FirstLight expands Bedford data center to support AI and Enterprise workloads
FirstLight, a digital infrastructure and technology solutions company, has expanded its Bedford data center in New Hampshire, increasing the facility’s capacity by approximately 25 percent. The upgrade includes additional power and cooling infrastructure, supporting up to 100 more racks, along with private suites and caged environments to meet growing demand from enterprises and AI-driven edge […]
Did Oracle and OpenAI scrap Texas data center expansion plans?
Oracle and OpenAI have reportedly cancelled plans to expand a major artificial intelligence data center in Abilene, Texas. The expansion was part of the Stargate initiative, a massive project valued at up to US$ 500 billion and designed to generate 10 GW of computing power. Stargate involves Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank Group and was first […]
HighBrook Investors closes US$ 266 million inaugural data center fund
HighBrook Investors, a real estate private equity firm, has closed its inaugural data center fund, HighBrook US DCF, LP, raising US$ 266 million in commitments. The firm’s strategy focuses on next-generation digital infrastructure and builds on its long track record investing in U.S. and European real estate across market cycles. Fundraising was completed on an […]
Amazon to invest €33.7B in Spain for AI, cloud expansion and infrastructure
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest €33.7 billion (US$ 39.8 billion) in Spain to expand data center and cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence and computing services across Europe. AWS is also pursuing a long-term partnership with OpenAI, including plans to invest US $50 billion, though details of the collaboration were not fully disclosed. The […]
UPDATE | Three Amazon facilities impacted by drone strikes amidst war in the Middle East
As many as three Amazon digital infrastructure facilities have reportedly been affected due to the ongoing escalation of violence in the Middle East. While two of these are in the UAE, one is in Bahrain. Moreover, Amazon has also now clearly attributed the damage to drone strikes. In a post on the AWS Health Dashboard, […]
Penzance plans US$ 4 billion private AI infrastructure campus in West Virginia
Penzance Management, a private real estate owner, operator, developer, and investment fund manager, has planned a US$ 4 billion full-build capital investment in West Virginia for a digital infrastructure project that will deliver 600 MW of critical IT capacity. The project is centered on the company’s Bedington Campus in Berkeley County, West Virginia, covering 548 […]
Kontiolahti and YIT plan data center cooperation in Finland
Kontiolahti municipal board, and YIT, a Finnish construction and development company, have started cooperation on a potential data center project. The parties have signed a planning reservation agreement to support development of the facility. YIT has proposed reserving about 25 hectares of land in the Vellamo business area for the project. During the development phase, […]
ESR debuts in India with 60 MW data center near Mumbai
ESR, an Asia-Pacific focused real asset owner and manager, has announced its entry into India’s data centre market with a hyperscale-ready, multi-storey data center in Rabale, near Mumbai. The new ESR Rabale MU1 Data Centre (“MU1”) represents a total investment of ₹900 crore (approximately US$ 100 million), and is being built on a 3.25-acre site […]
UPDATE | Cloudflare experiences service issue, impact unclear
Cloudflare, an American technology company and key service provider for numerous websites and apps, experienced what it says was a “minor service issue”, on Monday morning in the United States. The company said that it was not an outage as previously reported by some media outlets. UPDATE: On Tuesday, a spokesperson from the Cloudflare emailed […]
Centuria adds AUD 60.2m in DC assets, lodges plans for 40MW Melbourne site
Centuria Industrial REIT has expanded its exposure to Australia’s data centre market with AUD 60.2 million of acquisitions and the submission of a development application for a new 40MW facility in Melbourne, as part of its HY26 results. The listed industrial landlord acquired a AUD 30 million data centre in Wellcamp, Queensland, secured on a […]