Weekly Data Centre News - 20/10/23

Weekly Update! According to a report from Synergy Group, Hyperscale data centre capacity is to more than triple over the next six years. I was hoping for a few weeks off, not going to happen is it! ??

What has happened this week?

Reports

AI to trigger 200% growth in global number of hyperscale data centre facilities. Read here.

Europe

Appeals have been lodged over permission for Amazon north Dublin data centres. Read here.

Microsoft has pulled the plug on Prague 9 data center. Read here.

A development in Luton (UK) which includesa 65,000sqm data center has been given the green light. Read here.

Polish data center firm Atman has begun construction on a new 43MW facility outside the capital Warsaw. Read here.

US underwater data centre startup Subsea Cloud plans two hubs in Europe. Read here.

AI startups need more data centres. France wants to build them. Read here.

Croatian ICT solutions provider Cratis is to open a new 2.8MW data center this month in Varazdin, north of Zagreb. Read here.

Liberty Global completed the buyout of Belgium's Telenet. Read here.

aicep Global Parques, EllaLink and Start Campus are working together to create the Atlantic Hub. Read here.

Durham University has officially launched its Cosmology Machine 8 (COSMA 8) supercomputer. Read here.

Middle East and Africa

Africa Data Centres intends to mobilise funds from its existing DFC financing commitment of US$300mn to develop a first-of-its-kind facility in Ghana. Read here.

Nigerian data center firm Medallion Data Centres is to launch a new data center in Lagos this month. Read here.

APAC

UAE real estate firm Damac is planning to develop a data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, as part of an expansion into the APAC digital infrastructure market. Read here.

The world's most valuable chip company Nvidia and iPhone maker Foxconn are joining forces to build so-called "AI factories". Read here.

SC Zeus has expanded into Japan. Read here.

Airtrunk announced a new 20MW data centre in Osaka, Japan. Read here.

Warburg-Backed Princeton Digital to Raise $1 Billion in debt. Read here.

GDS partners with Indonesia Investment Authority to develop a nationwide data center platform in Indonesia. Read here.

APAC-focused data center firm Princeton Digital Group has commenced the development of a new 150MW facility in Johor, Malaysia. Read here.

SunCon agrees to a RM193m data center development contract in Johor. Read here.

SoftBank Corp. plans to build a new data center in the city of Tomakomai in the northernmost Japan. Read here.

TelkomGroup has formed strategic collaboration with Singtel in building a Hyperscale Data Center in Batam with an investment value of $581 million. Read here.

North America

Aligned Data Centers broke ground on a 108MW data center campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. Read here.

Meta has restarted construction at its data centers in Temple, Texas, and Kuna, Idaho. Read here.

Fronius USA is expanding its headquarters in Portage, Indiana and adding a data center. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure has filed to build two 146,000 sq ft data centers outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

DataBank is expanding its data center outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Read here.

A colocation data center has been launched in a former Blackberry facility in Waterloo, Canada. Read here.

Former police station in Connecticut to become a data center. Read here.

Microsoft VP says construction of Mount Pleasant data center is only the start of long-term relationship. Read here.

Tesla is building a Dojo data center at HQ in Austin, Texas. Read here.

Fairfax County lawmakers weigh potential new land use regs for the booming data center industry. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers has completed the development of 89MW, $1Billion Quincy, Washington Campus. Read here.

DC Blox launched its Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Read here.

The US Department of Energy has selected Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia as the lead for its High Performance Data Facility Hub. Read here.

Virginia's Loudoun County considers revenue stabilization fund to reduce reliance on tax revenue from data centers. Read here.

South America

Ascenty has secured $170m financing for Chilean operations. Read here.

Other interesting articles

5 things to know about the GCC Data Center market. Read here.

Letter: Don’t scapegoat Irish data centres for the power crisis. Read here.

How AWS is using more lower-carbon materials to build data centers. Read here.

Microsoft stores 7TB on glass sheets handled by crab robots. Read here.

Virginia Is The World’s Data Center Hub, But What’s The Cost? Read here.

How Garland, Texas, Is Becoming A Hub For Data Center Connectivity. Read here.

Google Cloud to Help Improve Digital Access for Rural Indians, Farmers. Read here.

Inside Data Centre Podcast

It is a UTC Special this week as we take a look at the Digital Futures Programme. Listen here.

Have a great week.