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Top Data Center News from 15th- 20th July, 2025

Data center Firms Plan $90bn Investment in PennsylvaniaData center and energy firms have pledged to invest $90 billion in the US state of Pennsylvania to help build out its digital infrastructure following a summit attended by President Donald Trump. Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus ...

July 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

vCompute to Raise $350m for Operations Expansion

Virtual Compute Corporation (vCompute) has said it is looking to raise $350 million in growth capital to expand its data center operations. The planned expansion will increase hosting capacity and support demand for advanced AI and HPC infrastructure solutions."We're seeing exponential demand ...

July 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Rai Way Integrates Cloud Storage Services Across Edge Data Centers

Italian Edge data center provider Rai Way has integrated geo-distributed cloud storage enabler Cubbit's DS3 Composer technology into its data center platform, starting with five data centers in Italy, located in Venice, Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Florence. The solution currently offers a storage...

July 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

July 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

W Denis Group Launches Division Focused on Insuring Data Centers

Insurance broker W Denis Group this week launched a new specialist division focused exclusively on insuring data centers and their integrated power generation infrastructure. The broker said the new unit will deliver “comprehensive, competitively priced solutions backed by multi-billion capaci...

July 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Exa Launches New Fiber Route from London to Brussels

Exa Infrastructure has launched a new European fiber route, including a subsea cable connecting the UK to mainland Europe. The 1,200 km project includes a 115km submarine cable linking Margate in the UK to Ostend, Belgium. Exa is responsible for providing landing party and backhaul services on...

July 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

TierPoint Secures $250 Million Financing

US colo company TierPoint this week said its parent company had closed a $250 million term loan, a portion of which is a delayed draw term loan which complements TierPoint’s asset-backed securitization (ABS) and variable funding notes (VFN) program.“Our ability to continue successfully access...

July 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

National Bank of Bahrain Launches Data Center

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...

July 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bahrain

Duos Edge AI to Deploy Two Edge Data Centers in Texas

Duos Edge AI is set to deploy two of its Edge data centers in Corpus Christi, Texas which will serve as “central communications hubs for carriers delivering services to mobile operators, enterprises, local education, healthcare, and digital economy sectors while driving growth across the local...

July 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

InfraVia to Sell Switzerland’s Green Datacenter to IFM

Investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners this week announced IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), advised by IFM Investors, has agreed to indirectly acquire 100 percent of Green Group AG. Terms were not shared, but the deal is set to close later this year.“We look forward to embarking on...

July 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

Data center Firms Plan $90bn Investment in Pennsylvania

Data center and energy firms have pledged to invest $90 billion in the US state of Pennsylvania to help build out its digital infrastructure following a summit attended by President Donald Trump. The first Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit was held on Tuesday, with Trump and state sena...

July 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Proposed in Pennyslyvania

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...

July 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, 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...

July 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

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

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...

July 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, 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...

July 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

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 ...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter

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...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

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...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

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

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Delaware

Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

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...

July 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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