Jersey Telecom Finalizes Acquisition of Manx Telecom
JT Group and CVC DIF have completed the acquisition of Manx Telecom, forming the largest telecom provider across the British Crown dependencies. JT Group took a 45% stake while CVC DIF holds the remaining 55%, in a deal valued at roughly £500 million ($669 m). The combined entity will serve Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, accelerating 5G roll‑outs, fiber expansion and new data‑center services. The merger builds on JT’s 5G launch with Ericsson and Manx’s recent £60 million ($80 m) fiber build‑out.
Stak Energy Proposes 3GW Natural Gas-Powered Data Center in Alaska's North Slope
Stak Energy, an Alaska‑based energy‑infrastructure firm, has filed to build a modular data‑center campus on 715.4 acres of the North Slope near Deadhorse. The project could deliver up to 3 GW of computing capacity, with an on‑site natural‑gas plant providing roughly...
Dell to Support Samsung with Infrastructure for AI-Driven Chipmaking
Dell Technologies announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to deliver standardized compute, storage, and data‑movement infrastructure for the chipmaker’s AI‑driven semiconductor manufacturing. The solution will underpin Samsung’s digital twin, real‑time analytics, and agentic AI tools across research, design, and production...
Italy Plans to Build ‘Europe’s Largest Data Center’ in Former Trino Power Plant
Italy’s Trino municipality announced a €4 billion ($4.65 bn) plan to convert the decommissioned Enel Galileo Ferraris power plant into what could become Europe’s largest data center. The project, driven by data‑center developer Techbau, will repurpose the 130‑hectare site while keeping Enel...
$1.6bn Data Center Plan Rejected in Cleveland, Ohio
Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion proposal to build a hyperscale data center in Cleveland was rejected by Mayor Justin M. Bibb on May 14. The plan called for a 150 MW, 300,000 sq ft campus on a 35‑acre site in the Slavic...
Digital Realty Expands in Spain, Launches Data Center in Barcelona
Digital Realty has opened its first Barcelona data center, BCN1, delivering 14 MW of capacity across 15,000 sqm. The facility, located in the Sant Adrià de Besòs innovation district, uses HVO100 biodiesel for backup power and meets the company’s high sustainability standards....
NextDC Brings Data Center Near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Online
Australian data centre operator NextDC has placed its KL1 facility near Kuala Lumpur online, marking its first international data centre. The campus, located in Petaling Jaya, will ultimately deliver 65 MW of power across five phases, with the initial phase offering 15 MW....
The Cloud Native CTO
Dr. Vanja Josifovski, former CTO of Pinterest and Airbnb, recounts his journey from academic research to leading cloud‑native growth at two of the decade’s biggest platforms. At Pinterest he pivoted from a startup acquisition to head of growth engineering, then...
Malaysian Data Center Firm and Chinese Tech Company Plan Digital Park in Perak, Malaysia
Malaysian data‑center developer Cahya Suria Services has teamed with Chinese technology firm Suzhou EnnoThing Technology to create the NexQuantum AI Digital Park in Perak. The joint‑venture, NexQuantum 1, is valued at roughly RM1 billion (about US$253 million) and will launch with a 32 MW...
Google-Backed Geothermal Firm Fervo Valued at $10bn on Back of AI Wave
Fervo Energy, a Google‑backed enhanced geothermal firm, completed a Nasdaq IPO that raised about $1.89 bn at $27 per share, pushing its valuation above $10 bn. The offering, the largest energy‑or‑utility IPO since 2013, saw shares jump more than 30% on debut....
Flexbase Starts Work on Battery Energy Storage System and Data Center in Laufenburg, Switzerland
Swiss energy firm Flexbase has begun construction of the world’s largest battery energy storage system at the Laufenburg Technology Center. The redox‑flow BESS will deliver 1.6 GW of power and 2.1 GWh of storage, enough to run about 210,000 households for a...
One-Year Data Center Moratorium Approved in City Near Minneapolis
Inver Grove Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis, approved a one‑year moratorium on new data‑center construction after the city council reviewed a 5 MW, 55,000‑square‑foot proposal from T5 Data Centers. The pause gives officials time to evaluate zoning, site suitability, and regulatory...
