Weekly Data Centre News - 06/09/2024

Weekly Update! What a week! A record M&A deal, 1GW+ campuses, numerous multi million dollar investments, and much much more. It looks like the industry woke up as soon as the children went back to school. September is never quiet... More to come? You bet!

I am off for a lie down..

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Reports

DTCP Sustainability Report. Read here.

Europe

atNorth announced a 250MW heat reuse enabled mega data center in Denmark. Read here.

Penta Infra announced plans to build 20,000sqm data centre in Copenhagen. Read here.

Consultation launched for plans for a major data centre in South Mimms (UK). Read here.

320MW data center campus proposed in North London, UK. Read here.

Report outlines ambition to start work on ￡10bn Northumberland data centre in 2025. Read here.

Netwise announces major expansion of London East data centre. Read here.

Retirement village anger over 'huge' data centre. Read here.

Solaria’s former industrial facilities to house 200-MW AI data centre. Read here.

Ramboll has acquired the data centre consulting company i3 Solutions Group. Read here.

PIMCO on building a future-proof data center strategy. Read here.

Norway takes the register to keep out cryptominers. Read here.

Pulsant announces data centre redesign rollout across UK. Read here.

Echelon secures grid connection for Co Wicklow data centre. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Dubai’s strategic vision for a data centre economy. Read here.

MEEZA has reached an agreement to deliver 1 MW capacity in its M-VAULT4 data centre to a global hyperscaler. Read here.

What’s driving the surge in the Middle East’s data centre market? Read here.

APAC

Blackstone announced agreement to acquire Airtrunk in a A$24bn transaction. Read here.

Empyrion Digital to Build 25MW AI-Ready Data Center in Tokyo. Read here.

A-FLOW topped off its first data centre in the Philippines. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres announced a significant investment of US$3.2 billion. Read here.

Indian luxury homebuilder Rustomjee to expand into data centres on AI boom. Read here.

Reliance Industries to build GW-scale AI data center in Gujarat, India. Read here.

AWS to spend additional $2bn on Indian data centers. Read here.

Data Center Firm Yondr Seeks Private Loan for Malaysia Expansion. Read here.

NEXTDC has today opened A1 – Adelaide’s first Tier IV certified data centre. Read here.

Converge ICT to Launch Two New Data Centers in Luzon. Read here.

Japan Targets Rural Data Center Expansion with Photonics. Read here

Govt of Telangana partners with Yotta to Launch India’s Largest AI Supercomputer. Read here.

CapitaLand Investment to raise up to $250 million through India data center fund. Read here.

Zettabyte and Wistron Partner to Build Taiwan’s First Hyperscale AI Data Center. Read here.

North America

Two companies seek to develop $125bn AI data centers in North Dakota. Read here.

Wyoming Hyperscale becomes Prometheus Hyperscale and announced a significant pipeline of developments. Read here.

Nvidia and Other Investors Back Applied Digital With $160 Million in Funding. Read here.

Partners Group’s EdgeCore expands US footprint with $1.9bn capital injection. Read here.

GI Partners has secured planning permission for a new 72MW data center in Santa Clara, California. Read here.

Microsoft has acquired more land in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, for its Racine County data center campus. Read here.

Mesa City Council has approved two major data center projects in the southeast of the Arizona city. Read here.

QTS linked as the buyer of a distribution center outside Richmond. Read here.

Data centers in New York state are being invited to apply for grants of up to $2 million to fund novel heat reuse systems. Read here.

A company linked to Amazon has acquired land in Virginia's Prince William County that was recently granted data center zoning approval. Read here.

Duos Edge AI launches first Edge Data Center. Read here.

Atlanta City Council bans data centers along Beltline. Read here.

Growing Data Center Demand in North Texas Puts Emphasis on Project Planning. Read here.

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in South Bend. Read here.

South America

New JV will address dark fibre infrastructure provision in Mexico. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Data Centres and the Edmonton Region advantage. Read here.

Project Silica: Using Glass to Revolutionise Data Storage. Read here.

Data Center industry worldwide to release 2.5 billion tons of CO2 by 2030. Read here.

Biggest data center acquisitions: 13 billion-dollar data center deals. Read here.

The fragmented state of Europe’s data centre markets. Read here.

This Startup Wants to Tackle AI Energy Demands With Data Centers in Space. Read here.

Capitalising on Africa’s data centre boom. Read here.

Just because Ireland is good for data centres does not mean they are good for us. Read here.

If Gartner’s Magic Quadrant turns to US hyperscalers, how will emerging markets react? Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

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