Data Center News

Garbe Plans 350MW Data Center Campus in Denmark

Denmark

European real estate developer Garbe is planning a large data center campus in Denmark.The deal concerns 35 hectares of commercial land in Business Park Falster at exit 43 on Nordfalster.Jonathan Henry, executive managing director at Garbe Data Centers, said: “This is an important milestone bo...

120MW Facility Proposed in Hämeenlinna, Finland

Central Finland

The government of Hämeenlinna this week announced that a reservation agreement has been made for three business plots in Hämeenlinna's MORE industrial park for a data center project. The government of Hämeenlinna this week announced that a reservation agreement has been made for three business...

Nebius Launches Nvidia GPU Cluster in London, UK

United Kingdom

European cloud operator Nebius this week announced its first deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra AI infrastructure in the UK. The cluster sits in Ark Data Centres’ Longcross Park campus in Surrey. The cluster totals 126 racks across three data center halls. The first phase comprises 4,000 Nvi...

Qilimanjaro Opens Quantum Data Center in Barcelona

Barcelona

Quantum computing firm Qilimanjaro last week announced the inauguration of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech's quantum data center in the city's innovation district. The facility has the capacity to host up to ten quantum computers, available in both analog and digital modes, and connected with classic...

New Era Plans 7GW AI Facility in Lea County, New Mexico

New Mexico

New Era Energy & Digital has signed a land option purchase agreement for around 3,500 acres in Lea County, New Mexico, with plans to develop an up to 7GW AI data center campus powered by natural gas and nuclear energy.According to New Era, the Lea County location was selected due to its pr...

Fermi Secures Preliminary Approval for 6GW of Natural Gas Generation

Fermi America

Fermi America, the developer behind the planned up to 11GW data center campus in Amarillo, Texas, has been granted preliminary approval for 6GW of clean natural gas-based power generation from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).Project Matador is one of the most ambitious dat...

Microsoft X G42 Expand Data Center Capacity Plans in UAE

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and G42 are teaming up to expand their data center capacity in the UAE by 200MW, as part of the previously announced $15.2 billion investment in the country. The expanded data center capacity will be provided by G42's subsidiary, Khazna Data Centers, and is expected to go live before...

Zoom to Lease Data Center Space in UK

United Kingdom

Video calling firm Zoom is planning to lease space in a UK data center in the first half of 2026 with plans to target regulated sectors such as healthcare and financial services. The facility will comply with the UK's data residency requirements, enabling UK-only meeting zones and telephony ga...

Norway's Bulk Secures €410m Senior Secured Loan

Norway

Bulk Infrastructure has successfully closed a €410 million ($472.1m) senior secured loan to support the continued development of its N01 data center campus in the Vennesla municipality. The N01 data center campus is located on a three-square-km site next to a transformer station just outside o...

Vertiv Plans $1bn PurgeRite Acquisition

United States

Vertiv plans to acquire Purge Rite Intermediate, LLC, (PurgeRite) for $1 billion in cash plus up to $250 million based on achieving certain 2026 performance metrics. The deal represents approximately 10x expected 2026 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) inc...

Beyon Launches Data Center, Expands Solar Park

Bahrain

Bahraini telecoms group Beyon has launched a new data center and expanded a solar farm. The company announced at an event this week that it has completed and commissioned its new White Space Data Centre.Beyon CEO, Andrew Kvaalseth, said: “We were delighted to announce the completion of Batelco...

OpenAI Signs $38bn Multi-year Cloud Deal with AWS

Amazon AWS

OpenAI has signed a $38 billion seven-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see the generative AI giant run its workloads on AWS infrastructure. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will have access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GB200s and GB300s via Amazon EC2 UltraSe...

Lincoln Re-Purchases Arizona Data Center

Arizona

Real estate firm Lincoln has re-acquired a data center in Phoenix, Arizona at 2500 W. Frye Road in Chandler. Located on 14.5 acres, the 191,000-sq ft (17,740 sqm), 28MW facility features four data center halls, one of which is fully leased to a Fortune 500 enterprise user.“We are grateful to t...

Microsoft Signs $9.7bn Cloud Deal with Iren

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a $9.7bn deal with Iren to access the neocloud's GPUs. The agreement will give Microsoft access to Iren's Nvidia GB300s. The total value of the contract is $9.7bn, with Microsoft providing 20 percent in prepayment.Daniel Roberts, co-founder & co-CEO of Iren, said: “We’...

Data4 Signs Energy Contract with Total

DATA4 Group

European data center operator Data4 has signed a renewable energy deal with TotalEnergies. Under the terms of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), Total will provide renewable energy to Data4’s Spanish data centers.“We are delighted with this agreement with Data4, which illustrates our ability ...

Sharon AI Signs 50MW Data Center Lease with NextDC

NEXTDC

Australian neocloud Sharon AI has signed a 50MW capacity expansion agreement with NextDC. The company is reportedly undergoing a private funding round with the hope it will "warm up" the market for a future public listing.“AI infrastructure is the foundation of the intelligence economy,” said ...

Fluence targets AI data centers with battery storage

TLDR: Fluence used its Q3 FY2025 call to spotlight AI data centers as a new growth vector for battery storage, saying it is working directly with leading operators while it tests ultra‑fast response solutions. Revenue rebounded QoQ to $602.5M and backlog held at $4.9B, but FY2025 revenue is no...

Top Data Center News for 27th- 31st November, 2025

AWS to Invest $5bn in South Korea Data CentersAmazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest a further $5 billion in data centers in South Korea, which will include the construction of new AI data centers in the Incheon and Gyeonggi regions. Equinix Buys DC01UK Data Center Campus in HertfordshireEq...

Germany’s Rostock Government Breaks Ground on Data Center

Germany / Deutschland

The Rostock government of Northern Germany last week broke ground on a new municipal facility in Toitenwinkel. The 300kW site will feature 90 sqm (969 sq ft) of white space across two data halls. The government said the facility will secure and modernize the city administration’s IT infrastruc...

Goodman Plans 97MW Facility in Silicon Valley

Goodman Group

Logistics firm Goodman this week announced the acquisition of a 45.8-acre site in San Jose that will host a two-building data center campus totaling 414,000 square feet (38,460 sqm) with up to 97.3MW of available power by 2028.The property, at 350 & 370 West Trimble Road in Santa Clara Cou...