STC Bahrain Enters Digital Partnership with MENA Industrial Bank
STC Bahrain has signed a digital partnership with MENA Industrial Bank to design, implement, test and support a scalable private‑cloud platform that meets Bahrain’s data‑residency, high‑availability and cybersecurity regulations. The cloud infrastructure provides disaster‑recovery capabilities and defense‑in‑depth security, giving MIB...
Sponsored: Paces Agent Is Here: An AI Teammate for Power Development
Paces has launched Paces Agent, an autonomous AI teammate that operates across its software platform and expert services to accelerate power‑project development. The agent automates siting, ranking, Gantt‑chart creation, diligence reporting, and interconnection permitting while routing decisions to human experts...
Alibaba Cloud Needs 10x Its 2022 Compute Capacity, Says CEO Eddie Wu
Alibaba Cloud announced it will scale its data‑center capacity to ten times its 2022 level, driven by explosive AI demand. The Cloud Intelligence Group posted $6.035 billion in quarterly revenue, a 38% year‑on‑year increase, with AI services contributing about $1.3 billion. CEO...
TerraVolt Inks Natural Gas Supply Deal for Onsite Power Plant at Planned Data Center Campus in Idaho
TerraVolt Infrastructure, a CalEthos subsidiary, signed a firm natural‑gas supply agreement to fuel an onsite power plant for its planned 200‑240 MW data‑center campus in southeast Idaho. The unnamed supplier will deliver 55,000 MM Btu per day and provide fuel‑management services to...
AiOnX Secures Hyperscale Tenant for Irish Data Center Campus Outside Dublin
AiOnX, a data‑center developer owned by SWI Group, secured a major U.S. hyperscale tenant—identified by Business Post as Amazon—for its debut Kildare Innovation Campus outside Dublin. The lease covers the full 179 MW capacity, with 16 MW of power ready by late 2026, and...
The Private Cloud Crunch
AI‑driven workloads are straining global memory supplies, creating a private‑cloud crunch that raises costs and extends lead times. While hyperscale public providers have buffered the shock through long‑term component contracts, organizations that rely on private clouds face higher expenses, delayed...
Developer Eyes Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, for New Data Center Development
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is evaluating a potential data‑center project on a 51‑acre parcel between Creek Turnpike and State Highway 51. The unnamed developer has requested a pre‑development meeting, expected within the next four to eight weeks, but no approvals have been...
The Future of Compute
Yotta released an eBook titled “The Future of Compute” that examines how accelerated, heterogeneous AI architectures are reshaping data‑center design. It highlights the growing tension between power density, cooling, and networking as AI workloads scale beyond traditional limits. The guide...
Concern over Proposed Sale of 300 Acres for Data Center in Hillsboro, Texas
Residents of Hillsboro, Texas, gathered at a public meeting to voice concerns over a proposed 300‑acre data‑center development. The city’s Economic Development Corporation is considering selling the land to Provident Realty Advisors, which received a four‑month extension for due‑diligence. Provident,...
Utility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Imposes One-Year Moratorium on Supplying New Data Centers
The Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority (YCUA) has enacted a one‑year moratorium on providing water and sewage services to any new data‑center projects within its jurisdiction. The pause follows votes by the Ypsilanti City Council and Charter Township Board and will...
LG Sinar Mas Tops Out Data Center in Indonesia, Jakarta
LG Sinar Mas, a joint venture between South Korea’s LG and Indonesia’s Sinar Mas, topped out its SMX01 data center in Jakarta’s Central Business District. Phase 1 will deliver 6 MW of IT capacity and is slated to go live in Q4 2026, while the full...
The Latest GHG Protocol Proposal Raises the Bar for “100% Renewable” Reporting in Data Centers
The GHG Protocol has issued a draft update to its Scope 2 accounting standards that would require data‑center operators to match renewable electricity on an hourly basis rather than by annual totals. U.S. data‑center power consumption has tripled since 2014 and...
Sponsored: Can You Engineer Around Human Friction? Why ‘Social Interconnection’ Is the New Site Selection Priority
The data‑center boom is hitting a new bottleneck: community opposition, or the loss of a social license to operate. Developers now treat sentiment as a fourth engineering constraint alongside land, power and fiber, quantifying its impact on project lead‑times. By...
