World Data Center News

Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance brokerage Lockton has partnered with Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption risk solutions, to bring a Service Level Agreement (SLA) insurance offering to the data center market. The companies said the parametric coverage offers immediate payouts triggered by predefi...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm

Nasdaq-listed Sonim Technologies, a provider of rugged mobile phones and other products, this week announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for a proposed reverse take-over (RTO) with a privately owned US-based company that is “building out Nvidia-based high-performance co...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, this week announced that it and Consensus Core Technologies, a Canadian provider of GPU infrastructure and AI cloud services, have executed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a phased hyperscale data ...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Manchester

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Vultr Secures $329m in Credit Financing

Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has secured $329 million in credit financing to help further expand its AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform. The financing is made up of a $255 million syndicated credit facility, including a $35 million uncommitted accordion, and $74 million of r...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Time Energy Launches Malaysia’s First Community Solar Project

Time Energy, the renewable division of Malaysian telco Time dotCom, has launched the country’s first community solar project for data centers. The company signed an agreement with AIMS Group, a colocation and Edge data center provider, which will be the first anchor customer, via the Community...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High Perform...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Toronto

Utilidata Raises $60.3m for Energy Infrastructure AI Platform

Utilidata has raised $60.3 million in Series C funding to scale its energy infrastructure AI platform, Karman, developed in partnership with Nvidia. The platform provides real-time visibility, identifies and manages distributed energy resources, enhances resiliency, and offsets the need for fu...

June 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

HPE Expands its Nvidia AI Computing Portfolio

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded its portfolio of Nvidia AI computing solutions, including the launch of the next generation of HPE's Private Cloud AI, and plans to work with KDDI on a new GB200 NVL72 system.HPE's Private Cloud AI is described as an "integrated turnkey AI factory ...

June 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Top Data Center News from 16th-21st of June 2025

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in AustraliaAmazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia as it looks to develop additional data centers and expand its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Cawley Partners Acquire...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Data center Inaugurated at Port of Imbituba, Brazil

A new data center has been energized at the Port of Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil. According to the developer, the data center will integrate neural networks and artificial intelligence to automate the Ports process and reduce response times during its operations.The facility cost an estima...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

Stoneweg Announces Data Center Investment Fund for Europe

Swiss real estate investment advisor Stoneweg is entering the data center market, launching its own data center fund and platform via its Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust (SERT) unit. The company this week announced Stoneweg European Business Trust has made a €50 million ($58m) investment in the ...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Scotland

100MW AI Data Center Planned in Armenia

Firebird, an AI cloud company, and the Armenian government this week announced plans to launch a 100MW AI data center in 2026 equipped with “thousands” of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The company said the project will funded via a $500 million public-private partnership with the Armenian government....

June 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Americas

Haoyang Data Purchases Land for New Thailand Facility

Chinese data center operator Beijing Haoyang Cloud & Data Technology Co recently acquired land from WHA Industrial Development (WHAID), one of Thailand’s leading industrial estate developers for a data center to be developed by Haoyang’s local subsidiary, Haoyang Data Center 1.“As global d...

June 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Thailand / Prathet Thai

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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