Weekly Data Centre News - 10/01/2025

Weekly Update!! Happy New Year and best wishes for a successful 2025! The year has started with a bang, as over $100 billion in major investments have been announced within just the past five days. If this momentum continues, 2025 is shaping up to be an extraordinary and action-packed year for the data centre industry. 🚀

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Europe

Lidl owner plans 200MW data center campus in Lübbenau, Germany. Read here.

A new 13 building data center campus could be coming to the borderlands of West Germany. Read here.

Vantage reveals plans for 10-building campus at former Ford car factory in Bridgend, Wales. Read here.

Microsoft completes Skelton Grange Plot 1 purchase for £53m (UK). Read here.

Massive new data centre could be built on green belt land near A127 in Wickford (UK). Read here.

Lumcloon Energy has plans to build a giant 250 MW data centre in Co Westmeath. Read here.

DMO has broken ground on data center outside Münster, Germany. Read here.

Data Center Partners have announced plans for a 17MW data center development in Munich, Germany. Read here.

Plans for new Durham Unviersity data centre set to be approved. Read here.

Data center firm Global Switch has confirmed that it is seeking an investor for its UK operations. Read here.

Mercury Engineering plans to create 1,000 jobs over next five years. Read here.

Data centre producer Ardmac sees 45% profit jump. Read here.

Greece lays the foundation to become a key data hub. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

EDGNEX Data Centers by DAMAC Announces Expansion into the U.S. Market with 2000MW projected future capacity. Read here.

APAC

Singapore-based Digital Edge raises $1.6bn. Read here.

Chinese data center firm GDS has rebranded its international unit to DayOne. Read here.

Yondr Group secures £732.9 million to finance Johor data centre. Read here.

Doma Infrastructure Group Announces Plans for AI-Ready Data Centre in West Sydney. Read here.

Microsoft to invest US$ 3 Billion in Cloud and AI infrastructure in India. Read here.

Keppel DC REIT to Divest Malaysian Data Center. Read here.

Australia's Telstra and Ventia ink $1.2bn deal to boost digital infrastructure. Read here.

AWS to invest $5bn in Thailand with new cloud region launch. Read here.

Gamuda Acquires Freehold Land in Port Dickson, Develops 1,000MWs data centre in Seremban. Read here.

Japan's NTT appoints banks for $1bln data center REIT IPO in Singapore. Read here.

North America

Donald Trump announced Dubai Billionaire pledged $20 Billion to build U.S. Data Centers. Read here.

Tract Capital introduces Fleet Data Centers, a new mega-scale data center development platform focused on customized 500MW+ campuses. Read here.

Data center park developer Tract is seeking to establish a second site outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read here.

Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025. Read here.

Microsoft has paused construction on parts of its $3.3 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Read here.

AWS plans to invest at least $11 billion in Georgia to expand infrastructure to support AI and cloud technologies. Read here.

A 13-building data center campus costing $17 billion has been proposed for Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Lincoln announces 540MW 131-acre data center campus in Dallas, Texas. Read here.

Powerhouse and Provident Partner to Develop Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Read here.

Planned $12bn Hut 8 data center in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, gets green light. Read here.

Cloverleaf reveals plans for 1,000-acre data center campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Read here.

Data center firm TECfusions has acquired a former manufacturing site outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a planned 3GW data center. Read here.

Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Thursday that the Dallas-based company, Compass Datacenters, is locating its next “hyperscale data center campus" in Meridian. Read here.

Bit Digital acquires Montreal site for 5MW data center. Read here.

RSC Investment Management has filed plans for a 1.9 million sq ft data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia. Read here.

Donato Solar submits concept plan for solar powered data center in Illinois. Read here.

Serverfarm plans natural gas-powered data center in Georgia. Read here.

Revised plans by developer Balico LLC for a natural powered Data Center in Virginia have been recommended for refusal. Read here.

Iron Mountain Data Center has filed for a permit to expand its Manassas data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia. Read here.

TeraWulf inks ten year data center lease agreement with Core42 at Lake Mariner campus. Read here.

Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center. Read here.

Blackstone raises $1bn for individuals’ infrastructure fund. Read here.

Deep Fission and Endeavour Energy LLC have committed to co-develop 2 GW of nuclear energy to power Endeavour's expanding portfolio of data centres. Read here.

South America

Brookfield plans to sell Ascenty stake amid Brazil's Data Boom. Read here.

Brazil Blossoms Into A Data Center Powerhouse With AI's Rise. Read here.

V.tal’s Tecto acquires land for Sao Paulo data centre. Read here.

Other interesting articles

The Golden Opportunity for American AI. Read here.

Four key trends disrupting data centers in 2025. Read here.

Data Centers Need to Look Beyond Green Energy. Read here.

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse. Read here.

Land Barriers: How Zoning Regulations Could Stall Data Center Industry Expansion. Read here.

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