRG Datacenters this week announced it has broken ground on HOU2, the second data center on its Spring, Texas campus. The purpose-built HOU2, located at 2626 Spring Cyprus Road, will add 24MW across 110,000 sq ft (10,219 sqm). “TRG’s strong track record of delivering high-quality i...
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Verne Global
AI cloud provider Nscale has signed on to lease 15MW of capacity at Verne's data center campus in Iceland. The agreement will see Nscale deploying 4,600 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs across Verne's campus through 2026. The GPUs will be 85 percent liquid-cooled and 15 percent air-cooled.Dominic W...
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Digital Realty Trust
Colo giant Digital Realty has signed a $373 million supply capacity agreement (SCA) with Schneider Electric for data center power equipment. The two companies have a longstanding partnership, and this agreement will “support rising capacity demands and deliver greater supply chain resilience.”...
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Brookfield Asset Management
Investment giant Brookfield announced the launch of a global AI Infrastructure program in partnership with GPU giant Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).Sikander Rashid, head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield, said: “AI is creating one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in h...
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United States
Google to Invest €5.5bn in Data Centers in GermanyGoogle has announced a €5.5 billion ($6.38 billion) commitment to expanding its data center and office footprint in Germany, which will include a new facility in Dietzenbach, as well as continued investments in Google's existing campus in Hanau...
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Google has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with French energy firm TotalEnergies for power from a solar farm in Williams County, Ohio. Under the terms of the PPA, Total will supply Google with 1.5TWh of power from the 49MW Montpelier solar farm, which is expected to reach opera...
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Vietnam
Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation (KBC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) and Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) late last month to develop an AI data center complex in Ho Chi Minh City.The ...
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Vast Data has signed agreements with Google Cloud and CoreWeave for its Vast AI Operating System. The AI storage and platform provider will, with Google Cloud, make its AI OS available as a fully managed service across hybrid environments, while CoreWeave has expanded its ongoing contract with...
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Google has signed a 100MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Treaty Oak Clean Energy (TOCE) for power from the Redfield Solar Project, Grant County, Arkansas. The power generated is expected to support the company’s data center portfolio across the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MI...
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United States
US data center firm Flexential has completed an $800 million asset-backed securities (ABS) offering to support its growth and investment strategy. Proceeds will be used to repay a portion of Flexential's outstanding ABS debt and support the company's long-term financing strategy."Completing th...
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