Data Center News

Data center Application Filed in Scotland

Scotland

Battery storage firm Apatura has filed an application to develop a data center outside Cumnock, southwest Scotland. The company is requesting an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion ahead of full planning permission as it looks to develop on 24.5 hectares of land south of Creoch F...

New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, Finland

Finland

The Keuruu government last week announced that Suomen Energiainsinöörit Technology Oy plans to build a data center on a 40-hectare site on the western side of the Karjola industrial area. The company aims to develop a 200,000 sqm (2,152,782 sq ft) facility on the site, which is currently owned...

Eutelsat Announces €1.35bn Capital Raise

France

European satellite operator Eutelsat this week announced a €1.35 billion ($1.55bn) contemplated capital raise, anchored by key shareholders, to “secure the execution of [its] long-term strategic vision,” to fuel its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ambitions, led by the French government.“This capital in...

Enegix to Build 100MW Crypto Facility in Piauí

Brazil / Brasil

Bitcoin-focused data center firm Enegix Global has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with local authorities in the Brazilian state of Piauí to build a 100MW data center. The planned facility is expected to cost up to $120 million and will run on idle state grid energy, with a project ...

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

Amazon AWS

Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's inve...

Alibaba Cloud Confirms Second Data Center in South Korea

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud has confirmed that a second data center will launch in South Korea by the end of this month (June 2025), noting that the expansion of its infrastructure is due to growing demand in the country for its cloud computing and AI services from local businesses."In line with the rapid a...

Oracle Deploys Exadata Database into Google Facility

Oracle

Oracle and Google Cloud are now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Japan for the first time. This multi-cloud offering allows customers to run Oracle databases and applications – such as transaction processing for order management, data warehousing and analytics for supply c...

APR Energy Receives Approval for Natural Gas Powered Facility in Texas

Texas

APR Energy has obtained approval from state regulators to move forward with the development of an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. The Pampa Chamber of Commerce and the Pampa Economic Development Corporation approved the project last Tuesday (July 10). The data center is expected to have ...

IGM Financial Migrates Services to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Google

Canadian wealth and asset management company IGM Financial has completed a data center migration project to the public cloud and is now using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its operations.“The successful delivery of the data center migration to the public cloud underscores...

Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president o...

AWS Breaks Ground on Water Replenishment Project in Sweden

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has broken ground on a water replenishment project in Katrineholm, Sweden as a part of a collaboration between AWS, the municipality of Katrineholm, and the regional water utility company, Sörmlands Vatten.AWS invested $4 million into the project, which aims to facili...

Aslan Energy to Develop 40MW Renewable Powered Facility

Aslan Energy Capital, a Singaporean renewable developer, has partnered with the Jakarta Industrial Estate Pulogadung (JIEP), Indonesia’s first industrial estate, to develop a 40MW data center in Jakarta, Indonesia.The facility will be primarily powered by renewable energy and will integrate a ...

Cawley Partners Acquires 5,200 Acres outside Dallas for Data Center Park

Dallas

Cawley Partners has acquired 5,200 acres south of Dallas to potentially develop a large data center park outside Dallas. The acquired South Creek Ranch in the City of Ferris is set to see a mix of uses, including data centers, logistics, manufacturing, and residential.“This particular piece of...

Bouygues Telecom Signs 15-year PPA with Suez

France

French telco Bouygues Telecom has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy-from-waste (EfW) firm Suez in France which will see Suez supply 53GWh of power per year from its EfW portfolio. Over the term of the agreement, the telco aims to source up to 800GWh of power through f...

BW Group Launches 'Sustainable' Data Center Development Firm

Canada

BW Group subsidiaries, BW Digital and BW ESS, have launched a new company focused on the development of ‘sustainable’ data centers in the Nordics and Canada. BW Velora will leverage the digital infrastructure expertise of BW Digital with BW ESS’ extensive experience developing energy infrastru...

DeepL Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD in Falun, Sweden

Sweden

Language AI company DeepL has deployed an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with GB200 NVL72 systems at EcoDataCenter's Falun, Sweden, facility. DeepL will use the GB200 NVL72 systems to train its models, noting in a LinkedIn post that the system is powerful enough that it can translate the "entire web" in ...

EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production

Sweden

US data center firm EdgeMode has announced the acquisition of Synthesis Analytics Production Ltd. (SAPL), in a $1.75 million deal that sees EdgeMode take charge of a 95MW power purchase agreement, a long-term lease on an in-development 20MW high-performance computing data center, and freehold ...

Rostelecom Subsidiary Launches Facility in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Russia / Россия

Rostelecom's subsidiary RTK-TsOD has launched a data center in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia as well as a new mobile data processing offering for customers. RTK-TsOD is Rostelecom's IT service provider subsidiary, and the Nizhny Novgorod DC is its first data center owned and operated by...

Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

Crusoe

Data center and AI cloud firm Crusoe has announced a strategic partnership with Polar to establish its first data center in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12MW facility located in Norway, which will host Crusoe Cloud, the company’s GPU cloud services.“Partnering with Polar...

Top Data Center News from 9th-14th June 2025

United States

NextDC Announces Plans for Data Center in MelbourneAustralian data center firm NextDC will be making a AU$2 billion (US$1.29bn) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a new campus  which will host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engineered for sovereign AI. Soluna Secures $20million for ...