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August 01, 2026
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Omnia Joins TikTok's $9bn Data Center Project in Brazilmnia, the data center company owned by Brazilian investment fund Pátria, is to develop a data center in Brazil, with an estimated investment of 50 billion reais ($9.4bn), which will exclusively serve TikTok, making it the largest data cen...
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Google has signed its second carbon removal agreement with Brazilian reforestation firm Mombak, covering 200,000 tons of carbon removal credits tied to projects in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, will commence a research collaboration wit...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has detailed its plans for a second cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, just months after Microsoft launched its Kuala Lumpur cloud region. The region will be known as Southeast Asia 3, and was first revealed by the company in October. YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister of Digital...
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Applied Digital
US energy technology provider Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with data center developer Applied Digital to supply it with more than 1GW of natural gas power. The company also expects to sign a long-term parts and services agreement once the plant becomes operational. Th...
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Goodman Group
Goodman Group expects its work-in-progress pipeline to hit a record AU$17.5 billion (US$11.3bn) next year, driven by the growth of its data center business. Goodman said it currently has AU$12.4 billion (US$8bn) of work in progress, with data centers representing 68 percent of this. The figure...
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CyrusOne
Calpine Corporation this week announced the second phase of its 400MW power supply agreement with CyrusOne to serve a new data center adjacent to the Thad Hill Energy Center in Bosque County, Texas."Our partnership with Calpine exemplifies the innovation required to meet the growth in data cen...
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Brazil / Brasil
Omnia, the data center company owned by Brazilian investment fund Pátria, is to develop a data center in Brazil, with an estimated investment of 50 billion reais ($9.4bn), which will exclusively serve TikTok.The project is expected to consume an estimated 300MW of electricity, making it the la...
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Northern Data AG
Data center services firm Salute has acquired engineering and consulting firm Northshore with plans to leverage Northshore's Seastack platform to enhance and optimize facility operations and improve its data center lifecycle services.“By integrating Northshore’s AI-driven platform into Salute’...
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United States
Harmoni Towers has completed the closing of its inaugural $620 million private placement financing. According to Harmoni, the financing is backed by more than 1,700 high-quality macro tower sites underpinned by master lease agreements with major US wireless carriers."This inaugural financing m...
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Denmark
European real estate developer Garbe is planning a large data center campus in Denmark.The deal concerns 35 hectares of commercial land in Business Park Falster at exit 43 on Nordfalster.Jonathan Henry, executive managing director at Garbe Data Centers, said: “This is an important milestone bo...
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Fermi America
Fermi America, the developer behind the planned up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been granted preliminary approval for 6GW of clean natural gas-based power generation from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).Project Matador is one of the most ambitious dat...
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Central Finland
The government of Hämeenlinna this week announced that a reservation agreement has been made for three business plots in Hämeenlinna's MORE industrial park for a data center project. The government of Hämeenlinna this week announced that a reservation agreement has been made for three business...
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Quantum computing firm Qilimanjaro last week announced the inauguration of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech's quantum data center in the city's innovation district. The facility has the capacity to host up to ten quantum computers, available in both analog and digital modes, and connected with classic...
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United Kingdom
European cloud operator Nebius this week announced its first deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra AI infrastructure in the UK. The cluster sits in Ark Data Centres’ Longcross Park campus in Surrey. The cluster totals 126 racks across three data center halls. The first phase comprises 4,000 Nvi...
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New Mexico
New Era Energy & Digital has signed a land option purchase agreement for around 3,500 acres in Lea County, New Mexico, with plans to develop an up to 7GW AI data center campus powered by natural gas and nuclear energy.According to New Era, the Lea County location was selected due to its pr...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and G42 are teaming up to expand their data center capacity in the UAE by 200MW, as part of the previously announced $15.2 billion investment in the country. The expanded data center capacity will be provided by G42's subsidiary, Khazna Data Centers, and is expected to go live before...
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United Kingdom
Video calling firm Zoom is planning to lease space in a UK data center in the first half of 2026 with plans to target regulated sectors such as healthcare and financial services. The facility will comply with the UK's data residency requirements, enabling UK-only meeting zones and telephony ga...
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Amazon AWS
OpenAI has signed a $38 billion seven-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see the generative AI giant run its workloads on AWS infrastructure. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will have access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200s and GB300s via Amazon EC2 UltraSe...
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Norway
Bulk Infrastructure has successfully closed a €410 million ($472.1m) senior secured loan to support the continued development of its N01 data center campus in the Vennesla municipality. The N01 data center campus is located on a three-square-km site next to a transformer station just outside o...
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United States
Vertiv plans to acquire Purge Rite Intermediate, LLC, (PurgeRite) for $1 billion in cash plus up to $250 million based on achieving certain 2026 performance metrics. The deal represents approximately 10x expected 2026 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) inc...
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