October 12, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...
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October 10, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has begun construction of KIX15, a 24-megawatt data center at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, the company announced on Oct. 7. The facility is being developed by MC Digital Realty, the operator's 50/50 joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, and is...
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September 30, 2026 Meta
Meta has signed strategic AI infrastructure agreements with Australian AI factory developer Firmus Technologies for GPU compute capacity at Firmus sites across Southeast Asia, the companies announced Tuesday. The agreements cover contracted capacity plus options to expand, and Capital Brief...
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September 30, 2026 Equinix
Equinix and Schneider Electric have partnered to pilot software-defined medium-voltage switchgear at an undisclosed Equinix data center. The technology, developed by Schneider Electric, is designed to reduce the need for specialized cabling and hardware in data centers. Schneider said the...
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September 30, 2026 Meta
Meta has agreed to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud Firmus across its upcoming Southeast Asian data centers. The deal expands an existing partnership under which Meta leases Nvidia GB300 NVL72 capacity at Firmus’ Melbourne facility. Firmus is developing AI factories with DayOne...
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September 29, 2026 Global Switch
Global Switch has been chosen to host a large Nvidia Blackwell cluster at its data center in Paris, France. The mostly liquid-cooled deployment will be installed at Global Switch’s Nvidia DGX-ready facility in the city. The exact size has not been disclosed, but Global Switch described it as one...
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September 28, 2026 Goodman Group
Australian real estate firm Goodman Group has withdrawn plans for Project Mars, a 90MW data center campus in Sydney’s Lane Cove area. The company said the application was withdrawn following significant changes to the policy and regulatory environment for large-scale data center development since...
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September 26, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
US colocation data center firm Digital Realty has appointed Jim Collins as senior vice president and global head of energy. Collins joins from Microsoft, where he spent 13 years in various leadership roles, most recently as general manager of global energy markets. Before Microsoft, he spent a...
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September 22, 2026 Nabiax
Spanish data center operator Nabiax has begun construction of a new facility in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Known as Alcalá Data Center 3 (ADC3), the project will complete Nabiax’s Alcalá campus and represents an investment of nearly €800 million ($918 million). The facility will add up to 100MW...
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September 16, 2026 Goodman Group
Goodman Group has raised $455 million for its Hong Kong Data Centre Partnership (GHKDCP). The funds will mainly finance the mechanical and electrical fit-out of Goodman HKG10 in Tsuen Wan, which Goodman will operate. The data center will be built inside an existing Goodman warehouse, with initial...
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September 14, 2026 Edged Energy
US data center operator Edged has completed the structural work on two facilities in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The company announced that OMA01-1 and OMA01-2 have reached the topping-out stage. "Reaching this milestone reflects our continued commitment to investing in communities that are positioned...
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September 11, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity over the next five years, targeting 38GW by 2032, up from its current 12GW. The capacity will combine Microsoft-owned facilities with leased capacity from third-party providers, including neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Lambda,...
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September 09, 2026 DAMAC Digital
Damac Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have begun construction of their planned data center in Izmir, western Turkey. The project was first announced in 2024 with a $100 million investment, but Damac Digital has now increased the budget to $300 million. The facility will be Vodafone’s second data...
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September 09, 2026 hscale
Bain Capital-backed Hscale has secured a contract worth more than $1 billion with an unnamed hyperscaler for capacity at its data centers in Spain. The facilities will support the client’s cloud and AI workloads, with the agreement potentially expanding to other Hscale data centers across EMEA....
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September 08, 2026 Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty has launched its second data center in Nairobi, Kenya. The company announced on September 7 that its Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2) is now operational, adding 6.4MW of capacity to its Nairobi campus. The facility covers 12,000 sq ft (1,100 sqm). The launch follows iColo’s...
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September 04, 2026 Meta
Meta’s Kuna, Idaho Data Center Is Now Operational Meta has begun serving traffic from its data center in Kuna, Idaho. The company announced the campus in 2022, initially planning to invest $800 million in a 960,000 sq ft (89,187 sqm) facility. The project was later temporarily paused for redesign...
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September 03, 2026 Equinix
Australian quantum startup Diraq has partnered with Equinix to deploy a quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney. The eight-qubit system will use a silicon chip with self-contained cryogenic cooling and control electronics. The chip can be replaced to increase the qubit count without...
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August 25, 2026 Echelon Data Centres
Irish data center company Echelon has partnered with Trinovium, a new liquid cooling subsidiary of Trinity Biotech, to develop cooling solutions for AI and high-density computing. The companies will focus on direct-to-chip cooling fluids, thermal management systems, and modular liquid cooling...
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August 15, 2026 Global Switch
Construction has begun on Global Switch’s second data center in Madrid, Spain. Madrid 2 will be a 24,000-square-meter colocation facility with 56MW of capacity, supporting AI, cloud, and high-performance computing workloads. The facility is expected to open in 2029 and reach full capacity by...
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August 05, 2026 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge has started the next expansion phase of its HAM002 data center in Ahrensburg, Germany. The phase will add 3.2MW of capacity, with the four-stage project set to reach 20MW across 10,000 sqm (107,640 sq ft) when complete. The facility’s first 4.4MW phase opened in 2024 and is nearly fully...
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