HostDime Suffers Downtime at UK Data Center Due to Contractual Dispute with Colocation Provider
HostDime experienced a full outage at its London data center after a contractual dispute with the underlying colocation provider forced a power and network shutdown. The disruption, first reported on March 18, left customers like VPSDime scrambling to relocate servers to alternative facilities. HostDime announced plans to migrate to a new UK infrastructure vendor, but access remained blocked through March 21, delaying restoration. The company’s UK legal entity was struck off and dissolved in February 2026, adding regulatory uncertainty to the operational crisis.
Singapore Real Estate Investment Firm RealVantage Invests in Minnesota Data Center
Singapore‑based RealVantage announced its inaugural digital‑infrastructure investment, allocating US$7 million to a 21 MW data centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The facility, recently acquired by Cloud Capital and Bahrain’s Arcapita, is slated for expansion to 31 MW and will host an AI‑focused cloud tenant....
Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs Funds $8.1m AI Supercomputer at NASK Research Institute
Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has financed a new AI supercomputer for the NASK research institute, costing roughly $8.1 million. The liquid‑cooled cluster houses 96 Nvidia B200 GPUs, over 1 TB of RAM and more than 1 PB of All‑Flash NVMe storage. It...
Metrobloks Announces Plans for Three-Building Data Center Campus in Kansas City, Missouri
Metrobloks announced a $1.4 billion investment to build a three‑building, 568,800 sq ft data‑center campus on 29 acres in Liberty, Missouri. The first 177,000 sq ft building has secured planning permission, and the project will create about 30 high‑skill jobs. Metrobloks, backed by equity partners...
Cerebras Plans Data Center in Manitoba, Canada
Cerebras announced plans for a new data center in Manitoba, Canada, expanding its North American footprint after securing tenancy in a 300 MW Bell Canada facility in Saskatchewan. The Manitoba site may align with Bell’s Buzz AI cloud unit, which is...
Microsoft Agrees to Lease 700MW at Crusoe's Data Center in Abilene, Texas - Report
Microsoft has signed a lease for roughly 700 MW of data‑center capacity at Crusoe’s Abilene, Texas campus. The deal follows Oracle and OpenAI’s decision to scale back their planned 2 GW expansion at the site to 1.2 GW. With two buildings already operating,...
CapitaLand Acquires Stake in Osaka Data Center From Mitsui
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT is buying a 49% stake in a Tier‑III hyperscale data centre in Greater Osaka for S$620.7 million (about US$485 million), with completion expected in Q2 2026. The 40.5 MW facility is fully leased to a blue‑chip tenant on a 14‑year contract...
Developer Krambu Looks to Build AI Data Center in Missoula County, Montana
Krambu is seeking approval to build an AI‑focused data center on the former Bonner Mill Industrial Park in Missoula County, Montana. The design features a closed‑loop heat‑capture system that can power aquaponics, hydroponics or greenhouse operations, and it plans to...
Microsoft Looks to Buy 57.8 Additional Acres in Gaines Township, Michigan
Microsoft plans to acquire an additional 57.8 acres north of its existing 356‑acre campus in Gaines Township, Michigan, to expand a planned hyperscale data center. The parcel, part of a former Steelcase wood‑plant, awaits rezoning approval, with the purchase to...
One New Zealand Completes 2G, 3G Shutdown
One New Zealand completed the shutdown of its 2G and 3G networks on March 23, 2026, after delaying the 3G phase-out from an original 2024 target. The freed spectrum will be repurposed to strengthen the carrier’s 4G and 5G services. Over the...
Issue 60 - Quantum of Promise
Quantum computing is moving from theory toward deployment as research labs and governments receive their first shipped systems. Issue 60 of DCD Magazine examines the pivotal moment in quantum chip design, where the industry is split between building dedicated superconducting processors...
Hive Launches AI Cloud Platform in Asunción, Paraguay
Hive Digital Technologies has launched an AI‑focused cloud platform from its new Tier III data center in Asunción, Paraguay. The service already powers large‑language‑model research for Columbia University, showcasing low‑latency connectivity between North and South America. Leveraging the country’s abundant hydroelectric...
Datagrid Signs Power Supply Deal with Mercury for Planned 280MW Data Center Campus in Invercargill, New Zealand
Datagrid New Zealand has secured a 15‑year, 140 MW power purchase agreement with Mercury to fuel the first phase of its 280 MW AI‑focused data‑center campus in Invercargill. The deal guarantees roughly 1.2 TWh of renewable electricity annually, providing price certainty and a low‑carbon...
Saudi Arabia's Edarat Secures Data Center Contract From Major Regional Bank
Edarat, a Riyadh‑based data‑center operator, landed a colocation contract with Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) valued at more than five percent of the bank’s projected 2025 revenue, roughly $70 million. The deal, slated for signing on April 10, adds to Edarat’s portfolio that...
Egypt's Renergy Group May Establish Data Center Alongside Its Green Energy Projects in Sinai Peninsula
Egypt's Renergy Group is planning a $15 billion green hydrogen and solar power complex in the El‑Tor area of the Sinai Peninsula, covering 127 sq km and featuring 15 GW of solar capacity to produce roughly 400,000 tons of liquid green hydrogen annually for European...
Boosteroid Expands Cloud Gaming Capacity in France, Poland, and the Czech Republic
Boosteroid has increased its cloud‑gaming server capacity in France, Poland and the Czech Republic, scaling each location’s power two to three times. The expansion adds to a network that already hosts roughly 13 MW of compute across 14 sites launched in...
Sponsored: Inside the AI Data Center Boom: Perkins Coie to Host International Data Center Day Webinar Series
Perkins Coie will host a CLE‑accredited International Data Center Day webinar series on March 25, 2026, featuring five sessions that tackle legal and operational risks in AI‑driven data center projects. The agenda covers corruption exposure, supply‑chain resilience, power infrastructure for AI scale,...
Flow Batteries' Role in the AI Boom
US data‑center construction spending surged to $28.3 billion in 2024, tripling over the prior three years and intensifying power‑grid strain. While lithium‑ion batteries dominate current storage, their fire risk fuels community opposition, especially near dense populations. Flow batteries emerge as a...
Developer Effectively Withdraws Application for Data Center in Fayetteville, Georgia
Crow Holdings Development and CHI/Acquisitions withdrew their application to build a 300,000‑sq ft data center on a 37.4‑acre site in Fayetteville, Georgia, after the planning and zoning commission rejected the proposal. The parcel, already zoned for data‑center use, would have featured...
Former Newspaper Building in Kansas City Eyed for 20-Story Data Center Development
Revitalization Unlimited, a Miami‑based historic‑preservation fund, plans to replace the 1900‑era Western Newspaper Union building in Kansas City with a 20‑story, 30 MW data center. The 142,085 sq ft tower would feature natural‑gas fuel cells and ground‑floor retail, demolishing the existing 29,990 sq ft structure....
SoftBank Eyes 10GW Data Center at Former DOE Nuclear Enrichment Site in Ohio
SoftBank’s SB Energy will develop a 10 GW data‑center campus on the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment site in Ohio, powered by 9.2 GW of new natural‑gas generation funded with $33.3 billion of Japanese capital. The public‑private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy...
Duos Deploys Second Edge Data Center in Amarillo, Texas
Duos Edge AI has installed its second containerized edge data center in Amarillo, Texas, on Potter County land adjacent to the region's largest colocation facility. The 300 kW pod is slated to become fully operational in the coming months, expanding the...
Google Affiliated Company Buys 430 Acres of Land in Kansas City, Missouri
A Google‑affiliated entity, Shenandoah Computing LLC, has bought 430 acres near Kansas City International Airport to develop a data‑center campus dubbed Project Kestrel. The plan includes five 500,000‑square‑foot facilities built in phases, with a 44.2‑acre parcel earmarked for an on‑site...
Two Data Center Projects Debated for 11 Hours at Planning Meeting in Franklin County, Missouri
At a Franklin County planning and zoning commission meeting, officials debated two data‑center rezoning proposals for over 1,000 acres of agricultural land. The session stretched 11 hours, from 6 pm to 4:30 am, and ended with a decision postponed by a month....
Photonic Chip Company Q.ANT Deploys Second-Gen Photonic Processors at Germany’s LRZ
Q.ANT has installed its second‑generation photonic Native Processing Units at Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Center, expanding on a 2025 pilot. The new NPUs deliver over 50× higher matrix‑multiplication throughput and six times lower energy use while connecting via standard PCIe alongside...
Canaan Acquires Cipher’s Texas Mining Stake for $39.75m
Canaan has purchased a 49% equity stake in Cipher Digital’s West Texas mining venture for $39.75 million, acquiring three sites that together deliver 120 MW of power and about 4.4 EH/s of hash rate. The deal was funded through the issuance of over...
Telehouse Parent KDDI Acquires Office Site in London's Docklands Zoned for Data Center Expansion - Report
KDDI, the Japanese telecom group behind Telehouse, has agreed to buy the Republic campus in Tower Hamlets for roughly £250 million. The 483,000‑sq‑ft office site carries planning consent for a 376,000‑sq‑ft, 30 MW multi‑story data centre, directly adjacent to Telehouse’s existing Docklands...
Building the Next Generation of Data Centers: Where Industrial Expertise Meets Digital Urgency
Global data‑center spending is set to more than double by 2032, driven by AI and cloud workloads that could consume up to 8.6 % of national electricity by 2035. Traditional power and cooling architectures are reaching breaking points, prompting hyperscalers to...
SpaceX’s Starlink Asks Ofcom for Permission to Build Two New Earth Stations in London and Essex
SpaceX’s Starlink has applied to Ofcom for two new Ka‑band Earth stations—one in London’s Mulberry Wharf and another in Harlow, Essex—targeting early 2026 deployment. The company says its current gateway network is nearing capacity, forcing it to limit service to...
LRZ Decommissions CoolMUC-3 Supercomputer After Almost Decade of Use
Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has retired its CoolMUC‑3 supercomputer after almost a decade of service. Deployed in 2017, the nine‑rack cluster housed Intel Xeon Phi processors and delivered roughly 400 teraflops for fluid‑dynamic research at Bavarian universities. It pioneered Megaware’s ColdCon...
€1.6bn Irish Data Center Proposed in 2019 Finally Gets Go-Ahead
Art Data Centres secured final approval for a €1.6 billion, 200 MW data‑centre campus in County Clare after a six‑year legal battle involving environmental challenges and judicial review. The project, approved in 2022 and upheld through appeals, will feature six halls, off‑grid...
Hive Expanding Buzz Cloud Footprint in Canada
Hive Digital Technologies announced a four‑fold expansion of its Buzz HPC liquid‑cooled data‑center campus, raising total Canadian capacity from 4 MW to 16.6 MW. The rollout adds a new 5 MW colocation facility in British Columbia with an optional 7.6 MW boost, enabling support for...
Proposed Maine Moratorium Could Scupper Plan for Data Center in Old Paper Mill
Sentinel Data Centers, via developer JGT2 Redevelopment, plans a 1 million‑square‑foot data center on the former International Paper mill in Jay, Maine. The project, slated to begin construction in July, promises 800‑1,000 construction jobs and 125 permanent positions, with a proposed...
Digital Edge Secures Indonesia’s Largest-Ever Data Center Green Loan, Targeting Local AI Data Center Development
Digital Edge secured a $665 million green loan—the largest data‑center loan in Indonesia—to fund the first phase of its 500 MW CGK Campus, an AI‑ready facility that can scale to 1 GW. The loan supports a design targeting a PUE of 1.25, recycled‑water...
Canada's Bell Announces 300MW Data Center Campus in Saskatchewan, Names CoreWeave & Cerebras as Customers
Bell Canada announced a 300 MW data‑center campus near Regina, Saskatchewan, slated to begin construction this spring. The facility, Bell’s largest investment in the province, will be pre‑leased to AI cloud provider CoreWeave and wafer‑scale chip maker Cerebras. The first data...
Google Pledges $1bn Investment in North Carolina Data Centers
Google announced a $1 billion investment to expand its Lenoir, North Carolina data center, which already supports core services such as Maps, Photos, Search, Workspace, and YouTube. The expansion will add roughly 60 acres to the 337,000‑square‑foot campus, though detailed timelines...
Sponsored: Power-Ready Doesn’t Mean Shovel-Ready: Why Data Center Site Selection Is a Multi-Dimensional Problem
US data‑center investment is projected to reach $2.8 trillion by 2030, intensifying competition for viable sites. Power availability remains a visible constraint, but recent Q2 2025 data shows $98 billion in projects delayed or blocked due to regulatory, environmental, infrastructure, and community opposition....
Behind-the-Meter Data Center Proposed Outside Richmond, Virginia
LS Power is planning a 205‑acre, four‑building data‑center campus outside Richmond, Virginia, that could draw power directly from the adjacent Doswell natural‑gas plant via a behind‑the‑meter connection. The site will feature a GE Vernova LM6000 gas turbine and on‑site solar...
Orange Conducts 5G Standalone Trial for Emergency Services in Spain
Orange Spain and Madrid City Council completed Spain’s first real‑world 5G Standalone (SA) trial for emergency services, demonstrating network slicing that gives absolute priority to police, SAMUR and fire departments during a major public event. The trial, part of the...
Solving the Heat Problems: How Silicon Photonics Is Redefining Thermal Efficiency in Data Centers
AI-driven compute density is straining data‑center cooling as data movement generates most heat. Traditional copper interconnects add resistive losses, forcing energy‑intensive air cooling. Silicon photonics replaces electrical links with optical ones, slashing energy‑per‑bit and thermal output. Recent heterogeneously integrated photonic...
Eutelsat Completes Its Re-Financing Plan, Closing €1.5bn Bond Offering
Eutelsat announced the completion of its €5 billion financing plan by closing a €1.5 billion senior note issuance, the final step of a multi‑year equity and debt strategy. The proceeds will fund the deployment of OneWeb’s low‑Earth‑orbit satellites and support Europe’s IRIS²...
Openreach Uses Fiber Network to Detect Water Leaks in UK Trials
Openreach has teamed with Affinity Water and Lightsonic to pilot Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) on its UK fiber‑optic network, converting cables into thousands of vibration sensors that locate water‑pipe leaks. The trial monitors 650 km of water infrastructure, identified more than...
Atlancis and EverseTech Launch Sovereign AI Cloud in Kenya
Atlancis Technologies and EverseTech have launched Servernah Cloud, Kenya’s first sovereign AI cloud, hosted in iXAfrica’s Nairobi data centre. The platform merges Atlancis’ Servernah infrastructure with EverseTech’s AI‑as‑a‑Service, allowing Kenyan enterprises and government agencies to run AI workloads within national...
Ayar Labs and Wiwynn Partner for Development of Co-Packaged Optical AI Infrastructure
Ayar Labs and server maker Wiwynn announced a partnership to build rack‑scale AI infrastructure that uses Ayar’s co‑packaged optics, specifically TeraPHY engines powered by a SuperNova remote light source. The design can connect up to 1,024 AI accelerators and deliver...
Data Center Could Come to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Preliminary plans for the ‘Smithfield Gateway’ project propose two 250,000‑sq‑ft data centers in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on land between Music Center Drive and Smithfield Lane. The proposal is tied to Legend Properties, a commercial‑real‑estate firm active in the Philadelphia market, though...
Aligned Tops Out Maryland Data Center
Aligned announced the topping out of its IAD‑06 data center in Frederick, Maryland, completing the structural phase of the 72 MW, 450,000 sq ft facility. The two‑story building is part of a 75‑acre campus within TPG’s Quantum Frederick park, where a total of...
Texas Instruments Unveils Two New Microcontroller Units to Support Edge AI Applications
Texas Instruments announced two new microcontroller units, the MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex, equipped with its TinyEngine neural processing unit for Edge AI workloads. The integrated NPU promises up to 90‑times lower latency and more than 120‑times lower energy per inference compared...
Cadillac F1 Team Selects Core Scientific as Data Center Partner
Cadillac has appointed Core Scientific as the official data‑center partner for its new Formula 1 operation. The multi‑year deal will shape a $200 million, 400,000‑sq‑ft facility in Fishers, Indiana, designed for high‑density simulation, engineering, manufacturing, and race‑day workloads. Core Scientific will provide...
STMicroelectronics Enters High Volume Production of Photonics Chip
STMicroelectronics has begun high‑volume production of its PIC100 photonics chip, a 300 mm silicon platform that merges silicon photonics with next‑generation BiCMOS technology. The chip delivers 800 Gbps and 1.6 Tbps optical interconnects, targeting AI‑heavy data‑center workloads. Simultaneously, the company unveiled the PIC100 TSV...
400MW Data Center Could Be Built in Eastern South Africa
eThekwini Municipality in eastern South Africa signed a preliminary Memorandum of Agreement with a Korean energy‑technology consortium to explore a data centre near the Lovu River, south of Ocean View Road. The proposal mentions a potential 400 MW capacity, but the...
