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1 day ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

AMACO seeks approval for US$ 1.5 billion off-grid AI data center in Kenya

AMACO Energy Group, a Greek multinational energy and infrastructure firm, is planning to build a KSh 194 billion (US$ 1.5…

1 day ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

ENGIE signs 48 MWac PPA with QTS to power Irving data center campus

ENGIE, a global energy firm, has signed two power purchase agreements (PPA) this week, one with data center operator QTS…

1 day ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

DayOne, Cortical Labs, NUS Medicine launch Singapore’s first Biological Data Center Prototype

Singapore-headquartered data center platform DayOne Data Centers Limited recently launched Singapore’s first Biological Data Center Prototype in collaboration with Cortical Labs and the…

1 day ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Saragon launches U.S. data center platform with US$ 1 billion capital backing

Saragon, a new U.S. data center operator, has launched 10 facilities across nine U.S. markets, supported by US$ 1 billion…

1 day ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Singapore’s DC-CFA2 winners announced; third CFA possible

Four data center platforms namely Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have been announced…

1 day ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Amazon adds US$ 6 billion to northwest Louisiana with a 3rd data center plan

Amazon Web Services (Amazon) plans to invest another US$ 6 billion in its northwest Louisiana data center project, increasing the…

2 days ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Stecon eyes US$ 1.5 billion data center jobs; in talks to invest in new DCs in Thailand

Thai construction giant, Stecon Group Pcl aims to bid for three data-center construction projects worth a combined 49.8 billion baht…

2 days ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

CtrlS Datacenters lands US$ 26 million investment from two Indian tech founders

CtrlS Datacenters, an Indian data center operator headquartered in Hyderabad, has welcomed entrepreneurs Nikhil Kamath and Sreeram Reddy Vanga as…

2 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Eagle Point loan greenlights first phase of Nexus’ hyperscale campus

Private credit investment manager Eagle Point Credit Management has announced that it served as a lead investor in a new…

2 days ago

Capital | Jan Yong

DayOne buys US$ 152.8 million Sepang land in Malaysia to build data center

Singapore-headquartered data center platform DayOne has today purchased 78.80 acres of land in Sepang for the price of RM617.8 million…

1 day ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

ENGIE signs 48 MWac PPA with QTS to power Irving data center campus

ENGIE, a global energy firm, has signed two power purchase agreements (PPA) this week, one with data center operator QTS…

1 day ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Saragon launches U.S. data center platform with US$ 1 billion capital backing

Saragon, a new U.S. data center operator, has launched 10 facilities across nine U.S. markets, supported by US$ 1 billion…

1 day ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Amazon adds US$ 6 billion to northwest Louisiana with a 3rd data center plan

Amazon Web Services (Amazon) plans to invest another US$ 6 billion in its northwest Louisiana data center project, increasing the…

2 days ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

CtrlS Datacenters lands US$ 26 million investment from two Indian tech founders

CtrlS Datacenters, an Indian data center operator headquartered in Hyderabad, has welcomed entrepreneurs Nikhil Kamath and Sreeram Reddy Vanga as…

2 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Eagle Point loan greenlights first phase of Nexus’ hyperscale campus

Private credit investment manager Eagle Point Credit Management has announced that it served as a lead investor in a new…

2 days ago

Capital | Jan Yong

DayOne buys US$ 152.8 million Sepang land in Malaysia to build data center

Singapore-headquartered data center platform DayOne has today purchased 78.80 acres of land in Sepang for the price of RM617.8 million…

2 days ago

Artificial Intelligence | Conor McNevin

Nebius Group announces multi-billion dollar convertible debt sale to fund data center and AI expansion

Nebius Group N.V. (Nebius Group), an AI cloud company, has announced its intention to offer, subject to market and other…

3 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

InfraTech Capital assembles consortium for US$ 2.7 billion data center campus in Texas

InfraTech Capital, an infrastructure investment and operating platform, has announced it is advancing a proposed investment of around US$ 2.7…

3 days ago

Artificial Intelligence | Conor McNevin

Scotland’s Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone receives £300 million in funding for data center expansion

The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone in Scotland, has secured a £300 million (US$ 400 million) financing package to support data…

4 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Commodity trader Vitol acquires its first data center campus from Meridian Gridworks

Energy and commodity trading firm Vitol, through its renewable energy arm VC Renewables (VCR), has acquired a 600 MW data…

4 weeks ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Open Secure AI Alliance: Tech giants come together to launch AI cybersecurity initiative

A coalition of technology companies, cybersecurity vendors, and open source organisations, has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry…

1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

e& UAE and Core42 partner to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure

Middle Eastern telecom major e& UAE, and Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure and digital services,…

2 months ago

Data Privacy | Conor McNevin

Google Cloud launches localized Google security operations in Seoul

Google Cloud has launched localized data residency for Google Security Operations in the Google Cloud Seoul Region, allowing South Korean…

3 months ago

APAC | Jan Yong

[SPECIAL FEATURE] How to deal with cybersecurity threats?

