Data Center News

AsiaPhos and China Mobile Consider Joint Data Center Ventures

China Mobile

AsiaPhos, a Singaporean clean energy company that formerly specialized in phosphate mining, could develop data centers in collaboration with the international wing of China’s largest telco, China Mobile.The letter states that AsiaPhos will consider China Mobile International as a “top priority...

Meta Unveils Plans for a 1GW Data Center Campus in Indiana

Meta

 Meta is building a gigawatt-scale data center campus near Indianapolis, Indiana. “This facility represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date,” the company said.“The data center w...

Cisco Plans New Data Center Development in Krakow, Poland

Cisco Systems

 According to an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, construction on the new facility will begin in July and start operations by the end of the summer.“Our new Krakow data center will become a cornerstone for consolidating and scaling Cisco’s EMEA oper...

UK Moves Court System Workloads from Legacy Data Centers

United Kingdom

The UK's HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has migrated its applications out of legacy data centers located in West London and Swindon. In total, HMCTS migrated 37 applications, a project that began in 2020, and has scrapped some and updated others to be moved to cloud platforms, as per ...

First Natural Gas Turbines Arrive for Fermi America’s 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Fermi America

Fermi America, the company behind the up to 11GW data center campus planned for Amarillo, Texas, has taken delivery of six natural gas turbines and accompanying generators from Siemens Energy."We are moving at this pace because hyperscalers - and American consumers - demand reliable, world-cla...

Hawaii-based Servpac Grows Data Center Operations

Servpac

Servpac, a data center provider based in Hawaii, has broken ground on a data center expansion that will double the IT capacity of its MTP Data Center on O’ahu. According to a January press release, the expansion will come in the form of a $13 million, 5-acre data center located in Mililani Tec...

CyrusOne Completes Structural Build on its Latest Frankfurt Data Center in Germany

CyrusOne

 The company annouced the topping out of FRA7 this week. CyrusOne said the moment was marked with a traditional Richtfest; a German event to celebrate the moment, where a wreath called der Richtkranz is used to decorate the roof of the building.First announced in 2023, CyrusOne broke ground on...

Singtel’s Nxera Launches New Data Center in Singapore

Singtel

Singtel has launched a new data center in Singapore. Nxera, The company's data center arm, this week announced the opening of DC Tuas, its largest facility in Singapore. With 58MW of capacity, the company claimed DC Tuas is Singapore’s highest-capacity data center.Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and ...

Chicago Tribune considers why data centers are developing faster in neighboring states

The Chicago Tribune cited Baxtel in an investigation of the tensions surrounding data center development in Illinois. According to the article, Illinois currently has 108 data centers, nearly twice as many as Indiana and Wisconsin combined. Yet industry groups warn the state is losing billions...

Top Data Center News for 2nd -7th February, 2026

United States

Google Gets Greenlight for Data Center in Tulsa, OklahomaThe Sand Springs City Council has approved a gigawatt- scale data center campus development proposed by Google for just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, dubbed "Project Spring," planned for an 827-acre property located at 5615 OK-97, Sand Spr...

Vantage Refused Approval For Data Center Project Outside Frankfurt.

Vantage Data Centers

US data center firm Vantage has been denied the chance to develop a new campus outside Frankfurt, Germany. The Groß-Gerau city council this month voted against entering into contract negotiations with the company Vantage Data Centers regarding the establishment of a data center.SPD parliamenta...

xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

South Africa

South African colocation and hosting firm xneelo  this week announced it has started construction on a new facility in the Samrand area of the city. Full details weren’t shared, but xneelo said the new facility will be modeled on its first Samrand data center's “proven design” while introducin...

KKR and Singtel Fully Acquire Data Center Firm STT GDC

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Investment firm KKR and Singaporean telco Singtel this week announced the signing of definitive agreements to fully acquire the data center firm from ST Telemedia (STT).The companies will acquire the remaining 82 percent stake in STT GDC from ST Telemedia for S$6.6 billion (US$5.1bn). Upon com...

Thylander Secures Outside Investors for Data Center Venture

Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander this week said that Thylander Data Centers' (TYDC) investor base now includes Systematic Holding Aps by Michael Holm, Sagitta Ventures Aps, Weco A/S, and E. Bank Lauridsen Holding A/S. Terms of the investment weren’t shared.“We are well underway in developing ...

Serverfarm Completes $589m ABS Offering

United States

Data center infrastructure developer Serverfarm has closed its first asset-backed securities (ABS) offering at $589 million. The transaction was secured by three data center facilities: in Atlanta, a 153,000 sq ft (14214 sqm) facility with 12MW of critical IT capacity; a 300,000 sq ft (27,870 ...

TA Realty Sells Two Data Center Buildings in Leesburg, Virginia

Virginia

Real estate firm TA Realty and its data center development arm, TA Digital Group (TADG), this week announced the sale of two hyperscale data center buildings totaling 745,000 sq ft (69,210 sqm) and 165MW of IT load capacity in Leesburg, Loudoun County.The facilities are the first two completed...

Meta Signs 176MWdc solar PPA with Zelestra in Texas

Texas

Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Spanish renewable energy firm Zelestra for energy from the 176 MWdc (136MWac) Skull Creek Solar Plant in Texas. According to Meta, the PPA will support its efforts to add new clean energy to the grid and support its drive to match...

UAE-based Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Company Robo.ai is setting its sights on Data Center Development.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

An electric and autonomous vehicle developer is looking to move into the data center space.UAE-based Robo.ai last week announced that its Robo.ai Investments L.L.C.-FZ subsidiary has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Tachyon9 Corporation, a US-based data center infrastruct...

Google Signs 100MW PPA with EnBW for Power

Google

Google has signed a 100MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with German power company EnBW for energy from the He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.The 15-year deal will see the hyperscaler offtake power from the under-construction wind farm, which, when complete, will have an ins...

Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

California

A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez ...