Data centers & fiber: archive
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A 12MW lease turns a Bangkok shell into infrastructure
The first phase of Evolution's TH01 is sold to an unnamed hyperscaler before it powers on; the 200MW TH02 still waits for the same proof.
Liteon's $176m cooling stake bets on a power-heat standard
The Taiwanese power-electronics maker paid for a quarter of Polish liquid-cooling firm DCX, wagering that hyperscalers will demand integrated power-and-cooling platforms.
Telxius pairs a Cancún cable landing with an edge bet no tenant has taken
The Tikal cable adds a Caribbean-U.S. route, while the co-located data center has no named anchor, making the compute half a merchant wager.
TDS walks away from Array's minority buyout
The telecom parent will resume buybacks instead, leaving Array's 4,456 towers majority-owned but not consolidated.
Crusoe's $13bn Jane Street deal is a five-year anchor
The Bloomberg-reported agreement would be Crusoe's largest cloud contract, but its five-year term and quant tenant make it a different kind of anchor from the physical hyperscaler leases that usually underwrite data center buildouts.
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Hyperscale Data ends mining to bank on one AI lease
A 20MW contracted deployment, not the remaining mining rigs, will decide whether the former Ault Alliance trades like a data center.
DataVita files Chapelhall's third building after consent talks
The DV4 application follows public consultation with a four-meter height cut, hedgerow planting, and August debt behind the same operator.
Virgin Media O2 switches on standalone 5G in Northern Ireland
The cloud-native standalone core is a genuine upgrade, and its economics will depend on subscriber adoption rather than the coverage map.
Brazil's ReData regime makes clean power the price of a tax holiday
The Senate-approved tax suspension for data center imports is Brazil's bid for the next wave of data center capital — with energy and water conditions attached.
Algoma's 400MW data center waits on a council vote and an unfinished playbook
Algoma Steel and Red Jar's proposed AI campus faces an unfinished provincial playbook and a city council already moving toward a moratorium.
Yamna locks in Açu land for 250MW data center
A land reservation at Brazil's Port of Açu gets Yamna a site and a queue position, but the hard work of interconnection, offtake, and financing is what will decide whether the 250MW campus ever gets built.
Grant money anchors a new Canary Islands cable ring
Canalink's Base4 landing at Playa Honda advances the €34 million Atlántica project, where European funds cover roughly two-thirds of a build designed for resilience rather than wholesale capacity sales.
Loudoun grandfathering review turns the data center pipeline political
By asking its attorney to count grandfathered data center applications, the county conceded that a filed permit is no longer a stable administrative right.
Telconet opens third Ecuador data center with Quito next
The eight-site, four-country buildout sits on Telconet's own fiber, and the coverage names no anchor tenant or investment figures.
Keppel buys 90% of two Tokyo data centers for $1.2B
The fully leased pair hands Keppel DC REIT yield today and a 4.5-year lease roll to underwrite tomorrow.
Ares-backed Ada breaks ground, but 300MW gap looms
The third TKW1 building is underway, but Ada's named pipeline covers only two-thirds of its 900MW Japan target.
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Telehouse's Frankfurt campus grows to six buildings
An air-cooled 5.4MW addition is the latest five-megawatt increment on a campus with a 2030 follow-on already planned.
Anthropic hires Stargate compute veteran from Meta
Shamez Hemani brings multi-gigawatt Stargate experience to a $99 billion capacity book.
AWS plans 420Tbps Pacific cable to a tribal landing station
Sta'O'Nuk would give Washington State its first international landing in nearly 30 years—and make the Quinault Indian Nation a partner in hyperscale infrastructure.
Water joins grid capacity on the data center critical path
A hyperscaler's future West Texas campus will run on treated effluent and groundwater, a sign that water systems are moving from the mechanical room to the development critical path.
Data sovereignty becomes a gating factor in hyperscale builds
Data Center Dynamics argues regulatory alignment now shapes hyperscale deployment as much as power and connectivity, and the next big campus lease will show who priced it in.
EuroHPC puts €119M behind quantum infrastructure
Six calls fund three qubit architectures plus QKD, testing, and a pilot line, but the binding constraints are manufacturing reproducibility and co-location with classical compute.
AWS puts a delivery date on the Saudi AI Zone: first 50MW by 2028
The first 50MW gets a 2028 date and the cloud region a December 2026 launch; the power plan behind both is still missing.
Cerebras stages Finland buildout to fit its balance sheet
The chipmaker's Mikkeli campus puts 50MW under construction now and leaves the remaining 115MW to be earned by demand.
ChronoScale's 50MW Microsoft plan needs the contract that makes it financeable
The spin-out's liquid-cooled Nvidia deployment has Microsoft as a partner but not yet as a committed payer, leaving duration, price, and obligation unresolved.
Phoenix Tower's $6.5bn financing is built for the next deal
The new capital stack consolidates 23 tower markets and leaves $1.135bn of delayed-draw and revolver capacity for the next acquisition.
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Vietnam's cable faults test the redundancy bet
Four of six subsea cables down at once is the latest multi-cable failure to hit Vietnam, and a warning for anyone pricing connectivity as a diversified asset.
Floating wind and GPUs: the 800kW test of gridless AI
Exascale Labs and EnergyBank plan to put an 800kW modular data center on a Norwegian wind turbine, betting that power delivery, not chip supply, is now the scarce input in AI infrastructure.
Flag's second act: selling the AI on-ramp
The bankrupt carrier rebuilt under 3i Infrastructure is betting its second act on landing stations and modular data centers, not just 66,000 km of fiber, to anchor AI-era connectivity.
AWS clears Irish planning hurdle for its own Atlantic cable
The West Cork landing station for Fastnet survived a local appeal, but seabed consent and grid connection still control the schedule.
Green Mountain signs unnamed neocloud to 14MW in Romford
Green Mountain fills LON-East's new capacity with an unnamed neocloud, testing whether East London can attract AI demand.
Charter CFO joins Blackstone-Google TPU venture
The hire of a cable-industry finance chief shows the neocloud is being built to utility specs, with the balance sheet leading the chips.
Jazz's 1,000 live 5G sites set up a 2,500-site test
The Veon-owned operator's year-end expansion target will test whether its 5G buildout can move past the radio layer.
Maxis fiber deal doubles Melaka tower backhaul coverage
The RM30 million project moves Melaka's mobile network from microwave to fiber and hands Maxis a wholesale product it can sell to every operator in the state.
Lambda's $1B short-term debt leans on Microsoft's lease
The private placement is underwritten by Microsoft's lease payments, not Lambda's merchant demand.
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Lidl owner's wind-country data bet puts power first
The EUR 5.6bn site choice treats grid access and queue position, not square metres, as the actual collateral.
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ESDS IPO funds a merchant cloud buildout
The fully subscribed Rs 720 crore raise expands data center capacity at a moment when Nvidia's GPU backstop for merchant clouds is on hold.
A server tariff would hit the buildout's weakest tier first
The Trump administration's talks on finished-server tariffs give a trade group's 20% cancellation warning new weight.
Britain's drought becomes a data center siting test
A rejected moratorium call has put water use at the center of the next UK data center planning fights.
Yotta nears IPO as GPU orders outpace disclosed demand
The Indian data center operator's public listing will test whether a $7.5bn Nvidia order book can stand in for a hyperscaler-backed revenue contract.