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August 01, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
New Jersey
Milan
UK infrastructure developer Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure plan to invest up to €360 million ($418m) to develop a 36MW data center east of Milan, Italy. Greenfield has already secured 80MW of power capacity for the site, which will support AI, cloud, and enterprise workloads while boostin...
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Singapore
Flex has agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, expanding its data center power and thermal management portfolio. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close in Q4 2026. EPC will join Flex’s Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment, building on their existing partnership. ...
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Germany / Deutschland
Schwarz Group and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania plan to develop a 240MW data center in Dummersdorf, Germany, backed by a €5.6 billion investment. The facility could expand to 1GW by 2045 and benefit from renewable wind power, a potential 380kV grid connection, and free cooling. Schwarz Group also...
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AIMS APAC REIT
Data center asset values across APAC could approach $1 trillion by 2030, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The firm estimates that more than $280 billion in capital expenditure will be needed, with over 77% directed toward Japan, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Indonesia. AI adoption, cloud g...
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United States
Orbital data center company Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion valuation, following its $170 million Series A in March. The round was led by Manhattan West and included existing investors such as Benchmark and EQT, alongside new investors including Nvidia ...
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Switch
Switch has filed plans for a new three-building data center campus in Big Beaver Borough, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The proposed Big Beaver Data Center/Switch Pit 01-03 will feature three facilities, each covering 201,690 sq ft (18,737 sqm). Planning documents indicate a combined backup gene...
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Malaysia
APAC data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has secured up to $1.37 billion in green financing for its 166MW STT Johor campus in Malaysia. The funding will support the first phase, which will provide 16MW of IT capacity and is expected to be completed by 2027. STT GDC beg...
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NTT Data
Japanese IT services provider NTT Data reported $634 million in data center investment during Q1 FY2026, alongside $733 million in data center sales. Overall, the NTT Group company posted $8 billion in net sales, up 15.8 percent year over year, while net new orders rose 29.7 percent to $9.15 bill...
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United Kingdom
Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK-based data center power infrastructure provider AVK Power Solutions. Partners Group plans to invest more than $1 billion in equity, backed by debt financing, to accelerate AVK’s expansion and grow its microgrid ...
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CyrusOne
CyrusOne has filed plans for three buildings at a new data center campus in Fairfield, Texas, located adjacent to Calpine’s Freestone natural gas power plant. The project, on FM 488 in Freestone County, about 90 miles (144.8km) south of Dallas, is part of a 760MW data center development being bui...
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Seoul
South Korean conglomerate LG will invest an additional 1.3 trillion won ($910 million) in its 200MW data center project in Paju, located about 19 miles (31km) north of Seoul, according to local reports. The new investment more than doubles LG’s previous commitment of 615.6 billion won ($441.7 mil...
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August 01, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
New Jersey
AirTrunk
APAC data centre firm AirTrunk has secured $2.3 billion in funding for its JHB2 campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Announced in 2025, JHB2 is expected to deliver more than 270MW of capacity across a 520-hectare site, alongside the company’s expanding JHB1 facility. The loan was supported by 30 loca...
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Pure Data Centres Group
Pure DC has secured €1.3 billion ($1.48bn) in senior debt financing for the first phase of its Seinäjoki AI data center campus in Finland. Phase I will see more than €1.5 billion invested in a 110MW facility, with the campus planned to scale to 550MW. The first phase is already fully leased, repo...
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Italy
Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian has signed a €5.5 billion ($6.29bn) agreement with Koch-owned Molex to supply optical cables for data center deployments. The deal includes a €550 million ($570m) upfront payment and will run for up to 10 years. Prysmian, founded in 1879, produces energy and te...
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United States
Aon has expanded its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program (DCLP), adding $5 billion in capacity and broader risk solutions for data center developers and operators. The multi-line insurance program covers construction, cargo, cyber, and operational risks across the data center lifecycle. The e...
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Malaysia
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will invest up to $175 million in AirTrunk’s planned data centers in Johor, Malaysia. AirTrunk’s JHB1 facility, which opened in July 2024, currently provides more than 50MW of capacity and is expected to reach over 150MW at full build-out. JHB2, announc...
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Meta
Meta plans to more than double its Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center campus to 5GW of capacity. The site, known as the Hyperion data center project, was previously planned as a 2GW development. Announced in late 2024, Hyperion was originally designed as a 4 million sq ft (372,000 sqm) campu...
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Terawulf
TeraWulf is seeking approximately $3.5 billion in debt financing to support construction of its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, which will be leased to AI company Anthropic. According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley is expected to lead the financing package, which is likely to include...
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Microsoft Azure
National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of power infrastructure for large data centers. The investment will help fund Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron. ...
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