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Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

May 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Paris

Turkcell Secures €100m for Data Center Expansion

Turkish telco Turkcell this week announced that its subsidiary, TDC Veri Hizmetleri (TDC), has secured €100 million ($112.5m) in murabaha financing through a strategic agreement with Emirates NBD Bank.The five-year financing agreement will be used towards Turkcell Group’s data center investmen...

May 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump administr...

May 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Vertiv and Chemours Score DataVolt Deals

Saudi Arabian data center company DataVolt has signed supplier contracts with Vertiv and Chemours. Vertiv's EMEA president, Karsten Winther, said that the company had signed a 'Technical Cooperation Agreement' with DataVolt "to advance next-generation data center innovation in Saudi Arabia and...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataVita

Patria Launches New Data Center Company

The investment company that founded Latin American data center firm OData, through one of its infrastructure funds, has announced the launch of Omnia, a new data center platform. Omnia will develop, build, and operate large-scale, purpose-built data centers across Latin America. Led by CEO Ro...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ODATA SA

Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

Microsoft Confirms Provision of AI and Cloud Services to Israeli Military

Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" abo...

May 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google Signs 600MW Solar Energy Deal in South Carolina

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the gri...

May 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

AWS Retires Private 5G Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an update published on May 20, revealed that its 5G service had reached the end of its support date and could no longer be accessed. The Private 5G offering integrated small cell radio units, Outposts servers, a 5G core, and radio access network (RAN) software runn...

May 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Applied Digital Proposes "Multi-Billion-Dollar" Facility

Applied Digital is looking to develop a multi-billion-dollar data center in Deuel County, South Dakota which could see up to $16 billion in investment and create up to 200 high-paying jobs. In addition, Applied Digital has committed to improving local fiber infrastructure, and to minimize the ...

May 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Applied Digital

Partners Group to Acquire Digital Halo

Global private markets firm Partners Group is set to acquire Singapore-based Digital Halo- a data center operator with facilities located across Southeast and North Asia. The company is currently owned by Arch Capital, which will remain a minority shareholder in the business.Following the term...

May 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

PDG Seals $1.2bn Financing for APAC Data Center Expansion

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) recently announced the successful raise of more than $1.2bn in financing to support its continued expansion and development across Asia.The financing comprises $800 million in project financing for the development and expansion of PDG’s data center campuses in Mu...

May 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Princeton Digital Group

DataVolt Signs $20bn Deal with Supermicro

Saudi Arabian data center company DataVolt has signed a $20 billion agreement with Super Micro Computer (Supermicro) to see Supermicro delivering GPU platforms and rack systems to DataVolt's "hyperscale AI campuses" in Saudi Arabia and the US.“We are thrilled to partner with Supermicro and bui...

May 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataVita

AtNorth Secures Swedish AI Cloud Provider as Customer

Nordic data center firm atNorth this week announced it will host infrastructure that will support the development of a National AI Cloud in partnership with 6G AI Sweden.The National AI Cloud will reportedly “ensure data sovereignty under Swedish jurisdiction and will be fully compliant with G...

May 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

atNorth

PDG Seals $1.2bn Financing for APAC Data Center Expansion

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) recently announced the successful raise of more than $1.2bn in financing to support its continued expansion and development across Asia.The financing comprises $800 million in project financing for the development and expansion of PDG’s data center campuses in Mu...

May 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Princeton Digital Group

Qualcomm Signs MoU to Deliver AI data centers for Humain

Qualcomm has signed a memorandum of understanding with Humain to develop AI data centers, hybrid AI across Edge and cloud, and AI chips which would cover facilities in Saudi Arabia and around the world.Humain and Qualcomm plan to develop and build AI data centers in Saudi Arabia, develop CPU a...

May 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Saudi Arabia

Top Data Center News from 12th-17th May 2025

Blue Owl Closes $7 billion Digital Infrastructure Fund Blue Owl Capital Inc. has successfully closed its latest digital infrastructure fund focused on data center development and acquisition with $7 billion of total capital commitments, exceeding the original target of $4 billion.FivePoint Lau...

May 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Five Point Launches PowerBridge

Five Point Infrastructure LLC (formerly known as Five Point Energy) this week announced the formation and funding of PowerBridge LLC, launched with an equity commitment of up to $1 billion. PowerBridge will focus on developing, building, and managing gigawatt-scale data center campuses, associ...

May 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virgin Media O2 Business X Daisy Group to Create Telecoms Group in UK

Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group have announced plans to merge their B2B operations to create a £3 billion ($3.96bn) telecoms group in the UK. In the announcement, Virgin Media O2 Business said the merger will "create a major new force in the UK business communications and IT sector."“...

May 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

BDx Raises Funding for Hong Kong Data Center

Asia Pacific data center operator BDx Data Centers has secured funding for a data center project in Hong Kong from Clifford Capital, UOB (United Overseas Bank), and SMBC (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) will go to the development of its first hyperscale data center in the country.“This su...

May 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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