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Top Data Center News for 8th-13th September, 2025

Vantage Raises $1.6bn for APAC ExpansionVantage Data Centers has raised $1.6 billion to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.EcoDataCenter Raises $703m in Debt FinancingEcoDataCenter has secured €60...

September 15, 2025

United Kingdom

BlackRock to Invest $678m in UK Data Centers

Power technology firm ABB is investing $110 million in manufacturing over the next three months to support growth in industries such as data centers. This investment is to “expand R&D and manufacturing of its advanced electrification solutions,” as customers “focus on improving energy effi...

September 15, 2025

United Kingdom

Ministry of Defence Awards Google Cloud £400m Contract

The UK government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Google Cloud a £400 million ($542.12m) contract. Google is to deliver a UK sovereign cloud capability to give the MoD a secure cloud platform. The offering will be built on Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped.“Google Cloud is dedicated ...

September 12, 2025

United Kingdom

Legal & General Closes €600m Digital Infrastructure Fund

Kao Data investor Legal and General (L&G) has closed a €600 million ($706m) fund that will invest in digital infrastructure projects in Europe and the UK. This is “a key milestone in L&G’s asset management strategy to expand its private markets proposition,” the company said. A second ...

September 10, 2025

KAO Data

Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power

UK data center developer Virtus has signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (cPPA) for 31MW of wind power from the Lynn and Inner Dowsing (LID) windfarms, a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Virtus will offtake 16 percent of the total generation from LID, with a commencement da...

September 02, 2025

United Kingdom

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tri...

August 29, 2025

United Kingdom

TalkTalk Secures £100m Investment

TalkTalk Group has secured £100 million ($134m) in new funding from an existing shareholder. This includes approximately £50m ($67m) of non-core asset sales recently announced and amendments to existing debt facilities, allowing interest to be capitalized, increasing funding capacity by more t...

July 28, 2025

United Kingdom

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity...

July 05, 2025

United Kingdom

Kao Data CEO Doug Loewe Steps Down

The CEO of UK data center company Kao Data, Doug Loewe, has stepped down. The company claimed that Loewe had "decided to dedicate more of his time" to philanthropic work, a cause with which he has a long history. Loewe was CEO for a year and a half.“On behalf of the Board and the entire team a...

July 04, 2025

KAO Data

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW.Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “...

July 02, 2025

United Kingdom

Deep Green to Deploy Compute at Manchester Leisure Center

Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s Nort...

June 26, 2025

Manchester

Data center Application Filed in Scotland

Battery storage firm Apatura has filed an application to develop a data center outside Cumnock, southwest Scotland. The company is requesting an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion ahead of full planning permission as it looks to develop on 24.5 hectares of land south of Creoch F...

June 21, 2025

Scotland

Marsh Launches €1bn Data Center Insurance and Risk Management Services

Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh this week announced the launch of Nimbus, a new insurance facility providing clients cover for the construction of large-scale data centers across the UK and Europe.Nimbus provides up to €1 billion ($1.15bn) in construction all-risks coverage and up to €...

June 21, 2025

United Kingdom

UK District Heating Networks Look to Data Centers for Waste Heat

The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a list of district heating networks in development across the UK that have applied for funding and support from three of its programs.A project pipeline document published by DESNZ states: “The opportunities present a w...

June 10, 2025

United Kingdom

Nebius to Deploy Nvidia B300 GPU Cluster in UK

Nebius will entered the UK with a deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs which will include thousands of the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs - the B300s - and is expected to be operational in Q4 of this year.Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: “We’re pleased to be providing compute ...

June 10, 2025

United Kingdom

Parish Council Objects to Google’s Proposed Data Center Development

A local council in Essex, UK, has voiced opposition to a proposed data center campus from Google on a 52-acre site at North Weald Airfield, east of London, from the Epping Forest District Council.The company aims to develop two data center buildings and separate offices, delivering up to 77,15...

May 28, 2025

United Kingdom

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

January 29, 2025

United Kingdom

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

January 28, 2025

United Kingdom

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

January 27, 2025

United Kingdom

320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved

Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the o...

January 24, 2025

United Kingdom

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