What happened, and who moved.

Acquisition is the largest-ever in data centers

A Florida-based company that converts existing industrial facilities into data centers is joining the wave of digital infrastructure companies looking to tap the public equities market.

MGX and partners from Abu Dhabi have completed a major acquisition of a US-based data centre operator for $40 billion, marking a significant cross-border investment in digital infrastructure.
Spokane County Democrats have proposed a temporary moratorium on data center development, reflecting growing local regulatory scrutiny of the sector.
Sites did not have to go through the rezoning process
While building infrastructure is important, protecting its performance for the next twenty years is what truly creates value
Project in preliminary stages
Beetaloo Energy targets large-scale campus outside Darwin
With industrial leasing growing 44 percent YoY
Is contracting energy from Georgia Power Company for project
Company planning 197MW project in the Atacama Desert
Cash to fuel first 110MW in Seinäjoki
Designers claim that the facility will bring €11 million of investment to the local area
Will help supply Applied's under-construction 430MW data center
Deployments to continue into 2027
Ashok Cloud will offer data center and cloud services in the country
Unnamed company plans development in City of Casey

Azrieli Group is divesting a stake in its data center subsidiary Green Mountain.
Israel's Electricity Authority has suspended power connection allocations for server farms, highlighting infrastructure capacity constraints affecting data center development.

LS ELECTRIC and LG Uplus signed an MOU to jointly develop DC-based power infrastructure for AI data centers, targeting Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform with 800V DC technology.

Israeli institutional investors have committed $1 billion in capital to EdgeConneX, a data center operator.
Meta has entered into an agreement with Reliance to develop AI data centre capacity in India.

But details sparse
Commercial projects depend on many systems working together, but few are as important as a reliable power supply. From warehouses and manufacturing sites to data centers and large mixed-use developments, electrical infrastructure affects when a building can open, how safely it can operate, and how well it can…
Equinix announced multiple agreements to secure advanced nuclear power for its data center operations.

Blackstone executed a secondary offering of Digital Realty common stock.
But source says data center is fully complete

Pinellas Park, Florida is considering a temporary one-year moratorium on new data center development.
Thailand's Board of Investment reported first-quarter investment applications exceeding one trillion baht across 600+ projects, with strong demand led by data centers, AI infrastructure, and advanced electronics sectors.
Coverage of new hyperscale data center investment activity in Thailand and its impact on the country's digital infrastructure and economy.

Morgan Stanley is leveraging hybrid bonds, private-credit vehicles, and chip-backed loans to position itself as a leading financier of data-center investments driven by AI infrastructure demand.
First phase to offer 40MW
Starwood Capital Group is advancing plans for a pair of data centers in Fairfax County, Va., near the Alexandria border. The investment firm filed plans last week for the first building at its Plaza 500 development, according to the Business Journals, which cited Fairfax County records. Plaza 500 South, the…

BlackRock flexed its muscle as one of the artificial intelligence data center boom’s most powerful players this week. The investment giant executed roughly $57B in data center transactions by financing Meta’s massive Texas campus and closing its...
Governments and local authorities across multiple countries are implementing stricter regulations on data centre developments to manage resource demands driven by artificial intelligence expansion.
Dallas-based data center provider Csquare completed a $1.05 billion initial public offering, selling 50 million shares at $21 each amid strong investor demand for AI infrastructure assets.
India's Ministry of Power is creating a dedicated electricity infrastructure roadmap to support rapid data centre growth driven by AI, cloud computing, and digital services.

Cloud Capital announced formation of a $6 billion joint venture with Realty Income and an institutional investor focused on data center development and acquisition.
A 50+ megawatt data center facility has become available for lease or acquisition in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

Five 9s Digital sold its Columbus data center asset to an existing tenant, completing a real estate ownership transaction.
Crusoe's Texas data center facility for OpenAI has secured $11.6 billion in funding to support expansion.
A major data-center developer receives a $6.4 billion equity investment, reflecting growing capital deployment in AI-driven infrastructure demand.
Tower firm continues Edge-at-tower play
Follows increasing concerns around data center energy, land, and cooling infrastructure requirements
Company deploys pod for GrandSky at Grand Forks Air Force Base
WUE and PUE reduced thanks to upgrade

A consortium led by Abu Dhabi's MGX has acquired US data center developer Aligned Data Centers and committed $5 billion in growth capital to the company.

Not many proptech companies have been able to scale their technology to take advantage of the data center construction boom, but one that has cracked the code in servicing the sector’s gargantuan growth is OpenSpace. The San Francisco-based visual intelligence platform has worked on more than 1,000 data center…
Equinix announced a collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy secure AI computing infrastructure across its global data center portfolio.
Developer's 360MW proposal thwarted
Companies will now enter negotiations for a phased lease of site

MSCI's RCA Commercial Property Price Index fell 11.2% year-over-year in May, reflecting continued annual declines across all major commercial real estate sectors.
Capable of supplying 220MWh of power every year
Issues lasted for almost 15 hours
First commercial agreement in Latin America

Ha Jung-woo, former presidential AI secretary, warns AI data centers risk burdening the public and should serve Korean industries rather than global big tech.

China's Z.ai has completed a 1GW data center built entirely with domestic chips, using over 10,000 semiconductors, the largest among Chinese AI firms, and begun partial operation.

New York has issued an executive order temporarily pausing discretionary data center permitting while environmental impacts and grid infrastructure costs are reviewed.
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Wall Street banks including BlackRock and Morgan Stanley are emerging as key winners of the AI boom, arranging tens of billions of dollars in data center financing and reshaping capital markets.