Bret Cunningham, Chief Product Officer of Zimbra, an enterprise email platform, throws some light on how firms can respond to cybersecurity…

3 months ago

Cloud | Deborah Grey

Du unveils UAE’s cloud platform purpose-built for Chinese enterprises expanding into the UAE

du, a prominent Middle Eastern telecom and digital services provider, has announced the launch of a UAE-based cloud platform designed…

10 months ago

Data Privacy | Jan Yong

Philippines should enact data sovereignty laws: Exec

Data sovereignty laws should be enacted in the Philippines to attract global technology firms to set up data centers in…

4 weeks ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Microsoft Azure outage: Cloud services disrupted after West US network failure, now resolved

Microsoft services experienced widespread disruption on July 23, 2026, after a network failure in the company’s West US cloud region…

1 month ago

Data Center | Brendyn Lotz

Electrical fault knocked out Google Cloud’s Netherlands zone

Last week, Google Cloud’s europe-west4-a region went dark for a total of 14 hours and 55 minutes. The outage began…

1 month ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Iran targets Amazon Web Services data center in Bahrain

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have carried out yet another strike on a data center in the Middle East.…

2 months ago

Outages | Brendyn Lotz

Tata Communications recovers majority of data following Next-Gen Tower fire

Tata Communications, a major player in Indian telecommunications industry, has reportedly recovered a large chunk of the data that was…

4 months ago

Outages | Conor McNevin

Fire at NorthC data center disrupts universities, healthcare, and public transport in Netherlands

A major fire broke out at a NorthC data center facility in Almere, Netherlands, on Thursday morning, causing widespread disruptions.…

5 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

UPDATE | Iran directly threatens Stargate UAE

In a recent video address, Iran has officially declared that if the United States were to attack Iran’s power plants,…

5 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

UPDATE | Iran threatens US tech companies, Trump says war objectives “nearing completion”

Iran has named 18 technology companies with dire consequences if the US continues to attack and kill the Middle Eastern…

5 months ago

Outages | Deborah Grey

UPDATE | AWS Bahrain region experiencing disruption amidst ongoing war

The cloud and data center industry continues to remain in a precarious state amidst the ongoing war between the US…

5 months ago

EMEA | Deborah Grey

UPDATE | Bank data center targetted in Iran; concerns rise over retaliation against banks and tech infrastructure

In yet another attack on digital infrastructure amidst the war in the Middle East, the data center of an Iranian…

6 months ago

EMEA | Deborah Grey

UPDATE | Amazon, NVIDIA implement emergency measures in the Middle East

In wake of the war in the Middle East, and incessant drone strikes that have damaged at least three data…

1 day ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Singapore’s DC-CFA2 winners announced; third CFA possible

Four data center platforms namely Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have been announced…

3 days ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Vietnam – still an attractive data center market despite challenges

In the last few months, there had been news about multibillion-dollar AI data centers being announced in Vietnam. The latest…

3 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Pennsylvania governor targets predatory AI data center developers in executive order

Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro has signed an executive order that he says introduces the strictest guardrails for AI data…

3 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Transgrid sets six tests for data centres seeking NSW grid capacity

Transgrid has introduced a new six-part readiness test for large electricity users seeking capacity on its NSW transmission network, requiring…

4 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Tasmania launches parliamentary inquiry into AI data centres

Tasmania’s Parliament has launched a formal inquiry into the construction and operation of AI data centres, opening the sector to…

5 days ago

Policy | Jan Yong

Malaysia aims to protect farmland from data center boom: Report

Malaysia plans to protect farmland from increased conversions into industrial use especially for data center and semiconductor factory buildouts, according…

6 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

NSW puts data centres on fast track, but developers face higher costs

New South Wales has introduced a new data centre policy framework that promises faster planning approvals for projects meeting tougher…

1 week ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Eskom looks to hyperscalers to soak up South Africa’s 6 GW power surplus

Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility, plans to court hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to take up as…

1 week ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

US Senate Committee On Finance proposes new taxes on data centers as AI spending surges

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a draft proposal on Aug 6, that would change the federal…

2 weeks ago

Policy | Jan Yong

Thailand to set up body to oversee data centers: Reports

The Thai cabinet has last week approved a draft Prime Minister’s Office Regulation to establish a Data Centre Business Policy…

