World Data Center News

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

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

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in 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...

July 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

Imran Latif has joined Johnson Controls as vice president, global technology and innovation, data centers after spending the last 14-and-a-half years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, most recently as its chief operations officer (COO) for data center infrastructure."Having had the opportunit...

July 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership w...

July 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €30 million ($35m) in Quantonation II, a French early-stage venture capital fund targeting quantum and ‘deep physics’ startups. This forms part of the wider InvestEU strategy that aims to close the equity gap faced by early-stage “innovative comp...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Fermi America Acquires 600MW of Gas Turbines for 11GW AI Mega Campus

Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable, e...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

Digerati Technologies, the holding company of cloud service and colocation providers Waiv Cloud and Verve Cloud, has pivoted away from cloud computing. Digerati has completed the refinancing and debt-for-equity exchange for its former subsidiary Verve Cloud, enabling it to focus on colocation ...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

T-Mobile, in an announcement this week, said the multi-year expansion of its 5G network has concluded. The carrier said it has upgraded new and existing cell sites across the state.In total, the carrier has upgraded 1,350 sites across Florida, while also bolstering 1,375 sites to shore up emer...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its long-awaited $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the deal following HPE's agreement to a number of potentially significant conditions.“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicent...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

The University of Texas is looking to deploy a new data center to be housed in the education building at 500 W University Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The data center will span 4,568 sq ft (424.4 sqm) and is estimated to cost around $3 million.According to the posting, the project will be private...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Slam Corp Sues Lynk Global for Attempt to cancel merger

Slam Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) founded by former baseball star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, is suing satellite mobile provider Lynk Global in a Florida court to prevent it from backing out of a proposed merger.Virginia-based Lynk moved to terminate its business combination ...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South KoreaSouth Korean Internet firm Kakao has committed to a KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment that will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province.DigitalBridge and ...

June 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

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