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August 01, 2026
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NorthC Datacenters
European data center firm NorthC this week has extended its lease on the 4,800 square meters (51,666 sq ft) of data center space with real estate firm Allgemeine Südboden AG for 25 years.Bettina Krause, head of leasing, Allgemeine Südboden: "We are delighted to extend the lease agreement with ...
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Pennsylvania
The Dauphin County General Authority (DCGA) owned golf course was sold for $45.6 million to Harrisburg I, LLC, which intends to use the site for a data center project. Harrisburg I is a purchasing entity under the Texas realtor Provident Realty. According to the county, the proposal was one of...
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Germany / Deutschland
A major renewable energy and AI data center campus is planned for Weida-Land in Germany.Located in the Saxony-Anhalt municipality, the project will include a 500MW solar farm, 500MW/1,750MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), and an AI campus with a data center.The solar parks will be deplo...
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United States
US operator DartPoints is expanding its data center portfolio across South Carolina, Indiana, and Ohio, announcing the first phase of expansion, following the equity investment from Nova Infrastructure.“Our vision of delivering AI-ready environments in the next ring of US markets is now becomi...
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Amazon AWS
UK telco BT Group has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), signing a new five-year agreement with the cloud provider. The deal builds on BT's ongoing cloud migration to AWS, and aims to help BT move its legacy systems into "modern, customer-centric microservices."“This isn’...
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Germany / Deutschland
Energy firm E-Werk Mittelbaden and IT services provider Leitwerk are investing €16 million ($18.63m) in a new data center within the startkLahr Airport & Business Park in Lahr, close to the French border in western Baden-Württemberg.“Starting signal for our data center in Lahr,” Julian Neu...
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Open DC
APAC operator Open DC has launched a new data center in Penang, Malaysia, a 30MW facility, PE2, which is located at Bayan Lepas Technology Park, is now the largest data center on the island of Penang.Yab Tuan Chow Kon Yeow, chief minister of Penang, said: “The establishment of PE2 marks a pivo...
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Yondr Group
Data center developer Yondr Group this week announced it has secured a 163-acre site in Lancaster, Texas, just south of Dallas, to develop a data center campus able to offer 550MW critical IT load.“The US is a key market for Yondr’s next phase of growth, and Dallas is one of the largest and fa...
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QTS Data Centers
Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good ne...
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EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC
Build-to-suit data center company EdgeConneX will set up data centers in Chicago and Atlanta for neocloud Lambda to support hybrid cooling with liquid-to-the-chip direct cooling and air cooling, and join two existing air-cooled facilities across both cities."Our partnership with Lambda undersc...
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Oman
Middle Eastern telecoms firm Ooredoo has inaugurated a new data center and cable landing station (CLS) in Salalah, Oman, in the presence of Sayyid Marwan bin Turki, Governor of Dhofar, alongside Ooredoo Oman CEO Saoud Al Riyami. The company said the data center was a “milestone project that re...
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Applied Digital
Former cryptomine company turned AI data center firm Applied Digital this week announced plans for Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280MW campus near Harwood in Cass County. "We believe Polaris Forge 2 represents the next stage in Applied Digital’s rapid growth and our position as a leader in d...
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Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...
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Spain
Data center firm Avaio Digital this week announced its first data center in Spain, in the town of Algete in the Community of Madrid. The €650 million ($759m) project – known as Algete Data Hub and Avaio Digital Scorpio – has secured 56.3MW of power with Iberdrola, in addition to the initial 8M...
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Republic of Ireland
County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at oth...
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Finland
APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strateg...
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Oracle
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil Eduardo Paes, during Rio Innovation Week this week, announced an agreement to accelerate the development of the "Rio AI City" project, which aims to transform the city into one of the main global hubs for artificial intelligence."We've signed with the worl...
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South Korea
Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move from l...
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United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of ...
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Equinix
US data center giant Equinix has expanded its commitment to nuclear energy, announcing three major agreements with advanced nuclear developers that together could provide up to 774MWe of power.The first deal was with Radiant, a microreactor company based in El Segundo, California. As part of t...
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