Weekly Data Centre News - 07/03/2025

Weekly Update! The data center industry is making headlines yet again with massive projects and investments shaking up the market. In the UK, a ￡10 billion data center development just got the green light, signaling major expansion. Over in Australia, GreenSquareDC secured AUD $1.2 billion from Partners Group, a huge boost for the region’s digital infrastructure. And in the US, a string of multi-billion-dollar campus announcements proves that the race to scale up is far from over. The momentum keeps building...

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Reports

Deloitte study: the use of Gen AI will double global data centers’ electricity consumption by 2030. Read here.

Europe

QTS Data Centers has received approval for a ￡10bn campus in Cambois, UK. Read here.

Stena Line submits data centre proposal that could bring over 1,000 jobs to Anglesey. Read here.

Immersion cooling firm Submer expands into data centre construction. Read here.

Microsoft to build another data center campus in Zaragoza, Spain. Read here.

NxN Datacenters is set to begin construction of its data center in Valencia, Spain. Read here.

Czech telecoms firm ?eské Radiokomunikace is expanding one of its data centers in Prague. Read here.

EcoDataCenter secures €450M to drive green data infrastructure. Read here.

Google has launched a new cloud region outside Stockholm, Sweden. Read here.

Arjun in Talks to Invest in Brookfield-Backed Data4’s Assets. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has completed phase one of its data center in Limuru, Kenya. Read here.

Microsoft invests extra ZAR 5.4bn in South African cloud infrastructure. Read here.

Microsoft announces AI powered Azure Region for Kuwait. Read here.

APAC

Partners Group will invest up to AUD$1.2 billion to transform GreenSquareDC into a next-generation data centre platform in Australia. Read here.

Asia Pacific’s co-location data centre pipeline will require more than $116 billion in funding for construction over the next five to seven years. Read here.

Saigon Asset Management announced the launch of SAM DigitalHub (Vietnam), a 50-hectare (124-acre), 150- megawatt data center campus initiative with a targeted investment of up to $1.5 billion. Read here.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has broken ground on a new data center in Bangkok, Thailand. Read here.

SKT joins forces with Schneider Electric on AI data center (Korea). Read here.

SM+ Breaks Ground on Flagship Data Center in Jakarta’s CBD. Read here.

Sify breaks ground for AI-Hub Data Center in Lucknow. Read here.

South Korea aims to secure 18,000 GPUs to power its ambitious AI plans. Read here.

ARB IOT signs MoU to build AI data center lab in Malaysia. Read here.

North America

OpenAI, Oracle to build Texas AI data center with thousands of Nvidia chips. Read here.

JPMorgan Chase and Starwood Property agreed to lend $2B for a 100-acre data center campus in West Jordan, Utah. Read here.

A proposed $2.8 billion Data Center in South Carolina’s Upstate would have its own onsite power generation. Read here.

CIM Group and Novva Data Centers announced that they recently closed a new commitment of $2 billion in financing from J.P. Morgan and Starwood Property Trust to complete the build-out of Novva’s flagship 175MW Salt Lake City data center. Read here.

DataOne and Nebius Partner for New US 300MW AI Data Centre in New Jersey. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure files for $10bn data center in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Read here.

Stream proposes large data center in Genesee County, New York. Read here.

Data center the size of three city blocks proposed in this Central Jersey town. Read here.

Arizona Land buys 160 acres in Buckeye area of Phoenix for data center development. Read here.

A developer is looking to build a data center campus outside Chicago in northwest Indiana. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers is expanding its existing data center campus in Québec, Canada. Read here.

55H has announced a phased expansion of its data center capacity in Brampton, Ontario. Read here.

Canadian First Nation Prophet River FN plans data center in British Columbia. Read here.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation has entered into agreements for a 50% interest in Greenlight Electricity Centre Limited Partnership, which is developing an electricity and data center complex in Alberta. Read here.

US utility First Energy has reported that its pipeline of potential data centers has surged to 2.6GW by 2029. Read here.

Last Energy plans 30 microreactors in Texas to power data centers. Read here.

Cathedra Bitcoin Sells North Dakota Data Center for $21 Million. Read here.

Kentucky utilities submit planning permission for 1.29GW of natural gas power to serve data center sector. Read here.

Baker Hughes, Frontier Infrastructure Partner on Carbon Capture and Data Center Projects in the U.S. Read here.

Soluna taps 166MW wind power to fuel data center. Read here.

AI Startup CoreWeave's IPO Filing Reveals Its Data Center Footprint's Growth —?And Its Risks. Read here.

CoreWeave denies any canceled contracts with Microsoft ahead of IPO. Read here.

Blackstone’s Gray Sounds Bullish Call on Data Center Spending. Read here.

Principal Asset Management closed a $3.64bn dedicated data center fund. Read here.

South America

Brazil’s data center boom raises concerns over energy access. Read here.

Other interesting articles

Gen AI to double global data centres’ electricity consumption by 2030. Read here.

Datacloud Energy & ESG 2025: Industry leaders call for urgent grid reform. Read here.

Inside the US Data Center Boom: What’s powering the next tech revolution? Read here.

Europe risks losing AI race without urgent action on digital infrastructure. Read here.

The expansion of infrastructure: How AI data centres will change the sector. Read here.

Recent Missions Enable Lunar Data Centers And Human Archives. Read here.

World's 1st modular quantum computer that can operate at room temperature goes online. Read here.

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