Read Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility
Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility
August 29, 2025

Digital Realty Breaks Ground on Rome Facility

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty this week announced that work on ROM1 has started. On schedule to be completed in 2027, the facility will offer 3MW of IT capacity at launch. Digital Realty said that the 22-hectare campus could total 2.3 million sq ft (213,676 sqm) at full build-out, making it one of the larges...

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Read Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus
Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus
August 29, 2025

Blue Owl to Fund Build-out of Pennsylvania Data Center Campus

CoreWeave

Blue Owl is funding the development of CoreWeave’s planned data center campus in Pennsylvania. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital closed on a joint venture partnership to include $4 billion of funding for the previously announced CoreWeave developments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Blue Owl aims t...

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Read Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard
Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard
August 29, 2025

Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

Singapore

The Singaporean government has launched a new standard to support data center operators. The standard - SS 715:2025: Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment - aims to save energy consumption of IT equipment in data centers by at least 30 percent.The standard will also aid data center use...

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Read Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth
Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth
August 29, 2025

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

United Kingdom

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tri...

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Read Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas
Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas
August 29, 2025

Novva Data Centers Acquires 205 Acres of Land in Las Vegas

Novva Data Centers

US operator Novva Data Centers has acquired more land in Las Vegas, Nevada in a $181 million deal which reportedly closed earlier this month. The  Las Vegas Review-Journal reports VanTrust Real Estate sold nearly 205 acres in the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas to Novva.According to th...

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Read Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland
Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland
August 29, 2025

Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland

Iceland

AI cloud and data center firm Crusoe and atNorth this week announced a “significant expansion” of Crusoe Cloud’s capacity within atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Keflavik. This strategic expansion is designed to meet the surging demand for Crusoe Cloud services from customers of all sizes across...

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Read EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan
EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan
August 28, 2025

EdgeConneX to Develop Second Facility in Japan

EdgeConneX

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced the acquisition of its second data center site in the Greater Osaka and Yawata areas of Japan. The new site will provide an additional 150MW upon completion, bringing EdgeConneX's total data center capacity in Japan to 350MW of utility power at f...

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Read OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding
OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding
August 28, 2025

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

United States

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

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Read Fermi America Forms nuclear partnership with Doosan Enerbility
Fermi America Forms nuclear partnership with Doosan Enerbility
August 28, 2025

Fermi America Forms nuclear partnership with Doosan Enerbility

Fermi America

Fermi America has signed another partnership to support the development of its planned 11GW HyperGrid AI mega campus in Amarillo, Texas. Fermi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Doosan Enerbility, a South Korean nuclear power plant component manufacturer."Having worked with Doosan...

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Read Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US
Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US
August 28, 2025

Hut 8 Announces Four Data Center Projects across US

Hut 8 Corp

HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 this week announced plans to develop four new sites across the United States, totaling 1.53GW of capacity under development. The expansion sites range in scale from 50MW to 1GW of utility capacity across Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois. Hut 8 said ...

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Read Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas
Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas
August 27, 2025

Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas

Soluna

Cryptomining and high-performance computing data center developer Soluna has announced two new projects in Texas with a combined capacity of 350MW, bringing its total capacity in operation and development to 1GW.The first project announced was Project Fei, a 100MW data center project colocated...

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Read Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project
Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project
August 27, 2025

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

New Mexico

US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has been granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site s...

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Read Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas
Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas
August 26, 2025

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Texas

Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliabilit...

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Read Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria
Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria
August 26, 2025

Digital Realty Launches 2MW Data Center in Nigeria

Digital Realty Trust

Colocation giant Digital Realty this week announced the opening of its latest data center in Lagos, in the Lekki area of the city, adding nearly 2MW of IT capacity across nearly 1,205 sqm (13,000 sq ft) of data hall space. The facility will be interconnected with Digital Realty’s existing LKK1...

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Read Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025
Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025
August 25, 2025

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

United States

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in TexasVantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrun...

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Read Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility
Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility
August 25, 2025

Essential Utilities Invests $24m into Planned 944MW Facility

Pennsylvania

Essential Utilities, a US-based utility company focusing on natural gas and wastewater treatment, has invested $26 million into a data center project in development in Greene County, Pennsylvania.The utility signed an agreement with independent power producer International Electric Power III (...

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Read Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion
Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion
August 25, 2025

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Qatar

Meeza, a data center and IT firm in Qatar announced this week that it has secured a QAR 800 million ($219.3m) Commodity Murabaha bank facility from Dukhan Bank to fund its build-out. The financing will fund expansion plans to add 44MW of data center capacity. The first phase will deliver 24MW,...

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Read US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel
US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel
August 23, 2025

US Government Acquires 10% Stake in Intel

United States

The US government has taken a 9.9 percent stake in beleaguered chipmaker and designer Intel, investing $8.9 billion in Intel, with $5.7bn coming from funds that would have been awarded through the CHIPS Act and $3.2bn from funds from the Secure Enclave program. Intel has already received $2.2b...

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Read Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners
Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners
August 22, 2025

Atmosphere DC Secures Investment from AGC Equity Partners

United States

Atmosphere Data Centers, a new US-based operator this week announced it has secured a “significant strategic growth investment” from AGC Equity Partners, a global institutional investment firm. “This investment represents a major milestone for Atmosphere,” said Chuck McBride, CEO of Atmosphere...

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Read NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years
NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years
August 22, 2025

NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years

NorthC Datacenters

European data center firm NorthC this week has extended its lease on the 4,800 square meters (51,666 sq ft) of data center space with real estate firm Allgemeine Südboden AG for 25 years.Bettina Krause, head of leasing, Allgemeine Südboden: "We are delighted to extend the lease agreement with ...

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