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Amazon to Invest $20bn in Data Centers in Pennsylvania

Amazon is committing to investing $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure. The company will initially focus that investment on Salem Township and Falls Township, intending to develop "innovation campuses.""Pennsylvania is competing again—and I'm proud to announce that with ...

June 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Top Data Center News from 2nd - 7th of June 2025

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North CarolinaAmazon will be making a $10 billion investment in the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina, which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, bringing at least 500 full-time jobs to the region in the process.Gree...

June 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Digital Edge Partners with B.Grimm for Thai Data Centers

APAC data center firm Digital Edge this week announced a strategic joint venture with Thai energy firm, B.Grimm Power (BGRIM), to develop hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across Thailand.“Thailand stands out as one of Asia’s most compelling digital growth markets,” said John Freema...

June 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Texas Critical Data Centers signs MoU for AI Data Center

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) has entered a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PowerForward Energy to supply onsite generation at its proposed 250MW AI data center in Ector County, Texas.The MoU will set the parameters for a power supply agreement between the companies, wh...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center

GreenScale this week announced the acquisition of Tonstad DataPark, a new data center development located in the municipality of Sirdal in West Agder County (NO2), Norway.Tonstad DataPark spans a 420,000 square meter (4.5 million sq ft) site with 300MW of grid capacity, approved by Glitre Nett...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Norway

Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

Brookfield Asset Management plans to spend up to 95 billion kronor ($9.9 billion) on an AI data center in Strängnäs, Sweden. The investment more than doubles a planned 300MW facility to 750MW, with the company planning to purchase 350,000 sqm of additional land in Strängnäs to support the larg...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, Chile

TECfusions and Baeza Group have secured land for a 100MW data center project in Puente Alto, Chile. The campus is expected to be able to launch with an initial 10MW of capacity, and an additional 10MW available from the local grid. Eventually, TECfusions plans to expand the campus to 100MW.The...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chile

GridFree AI raises $5m for Off-Grid Data Center Deployment

GridFree AI, an infrastructure startup backed by Montauk Climate, has raised $5 million in seed funding as it looks to streamline and accelerate data center deployment using its Power Foundry platform, which integrates power generation, battery storage, and cooling into a modular, grid-indepen...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

FlexGen, Rosendin to Develop Utility-Scale BESS Solution

FlexGen Power Systems and Rosendin have partnered on the development of a utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) designed to replace traditional UPS infrastructure in data centers. The partnership will combine FlexGen’s energy management software and BESS technology with Rosendin’s...

June 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.“This is a de...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Minnesota

Vertiv Unveils Liquid Cooling CDUs for AI data centers

Vertiv has launched three new coolant distribution units (CDUs) for liquid cooled data centers as it is expanding its CoolChip CDU range with the addition of the CoolChip CDU 70, CoolChip CDU 100, CoolChip CDU 600 models.“As workloads continue to drive higher rack densities and cooling demands...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Siemens Launches Prefabricated Data Center Module

Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Cadolto Datacenter, and Legrand Data Center Solutions announced this week that they are jointly unveiling a new turnkey modular Edge data center. The companies are offering customizable, prefabricated modules that can be tailored to unique operational needs and de...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Principal Acquires Connecta Park in Germany

Principal Asset Management has acquired a data center complex in Düsseldorf, Germany.The site is let to a number of tenants, including Digital Realty, Colt, Pluserver, Comtrance, 1&1 Versatel, Telia, Vodafone, and Zayo. The site is also home to the DE-CIX and ECIX (Megaport) Internet excha...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Laura Swett to Replace Mark Christie as Chairman of FERC

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Mark Christie, is set to be replaced when his term expires at the end of the month and President Donald Trump has nominated Laura Swett, who currently serves as energy litigation counsel at the law firm Vinson & Elkins, as Ch...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Bitzero Blockchain Announces Four Data Centers

Bitzero Blockchain, the cryptomining and HPC infrastructure firm backed by Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, has announced the development of four data centers across the US, Finland, and Norway, with the locations for its new data centers all seclected based on their cold climates.By "combining ...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Top Data Center News from 26th - 31st of May 2025

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in EsbjergDanish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and with expansion potential to 200MW. Vena Launches AI-Ready Data Center Subsidiar...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Global Infrastructure Partners to Invest over $1bn in Thailand

Investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) will invest more than $1bn in Thai data centers. The company recently announced a partnership with Thailand’s largest conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, and its data center subsidiary True IDC.CEO of GIP, Bayo Ogunlesi, said: “The gr...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Thailand / Prathet Thai

10MW Data Center Planned outside Valencia, Spain

Valencia Digital Port Connect (VDPC), a Spanish telecoms infrastructure company, has selected the municipality of Sagunto as the landing site for the submarine cable and a multi-purpose data center that will offer up to 10MW.VDPC is developing the Barracuda submarine cable project in collabora...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Canadian Indian Reserve Wiikwemkoong Installs Data Center

Canadian Indian reserve Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory has installed a data center at its administration building which looks to be a containerized facility. The data center is part of the territory's goal of working towards data sovereignty, and will also be used to "digitally preserve and sh...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

GridCARE Raises $13.5m for Grid Connection Timelines Reduction

GridCARE, an AI startup focusing on expediting the route to market for data centers seeking a grid connection announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million funding round. This round was led by Xora, with participation from Aina Climate AI Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Breakthroug...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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