Data Center News

$10bn Data Center Project Recieves Approval in Lacy Lakeview, Texas

Texas

A large-scale data center project in Lacy Lakeview near Waco, Texas, has received approval from city council members. The campus in question is being proposed by InfraKey Capital, and seeks to develop up to six data centers with 1GW of capacity in total.According to the company's project site,...

Adani Group to Establish 48MW Data Center in Southern India

India / Bhārata

India's Adani Group has announced its intention to establish a 48MW data center in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Karan Adani, the son of Adani Group founder Gautam Adani and the Managing Director of Adani Ports, announced on Monday that Rs 2,500 crore ($280 million) would be invested...

Kio Opens Data Center in Queretaro, Mexico

KIO Data Centers

Latin American data center provider Kio Networks has launched a new facility in Querétaro, Mexico, Querétaro 02 (QRO2). With this facility, the company reaches almost 19MW of capacity in the state and consolidates a high-density hub next to its already operational QRO1."The opening of QRO2 str...

AWS to Invest $7bn in Data Centers in Hyderabad, India

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement with the Government of Telangana to significantly expand its data center footprint in the Indian state. AWS will invest $7 billion in its cloud infrastructure in Hyderabad over the next 14 years.A. Revanth Reddy, Telangana's Chief Minister, sai...

Nu Quantum Secures $60 million Series A Investment

United Kingdom

UK quantum computing firm Nu Quantum this week closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round led by National Grid Partners, including participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures.The company claimed it is the largest financing round ever raised by a pure-play quantum netw...

Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires NorthC

NorthC Datacenters

Antin Infrastructure Partners this week announced it has agreed to acquire NorthC Datacenters from DWS and other minority shareholders. The transaction is being carried out through Antin’s €10.2 billion Flagship Fund V and is expected to close in the first half of 2026.Stéphane Ifker and Maxim...

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

Georgia Power Proposes $16bn Plan to Add 10GW of New Generation Capacity

Georgia

US utility Georgia Power and the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) have submitted a proposal to add up to 10GW of new generation capacity over the next five years. The $16 billion plan aims to meet surging demand across its footprint from the data center sector, with around 90 percent of...

Racks Central Breaks Ground on Data Center in Johor, Malaysia

Malaysia

Singapore-based data center operator Racks Central has broken ground on a data center in Johor, Malaysia. Racks Central’s campus, dubbed RCJM 1, will be located in Iskandar Halal Park, an industrial park in the eastern portion of Johor Bahru. The company acquired a five-acre plot in the park i...

Summit Gains Nine Data Center Following HorizonIQ Acquisition

Summit

Managed IT infrastructure provider Summit has acquired HorizonIQ, a global private cloud, bare-metal, and GPU provider. Announced at the start of December, the acquisition sees Summit gaining a presence in nine data centers as well as expanding its private cloud offering with HorizonIQ's Proxm...

Jet.AI Details Plans for 350-Acre Data Center Campus in Winnipeg, Canada

Canada

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, has provided more details on a planned campus in Canada. The company last week announced that it aims to develop a 350-acre site 10 miles south of Winnipeg, Manitoba.“[The site] sits adjacent to an electrica...

Argo Infrastructure Boosts Investment in TierPoint

United States

Argo Infrastructure Partners this week announced it has acquired the equity interests of the majority of minority shareholders in TierPoint.“TierPoint is a high-quality, diverse platform, positioned for growth with a long operational track record. This places it in a uniquely differentiated po...

NextEra Energy Partners with Google to Develop at Least Three Gigawatt-Scale Facilities

NextEra Energy has partnered with Google Cloud to develop several gigawatt-scale data center campuses and the associated generation and capacity needed to power them. The companies are currently developing the first three campuses and are collaborating to identify additional locations and expa...

Microsoft Signs 3.6 Million Ton Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal with low-carbon fuel firm Beaver Lake Renewable Energy for 3.6 million tons of carbon removal units (CRU) over a 12-year period. The carbon removal units will be delivered from the company’s Beaver Lake biomethanol plant near Pineville, Louisiana, whi...

150MW Data Center Proposed for Baltimore County, Maryland

Maryland

A report by Fox45 News revealed that applicant Security Land and Development LP is seeking to develop the data center campus on a 42-acre site in the Woodlawn area of the county. In addition to the campus, the applicant will donate five acres to BGE to develop an electrical substation and will...

Microsoft Plans $17.5bn AI Infrastructure Investment in India

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft revealed today that it would be spending $17.5 billion on AI infrastructure in India during the next four years starting in 2026, as well as a $5.42bn pledge to Canada in the next two years. A post on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said: "Thank you, PM Narendra Modi, for an inspiri...

Helios and Fipar Merge Maroc Datacenter, Munisys, and Medasys into New Company

Morocco

Helios Investment Partners and Fipar-Holding, a subsidiary of CDG Invest, this week announced the creation of 3MDC, a new digital infrastructure platform, as they have merged three Moroccan companies into a new IT services player.The new unit brings together three existing Moroccan players wit...

Evolution Partners with HTC for Data Centers in Vietnam

Vietnam

APAC operator Evolution Data Centers has partnered with HTC International Telecommunication JSC (HITC) to develop data centers in Vietnam. EcoDC Data Centre (Hanoi) will be an expansion of HITC's existing facility in the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park. The Ho Chi Minh City development will be a new, lar...

Top News Stories for 1st - 5th of December, 2025

United States

WBS Power to Develop 500MW Data Center in GermanyEuropean renewable energy developer WBS Power has established a joint venture with Prime Capital to construct a 500MW hyperscale data center at a former military airfield in Brandenburg, Germany, with its total cost estimated at €500 million ($5...

Magnora Plans 100MW Data Center Project in Kristiansund, Norway

Norway

Norwegian renewable investment firm Magnora this week announced it has launched Magnora Scale Averøya, a new 100MW data center project in Kristiansund. Timelines to develop the 120,000 sqm (1.29 million sq ft) site haven’t been shared.Magnora is working with owners of Averøy Industripark and T...