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CX Tech files plans for 1GW data center campus at Scotland's Chapelcross nuclear site
The Planning Permission in Principle application covers eight buildings, a substation and 55 hectares on land controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's property arm.
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GMI Cloud raises $668m for AI capacity, two-thirds of it as debt
The Taiwanese AI cloud provider's $223m Series B was led by ARCHIV, with a $445m credit facility led by CTBC; Nvidia and several Asian corporates are named among participants.
ESA selects OVHcloud and CGI for sovereign Earth observation cloud
OVHcloud will supply the platform layer for a federated system ESA expects to hold more than 500 petabytes of Earth observation data by 2035.
Nebius signs 50MW, 12-year capacity deal with AIB Data Centers
Tenant prepayments, along with project debt and equity, will fund two data halls at a site already carrying a 65MW electric service agreement.
Traysar and Armada plan to explore putting sovereign AI compute underground
Traysar's truck-mounted Terminus boring rig would place Armada's modular data centers below ground; the announcement names no site or power figure.
Police say drone struck Moldova communications tower; services uninterrupted
President Maia Sandu said four Russian drones violated Moldovan airspace and at least one exploded in the north.
Tencent signs $7bn five-year lease for 100,000 Oracle GPUs in Southeast Asia, FT reports
The Financial Times says 30 percent of the value would be paid upfront, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Senate blocks Ratepayer Protection Act in 57-43 vote
The House passed it 417-3, but the Senate fell three votes short of the 60 needed; a new bill would make large data centers pay their own incremental power costs.
Xantaro names Christian Werner CEO as Czermin moves to executive chairman
The German network integrator's disclosed UK footprint is more than 40 altnets, the sole pipeline figure in an announcement that carries no revenue or headcount.
SoftBank closes $3.1bn DigitalBridge take-private, de-listing the $108bn manager
Under CEO Marc Ganzi, DigitalBridge remains a separately managed SoftBank subsidiary; its portfolio companies stay outside the transaction.
Spanberger order bans data center NDAs
The order also expedites noise rules, orders a review of diesel backup generator impacts and creates a state AI task force.
Civo plans 40 UK edge data centers, starting with 8MW in Hertfordshire
Civo has secured five more sites totaling 150MW and says the remaining build-out runs three years, without disclosing how the sites will be powered or whether it builds or leases them.
Buckinghamshire Council approves AWS data center campus at Iver with conditions attached
Amazon Data Services bought the 17-unit site off-market in 2022 for £132.5 million and still owes the council detail on construction traffic, drainage and water use
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Microsoft launches a Luxembourg Azure Extended Zone with Post Luxembourg
The zone is a jurisdiction-sized Azure tier aimed at low-latency and data-residency workloads, turning a January 2026 statement of intent into capacity.
Balearic government launches Palma data center paired with Sant Pere site
The regional government says each facility can handle all of its technological operations if the other goes offline.
NxN buys 1MW Évora data center and targets €100m in Portugal
The Évora purchase is NxN's first live asset in Portugal, and the up to €100m investment figure is not tied to a specific project.
Eurofiber completes entanglement-ready dark fiber loop between Delft and Rotterdam
Eurofiber and Delft Networks say the closed-loop project will test long-range quantum connections over fiber Eurofiber already owns; cost, length and funding are not disclosed.
Fire at Seoul data center forces 105 evacuations; operator unnamed
The blaze is thought to have started in a transformer in the facility's UPS room, and news footage appears to show STTGDC's 30MW Seoul 1, launched in July.
Trane and LiquidStack open pre-orders for 2.5MW coolant distribution unit
First shipments begin in the second quarter of 2027, and no operator has been named as a pre-order customer.
CScale exits stealth with $145m Series C backed by Nvidia and Intel Capital
Atreides, Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest co-led the round; CScale says its interconnect is designed to keep an optical failure from interrupting compute.
CoreWeave offers Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72, with Cognition as first customer
Cognition says its SWE-2 inference workloads saw up to a 4.8x increase in total token throughput on the new systems.
CDC Data Centres files for up to 1.4GW data centre campus in Wagga Wagga
The state application covers up to four buildings of 240MW each on 103.4 hectares near a new TransGrid terminal, with the AU$15 billion figure attributed to local government rather than the developer.
Finland's draft grid rules would rank small connections ahead of large data centers
The amendment would replace first-come, first-served with four priority groups and is due in force on January 1, 2027, with first allocation set for December 2027.
BrightRay’s 40MW Macau data center hinges on an unnamed tenant
The prefabricated-module framework agreement carries no purchase obligation from either side, and the definitive sales contract is contingent on a lease.
FCC removes Verizon's nine-state copper retirement from automatic grant
Verizon asked to discontinue legacy TDM voice service in parts of nine states next month; the commission says it needs more time to review the request.
Crusoe confirms Google as end user of its Goodnight campus in Texas
The Armstrong County project connects directly to two wind farms totaling 531MW, and Aterio Research puts the planned build at more than a gigawatt.
Gimlet Cloud to deploy 100MW of Cerebras wafer-scale compute for inference
The first data center under the agreement is expected online later this year, and the coverage names no site, utility, or contract value.
Google Cloud to double computing capacity in Brazil by 2030
Google's four-year expansion leaves the choice between new data centers and denser existing ones to demand, with no investment figure disclosed.
Hypertec CEO names 5C as IPO candidate after $5bn-$6bn round
Simon Ahdoot told the Bloomberg Canadian Finance Conference that listing discussions follow the close of the next debt-and-equity raise.
AT&T commits more than $3bn to Corning fiber in multi-year supply deal
The carrier ties the build to AI-driven data demand, weeks after Verizon signed its own multi-billion-dollar Corning agreement through 2032.
Bain Capital in talks to acquire Edged US from Koch, Bloomberg reports
Koch Real Estate Investments is soliciting bids for Edged that could value the company at around $15 billion, according to Bloomberg.
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Alibaba Cloud names Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands as next regions
The Netherlands was also on last September's list, and Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong are slated for added capacity.
Infineon to supply silicon carbide devices for Eaton's 800VDC transformer platform
The two firms say silicon carbide will cut conversion losses in Eaton's MVSST 2.0 platform; no customer, site or delivery date is attached.
Global Switch to host Nvidia Blackwell deployment in Paris, tenant unnamed
Global Switch names no tenant or scale for a liquid-cooled Nvidia DGX-ready build it calls one of Europe's biggest Blackwell deployments.
Google wins Dublin planning appeal for a third Grange Castle data center
An Coimisiún Pleanála cleared the 72,400 sqm building two years after South Dublin County Council refused it over grid capacity and unclear power contracts.
Ericsson to upgrade Cellnex's Polish tower RAN; no contract value disclosed
The sites serve Plus, Polkomtel's mobile brand, and the equipment list is detailed while the economics go unstated.
Meta agrees to lease AI capacity from Firmus in Southeast Asia
The hyperscaler adds its name to Firmus's Indonesian and Malaysian build-out, but the announcement carries no price, no megawatt figure for the tranche and no energization date.
Australia Post signs three-year Telstra connectivity deal across 4,000 sites
About 300 of the postal operator's locations move to fiber-to-the-premises, with regional sites shifting to Telstra satellite over the next twelve months.
Eaton agrees to buy COL Group from Oaktree for €810 million
COL Group forecasts €250 million of 2027 sales, putting the deal at about 3.2 times forward revenue.
Colovore files for $430 million liquid-cooled data center in Fort Worth
The Denton County project is scheduled to run from December 2026 to December 2028, with the landowner listed as a likely Hillwood Properties affiliate.