1 day ago

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

AMACO seeks approval for US$ 1.5 billion off-grid AI data center in Kenya

AMACO Energy Group, a Greek multinational energy and infrastructure firm, is planning to build a KSh 194 billion (US$ 1.5…

1 day ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

DayOne, Cortical Labs, NUS Medicine launch Singapore’s first Biological Data Center Prototype

Singapore-headquartered data center platform DayOne Data Centers Limited recently launched Singapore’s first Biological Data Center Prototype in collaboration with Cortical Labs and the…

1 day ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Singapore’s DC-CFA2 winners announced; third CFA possible

Four data center platforms namely Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have been announced…

1 day ago

Americas | Conor McNevin

Amazon adds US$ 6 billion to northwest Louisiana with a 3rd data center plan

Amazon Web Services (Amazon) plans to invest another US$ 6 billion in its northwest Louisiana data center project, increasing the…

2 days ago

Data Center | Jan Yong

Stecon eyes US$ 1.5 billion data center jobs; in talks to invest in new DCs in Thailand

Thai construction giant, Stecon Group Pcl aims to bid for three data-center construction projects worth a combined 49.8 billion baht…

2 days ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Eagle Point loan greenlights first phase of Nexus’ hyperscale campus

Private credit investment manager Eagle Point Credit Management has announced that it served as a lead investor in a new…

2 days ago

Capital | Jan Yong

DayOne buys US$ 152.8 million Sepang land in Malaysia to build data center

Singapore-headquartered data center platform DayOne has today purchased 78.80 acres of land in Sepang for the price of RM617.8 million…

2 days ago

ANZ | Simon Dux

Direct liquid cooling: preparing data centres for the next generation of high-density computing

As artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and accelerated workloads continue to reshape modern data centres, traditional cooling methods are…

2 days ago

Artificial Intelligence | Jan Yong

YTL Power and JLand to partner to build up to 1.5GW data center in Johor

Malaysia-based infrastructure developer YTL Power International and JLand Group have jointly announced a partnership to develop a gigawatt-scale data center…

2 days ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Helios plans new data center project in Tervola, Finland

Helios Nordic Energy Finland Oy (Helios), a subsidiary of Helios Nordic Energy AB, a Nordic developer specializing in large-scale solar…

4 days ago

Power | Deborah Grey

Equinix signs solar PPA with Flo Energy in Singapore

Global digital infrastructure provider Equinix has entered into a renewable energy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Singapore, with Flo Energy…

4 days ago

SEA | Jan Yong

DayOne secures US$ 415 million green loan from DBS, OCBC & UOB

Singapore-based data center platform DayOne has secured SGD 530 million (US$ 415 million) green loan from Singapore-based leading banks DBS,…

1 week ago

SEA | Jan Yong

Building Thailand’s next digital backbone: Inside Manee Tech Estate’s push to become critical national infrastructure

Manee Tech Estate is positioning its 811-rai (321-acre) site as critical digital infrastructure for hyperscale operators. Key Highlights: Independent Validation:…

3 weeks ago

Artificial Intelligence | Conor McNevin

NTT DATA to source renewable energy from ENGIE in Europe

NTT DATA, a global provider of business and technology services, and ENGIE, a French multinational utility company, have signed a…

1 month ago

Cooling | Deborah Grey

SPECIAL FEATURE | Cooling without the cold: Lessons from the hottest regions

Liquid cooling is fast becoming the default for AI-dense data centers. But what happens when your facility sits in one…

1 month ago

Data Center | Deborah Grey

Letsia to invest US$ 13.32 million into green data center development in Riyadh

Letsia, a Middle Eastern technology conglomerate has announced plans to invest SAR 50 million (US$ 13.32 million) to develop a…

1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

SPECIAL REPORT | UN scientists say AI data centers could consume as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030!

Amidst growing concerns surrounding data center sustainability comes a report by the United Nations that finds that AI’s water use…

2 months ago

Middle East | Deborah Grey

MEA green data center market poised to grow by over 30 percent by 2030: Report

The market for sustainable or “green” data centers across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) could grow by 31.81 percent…

2 months ago

Power | Jan Yong

AirTrunk partners ib vogt delivering Malaysia’s first renewable VPPA for data center

Asia Pacific data center platform AirTrunk has signed a long-term Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with renewable energy platform ib…

2 months ago

NEA | Conor McNevin

NTT Data, 4R Energy and Nissan Trading strategize to convert data center UPS systems into grid resources

NTT Data Corporation (NTT Data), 4R Energy Corporation (4R Energy) and Nissan Trading Corporation (Nissan Trading) will begin technical verification…

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