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August 01, 2026
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Social media giant Meta this week announced work had started on the 1GW site, the company’s 29th data center. Some $1.5 billion is set to be invested in the first phase of development. The site has been designed to support “both the traditional servers of today and future generations of AI-ena...
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Colt Data Centre Services
Data center operator Colt DCS and APAC real estate firm ESR have formed a joint venture to develop the first phase of a 130MW hyperscale data center site in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan. The first phase, comprising 65MW, will be designed and built by the JV and operated by Colt.Niclas Sanfridsson,...
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United States
QumulusAI has secured a $500 million blockchain-backed facility to fund its AI compute infrastructure buildout. The debt funding will enable QumulusAI to borrow stablecoins against up to 70 percent of its approved GPU deployments, enabling faster access to capital."This partnership represents ...
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Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Dubai, a part of the company's global expansion plans, for which Alibaba has committed to spending $53bn on cloud and AI infrastructure.Eric Wan, VP of Alibaba Cloud International and general manager of the Middle East, Turkey, and Middle Asia...
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Vantage Data Centers
Data center operator Vantage this week announced plans for MXP2, expanding its footprint in Lombardy. The €350 million ($407m) campus, located in Castelletto some 15 kilometers from central Milan, will feature two three-story data center buildings delivering a combined 32MW of critical IT capa...
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Ohio
US power marketer Gridmatic has expanded into Ohio, with the launch of its Gridmatic Retail product in the state which will offer both standard and advanced energy contracts to a range of commercial and individual customers, including data centers and other consumers with flexible loads.“We’re...
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Australia
Australian AI cloud firm Firmus is planning expansion across Australia in partnering with local operator CDC Data Centres. The company said the partnership could extend its capacity to 1.6GW under an initiative known as Project Southgate. As well as the existing project in Tasmania, deployment...
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Virginia
Real estate firm Penzance announced it has secured construction financing and broken ground on Chantilly Premier, a 100 percent leased powered shell located in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia."Penzance is excited to break ground on this project, which will deliver critical digital infrastruc...
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CoreWeave
AI startup Poolside is teaming up with CoreWeave for the development of a 2GW data center in West Texas. Dubbed Project Horizon, CoreWeave will be the anchor tenant for the first phase of the project, which alone will offer 250MW of power capacity under a 15-year lease, expandable to 500MW.“Po...
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Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is planning to launch a cluster of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs with as many as 50,000 GPUs. The MI450 GPU will be based on the CDNA 5 architecture and made using TSMC's 2nm fabrication technology. Each GPU offers up to 432 GB of HBM4 and 20 TBps of memory b...
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United States
Nvidia has announced more than a dozen partners as it looks to prepare the data center industry for 800-volt DC power architectures and rack densities of 1MW.The GPU giant this week said it would unveil specs of the Vera Rubin NVL144 MGX-generation open architecture rack servers.“Moving to 800...
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GlobalConnect A / S
Nordic fiber broadband and data center firm GlobalConnect this week announced it is expanding its data center in southern Stockholm with 600 sqm (6,458 sq ft) and 1.2MW of new capacity.The facility is set to be connected to the local district heating network from Exergi, and be able to heat ar...
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Arizona
Intel has announced that its new chip fabrication plant, Fab 52, in Chandler, Arizona, is fully operational, and that the facility will mass-produce the company’s upcoming mobile processors, Intel Core Ultra series 3, and Intel Xeon 6+ data center processors, codenamed Panther Lake and Clearwa...
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Related Digital
Related Digital has broken ground on a $1.2 billion data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which will host AI infrastructure for CoreWeave. The 115-acre campus will be located on land on Cheyenne Business Parkway, and could eventually offer up to 302MW of capacity. As anchor tenant, CoreWeav...
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Finland
Kitee this week announced plans to sign a preliminary property purchase agreement with data center developer Scale42. The deal, to be discussed at a city meeting next week, concerns a 10-hectare plot in the northern part of the Kitee Puhos industrial area.William Tasney, CEO of Scale42, said: ...
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Google has committed to investing an additional €5bn ($5.8bn) in cloud and AI infrastructure in Belgium over the next two years. The investment will go towards expanding the company's data center campuses in Saint-Ghislain and aims to add a further 300 full-time jobs.“With today’s announcement...
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CleanArc Data Centers
CleanArc Data Centers this week announced the acquisition of 87.5 acres of additional land to expand its debut site in Virginia. Originally planning a 600MW campus, the expansion will enable CleanArc to deliver an additional 300MW of critical power capacity.Set to break ground in Q4 2025, the ...
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Oracle
SoftBank Corp and Oracle are collaborating on a sovereign cloud offering in Japan which will be dubbed "Cloud PF Type A," and based on Oracle Alloy, deployed in SoftBank's Japan data centers.“We are delighted to collaborate with Oracle to offer a cloud platform that addresses the high-security...
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Italy
The Municipality of Venice this week announced the launch of the new Vega data center in the Italian city. Regional councilor for digital agenda, Francesco Calzavara, and city councilor for economic development, Simone Venturini, attended the opening ceremony.The €4.5 million ($5.2m) project w...
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Germany / Deutschland
German telecoms firm Wobcom this week announced it is expanding its data center in Wolfsburg's Nordkopf Tower by a new floor, taking its total to five floors within the building. The new floor is already leased to Host-Unlimited.de, a brand of Bieber IT GmbH focusing on cloud and game hosting....
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