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La Caisse agrees to buy 49.9% of Bell Canada tower unit
The C$2.45 billion deal values the tower company at about C$4.91 billion and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.
STTGDC secures JPY93 billion green loan for 70MW Tokyo campus
Standard Chartered led five-bank facility funding fit-out and operation of two Inzai City buildings.
Vodafone Ukraine plans solar arrays at 400 more base stations
The operator says some completed sites ran without grid power during peak generation.
SoleCrypt lifts Bizerte AI campus plan to 40MW
Its first 7MW, designed for 1,728 Nvidia Rubin GPUs, could go live in early 2028; a 60MW solar and battery plant sits 525km away.
AirTrunk raises A$4.25bn green loan for Sydney campus
Thirty-two lenders backed the SYD3 facility, bringing AirTrunk's committed debt to about A$38.4bn; the expansion is due for completion in mid-2028.
Broadcom organizes $63B loan for Anthropic TPU purchases
Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley arrange the first lien; Blackstone takes the committed second lien and Broadcom backstops the SPV.
Eatonton 379 files for 520MW Georgia data center campus
The filing includes substations and possible on-site generation with Eatonton.
Omniva names Kushagra Vaid CEO as pivot hires exit
Kuwait-backed neocloud has lost most executives hired for its 2023 AI pivot, including COO Sean Boyle this June, Data Center Dynamics reports.
Spain proposes 10MW threshold for data-center renewables mandate
The revised proposal keeps the 80% hourly clean-power test and adds a transition period of up to five years.
CoreWeave brings majority of 22.5MW live at atNorth
The first Danish deployment takes most of DEN01's 30MW outside Copenhagen; network nodes in seven countries follow.
OpenAI seeks federal permit to fill 72 acres of Georgia wetlands
The Army Corps application covers four buildings at the 2,600-acre Savannah Gateway site, and public comment runs to Nov. 4.
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Cadence launches Munich AI data center with Nvidia chips
The site hosts OnCloud, Reality Digital Twin and the Millennium M2000; OnCloud is available to European customers now.
Forum Edge signs $94.4M Nvidia B300 reservation with Fireworks
The 36-month Dallas capacity deal is the joint venture's first contracted customer commitment.
G42 signs Greece AI factory MoUs with Copelouzos and Khazna
Khazna would build the data centers and Core42 would supply cloud and AI compute; no project details were shared.
Verizon signs AWS AI infrastructure deal worth more than $2 billion
The AWS agreement follows a $1 billion dark fiber deal with Google; Verizon puts all signed contracts at about $4 billion.
Generative Bionics plans 5,000 sqm physical AI facility in Italy
The Liguria site would run on AMD Helios and could be partly operational by the fourth quarter of 2027; IT capacity is undisclosed.
AWS plans up to 15 data center buildings on 890 Missouri acres
The Danville tract has no purchase or start date; Amazon said New Florence will get a $10 billion phased build-out.
Anthropic S-1 shows $417 billion in data center and cloud commitments
The filing details 20-year leases, escrowed deposits and prepaid rent.
SWI launches AI cloud unit with 3.6GW of power
The unit will start with 30MW in Cambridge and targets 2.3GW of Nvidia-focused capacity by 2029.
RBI opens 700-rack Tier IV backup site in Bhubaneswar
The 18.5-acre campus also houses a cybersecurity training institute.
UK proposes unlimited fines for ship owners who damage cables
Prison sentences of up to 14 years would apply to intentional damage, and telecoms providers would take on new cable-protection duties.
Microsoft buys 37 Ohio acres for $6.65 million
The Refugee Road parcels take the company's Licking County land holdings past 700 acres, with no data center listed for Pataskala.
SpaceXAI faces $6.1 million Mississippi stormwater permit claim
MDEQ alleges work began at three sites before stormwater coverage; SpaceXAI disclosed the notice in an SEC filing and is negotiating an agreed order.
Kao Data to host ARIA-funded AI inference lab at Harlow
The lab will run five GPU systems across two dedicated suites on a campus that already hosts Nvidia's Cambridge-1 supercomputer.
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Georgia's Silk Cloud plans Blackwell Ultra GPUs for 2027
Silknet's Tbilisi data center, at 2MW, is due in 2027; GPU counts weren't disclosed. Fuse Energy has 128 GPUs due online in December.
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TerraWatt proposes up to 1GW Illinois data center on steel site
Alton Steel's 381-acre mill site would be built in 200 MW blocks, with a 2027 closing contingent on rezoning and an Ameren Illinois study.
European Commission accuses KKR of misleading €22bn TIM NetCo merger review
The Statement of Objections alleges KKR misstated whether FiberCop's wholesale access terms were locked in place; KKR says it stands by the information it gave.
Memphis City Council rejects 18-month data center moratorium, sets 135-day pause
The 18-month ban failed on a 6-6 vote with one member absent; the 135-day pause is tied to Mayor Paul Young's 90-day review.
O3 Group plans Benghazi data center for March 2027
The Libyan operator gave no capital figure, capacity or named customer; international connectivity would use the Medusa cable.
Meta has converted Ohio Facebook site into first phase of AI campus
The New Albany site is planned to scale to a gigawatt with roughly one million GPUs; it has already trained Meta's Muse models.
Umatilla declares emergency over $5B data center permit freeze
The city resolution says the block could delay more than $5 billion in investment and set projects back two years.
Switzerland publishes up to CHF 7bn government cloud tender
Two public-cloud tiers cap at CHF 2 billion each and the private lot at CHF 3 billion; awards due summer 2027.
gFiber to take over Ting's Colorado Springs dark fiber lease
Terms were not disclosed; Ting will keep serving Colorado Springs customers until the transition completes, no later than June 30, 2027.
STTGDC to host up to 9,000 Neysa GPUs in Noida
Neysa's Velocis AI cloud platform will run training and inference workloads at the 22 MW Noida 2 facility.
O-Green plans €7.4bn, 570MW data center campus in Spain
The Oman-affiliated fund's San Mateo de Gállego plan, reported to replace Vantage's €3.2bn project, holds grid permits for only its first 90MW phase.
Aleria plans 8,640 Blackwell GPUs for 25MW US site
Aleria plans to expand the US build to 16,000 GPUs and calls the UAE Vera Rubin deployment one of the first in the region.
Foresight signs term sheet for 50.01% of Polish data center developer
Warsaw is planned at 130MW on a secured 32,000 sqm plot with an option on a further 22,000 sqm.
Telefónica, IQM to install Madrid's first quantum computer by end-2026
The IQM Spark system will give Madrid universities, hospitals and startups direct access to quantum hardware.
SpaceX seeks access to 80,000 US cell sites in Crown Castle talks
Crown Castle's CEO says the tower owner is talking to "all parties" on a master lease, without naming SpaceX.
Endeavour, Trevi claim 200,000 gallons a day per MW of computing
The process has not run at a data center; first units are planned for Endeavour's US sites, with no campus, date or cost named.