World Data Center News

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. has closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility for the development of its Helios data center campus in Texas which was previously used by Galaxy for cryptomining, before being converted to host AI cloud provider CoreWeave."This financing marks a major milesto...

August 20, 2025

Texas

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

August 19, 2025

Michigan

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in IowaQTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.DC Blox Secures $1.15bn Green Loan for Atlanta Data CenterUS...

August 18, 2025

United States

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at oth...

August 15, 2025

Republic of Ireland

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) provider Massed Compute has received $300 million in investment from Digital Alpha which will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint, including the purchase of Nvidia GPUs.“Massed Compute is purpose-built to meet the demands of modern AI-...

August 15, 2025

United States

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...

August 15, 2025

Finland

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...

August 15, 2025

Spain

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of ...

August 15, 2025

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...

August 15, 2025

South Korea

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

Cryptomine and HPC data center firm TeraWulf this week announced two 10-year high-performance computing (HPC) colocation agreements with Fluidstack. TeraWulf will deliver more than 200MW of critical IT load (~250MW of gross capacity) at its Lake Mariner data center campus in New York. The deal...

August 14, 2025

New York

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

Canadian telecoms firm Rogers this week announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Communications’ data center business, on behalf of InfraRed’s value-add strategy. Rogers said it will continue to sell data center services on behalf of InfraRed and will provide netw...

August 14, 2025

Canada

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), imm...

August 14, 2025

Sweden

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Germany’s Aareal Bank is moving into providing financing to data center customers and has entered into its first financing transaction in the data center asset class in July 2025 with Goodman Group."Frankfurt is Europe's largest Internet node, with a data transfer rate of more than 18 terabits...

August 13, 2025

United States

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Zero Two has invested in Evolution, taking a co-controlling position alongside Warburg Pincus. Terms of the deal were not shared, though reports from Mingtiandi puts the figure at $325 million.Darren Webb, CEO and co-founder of Evolution Data Centres, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welc...

August 13, 2025

Abu Dhabi

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

August 12, 2025

Michigan

Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business

Kiwi telco Spark New Zealand this week announced it has entered into an agreement to sell a 75 percent interest in its data center business to Pacific Equity Partners (PEP). The transaction values the business at up to NZ$705 million (US$417.6m), with Spark receiving NZ$486m (US$288m) upon com...

August 11, 2025

New Zealand

CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth

Australian data center operator CDC is planning a new campus outside Perth, Western Australia. The company aims to invest AU$415 million ($270.2m) in the first stage of the development in Maddington, 20 kilometres south-east of central Perth. The site will be operational in 2026.“In collaborat...

August 11, 2025

Australia

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

South African data center company Teraco has expanded its data center outside Johannesburg. The Digital Realty subsidiary said the 30MW addition makes JB4 the largest standalone data center in Africa, serving 50MW of critical IT power load. The firm also said it is the first time 5MW data hall...

August 11, 2025

South Africa

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

Investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is to launch a dedicated strategy to develop AI infrastructure as announced in its Q2 2025 letter from CEO Bruce Flatt and president Connor Teskey to investors."We are launching a dedicated strategy focused on the development of AI infrastructure—de...

August 09, 2025

United States

Data Center News

Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Top Data Center News from 11th-15th of August, 2025

Kildare Completes Government Data Center

Digital Alpha Invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute

DayOne Plans 128MW Data Center in Finland

Avaio Digital Enters Spain with New Data Center

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

Vast Data Partners with SK Telecom on Haein AI Cluster

TeraWulf to Lease New York Site to Fluidstack

Rogers Sells Data Center Business to InfraRed Capital

EdgeMode Explores Development of 20MW AI Data Center in Sweden

Goodman Secures Financing from Aareal Bank

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Top News Stories from 4th-9th of August 2025

Spark Sells Majority Stake in Data Center Business

CDC Plans 200MW Data Center Campus outside Perth

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

Brookfield to Launch Dedicated Strategy for AI Facilities

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