Data Center News

Microsoft Given Greenlight for 15 More Data Center Buildings in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

Microsoft has received approval to establish a further 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The additional 15 data center buildings will be located on land near Microsoft's existing data center campus that was previously slated to be used for a Foxconn manufacturing site.The scale of ...

One Year Data Center Moratorium Introduced in New Orleans

New Orleans

A one-year moratorium on data centers has been introduced in New Orleans, Louisiana. At a special meeting this week, the New Orleans City Council approved two motions following news of a proposed data center in New Orleans East and the regulation of future data center developments citywide.Mot...

1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

Canada

The town of Olds this week announced that Synapse Data Center Inc. has proposed a 1GW data center development. The campus, according to the company and filings with the Alberta government, would total ten 100MW buildings and some two million sq ft (185,805 sqm) of space.The campus could see in...

Penta Infra Acquires Data Center in Munich, Germany

Penta Infra

European data center firm Penta Infra has acquired a facility in Munich, Germany. The company announced the acquisition this week, saying the facility will be “fully modernized and expanded” into a colocation data center with 20MW of IT capacity.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "Munich...

atNorth Plans 30MW Data Center in Stockholm, Sweden

atNorth

Nordic data center firm atNorth is to develop a second data center in Stockholm, Sweden. It plans to build an additional data center in Stockholm, known as SWE02. The site is scheduled to go live in Q4 2027.“The expansion of our presence in Stockholm is a clear reflection of the growing demand...

QTS Drops Plan for Data Center near Madison, Wisconsin

QTS Data Centers

QTS has backed off plans to develop a data center near Madison, Wisconsin, after pushback from local officials. The company has dropped plans for a campus in the Village of DeForest after the village announced its intention to deny an annexation request related to the project.“After individual...

Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates, is looking to lure data centers to the area and signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DataCanvas International and AI Caravan. The MoU outlines a collaborative effort among the parties to explore opportunities for establishing a...

EuroCTP Selects Equinix's FR2 Data Center for Equity Trading Consildated Tape

Equinix

EuroCTP, a new provider of an EU real-time pre and post-trade Consolidated Tape (CT) for financial equity trades, has selected Equinix's FR2 data center to host its 'tape' in Frankfurt, Germany.“Equinix FR2 provides EuroCTP with the ideal foundation to drive growth, ensuring we can reliably me...

TikTok Suffers Data Center Outage in US

TikTok has suffered a data center outage in the US. The social media platform has confirmed that issues experienced with its app have been related to a power outage at one of its US data centers.Posting on X, TikTok USDS said: "Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services followi...

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

Norway

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager ...

Bitfarms Files to Convert Cryptomine into AI Data Center

United States

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms is set to demolish a former Bitcoin mining facility in Washington state in order to redevelop it into an HPC/AI data center.  The revamped facility is expected to be completed by December 2026, adding to the region’s growing number of data centers that are making use...

20i Launches Data Center Location in Singapore

Singapore

Managed hosting provider 20i has signed an agreement to lease capacity at an Equinix data center in Singapore. 20i providers hosting services, including reseller hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and cloud servers - including 20icloud, AWS, and GCP. It utilizes "autoscaling" and load balanci...

Colorado Proposes Tax Breaks for Data Centers

Colorado (CO)

Colorado could offer tax breaks to data center developers that pledge to power their facilities with renewable energy.A new bill proposed in the state’s House of Representatives would offer a 20-year, 100 percent sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers. The bill would see a new...

Alerify Partners with Zadara on Sovereign AI Cloud in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania-based data center provider Alerify has partnered with AI cloud provider Zadara on an AI Edge platform. Through the agreement, Alerify will combine its data center infrastructure and cloud platform with Zadara's offering, creating a sovereign AI solution in Pennsylvania.“We chose Z...

Equinix Launches Data Center in San Jose, California

Equinix

Equinix this week energized its SV12x facility, the first to do so under a new partnership between the city of San Jose and utility PG&E. The city and the utility partnered last year to guarantee power delivery for data centers. The deal promised infrastructure and speed improvements at a ...

DayOne Targets 560MW Data Center Campus Outside Helsinki, Finland

DayOne

Data center developer DayOne is planning a third campus in Finland. The company this week announced “early-stage plans” for a data center project in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi.The Municipality of Nurmijärvi has initiated its handling of a preliminary sale of the data center site with DayOne. The co...

AM Group To Establish 1GW Data Center Campus in Northern India

India / Bhārata

AM Green Group (AMG), which specializes in the ‘green’ production of industrial materials and fuels like ammonia, hydrogen, and methanol, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest UP, the investment agency of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.The memorandum, which is non-binding, states t...

Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

Canada

Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “takin...

KDDI Launches Data Center in Osaka, Japan

KDDI

Japanese telecoms firm KKDI has launched the first phase of a new data center in Osaka. The company this week announced that operations at the Osaka Sakai Data Center, located near the Osaka metropolitan area, started on January 22.The four-story facility, totaling 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft), ...

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg.The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal ...