Chindata and HEC Break Ground on 7.5MW Data Center in Hubei Province, China
Chindata and HEC Group have broken ground on a new 7.5 MW data center in Yidu, Hubei Province, covering 6.3 hectares. The campus will also host an AI showcase and academic exchange center, signaling a focus on emerging AI workloads. The project follows HEC's acquisition of Chindata from Bain Capital in early 2026, consolidating the operator’s presence across multiple Chinese regions. Completion timelines remain undisclosed, but the development adds to Hubei’s growing data‑center ecosystem alongside projects like Three Gorges’ Dongyuemiao facility.
UP Fiber Snaps up AT&T's Wireline Assets Across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Mackinaw City
UP Fiber has completed the acquisition of AT&T's wireline assets in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Mackinaw City, adding more than 9,000 miles of fiber and 40 central offices to its network. The deal, finalized last week, does not disclose financial...
Iran Attack Hits an Oracle Data Center in Dubai, Causes Limited Damage
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a drone strike on Oracle's data center in Dubai on April 2, causing only minor shrapnel damage to the building façade and no injuries. Dubai authorities initially dismissed the report as fake news, then confirmed...
Nscale Teams up with Fortum for Data Center in Harjavalta, Finland
Neocloud Nscale has teamed with Finnish energy firm Fortum to develop a new data‑center in Harjavalta’s Sievari industrial area, on land owned by the town. Fortum will act as the site‑development partner, while Nscale negotiates a preliminary land purchase. The...
Chip Startup D-Matrix Acquires SuperNODE and FabreX From GigaIO
Chip startup d‑Matrix has bought GigaIO’s SuperNODE platform and its PCIe Gen 5‑based AI fabric, FabreX, along with a team of rack‑scale engineers. The acquisition builds on a 2025 partnership that integrated d‑Matrix’s Corsair inference platform into SuperNODE. GigaIO will exit the...
Electrovaya Secures $5m of Funding From US DOE to Test Use of Energy Storage Systems in a Data Center Environment
Canadian lithium‑ion battery maker Electrovaya received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Facility Energy Resilience program to test a 1.2 MWh battery energy storage system at Binghamton University’s data‑center testbed. The Infinity BESS, housed in a 20‑foot...
UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency Seeks New Data Center
Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has issued a tender for a new data centre to host its Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system, required under the SOLAS convention. The contract, worth approximately $1.98 million, must be awarded by May 5, 2026,...
Telecom Egypt Denies Move to Turn Data Center Complex Into ‘Cash-Generating Asset’
State‑owned Telecom Egypt has refuted media reports that it plans to turn its regional data centre complex into a cash‑generating asset. The company said there are no new developments and will announce any changes in line with its transparency commitments....
Unidata Begins Development on 20MW Data Center in Rome, Italy
Italian telecom operator Unidata and private‑equity firm Azimut Libera Impressa have formed a joint venture to develop UniCenter, a carrier‑neutral Tier IV data center in Rome. The 20 MW facility will house over 2,000 racks across 140,000 sq ft and will be powered entirely...
Sponsored: Power Is Now the Growth Constraint: What Data Center Executives Must Rethink in 2026
Data center growth is increasingly limited by power availability, with interconnection queues, grid congestion, and ESG pressures turning electricity from a cost line‑item into a strategic constraint. Executives are seeing traditional utility procurement models falter at 20‑400 MW scales, prompting board‑level...
AT&T, FirstNet Support Comms for NASA's Artemis II Mission Around the Moon
AT&T is supplying connectivity and on‑site support for NASA’s Artemis II mission, enabling near‑Earth and deep‑space communications as the Orion crew circles the Moon. The carrier has upgraded its network and positioned teams at key NASA facilities, while its FirstNet public‑safety...
Oak Hill Capital Completes Acquisition of Hunter Communications
Oak Hill Capital has completed its acquisition of Oregon‑based fiber provider Hunter Communications, a deal first announced in December. Hunter operates a 3,000‑plus‑mile network serving roughly 35,000 customers across the Pacific Northwest. The new capital backing will accelerate fiber expansion...
Former Exodus Data Center in Sydney, Australia, to Be Replaced with 70MW Facility
Digital Realty announced plans to demolish its legacy Exodus data center in Sydney and build a new 70 MW, 23,375 sqm multi‑story facility at 23‑25 Waterloo Road. The project, slated for a 1.2‑hectare site in Macquarie Park/North Ryde, could cost up to AU$700 million (about...
BDx Secures $320m Loan Facility for Indonesia Data Center Build-Out
BDx Data Centers has closed a $320 million loan facility led by Bank Permata, BCA and KB Bank to fund its Indonesia expansion. The financing will support the AI‑focused CGK3 campus in Jakarta, upgrade high‑voltage power at the CGK4 and CGK5 sites,...
Helios Towers to Invest $110m on Telecoms Infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Helios Towers announced a $110 million investment to expand telecom tower infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The deal, signed with the government’s ANAPI agency, will fund new sites across urban and rural areas and improve energy resilience. Helios already...
The Construction Supplement
The AI boom is driving a near‑tripling of global data‑center capacity needs by 2030, forcing the construction sector into a rapid expansion. Builders face unprecedented hurdles, including component shortages, soaring labor costs, and complex logistics. Innovative approaches such as façade‑integrated...
T-Mobile Set for Further Job Layoffs - Report
T‑Mobile announced another round of layoffs in the United States, with estimates suggesting up to 600 positions could be cut. The reductions focus on the company's IT organization as part of a broader effort under new CEO Srini Gopalan to...
Modular Data Centers Could Be Attached to Gas Pipelines and Use Excess Pressure for Power and Cooling
Sapphire Technologies and Anax Power are partnering to attach modular data centers to natural‑gas pipelines, using Sapphire's FreeSpin in‑line turboexpander to harvest excess pressure energy. The system converts waste pressure into up to 3 MW of electricity and 35 million BTU of cooling,...
Arc Flash Hazards Emax 3 Integrated Solution
ABB’s new whitepaper highlights the persistent danger of arc flash incidents in modern power infrastructure and introduces the Emax 3 integrated solution. The platform combines ultra‑fast arc detection, intelligent protection coordination, and built‑in switchgear intelligence to mitigate risk. It aligns with...
Sponsored: DCD Intelligence Partners with AFRY to Integrate Energy Forecasting Into New Market Intelligence Platform
DatacenterDynamics (DCD) has partnered with engineering consultancy AFRY to embed AFRY’s proprietary energy market data and modelling into the upcoming DCD Intelligence platform. The integration adds wholesale electricity price forecasts through 2030, renewable capture prices, demand outlooks, fuel price trajectories...
Data Center Energy Efficiency Startup Niv-AI Emerges From Stealth with $12m Fundraise
Data center energy‑efficiency startup Niv‑AI has emerged from stealth, securing a $12 million seed round from investors including Glilot Capital and Arc VC. The company’s platform analyzes GPU power spikes by workload, enabling real‑time synchronization of energy and compute to reclaim stranded...
Benin Wants to Establish a Secondary National Data Center
Benin’s Ministry of Digital and Digitalization has issued a World Bank‑funded request for proposals to conduct a technical, economic and legal feasibility study on a secondary national data centre. The study, due by March 27, 2026, will explore locating the backup facility...
Endeavour Launches Hydrogen Production System
Endeavour, the parent of data‑center firm Edged, unveiled Pact Systems – a continuous‑flow methane‑cracking platform that simultaneously produces hydrogen fuel and high‑purity graphite. The technology works with natural gas or biomethane, offering a low‑carbon, quickly deployable energy source for AI‑intensive...
Armenian Bank Ameriabank Invests $60m in Firebird.ai’s Planned 100MW Data Center
Armenian lender Ameriabank is committing $60 million to finance Firebird.ai’s planned 100 MW AI data center in Armenia. The facility, part of a $500 million public‑private partnership with the Armenian government, will house 50,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs, making it one of the world’s...
TGS Taps Tape Ark to Migrate Around 40 Petabytes of Data to the Cloud
Energy intelligence firm TGS has engaged Tape Ark to move roughly 40 petabytes of seismic and subsurface data into a hyperscale cloud environment. The migration leverages Tape Ark’s parallel ingest platform to accelerate high‑throughput transfer across multiple facilities. Once in the cloud, TGS...
A Sticky Business: Csquare CEO Spencer Mullee on the Colo Firm's Future Plans
Csquare, the Dallas‑based colocation arm of Brookfield, announced a $1 billion cash purchase of ten data‑center sites across the United States and Canada, expanding its footprint in key metros. The company completed the merger of Evoque and Cyxtera assets in just...
Aligned Secures $2.58bn Credit Facility to Fund US Data Center Build-Out
Aligned Data Centers closed a $2.58 billion revolving credit facility to fund its U.S. data‑center build‑out. The three‑year devco facility, backed by six existing assets, includes two optional one‑year extensions and can be expanded later. The financing adds to Aligned’s existing...
Colt Secures Capacity on Juno Subsea Cable
Colt Technology Services has secured capacity on NTT’s Juno subsea cable, adding a new trans‑Pacific backbone that links Los Angeles to Tokyo. The 11,700‑km Juno system, operational since last year, expands Colt’s network to include ten subsea cables and connects...
Power Management Company Claros Raises $30m Seed Round
Claros, a power‑management startup, raised a $30 million seed round led by General Catalyst and Red Cell Partners. The funding will accelerate development of its integrated voltage regulator (IVR) and Power Gateway direct‑current distribution platform. The IVR claims up to 30%...
CyrusOne Ups Loan Facilities to $8 Billion
Data centre operator CyrusOne has expanded its revolving credit facility and U.S. term loan to a combined $8 billion in commitments. The revolving credit line rose by roughly $1 billion to $3.8 bn, while the term loan grew by $300 million to $4.2 bn, both...
AI Chip Startup Epic Microsystems Raises $21m for Development of Power Delivery Systems
Epic Microsystems, a San Jose AI‑chip startup, announced a $21 million Series A round led by Seligman Ventures, bringing its total capital to $26 million. The funding includes participation from Intel Capital, AICONIC Ventures and Cambium Capital, and adds Umesh Padval to the...
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...
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...