August 11, 2025 New Zealand
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...
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August 11, 2025 Australia
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 collaboration...
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August 11, 2025 South Africa
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 halls...
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August 09, 2025 United States
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...
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August 08, 2025 Tucson
The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...
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August 08, 2025 Texas
Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy and energy firm Clearway this week announced the energization of a colocated high-performance computing data center at the Elbow Creek wind project in Howard County, Texas. The facility, hosted at Clearway’s 122MW Elbow Creek wind farm in Howard County, was...
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August 07, 2025 United States
The Pentagon is planning to put out a request for proposals for the next iteration of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program as soon as Q1 of 2026. The contract dubbed JWCC Next will replace the previous iteration, which was awarded in 2022, though there will be a transition...
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August 07, 2025 Norway
Investment firm Vesper Infrastructure announced this week it had invested in Terakraft, becoming the majority shareholder. Terakraft operates a data center that will offer 10MW of capacity following a “comprehensive refurbishment” and upgrade program. The facility will utilize liquid cooling...
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August 07, 2025 Thailand / Prathet Thai
China's Galaxy Data Center (GDC) has announced that it will invest $2bn in data centers in Thailand after the “Prime Minister meets investors: Confidence in Thailand’s future” investor forum held in Thailand at the Government House’s Peace and Friendship Building.Feng Hui, the founder of GDC,...
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August 06, 2025 Germany / Deutschland
Germany data center operator Maincubes is developing the first data center at its Nauen campus outside Berlin which will be the first of a maximum of six data centers constituting the campus, dubbed BER02.The announcement was made after two agreements - the land use and zoning plan, as well as...
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August 06, 2025 United States
Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider and video, image, and audio provider Fal has raised $125 million and has closed its Series C round, which saw the company valued at $1.5 billion.Posting to LinkedIn, Fal wrote: “Fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of...
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August 05, 2025 Ohio
Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost...
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August 05, 2025 Spain
Spanish startup YPlasma has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to further develop its fanless plasma-based cooling technology in a round led by deep tech venture capital firm Faber, with participation from global VC firm SOSV. The funding will support the expansion of YPlasma’s research and...
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August 04, 2025 United States
Madari Space to Pilot Sending Data Centers into Space UAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026, addressing the exponential growth of data that is being generated both on Earth and in space. eStruxture Secures US$1 Billion in Data Center ABS Financing eStruxture...
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August 04, 2025 United States
Quantica Infrastructure, a new venture focused on providing land and power to data centers in the US this week introduced its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure, a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus outside Billings, Montana.The company said the project...
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August 04, 2025 Arizona
Land developer Vermaland is planning a $33bn data center in Arizona dubbed the La Osa Project. The potential facility would be located in Pinal County on a 3,300-acre site south of Eloy, which is a city in between Phoenix and Tucson. The land parcel is located along the Greene Canal.Once...
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August 02, 2025 North Carolina
A US data center park developer is seeking to build a new campus in North Carolina. In planning since last year, the site is currently zoned RA – Residential Agricultural. Tract’s site plans suggest up to five buildings could be developed on the site. The 400-acre site, between Patterson Farm...
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August 02, 2025 United States
California’s largest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), has reported another increase in its data center pipeline. The utility said that it now has 10GW of capacity in its pipeline, expected for connection over the next ten years.Of the 10GW, 17 data center projects...
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August 02, 2025 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
UAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026. Details around the satellite/data center the company is planning to launch, as well as how much capital the company will be investing in the project, weren't shared. When asked about the company, Romaithi said that this...
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August 02, 2025 United States
Meta has begun piloting the use of mass timber in the construction of its data center campuses, aiming to replace the use of steel and other building materials with wood-based products engineered for strength and durability. According to Meta, the products are engineered for use in industrial...
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