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Data Center | Conor McNevin

YIT to build new atNorth data center in Finland

YIT, a Finnish construction company, has agreed with Nordic data center services provider atNorth, to build a new data center…

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Data Center | Conor McNevin

The Green party calls for tighter rules on UK data centers

The UK Green Party is calling on the British government to stop automatically classifying new data centers as “critical infrastructure,”…

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Data Center | Deborah Grey

Get ready for Korea CDC 2026!

This September w.media is coming to Seoul for the Korea Cloud & Datacenter Convention (KRCDC) 2026, which will take place…

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Data Center | Deborah Grey

SPECIAL FEATURE | Smarter planning, intelligent construction: Building sustainable data centers of the future

With growing consciousness surrounding sustainability, the data center industry is also carefully calibrating its next steps vis-a-vis developing energy-efficient digital…

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Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Stratos Lab launches AI cloud at Digital Parks Africa data center in South Africa

South African AI neocloud provider Stratos Lab, together with data center operator Digital Parks Africa and ECOBLOX, has announced the…

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Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Alibaba Cloud’s first South American region goes online in Brazil

Alibaba Cloud, the AI infrastructure and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the launch of its first cloud region…

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Capital | Conor McNevin

Eurofiber secures € 2.2bn in refinancing

Eurofiber, a digital infrastructure and telecommunication service provider, has secured € 2.2 billion (US$ 2.56 billion) in new long-term financing…

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Data Center | Conor McNevin

Digital Realty starts construction of a new data center in Switzerland

Digital Realty, a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), has started construction of ZUR4, a new data center in Glattbrugg, Switzerland,…

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Africa | Brendyn Lotz

MTN and UAE investor join forces to build African AI data centers

MTN Digital Infrastructure, a division of pan-African mobile network operator MTN, has announced a strategic partnership with a UAE-based data…

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Artificial Intelligence | Deborah Grey

SK Telecom launches AI DC infrastructure company SK Horizon with investments from KKR and IMM

South Korean telecommunications major SK Telecom has announced the launch of SK Horizon, a new artificial intelligence data center company…

1 month ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Meta hands BlackRock majority stake in 1 GW El Paso data center

Meta has announced a joint venture with BlackRock, a leading investment management firm, to develop and operate its data center…

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Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Amazon Leo seeks FCC nod for D2D satellite constellation

Amazon Leo, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite connectivity solution, has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to…

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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…

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Americas | Conor McNevin

Nebius contemplating 1.2 GW data center campus in Pennsylvania

Nebius Group, an AI infrastructure and cloud company, is reportedly planning to build a 1.2 GW data center campus at…

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Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Data center capital Loudoun County moves to pause new data center builds

The so-called data center capital of the world, Loudoun County, Virginia, may pause data center applications, site plans, and substation…

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Americas | Conor McNevin

Etched reaches valuation of over US$ 10 billion after Series C funding

Etched has raised US$ 300 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the AI inference hardware company at US$…

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Americas | Brendyn Lotz

Claro invests US$ 35 million in second Puerto Rico landing for AMX-1

Claro Puerto Rico, a Latin American telecommunications firm owned by América Móvil, will invest US$ 35 million in landing the…

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Americas | Conor McNevin

Infleqtion to deploy quantum computer in Chicago

Quantum computing company Infleqtion, has announced that it will deploy a fault-tolerant, neutral-atom quantum computer at the Illinois Quantum &…

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Americas | Deborah Grey

Ratepayer Protection Pledge to include 200 more utilities and DC developers

U.S President Donald Trump has extended the Ratepayer Protection Pledge to include over 200 new entities including governors, state legislators,…

2 months ago

Americas | Brendyn Lotz

North America’s data center growth slows as capacity runs out: CBRE

North America leads the global data center market, but according to CBRE’s Global Data Center Trends 2026 it isn’t the…

3 weeks ago

Cloud | Jan Yong

Tencent Cloud launches cloud region in Johor, its first in Malaysia

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia,…

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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…

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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,…

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Capital | Brendyn Lotz

Alibaba Cloud expands South Korean footprint with third data center

Alibaba Group’s AI infrastructure and intelligence provider, Alibaba Cloud, has announced the launch of its third data center in South…

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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…

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Data Center | Deborah Grey

Goodman signs 20-year lease with global hyperscaler in Greater Tokyo

Goodman Group, a global provider of digital infrastructure, has signed a 20-year lease with a global hyperscale customer for the…

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Data Center | Jan Yong

Global Switch debuts in Bangkok, to enter Johor soon in Southeast Asia expansion

London-headquartered owner and operator of hyperscale data centers Global Switch Holdings Limited has announced its debut in Thailand as part of…

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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…

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Americas | Jan Yong

DayOne files confidentially for US IPO: Report

Singapore-based data center platform DayOne has last week filed confidentially for a United States initial public offering (IPO) which could…

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ANZ | Simon Dux

LEDC’s Craparotta bets on regional AI as demand outstrips capacity

Former Schneider Electric executive Joe Craparotta has returned to Australia’s data centre industry after seven months away, taking the role…

2 months 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…

2 months 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

Data Center | Conor McNevin

YIT and atNorth to build US$ 343 million data center in Finland

YIT, a European construction company, and atNorth, a Nordic data center service provider, have partnered to design and build a…

2 months ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

TIM board greenlights Poste Italiane’s US$ 14.9 billion takeover bid

The board of directors at Telecom Italia (TIM), an Italian multinational telecommunications company, has unanimously endorsed Poste Italiane’s voluntary public…

2 months 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

Africa | Brendyn Lotz

Telecom Egypt to carve out data center business after dropping Helios deal

Telecom Egypt’s board of directors resolved on July 15, 2026, not to move forward with a transaction that would have…

2 months ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

Prysmian signs US$ 6.2 billion with Molex to supply optical cables inside data centers

Milan-based Prysmian Group, the largest manufacturer of cables and systems for the energy and telecommunications industries, has reached an up…

2 months ago

Capital | Brendyn Lotz

Orcadian pitches 200 MW offshore data center on CO2-laden gas field

Orcadian Energy plc, a North Sea-focused oil and gas exploration and development company listed on London’s junior AIM market, has…

2 months ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

Coravel secures first Hyperscaler customer as ACS-GIP data center platform begins operations

Coravel, a data center integrated digital infrastructure platform created as a 50-50 joint venture (JV) between ACS Group, a civil…

2 months ago

Data Center | Conor McNevin

SPECIAL FEATURE | FLAP-D markets plagued by grid constraints and moratoriums: CBRE

Some of Europe’s most established data center markets are struggling to find adequate power for their digital infrastructure, even as…

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