Weekly Data Centre News - 14/02/2025

Weekly Update!! Love is in the air this Valentines Day, and so is big news in the data center world! LEAP 2025 in Saudi Arabia and the AI Summit in Paris delivered a flurry of major announcements, proving once again that the industry’s passion for AI and digital infrastructure is stronger than ever. With massive investments and game-changing innovations on the horizon, 2025 is shaping up to be a year to remember. Who needs roses when you have record-breaking Capex? 🌹🚀

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Reports

How to Power AI (UK). Read here.

CBRE: Europe Data Centres Figures Q4 2024. Read here.

Europe

France unveils €109 billion AI investment plan. Read here.

Brookfield and Data4 to spend €20bn on AI infrastructure in France. Read here.

Mistral AI to invest billions building data centre in France. Read here.

G42, AMD to Boost AI Compute in France with New Data Center. Read here.

The iliad Group has announced intentions to invest €3 billion in AI infrastructure from data centres to be a European market leader. Read here.

Evroc announced plans for a 96MW data center outside Cannes, France. Read here.

French energy giant EDF offers up land for data centre projects. Read here.

Salford City Council has approved plans for a £250m data centre at Peel Waters’ Halo West site, in Greater Manchester (UK). Read here.

Yondr broke ground on 40MW London data centre in London campus expansion. Read here.

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds. Read here.

UK Government opens bidding for AI Growth Zones. Read here.

UK government pledges 500MW of data center power for its AI Growth Zones. Read here.

Tech giants back UK energy reform to create Scottish data centre boom. Read here.

DTRE steps up Europe expansion with Milan data centre mandate. Read here.

Greenlandic telco Tusass is planning a new data center in the capital city, Nuuk. Read here.

Germany's DataHall plans data center outside Leipzig. Read here.

Green Mountain and KMW top out data center outside Frankfurt, Germany. Read here.

Segro has reported a double-digit jump in profit driven by demand for data centres and improving investment market conditions. Read here.

Middle East & Africa

LEAP 2025: Saudi scores big with over $20bn in AI Investments. Read here.

Saudi Arabia’s Neom signs deal with Datavolt to build $5bn data centre in Oxagon. Read here.

Startup Groq secures $1.5bn AI chip investment. Groq expects to receive the latest funds throughout this year to expand its Dammam data centre in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Equinix commits to $1bn data centre in Saudi Arabia. Read here.

Stc Group and AWS come together to advance Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation agenda. Read here.

Qareeb Data Centres and Bitcoin mining service provider Pantheon have partnered to rollout Bitcoin mining data centers across the Middle East. Read here.

Ooredoo and Iron Mountain Partner to Accelerate Data Centre Growth Across MENA. Read here.

APAC

Singtel Lands S$643M Green Loan for AI-Ready Data Center. Read here.

Microsoft announces partnership with TAFE NSW to deliver Datacentre Academy. Read here.

NTT Global Data Centers inaugurates 40 MW DC facility in Kolkata. Read here.

AirTrunk unveils second data centre in Malaysia. Read here.

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its second data center in Thailand. Read here.

North America

Equinix anticipates 7%-8% revenue growth in 2025, driven by AI demand and capacity expansion. Read here.

Data centre REIT Digital Realty exceeds Q4 expectations, tempers 2025 outlook. Read here.

Applied Digital Agrees to Build a Partnership with Macquarie Asset Management for Funding of up to $5.0 Billion to Drive HPC Growth

T5 Data Centers is looking to develop multiple gigawatt-scale campuses, starting with a site outside Chicago, Illinois. Read here.

Stack Infrastructure announced plans for a 144MW data center campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. Read here.

EdgeConneX plans 120MW gas plant to power Ohio data center. Read here.

Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid establish partnership to deploy more than One Gigawatt of Power Generation. Read here.

PATRIZIA, a global real estate manager, has invested in US-based Aligned Data Centers. Read here.

Rayburn Electric (Dallas) is preparing for the future as best it knows how: building more generation to meet Data Center requirements. Read here.

Tesla completed the deployment of its 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU training cluster during Q4 2024. Read here.

Dominion boosts capital expenditure plan amid rising data centre demand. Read here.

Riot Platforms expands board amid AI data center push. Read here.

GDS Holdings mulls $500m US IPO for international data centre arm DayOne. Read here.

Overwatch Capital has partnered with Nautilus Data Technologies to deploy modular, AI-ready data centers. Read here.

South America

$110m Tecto data centre project 'Mega Lobster' underway in Fortaleza. Read here.

Other interesting articles

‘Every data center is becoming an AI data center’: The state of data centers in 2025. Read here.

How to get ahead of the data centre power crunch. Read here.

The forgotten workforce: Suicide in construction. Read here.

Data centers are getting a lot of buzz from GCC investors – it makes sense. Read here.

UK AI data center infrastructure – if they build it, will they come? Learnings from the US. Read here.

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