Weekly Data Centre News - 13/12/2024

Weekly Update! 12 more sleeps.. You would think this crazy industry would slow down at this time of year, but you think wrong! This week we have had plans for the largest AI Data Centre Park, multi billion dollar investments, huge energy investments, and various new projects announced. Can we all give it a rest now? I need some time off..

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Reports

Strategic Industries Surging: Driving US Power Demand. Read here.

Power moves: Data center deals are heating up in EMEA. Read here.

CBRE: 2024 India Data Centre Market Update. Read here.

Europe

Seven consortia selected to establish AI factories which will boost AI innovation in the EU. Read here.

AI hyperscaler Nscale secures $155 million in Series A. Read here.

UK gov grants data centres national priority status to speed up planning permissions. Read here.

PATRIZIA have welcomed the approval of development plans for a 700,000 sq ft 140MW data centre in Iver, Buckinghamshire (UK). Read here.

Councillor warns Buckinghamshire will be ‘covered in data centres’ after controversial Government approval. Read here.

Plans submitted for new £250m data centre in Salford that could boost technology in the city. Read here.

Pure Data Centres completes substructure at London expansion. Read here.

NorthC Datacenters announced plans to expand in Germany. Read here.

Ori Industries is to become the first company deploy Nvidia’s new H200 chips in the UK. Read here.

Data centre’s waste heat repurposed for Queen Mary campus. Read here.

Arelion and Aruba unveil new data centre partnership in Rome. Read here.

Drogheda data centre would compromise ability to comply with carbon limits, An Taisce warns. Read here.

Verne appoints industry veteran Bill Stein to board. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

Raya Holding and Africa50 partner on Tier III Data Centre in Egypt. Read here.

Hormuud CEO announces plans for more green data centers in Somalia. Read here.

Microsoft completes construction of Saudi Arabia data center region. Read here.

APAC

Thailand Emerges as a Favorite Pick for Data Centre Investors. Read here.

Doma Infrastructure Group announced plans to develop 1.5GW of data center parks in Thailand. Read here.

Bangkok land deal paves way for $500m data centre. Read here.

Microsoft extends Azure cloud infrastructure to Western Australia. Read here.

CDC Data Centres seeking minority stake sale as valuation doubles in six months. Read here.

GDS International secures $1.2bn in upsized Series B funding round. Read here.

Microsoft launches first NZ hyperscale data centre. Read here.

Vitro is planning a 100MW data center in the Philippines. Read here.

Sharp and KDDI enter into MoU for AI data center. Read here.

NTT Data to Build 290MW Data Center in Johor Bahru. Read here.

AWS India buys land parcel near Mumbai. Read here.

Vantage Data Center announced it has successfully issued its inaugural bonds in the Asia-Pacific region through its wholly-owned subsidiary, PowerDC Holdco Pte. Ltd. Read here.

DigiCo REIT slumps in debut after marking Australia's biggest IPO in six years. Read here.

North America

White House weighing executive action to spur data centers. Read here.

Hut 8 surged Thursday on chatter that the bitcoin miner is partnering with Meta on a multibillion dollar artificial intelligence data center project. Read here.

Google has a $20B plan to build data centers and clean power together. Read here.

AVAIO Digital to Build $3 Billion Data Center Campus on 452 Acres in Appomattox County, Virginia. Read here.

Cohere to build ‘multibillion-dollar’ data centre in Canada. Read here.

Kevin O'Leary proposes 'Wonder Valley' in Alberta, billed as world’s largest AI data centre park (7.5GW). Read here.

Data center investment firm Cloud Capital has raised more than $1 billion in securitized funding. Read here.

Energy Vault and RackScale Data Centers Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Delivery of 2GW of Power to Data Centers. Read here.

CyrusOne has acquired a data center it was leasing from PowerHouse Data Centers in Virginia. Read here.

Yondr Group has secured a 4.5-acre site in Toronto to develop its first Canadian data center (27MW). Read here.  

Sharon AI, New Era Helium expand capacity of planned natural gas-powered data center in Permian Basin. Read here.

Crusoe Closes $600M in Series D Round at $2.8 Billion Valuation to Power AI. Read here.

Blue Owl-Led Group Lands $600 Million Financing for CoreWeave Data Center. Read here.

Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. Read here.

Hanover, Ashland split over data center park proposal. Read here.

How Amazon is making its data centers even more sustainable. Read here.

Microsoft: Sustainable by design: Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling. Read here.

Google: Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip. Read here.

Oracle signs up Meta for AI training deal. Read here.

Vertiv and Compass unveil hybrid cooling solution for AI data centres. Read here.

Equinix stock soars as Wells Fargo raises price target. Read here.

Lumen Orbit, a Seattle-area startup that wants to put data centers in space, raises $11M. Read here.

Chevron and Exxon are both planning to venture into the electricity supply business to take advantage of the surge in demand expected to come from the proliferation of data centers. Read here.

New Era Helium and Sharon AI Expand and Accelerate Plans for a Net-Zero Energy Data Center in the Permian Basin. Read here.

South America

Chile has announced a data centre plan up to 2030 aimed at tripling the size of its industry within five years. Read here.

Other interesting articles

When a Giant Data Center Comes to a Small Town. Read here.

Data centre boom under AI growth in Ireland threatening climate targets, report warns. Read here.

Datacloud trends to watch in 2025: What's next in the digital landscape. Read here.

Dell Predicts Major Data Centre Architecture Shift for AI. Read here.

Kevin O'Leary is Building the World's Largest Data Center. Watch here.

AI demand reshaping data centres with new challenges ahead. Read here.

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