Duos Edge AI Opens 450kW Facility in Corpus Christi, Texas
Duos Edge AI has opened a 450 kW edge data center in Corpus Christi, Texas, housed in a 55‑ft × 13‑ft pod with 15 cabinets. The facility is positioned to serve education, healthcare, and business workloads that require low‑latency processing. It follows Duos’...
Developers File Application for $1.6bn Data Center in Cleveland, Ohio
Lakeland Equity Group, a private‑credit firm, filed a permit for a $1.6 billion, 150‑megawatt data‑center campus on a 35‑acre site in Cleveland. The project would comprise three two‑story buildings covering roughly 300,000 sq ft and employ closed‑loop cooling to eliminate emissions and truck...
Algeria and Oman Gov'ts Partner to Establish Data Centers
Algeria and Oman have agreed to cooperate on building data centers and launching AI and digital‑government projects. The deal was sealed during Omani Minister Said bin Hamoud Al Maawali's visit to Algeria, where broader transport and IT agreements were also signed....
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Revamp Gas Turbine Production Process to Meet Growing Demand From AI Data Center Sector
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced the Innovative Total Optimization project to overhaul its gas‑turbine production at the Takasago Machinery Works. By reviewing more than 1,000 processes, the company aims to lift output by roughly 30% while trimming changeover time. Orders...
Du Named as Landing Partner for Ooredoo's FIG Subsea Cable
Qatari telecom Ooredoo has appointed UAE carrier du as the landing partner for its Fiber in Gulf (FIG) subsea cable, a 720‑Tbps system spanning 1,931 km. The cable will land in Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq,...
Zerra DC Files for Six-Building Data Center Campus in Melbourne, Australia
Data center developer Zerra DC has acquired the former Ford Broadmeadows Assembly Plant in Campbellfield, Melbourne, to build a six‑building data center campus. The 45‑acre site, sold previously to the Pelligra Group, is slated for development after Zerra filed a...
Stockland Files to Develop 250MW Data Center Campus in Melbourne, Australia
Australian property giant Stockland has applied for a planning permit to build a 250 MW data‑center campus on a 20,000 sqm former warehouse site at 72‑76 Cherry Lane in Laverton, Melbourne. The land was bought from Toll Transport in 2025 for AU$35.5 million...
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities Raises $630m for Critical Infrastructure Expansion Projects
Accelerate Infrastructure Opportunities closed a $630 million primary capital raise, lifting total equity commitments on its platform to $1.26 billion. The funding, sourced from CBRE Investment Management, Mubadala Investment Company, Australian Retirement Trust and other institutional partners, will finance expansion of critical‑infrastructure...
Sponsored: In-Rack CDU V. Floor-Mounted CDU: Which Option Is Better for Your Data Center?
Data centers powering high‑density AI workloads are turning to liquid‑cooling systems, making the placement of coolant distribution units (CDUs) a critical design decision. In‑rack CDUs sit inside each server rack and are ideal for single‑rack deployments handling 100‑300 kW, while floor‑mounted...
Data Centers in the Land of Coal and Cowboys
Wyoming is rapidly attracting hyperscale investors as Microsoft, Meta, Crusoe and Related Digital announce multi‑billion‑dollar AI‑focused data‑center projects in Cheyenne and surrounding counties. The state produces 46 TWh of electricity annually—about twelve times its own consumption—providing a surplus that appeals to...
The Neocloud Supplement
The May 2026 DDC supplement outlines the emergence of “Neocloud” providers built expressly for massive GPU workloads that power AI training, inference, and high‑performance compute. These specialists differentiate themselves with liquid‑cooling systems, ultra‑high‑bandwidth networking, and energy‑efficient designs that enable faster deployment...
Brazil's Ascenty Launches Operations at Its SPO05 Data Center in São Paulo
Brazilian data‑center operator Ascenty has started operations at its new SPO05 facility in Greater São Paulo, a project funded with a 300 million‑real ($55 million) investment. The launch coincides with the commencement of construction on SPO06, slated for a May 2027 opening, together adding...
