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Read Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia
 Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

Globalinx to Develop Data Center in Portsmouth, Virginia

July 15, 2025 Virginia

Virginia data center firm Globalinx this week revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within...

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Read Top Data Center News from 7th-12th of July, 2025
Top Data Center News from 7th-12th of July, 2025

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th of July, 2025

July 14, 2025 United States

Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data Center Data center firm Yondr has announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim which includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points, is now fully operational, just as it completes a...

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Read CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

July 14, 2025 Pennsylvania

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has revealed plans to invest up to $6 billion in developing a data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania which will have an initial 100MW of IT capacity, though it will have the potential to scale up to 300MW, and will be "purpose-built" for AI use cases. Around 600 skilled...

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Read Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark
Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

Eurowind, Edora to Develop Data Center in Denmark

July 12, 2025 Europe

Danish renewable energy developer Eurowind Energy has partnered with Danish IT services provider Edora to develop a data center within a renewable energy park in Jutland, Denmark. The pilot will see the partners build a data center within the confines of the Eurowind Energy Park consisting of...

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Read Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter
Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter

July 12, 2025 France

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...

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Read Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals
Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

July 12, 2025 Michigan

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...

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Read Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware
Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

July 12, 2025 Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

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Read Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product
Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

Aon Launches $1.5 Billion Data Center Insurance Product

July 11, 2025 United States

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...

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Read Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy
Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

July 10, 2025 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 created...

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Read Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven
 Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

July 07, 2025 United States

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 opportunity...

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Read MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform
MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

July 07, 2025 Japan

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 will...

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Read Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades
Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

July 05, 2025 United Kingdom

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 by...

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Read EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund
EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

July 04, 2025 Europe

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...

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

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

July 04, 2025 Texas

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,...

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Read Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services
Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

July 04, 2025 United States

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...

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Read T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion
T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

July 03, 2025 Florida

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...

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Read Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center
Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

July 02, 2025 United Kingdom

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: “We...

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Read EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF
EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

July 02, 2025 Spain

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 EdgeMode’s...

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Read HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks
HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

July 02, 2025 United States

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 epicenter...

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Read University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center
University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

July 02, 2025 Texas

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 privately...

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