Read DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland
DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland
August 15, 2025

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...

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Read Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs
Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs
August 15, 2025

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of ...

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Read Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms
Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms
August 14, 2025

Equinix Signs Three Major Deals with Advanced Nuclear Firms

Equinix

US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...

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Read TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack
TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack
August 14, 2025

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

New York

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

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Read EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden
EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden
August 14, 2025

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

Sweden

EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), imm...

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Read Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital
Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital
August 14, 2025

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Canada

Canadian telecoms firm Rogers this week announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Communications’ data center business, on behalf of InfraRed’s value-add strategy. Rogers said it will continue to sell data center services on behalf of InfraRed and will provide netw...

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Read Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank
Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank
August 13, 2025

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

United States

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

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Read DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center
DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center
August 13, 2025

DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data Center

DC BLOX

US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...

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Read Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution
Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution
August 13, 2025

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Abu Dhabi

Zero Two has invested in Evolution, taking a co-controlling position alongside Warburg Pincus. Terms of the deal were not shared, though reports from Mingtiandi puts the figure at $325 million.Darren Webb, CEO and co-founder of Evolution Data Centres, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welc...

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
August 13, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good ne...

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Read Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
August 12, 2025

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri Kha...

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Read DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation
DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation
August 12, 2025

DigitalBridge has 5.4GW of data center capacity in operation

DigitalBridge

Data center investor DigitalBridge revealed it has more than 5.4GW of data center capacity in development or operation. The company, which holds stakes in data center and energy businesses through various funds, said that roughly half of that was currently built, and the other half is under co...

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Read Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up
Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up
August 12, 2025

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

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Read Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025
August 11, 2025

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

United States

Vermaland Plans $33bn Data Center in ArizonaLand developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project which would potentially be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site and support up to 3GW of capacity, which would bring in more capacity than the entir...

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Read CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth
August 11, 2025

CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth

Australia

Australian data center operator CDC is planning a new campus outside Perth, Western Australia. The company aims to invest AU$415 million ($270.2m) in the first stage of the development in Maddington, 20 kilometres south-east of central Perth. The site will be operational in 2026.“In collaborat...

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Read Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus
August 11, 2025

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

South Africa

South African data center company Teraco has expanded its data center outside Johannesburg. The Digital Realty subsidiary said the 30MW addition makes JB4 the largest standalone data center in Africa, serving 50MW of critical IT power load. The firm also said it is the first time 5MW data hall...

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Read Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business
Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business
August 11, 2025

Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business

New Zealand

Kiwi telco Spark New Zealand this week announced it has entered into an agreement to sell a 75 percent interest in its data center business to Pacific Equity Partners (PEP). The transaction values the business at up to NZ$705 million (US$417.6m), with Spark receiving NZ$486m (US$288m) upon com...

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Read AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts
August 09, 2025

AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

Amazon AWS

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end ...

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Read Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities
August 09, 2025

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

United States

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

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Read Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
August 08, 2025

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer C...

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