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August 01, 2026
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United Kingdom
The UK government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Google Cloud a £400 million ($542.12m) contract. Google is to deliver a UK sovereign cloud capability to give the MoD a secure cloud platform. The offering will be built on Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped.“Google Cloud is dedicated ...
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KAO Data
Kao Data investor Legal and General (L&G) has closed a €600 million ($706m) fund that will invest in digital infrastructure projects in Europe and the UK. This is “a key milestone in L&G’s asset management strategy to expand its private markets proposition,” the company said. A second ...
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Poland
A data center project in Poland is offering up to PLN 800 million ($220m) in funding for three state-owned data centers, with the Digital Poland Project Center calling for applications. The data centers are each expected to span around 2,000 sqm (21,527 sq ft), and will "largely" be powered by...
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Germany / Deutschland
EcoDataCenter has secured €600 million ($703m) in debt financing from Deutsche Bank Private Credit and Infrastructure which will be used to develop AI data centers in Sweden.“AI infrastructure is a new base industry, and we are building one of Europe’s most exciting companies in the sector. We...
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ODATA SA
Latin American data center firm OData this week announced $1.02bn in green financing. The proceeds will be used for data center projects that “meet the highest standards of sustainability” across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. The company said the financing was the largest of its kind fo...
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Khazna
Khazna Data Centers has secured $2.62 billion in bank financing from two of the country’s banks, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) and First Abu Dhabi Bank, to grow its data center empire.“The criticality of our work is highlighted by the expanding scale, scope, and sophistication required to s...
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United States
Hitachi Energy has announced a $1 billion investment to scale up its grid infrastructure manufacturing footprint in the US, addressing the power demand from the AI data center sector. Nearly half of the investment, $475 million, is earmarked for the construction of a new power transformer manu...
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Germany / Deutschland
German software company SAP is planning to invest more than €20 billion ($23.3bn) in expanding its sovereign cloud offering in Europe which will span the next 10 years.Among SAP's plans is to bring an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to its European cloud offerings, as well as launc...
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Virginia
Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not mo...
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has agreed to provide the US government with up to $6 billion in discounts over the next three years. The discounts will apply to Azure cloud computing services, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity tools. The first year alone could see the government saving up to ...
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North Dakota
North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of 202...
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Michigan
A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Bas...
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Google-backed nuclear fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), has successfully raised $863 million in Series B2 funding, adding a range of international investors to its list of backers. New investors included NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm), Counterpoint Global, Galaxy Int...
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United States
US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center t...
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Scala Data Centers
Brazilian data center developer Scala Data Centers has secured $25 million in financing from Caterpillar Power Finance, marking Caterpillar’s first with a data center company in Latin America. The financing is designed to drive sustainable growth across the company.“This milestone goes far be...
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Google and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin this week announced Google will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026. The funds will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince ...
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New Mexico
Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the ...
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Novva Data Centers
US operator Novva Data Centers has acquired more land in Las Vegas, Nevada in a $181 million deal which reportedly closed earlier this month. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports VanTrust Real Estate sold nearly 205 acres in the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas to Novva.According to th...
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Amazon AWS
Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced Amazon has pledged to invest $570 million in connectivity infrastructure by 2030 to deploy Kuiper services in the country. The investment will fuel up to six ground stations in the country, and set up satellite terminal manufacturing i...
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CoreWeave
Blue Owl is funding the development of CoreWeave’s planned data center campus in Pennsylvania. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital closed on a joint venture partnership to include $4 billion of funding for the previously announced CoreWeave developments in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Blue Owl aims t...
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