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Read Chad Invests €175m in National Data Center and Networks
Chad Invests €175m in National Data Center and Networks

Chad Invests €175m in National Data Center and Networks

January 07, 2026 Bucharest

The government of Chad is investing €175.1 million ($204.7m) in developing a National Data Center and in expanding its fiber optic networks. The investment represents Phase I of the State Connectivity Infrastructure Modernization Project (PMICE), seeking to improve digital infrastructure in the...

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Read Johnson Controls to Invest S$60m to Expand Innovation Center in Singapore
Johnson Controls to Invest S$60m to Expand Innovation Center in Singapore

Johnson Controls to Invest S$60m to Expand Innovation Center in Singapore

January 06, 2026 Singapore

Johnson Controls has announced plans to invest up to S$60 million (US$44m) to expand its Innovation Center in Singapore. According to the company, the expansion will target the growing demand for more energy-efficient data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region.Johnson Controls has...

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Read Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers
Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

Stack Overflow Fully Exits Data Centers

January 06, 2026 New Jersey

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. Stack noted that for the past 16 years it had been operating out of a physical data center in which the site reliability engineer...

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Read Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026
Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026

Top Data Center News for 29th December - 4th January, 2026

January 05, 2026 United States

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France Data4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near...

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Read VivoPower Acquires 40MW Data Center in Norway
VivoPower Acquires 40MW Data Center in Norway

VivoPower Acquires 40MW Data Center in Norway

January 04, 2026 Norway

VivoPower International has signed an exclusive heads-of-agreement to acquire the facility from an undisclosed firm. According to Vivo, the data center has a further 40MW of capacity earmarked for potential approval in 2026 and is powered exclusively by hydroelectric energy.Vivo intends to...

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Read CapitaLand Sells Stake in Data Centers in India
CapitaLand Sells Stake in Data Centers in India

CapitaLand Sells Stake in Data Centers in India

January 04, 2026 India / Bhārata

New Year’s Eve saw CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) announce it has successfully raised approximately S$150 million (US$115m) equity in the first close of its CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund (CIDCF), which is focused on data center development opportunities within India’s “key data center...

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Read AIC Partners with Romania’s ClusterPower on 800MW Data Center Build-out
AIC Partners with Romania’s ClusterPower on 800MW Data Center Build-out

AIC Partners with Romania’s ClusterPower on 800MW Data Center Build-out

January 03, 2026 Romania

Data center investment company Accelerated Infrastructure Capital (AIC) is partnering with Romanian operator ClusterPower for a new campus.The companies this week announced an equity partnership agreement to co-develop a new 800MW AI data center region in southwestern Romania.“ClusterPower brings...

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Read Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center
Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

January 03, 2026 Georgia

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios’...

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Read Cisco Signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland
Cisco Signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland

Cisco Signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland

January 03, 2026 Poland

Polish renewable energy firm R.Power has signed a virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Cisco Systems, a US networking firm. Over the term of the 15-year agreement, R.Power will supply approximately 486MWh of power to Cisco for its Polish operations.According to the companies, the...

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Read Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia
Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

Ares Acquires Land and Data Centers in Virginia

January 02, 2026 Virginia

Alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has expanded its data center platform Ada Infrastructure into the US, acquiring land in Virginia for a new campus.The Ares Digital Infrastructure business, through an Ares fund, has acquired a 314-acre site along the I-95 South data...

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Read Element Critical announces new data center platform in US
Element Critical announces new data center platform in US

Element Critical announces new data center platform in US

January 02, 2026 United States

Element Critical this week announced the launch of a new US data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria, and Safanad. Element said with backing from its investors, the new platform will "accelerate acquisitions, development, and strategic expansion across top US...

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Read Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware
Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

Verdantas Proposes New Data Center in Newark, Delaware

January 02, 2026 Delaware

A new data center has been proposed in New Castle County, Newark, Delaware. The proposed data center would sit just off of Ogletown Road, on a 44-acre site currently occupied by the White Clay Center Industrial Park.The application describes consolidating the seven buildings of the campus into...

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Read FCDC Plans New Data Center Campus in Vaasa, Finland
FCDC Plans New Data Center Campus in Vaasa, Finland

FCDC Plans New Data Center Campus in Vaasa, Finland

December 31, 2025 Finland

Finnish data center FCDC is planning a new campus in western-central Finland. FDFC Corp Oy aims to develop a 66,000 sqm (710,420 sq ft) campus in GigaVaasa, located in the Laajametsä business area near the airport. Two data center buildings are planned."The data center project supports Vaasa's...

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Read Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations
Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations

Elisa Confirms Plans to Cut 357 Jobs Following Personnel Negotiations

December 30, 2025 Finland

Finnish telco Elisa has confirmed it will cut 357 jobs. The announcement comes after the company launched its transformation program in October, when the carrier hinted up to 450 jobs could be lost."As part of the transformation program, Elisa is streamlining its organization and optimizing its...

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Read Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York
Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

Token Cat and Better Now Plan Data Center in New York

December 30, 2025 New York

Chinese tech firm Token Cat and US-based Better Now have announced that they will collaborate to develop and operate an artificial intelligence data center in New York. The project will see a multi-phase roll-out to build a 30MW data center, with the company already having secured access to 12MW...

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Read Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025
Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025

Top Data Center News for 22nd - 27th December 2025

December 29, 2025 United States

AtlasEdge Sells Nine Data Centers Across Europe to Spanish Operator Templus European Edge data center company AtlasEdge has sold a portfolio of facilities to Spanish operator Templus. The companies announced the deal this week, with nine data centers trading hands. Google to Buy Intersect Power...

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Read What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented
What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

What Makes a Data Center Go Down and How Outages Are Prevented

December 29, 2025 United States

Few places on Earth are as quietly vital as a data center. From the outside, most look like simple warehouses: broad, windowless, and often isolated. However, data centers house some of the most complex environments ever engineered over centuries. Vast rooms filled with servers hum continuously...

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Read Blykalla Raises $50m as it Advances Plans to Power Data Centers
Blykalla Raises $50m as it Advances Plans to Power Data Centers

Blykalla Raises $50m as it Advances Plans to Power Data Centers

December 27, 2025 Sweden

Swedish small modular reactor (SMR) start-up Blykalla has closed a $50 million (€42m) financing round to accelerate development of its lead-cooled SMR, with a focus on meeting growing demand from the data center sector.Blykalla said that it will use the capital to scale testing and validation...

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Read VCI Energy, DPS Energy to Develop 250MW Solar Project in Malaysia
VCI Energy, DPS Energy to Develop 250MW Solar Project in Malaysia

VCI Energy, DPS Energy to Develop 250MW Solar Project in Malaysia

December 26, 2025 Malaysia

Malaysian renewable energy developer VCI Energy has partnered with DPS Energy to develop a up to 250MW solar project to power AI data centers in Malaysia. According to the partners, the project is structured as an infrastructure-grade renewable energy platform capable of supporting up to 250MW of...

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Read New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers
New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

New Era Energy to Acquire SharonAI's 50 Percent Share in Texas Critical Data Centers

December 26, 2025 Texas

New Era Energy & Digital has signed a binding agreement to acquire Sharon AI’s 50 percent stake in Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture between the two companies, which is developing an AI data center in Ector County, Texas.New Era Energy & Digital will pay SharonAI an...

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