365 Data Centers and Carter Funds to Develop 200MW of Data Centers in the US
365 Data Centers and Aphorio Carter, the data‑center division of Carter Funds, announced a joint venture to develop 200 MW of high‑density data‑center capacity in the United States. The initial phase targets sites in Aurora, Colorado and Simpsonville, Kentucky, with expected...
Indus Cloud, Indus DC REIT, and UBL Sign Agreement to Establish Data Centers and Cloud Platform in Pakistan
Indus Cloud, Indus DC REIT, and UBL have signed an agreement to develop Tier III data‑center infrastructure across Pakistan, with Indus DC REIT handling construction and operation and Indus Cloud delivering a cloud platform. UBL joins as an investor and will...
Anthropic to Use All of SpaceX-xAI's Colossus 1 Data Center Compute
Anthropic will lease the entire compute capacity of SpaceX‑xAI’s Colossus 1 data center, unlocking over 300 MW of power and more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within a month. The arrangement gives Anthropic control of nearly half of xAI’s total GPU fleet, boosting...
Cryptominer Mawson Rebrands as Big Digital Energy, Signs 75MW Colo Deal with Endeavor
Big Digital Energy, formerly Mawson Infrastructure Group, announced a rebrand and a new colocation agreement with an Endeavor affiliate. The deal will deliver roughly 75 MW of compute capacity and about 25,000 mining computers, operating under a 50/50 profit‑sharing model. Endeavor...
Why AI Data Centers Need a New Model for Quality, Security, and Governance
AI and cloud computing are driving massive data‑center expansion, with hyperscalers planning hundreds of new facilities. Traditional designs built for fixed power and periodic risk assessments cannot handle accelerator‑dense, dynamic AI workloads, leading to higher outage risk. The fragmented security...
T.Loop Looks to Develop Data Center in Hanko, Finland
T.Loop announced that the city of Hanko, Finland, has set aside land in its Eastern Industrial Area for a new data center. The facility will be designed to capture and deliver waste heat to the town’s district‑heating network, embodying the...
Core Scientific Acquires Cryptomine in Muskogee to Expand AI Data Center Campus
Core Scientific announced the acquisition of Polaris DS LLC, a Bitcoin‑mining operation, for roughly $421 million in cash. The deal adds a 440 MW grid connection and 40 acres adjacent to its existing Muskogee, Oklahoma, AI data‑center campus, which already hosts a...
Sponsored: From Backup to Built-In: Designing Power Systems for Continuous AI Performance
AI workloads are turning power from a backup function into a core operating system in data centers. Traditional designs that prioritize standby generation struggle under continuous high‑density loads, leading to efficiency losses and reliability concerns. Operators are adopting adaptive, hybrid...
Centra Tops Out Reno Data Center, Nevada
Centra has topped out its second Reno data center, RNO2, a 12 MW, 90,000 sq ft carrier‑neutral facility designed for AI‑ready workloads. The building features both air and liquid cooling with free‑cooling capabilities and is slated for an early Q2 2026 launch. The project,...
Why Data Foundations Will Define the AI Economy
AI’s effectiveness now hinges on the quality of its data foundations as global data creation is set to more than triple between 2024 and 2029. Enterprises face a shift from treating storage as a commodity to viewing it as a...
Protecting Telecom Operators From Cyberattacks Is a Matter of National Resilience
Singapore authorities disclosed that four major telcos were infiltrated by the APT group UNC3886, which accessed critical network systems and technical data. While service remained uninterrupted and no customer data was stolen, the breach demonstrated a deliberate effort to map...
Building AI Infrastructure Communities Can Actually Support
AI's rapid expansion is prompting a wave of new data‑center projects, but more than $64 billion worth have been delayed or cancelled after local communities objected to the expected electricity, water and air‑quality impacts. The opposition stems from real experiences of...
Sponsored: Silicon Diversification: How a Growing Choice of Chips Is Reshaping Data Center Infrastructure
Data center operators are moving beyond x86 CPUs toward a broader mix of AI accelerators, including GPUs, custom ASICs, inference chips, and wafer‑scale processors. A Futurum Group survey shows GPUs command 75% of AI compute spend, with XPUs and CPUs...