Data Center News

NextEra Energy Targets 15GW of New Generation for Data Center Hubs

US utility company NextEra Energy has revealed that it has 20GW of interest from large load users, predominantly from hyperscale data center customers. Of the 20GW, 9GW is in the advanced discussions phase.In the call, the company also said it is targeting 15GW of new generation for data cente...

Sharon AI Appoints Co-founder James Manning as CEO

United States

Neocloud Sharon AI has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with co-founder and chairman James Manning taking over the CEO role from Wolf Schubert. Manning became CEO on January 23, having served as chairman of the company since its founding in 2024.Commenting on his new role at the company,...

One Year Data Center Moratorium Introduced in New Orleans

New Orleans

A one-year moratorium on data centers has been introduced in New Orleans, Louisiana. At a special meeting this week, the New Orleans City Council approved two motions following news of a proposed data center in New Orleans East and the regulation of future data center developments citywide.Mot...

Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates, is looking to lure data centers to the area and signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DataCanvas International and AI Caravan. The MoU outlines a collaborative effort among the parties to explore opportunities for establishing a...

atNorth Plans 30MW Data Center in Stockholm, Sweden

atNorth

Nordic data center firm atNorth is to develop a second data center in Stockholm, Sweden. It plans to build an additional data center in Stockholm, known as SWE02. The site is scheduled to go live in Q4 2027.“The expansion of our presence in Stockholm is a clear reflection of the growing demand...

Penta Infra Acquires Data Center in Munich, Germany

Penta Infra

European data center firm Penta Infra has acquired a facility in Munich, Germany. The company announced the acquisition this week, saying the facility will be “fully modernized and expanded” into a colocation data center with 20MW of IT capacity.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "Munich...

QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

QTS Data Centers

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

Canada

The town of Olds this week announced that Synapse Data Center Inc. has proposed a 1GW data center development. The campus, according to the company and filings with the Alberta government, would total ten 100MW buildings and some two million sq ft (185,805 sqm) of space.The campus could see in...

Amazon Confirms 16,000 Layoffs, Including at AWS

Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to cut some 16,000 workers across the company, in its latest round of layoffs. Job losses were first rumored last week, and then accidentally leaked when a draft email written by Colleen Aubrey, a SVP at cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS), was included in a calendar invitati...

EuroCTP Selects Equinix's FR2 Data Center for Equity Trading Consildated Tape

Equinix

EuroCTP, a new provider of an EU real-time pre and post-trade Consolidated Tape (CT) for financial equity trades, has selected Equinix's FR2 data center to host its 'tape' in Frankfurt, Germany.“Equinix FR2 provides EuroCTP with the ideal foundation to drive growth, ensuring we can reliably me...

TikTok Suffers Data Center Outage in US

TikTok has suffered a data center outage in the US. The social media platform has confirmed that issues experienced with its app have been related to a power outage at one of its US data centers.Posting on X, TikTok USDS said: "Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services followi...

Nvidia Invests Another $2bn in CoreWeave

CoreWeave

Nvidia has invested another $2 billion in AI cloud provider CoreWeave. The investment aims to help CoreWeave speed up its build-out of more than 5GW of AI capacity by 2030, and will also see Nvidia giving the neocloud access to the upcoming Vera chip - Nvidia's latest CPU.Nvidia's CEO, Jensen ...

SoftBank Ends Talks Over $50bn Purchase of Data Center Firm Switch

SoftBank has reportedly halted discussions over a $50 billion bid for US data center firm Switch. According to Bloomberg, SoftBank insiders are said to have raised concerns about financing the $50 billion deal, as well as the challenges it would have faced managing Switch’s large network of da...

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...

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

Norway

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...