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August 01, 2026
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Norway
Norwegian renewable investment firm Magnora has entered the data center market with the acquisition of Norwegian data center developer Storespeed. Magnora acquired a 75 percent stake in the company in partnership with Blix Solutions, a data center developer based in Norway, which nabbed a five...
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North America
US operator Centersquare this week announced the acquisition of 10 data centers across the United States and Canada. Acquired sites include two data centers in Boston and Minneapolis that the company had been operating under long-term lease agreements, along with eight additional colocation fa...
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United States
Enterprise software investment firm Thoma Bravoo this week announced a strategic minority investment in SDC Capital Partners, a digital infrastructure investment firm. Terms of the deal weren’t shared."Thoma Bravo is one of the world's most admired investment firms and shares our view on the b...
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Australia
Australian data center firm DigiCo Infrastructure REIT has secured a number of new deals in Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. The company announced customer wins across its Australian data center platform from a combination of hyperscale, neocloud, enterprise, and government clients, adding 14MW...
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United States
Wafer-scale chip designer Cerebras Systems has raised $1.1 billion in an oversubscribed Series G funding round, at an $8.1bn valuation. The company said it would use the funds to expand its technology portfolio, including AI processor design, packaging, system design, and AI supercomputers. "F...
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Belgium
Belgian operator Datacenter United (DCU) recently acquired by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure and TINC, raised a five-year senior financing package of €120 million ($140m) from a consortium of banks comprising DNB, Belfius Bank, and NIBC Bank.“Companies in Belgium and beyond count on us to sup...
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North America
Avangrid, the North American arm of Spanish electrical utility Iberdrola, has announced a $18.5 billion investment plan into electric and gas network infrastructure within the US by 2028. The investment will focus on rebuilding and replacing aging infrastructure in electric and gas utilities, ...
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California
California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to upgrade its grid infrastructure to meet the surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The investment is expected to support up to 10GW of new data...
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Poland
The Polish Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy has announced its intent to build a data center, buy six satellites and build a ground station to service them in Poland, at a combined cost of PLN2 billion ($548 million). The investment is part of Poland’s National Reconstruction Plan (the KPO...
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United States
Cryptominer CleanSpark this week announced it was increasing its Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Coinbase Prime by $100m. The funds will be “strategic capital expenditures,” including expanding CleanSpark's energy portfolio, scaling its Bitcoin mining operations, and investing in high-perf...
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Nscale
AI data center developer Nscale has raised $1.1 billion to help its build-out in the UK and beyond in a Series B round led by Aker ASA, and participation from the likes of Blue Owl, Dell, Fidelity Management & Research Company, G Squared, Nokia, Nvidia, Point72, and T.Capital.“AI is reshap...
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United Kingdom
AI Pathfinder, a new data center developer has revealed plans to invest up to £18.4 billion ($24.86bn) in UK digital infrastructure, with new facilities in England and Scotland. It has also committed to investing up to £15bn ($20.2bn) in a data center at the i3 industrial park in Ayrshire, Sco...
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Rowan Digital Infrastructure
US data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured $925 million in new financing for the third phase of its flagship Bauxite campus in Maryland, bringing total debt raised for Bauxite to more than $3.1bn. Led by SMBC, MUFG, Mizuho, and Societe Generale, the financing was the fir...
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CoreWeave
US neoloud CoreWeave plans to invest another £1.5 billion ($2bn) in UK AI data center capacity and operations which comes on top of a previous £1bn ($1.4bn) commitment, and includes a deployment at a DataVita data center in Scotland.“Our investment in the UK will establish one of the world’s l...
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Vantage Data Centers
US operator Vantage Data Centers is entering the Spanish market and has announced plans to invest €3.2 billion ($3.78bn) in developing a data center campus in Villanueva de Gállego, the Zaragoza area of Aragon. The project will be developed in collaboration with the Aragonese company Desarroll...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has signed a deal to rent $6.2 billion of AI computing power in Norway. The capacity will be provided by Nscale and Norwegian investment company Aker. The compute capacity will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and it seems to be from the same data center as announced earlier ...
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United States
Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of an agreement to jointly develop custom data center and personal computing hardware. Both companies would work to connect Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia’s NVLink technology, with Intel set to build custom x86 CPUs that will integrat...
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United Kingdom
Power technology firm ABB is investing $110 million in manufacturing over the next three months to support growth in industries such as data centers. This investment is to “expand R&D and manufacturing of its advanced electrification solutions,” as customers “focus on improving energy effi...
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Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.6 billion to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with the acquisition of Yondr Group’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.“This significant investment marks a pivotal milestone in our APAC growth journey,” said Jeremy Deutsch, presiden...
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Finland
Helen, one of Finland's largest energy companies, has announced that it is open to supporting data center operators in joining its “comprehensive energy system” in Helsinki, where facilities can be connected to the city’s advanced district heating and cooling network."The synergy benefits of d...
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