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August 01, 2026
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France
Mastercard is planning to develop three new data centers in France with plans to invest around €250 million ($289.81m) in the data centers, which will build on around a dozen data centers already operating in Europe.In a company announcement written by Kelly Devine, Mastercard's president of E...
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Vantage Data Centers
OpenAI plans to deploy another Stargate data center cluster, this time in Port Washington, Wisconsin, to be developed alongside Oracle and Vantage Data Centers, on a site from powered land provider Cloverleaf Infrastructure.The Wisconsin site, codenamed Lighthouse, is planned to support 'close...
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United Kingdom
UK managed services provider Redcentric announced it had agreed the sale of its data center unit, Redcentric Data Centres Limited, to Stellanor Datacenters Group Limited, a UK data center operator launched last month and backed by a fund managed by DWS Group.Michelle Senecal De Fonseca, Redcen...
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United States
Compass Mining, the Bitcoin mining and infrastructure developer, has announced the full energization of a new 20MW partner site in Texas. Compass views the current successful energization as proof of its position as a “leader in operations-as-a-service,” which it primarily provides for enterpr...
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EXA Infrastructure
Fiber firm Exa Infrastructure has refinanced its existing facilities and raised more than €1.3 billion ($1.52bn) in new financing which will support Exa's "continued growth ambitions and network expansion plans."“This move gives us an unrivalled ability to continue investing in our network, at...
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Crusoe
Neocloud Crusoe is going to space and has revealed plans to deploy on a Starcloud satellite scheduled to launch in late 2026, and offer limited GPU capacity from space by early 2027. This comes ahead of the expected launch of the Starcloud-1 satellite this November. About the size of a small r...
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Telehouse
Data center firm Telehouse has broken ground on a new facility in London, the 33MW Telehouse West Two data center at its existing Docklands campus in East London. The nine-storey building will cover a total gross area of 32,000 sqm (344,445 sq ft), with 11,290 sqm (121,524 sq ft) of white spac...
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Scotland
Scotland's East Lothian Council has selected UK investment firm Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) as its preferred supplier for a potential hyperscale data center at a former coal storage site in Cockenzie, East Lothian.“While this process is still at an initial stage, it marks an imp...
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HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd
Bitcoin mining firm Hive Digital has announced plans to expand its hydroelectric-powered Yguazú data center in Paraguay by 100MW. The expansion will increase the data center's capacity to 400MW, with the facility powered solely by hydroelectric power from the Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River, lo...
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OVH Group
European and US cloud provider OVHcloud has reappointed its founder and chairman of the board, Octave Klaba, as CEO, ending the separation of the chairman and CEO roles, and also ending Benjamin Revcolevschi's term of office after just one year, effective October 20, 2025.Newly-instated CEO Kl...
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Apatura
A renewables firm planning a 300MW AI data center campus in Scotland is now targeting a new site three miles from its original planned location. This week, the firm detailed its intention to instead house the campus on land at Glenbervie Business Centre in Larbert, three miles from Plean, lod...
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Cologix
US data center firm Cologix this week announced its acquisition of DataHiveOne, Calgary’s primary carrier hotel, as well as most of DataHive’s colocation and interconnection assets. The move marks Cologix's first move into Calgary."This acquisition is a pivotal step in our continued investment...
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United States
Real estate investment firm BentallGreenOak (BGO) this week announced the successful close of its data center co-investment fundraise, totaling approximately $260m, which was established in connection with its US Industrial Strategies I fund.BGO said it is now in the advanced stages of securin...
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Kyndryl
AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on G...
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United States
Poolside Partners with CoreWeave on 2GW Data Center in TexasAI startup Poolside is teaming up with CoreWeave for the development of a 2GW data center in West Texas, dubbed Project Horizon as both companies aim to ensure immediate access to next-generation silicon.Galaxy Digital Secures $460 Mi...
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Canada
The Government of British Columbia in Canada will limit the state’s data center energy usage and ban new cryptomining projects. The government stated that it would introduce legislation and regulations to “address unprecedented demand for electricity and ensure that BC and Canadian economic in...
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United States
QumulusAI has secured a $500 million blockchain-backed facility to fund its AI compute infrastructure buildout. The debt funding will enable QumulusAI to borrow stablecoins against up to 70 percent of its approved GPU deployments, enabling faster access to capital."This partnership represents ...
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Colt Data Centre Services
Data center operator Colt DCS and APAC real estate firm ESR have formed a joint venture to develop the first phase of a 130MW hyperscale data center site in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan. The first phase, comprising 65MW, will be designed and built by the JV and operated by Colt.Niclas Sanfridsson,...
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Texas
Social media giant Meta this week announced work had started on the 1GW site, the company’s 29th data center. Some $1.5 billion is set to be invested in the first phase of development. The site has been designed to support “both the traditional servers of today and future generations of AI-ena...
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Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Dubai, a part of the company's global expansion plans, for which Alibaba has committed to spending $53bn on cloud and AI infrastructure.Eric Wan, VP of Alibaba Cloud International and general manager of the Middle East, Turkey, and Middle Asia...
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