Data Center News

National Bank of Bahrain Launches Data Center

Bahrain

The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has launched a new data center, a result of an 18-month effort to transform the bank's infrastructure, with support from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The data center is Tier III design certified by Uptime Institute and located on the 6th floor of NBB's headqu...

Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

Google

Google has won a contract valued up to $200 million with the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Intelligence Office (CDAO) to provide infrastructure for AI. Under the contract with Google Public Sector, the DoD can access Google's cloud infrastructure, including its tensor proc...

Oracle to Invest $3bn in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Oracle

Oracle plans to invest a combined $3 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years. $2bn has been earmarked for Germany, while $1bn will go to the Netherlands.Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Affairs, Karsten Wildberger, said: "Oracle's st...

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Google

Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and Goog...

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Proposed in Pennyslyvania

Pennsylvania

A large data center campus is being proposed in Northeast Pennsylvania. 1778 Rich Pike LLC is aiming to develop a 1.5GW, 1,000-acre campus on either side of Interstate 380, just north of Clifton Beach Road. The project is known as the Gouldsboro Data Center in some documents.Each building woul...

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has revealed plans to invest up to $6 billion in developing a data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania which will have an initial 100MW of IT capacity, though it will have the potential to scale up to 300MW, and will be "purpose-built" for AI use cases. Around 600 skilled...

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Google

Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed, overhau...

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th of July, 2025

United States

Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data CenterData center firm Yondr has announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim which includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points, is now fully operational, just as it completes a resea...

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

Michigan

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter

France

Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp announced this week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Thésée from state-owned French investment group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations/Banque des Territoires and Groupe IDEC Invest, the real...

Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomput...

Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data Center

Yondr Group

Data center firm Yondr Group this week announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, is now fully operational. The site includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points. Yondr said it has also comple...

Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

Europe

Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has partnered with Danish IT services provider Edora to develop a data center within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. The pilot will see the partners build a data center within the confines of the Eurowind Energy Park consisting of ...

Debenhams Group Signs Multi-Year Deal with AWS

UK retail company Debenhams Group has extended its existing partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a new multi-year contract. With Debenhams Group already using AWS, the new contract will expand this to include its other brands, such as PrettyLittleThing, Karen Millen, and Boohoo.“Col...

Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

United States

Insurance firm Aon this week announced the launch of its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program (DCLP), a proprietary multi-line insurance facility designed to help clients manage risk across every stage of data center development and operations.“Today’s data centers are the backbone of the g...

Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

Google

Google Cloud and the UK government are teaming up to tackle the UK's reliance on legacy IT as both parties hope to save taxpayer money by replacing old technology. Google has also teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to digitize and transcribe its oral history collection, and is working with...

Ascenty Plans More Facilities in São Paulo, Brazil

Latin American data center firm Ascenty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure, recently celebrated 15 years in the Latin American market by announcing a new 47MW, 40,000 sqm (430,555 sq ft) facility.“We’ve seen strong demand from clients for space in our data ce...

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

Italy

Adriatic DC this month announced plans for multiple data center campuses across Puglia in the southeast of Italy. The company claims the 'Puglia Data Center Valley' will total more than 2GW of capacity at full build-out, but few details have been shared."The Puglia Data Center Valley was creat...