Weekly Data Centre News - 19/07/2024

Weekly Update! I have no idea if anyone will be able to read this considering so many operations have been taken down by the Crowdstrike antivirus update! Makes you wonder what could happen if we saw a global data center outage... Critical infrastructure!!

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Reports

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 7.5% in 2024. Read here.

Gleeds: Europe Biannual Construction Market Report 3Q/4Q 2024. Read here.

Data center construction costs for 2024. Read here.

Europe

Google is planning to invest up to $2bn on a data centre in Romania. Read here.

AtlasEdge is to build a second data centre in Barcelona. Read here.

CyrusOne has officially broken ground on its newest data center in Germany (FRA7). Read here.

UK colocation firm Liverpool City Region Data Centres has launched a micro data center Edge location in Merseyside, UK. Read here.

Lloyds Banking Group to convert old data and office sites into homes. Read here.

Spain's Aragon, Europe's new cloud storage oasis. Read here.

Swedish colocation provider Conapto has announced the launch of its Stockholm 4 South data center. Read here.

Equans has announced the second phase of Digital Realty’s PAR13 data center has been successfully delivered in Paris, France. Read here.

Vantage launched a second data center in Switzerland. Read here.

Waste heat from Penta Infra data center in Amsterdam to warm business park. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Expert forecasts $288.8m growth in Nigeria’s data centre market. Read here.

IXAfrica Data Centres and Schneider Electric have launched what they say is the first AI-ready hyperscale data centre in Kenya. Read here.

APAC

Etix Everywhere is exploring the establishment of a second data center in Thailand to meet growing demand. Read here.

Tokyo residents oppose GLP data center project in Akishima City. Read here.

Data center provider Equinix reportedly is selling a minority stake in its Hong Kong data centers in a deal that could provide the company with $2 billion in cash. Read here.

Colt Data Centre Services is reportedly planning a 100MW data center in Mumbai, India. Read here.

China is making waves in the data center industry by constructing the world’s first commercial underwater data center. Read here.

North America

US data center firm PowerHouse has broken ground on a new 800MW campus in Virginia’s Spotsylvania County. Read here.

2.1 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Hanwha Energy to Invest 2 Trillion Won ($1.45bn) in Super-Large AI Data Center in Texas, U.S. Read here.

EdgeCore is expanding in Virginia again with plans for a new 216MW campus in Culpeper County. Read here.

Cryptomine-turned-AI firm Crusoe has confirmed it is building a 200MW GPU-focused data center in Texas. Read here.

$3 billion data center project proposed in West Memphis, Arkansas. Read here.

Bloom Energy will deploy its proprietary fuel cells to generate on-site power for CoreWeave at a high-performance data center owned by Chirisa Technology Parks located in Volo, Illinois. Read here.

CyrusOne announced it secured a $687.1 million Single Asset Single Borrower (SASB) CMBS loan for it's DFW1 data center. Read here.

Private equity firms NGP and Sandbrook Capital have jointly injected more than USD 300 million into Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a US company developing clean-powered data centre sites. Read here.

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf has received approval for four additional buildings at its Lake Mariner Data Center campus in Somerset, New York state. Read here.

Cryptomine firm Satoshi Energy has signed deals to place Bitcoin and AI data centers at wind farm sites in Texas. Read here.

Pittsylvania County's Board of Supervisors has approved a land rezoning request for almost 950 acres for a data center in Virginia. Read here.

Project Mixing Data Centers And Affordable Housing Faces Rejection In Virginia. Read here.

Plans for a data center in the Fort Worth area of Texas have been voted down by local officials. Read here.

Prologis raised annual core FFO forecast on better demand, data center strength. Read here.

Quanta Services acquired specialist contractor Cupertino Electric, Inc. Read here.

Cipher Mining Inc. is exploring a potential sale after receiving takeover interest. Read here.

770,000 sq ft Data center to be built on University of Dallas campus. Read here.

South America

S?o Paulo city Limeira rejects bill to permit mega datacenter. Read here.

Other interesting articles

The capacity crunch: Addressing spiraling data center demand. Read here.

Google chief scientist Jeff Dean: AI needs ‘algorithmic breakthroughs,’ and AI is not to blame for brunt of data center emissions increase. Read here.

Data center building boom fuels global IT spend growth. Read here.

Argo Infrastructure Partners on Powering the AI Gold Rush Through Data Centers. Read here.

New Strategies in Design to Meet the Demands of AI Data Centers. Read here.

Existing nuclear power plants are best behind-the-meter option for data centers: NEI paper. Read here.

Blackstone, Bullish on AI, Charges Into Data Centers. Read here.

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