Data Center News

Caterpillar, Hunt Energy to Deliver up to 1GW of Power in North America

North America

Caterpillar, one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial equipment, has partnered with US power infrastructure developer Hunt Energy  in a multi-year initiative to deliver upwards of 1GW of generation capacity for data centers in North America. The first project is expected to launc...

BT Signs New Five-year Agreement with AWS

Amazon AWS

UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’...

E-Werk and Leitwerk Plans Data Center in Lahr, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Energy firm E-Werk Mittelbaden and IT services provider Leitwerk are investing €16 million ($18.63m) in a new data center within the startkLahr Airport & Business Park in Lahr, close to the French border in western Baden-Württemberg.“Starting signal for our data center in Lahr,” Julian Neu...

Ooredoo Inaugurates Data Center in Oman

Oman

Middle Eastern telecoms firm Ooredoo has inaugurated a new data center and cable landing station (CLS) in Salalah, Oman, in the presence of Sayyid Marwan bin Turki, Governor of Dhofar, alongside Ooredoo Oman CEO Saoud Al Riyami. The company said the data center was a “milestone project that re...

Yondr Expands into Texas with 550MW Facility

Yondr Group

Data center developer Yondr Group this week announced it has secured a 163-acre site in Lancaster, Texas, just south of Dallas, to develop a data center campus able to offer 550MW critical IT load.“The US is a key market for Yondr’s next phase of growth, and Dallas is one of the largest and fa...

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good ne...

EdgeConneX to Build Data Centers in Chicago and Atlanta

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Build-to-suit data center company EdgeConneX will set up data centers in Chicago and Atlanta for neocloud Lambda to support hybrid cooling with liquid-to-the-chip direct cooling and air cooling, and join two existing air-cooled facilities across both cities."Our partnership with Lambda undersc...

Avaio Targets $6bn Mississippi Data Center Campus

AVAIO Digital Partners

Data center developer Avaio Digital Partners this week announced plans for a new $6 billion data center campus in Mississippi's Rankin County. The campus, known as Avaio Digital Taurus, will total 600,000 sq ft (55,742 sqm) of data center space and 116MW of capacity. The company said the proje...

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Texas

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milesto...

Applied Digital Plans AI Data Center Campus in North Dakota

Applied Digital

Former cryptomine company turned AI data center firm Applied Digital this week announced plans for Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280MW campus near Harwood in Cass County.  "We believe Polaris Forge 2 represents the next stage in Applied Digital’s rapid growth and our position as a leader in d...

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Michigan

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

AirTrunk Secures $1.75bn Financing for Data Center Development

APAC data center firm AirTrunk this week announced a new S$2.25 billion (US$1.75bn) green loan in Singapore to support the development of a new hyperscale data center, AirTrunk SGP2. AirTrunk said the transaction was Singapore’s largest-ever loan and green loan for a data center.Crédit Agricol...

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

United States

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in IowaQTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data CenterUS...

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

South Korea

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...

Rio de Janeiro City Hall Partners with Oracle and Nvidia for AI City

Oracle

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil Eduardo Paes, during Rio Innovation Week this week, announced an agreement to accelerate the development of the "Rio AI City" project, which aims to transform the city into one of the main global hubs for artificial intelligence."We've signed with the worl...

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Spain

Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

United States

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

NextDC Expands Debt Facility by AU$1.3 billion

NEXTDC

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced that, following the successful completion of general syndication, it has secured new senior debt facilities totaling AU$3.5 billion (US$2.28bn).NextDC CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, said: "In light of recent record contract wins that are acce...

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

Finland

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...