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Elon Musk's xAI Raises $20bn to Fund Data Center Build-out

United States

Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion to help fund its data center build-out. Financial backers include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group.“This financing will accelerate our world-leadin...

Rowan Starts Work on 300MW Data Center in Temple, Texas

Texas

 US data center firm Rowan Digital Infrastructure this week announced it has broken ground on a new $700 million project in the Bell County city. The company is developing on some 700 acres along Bob White Road. At full build-out, the campus could reach 300MW. “This campus will help unlock the...

Beale Infrastructure in Talks to Build Data Center Campus outside Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Data center developer Beale Infrastructure is planning another data center campus outside Tulsa in Oklahoma. Local press reports that the city of Claremore and Claremore Economic Development (CED) are in discussions with Beale over a data center development known as Project Mustang.“Over the p...

Chad Invests €175m in National Data Center and Networks

Bucharest

The government of Chad is investing €175.1 million ($204.7m) in developing a National Data Center and in expanding its fiber optic networks. The investment represents Phase I of the State Connectivity Infrastructure Modernization Project (PMICE), seeking to improve digital infrastructure in th...

Johnson Controls to Invest S$60m to Expand Innovation Center in Singapore

Singapore

Johnson Controls has announced plans to invest up to S$60 million (US$44m) to expand its Innovation Center in Singapore. According to the company, the expansion will target the growing demand for more energy-efficient data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region.Johnson Controls h...

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

New Jersey

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer (...

DayOne Secures $2 billion in Series C Funding

DayOne

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced it has entered into definitive agreements for more than $2 billion in Series C equity financing. DayOne said the financing will accelerate the next phase of its global expansion. In Europe, the proceeds will go towards the development of DayOne’...

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy to Deliver up to 1GW of Onsite Power

Vantage Data Centers

US data center developer Vantage Data Centers has signed a strategic partnership with US natural gas and oil services company Liberty Energy to deliver utility-scale power solutions for its North American data center portfolio. Under the terms of the agreement, Liberty Power Innovations (LPI),...

Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026

United States

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern FranceData4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near...

CapitaLand Sells Stake in Data Centers in India

India / Bhārata

New Year’s Eve saw CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) announce it has successfully raised approximately S$150 million (US$115m) equity in the first close of its CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund (CIDCF), which is focused on data center development opportunities within India’s “key data center...

VivoPower Acquires 40MW Data Center in Norway

Norway

VivoPower International has signed an exclusive heads-of-agreement to acquire the facility from an undisclosed firm. According to Vivo, the data center has a further 40MW of capacity earmarked for potential approval in 2026 and is powered exclusively by hydroelectric energy.Vivo intends to rep...

OADC Acquires NTT Data Centers in South Africa

NTT Data

Pan-African data center firm Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is acquiring a portfolio of NTT data centers in South Africa. According to CCSA, the deal is set to see OADC affiliates, OADC Propco and OADC Opco, acquire seven data centers currently owned and operated by NTT Data SA.The facilities...

AWS Plans Data Center in Covington, Georgia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning a data center in Covington, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.The company has made a $100 million agreement with the city to construct a water treatment and cooling facility to support the data center.“This new project is expected to generate significant ne...

Ground Broken on 30m Square Feet Data Center for Saudi Arabian Gov't

On January 1, the foundation stone of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority's (SDAIA) Hexagon data center was laid in a groundbreaking ceremony. The data center will host more than 290 government systems, and has been designed to meet "green building requirements."SDAIA wrote: "...

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France

DATA4 Group

Data4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near Denain, which is just outside the city of Valenciennes.A co...

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Georgia

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios...

AIC Partners with Romania’s ClusterPower on 800MW Data Center Build-out

Romania

Data center investment company Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) is partnering with Romanian operator ClusterPower for a new campus.The companies this week announced an equity partnership agreement to co-develop a new 800MW AI data center region in southwestern Romania.“ClusterPower bri...

Cisco Signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland

Poland

Polish renewable energy firm R.Power has signed a virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Cisco Systems, a US networking firm. Over the term of the 15-year agreement, R.Power will supply approximately 486MWh of power to Cisco for its Polish operations.According to the companies, the contr...

AWS Gets Greenlight for Three Data Centers in Dublin

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received planning permission for three data centers in north Dublin, Ireland. The greenlight, awarded by planning appeals body An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP), comes three years after the application was first filed by Amazon affiliate Universal Developers LLC.The dat...

Blue Owl Backs Out of Funding Oracle's $10bn Michigan Facility

Oracle

Blue Owl Capital is not planning to provide financial backing to Oracle's planned data center in Saline Township, Michigan. The data center project, valued at $10 billion, is being developed by Oracle, Related Digital, and OpenAI as part of the latter's Stargate project.The campus is expected ...