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ESR has partnered with Wide Creek AMC to develop the first data centre facility in South Korea.

ESR and Colt DCS established a joint venture to develop a new data centre facility in Osaka, Japan.

ESR and CloudHQ secured LEED Gold certification for the Cosmosquare OS1 data centre facility in Japan, highlighting sustainability achievements in the data center sector.

ESR and STACK have commenced development of a 72 megawatt data centre campus in Kansai, Japan, marking an expansion of hyperscale digital infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.

ESR Group and CloudHQ have formed a joint venture to co-develop and operate a 130 MW data centre campus in Japan valued at US$2 billion.

ESR completed the first phase of its 130 MW data centre campus in Osaka, Japan, part of a US$2 billion development project.
Starwood Capital entered into a partnership with ESR Group co-founders to acquire a 10.7% ownership stake in the Asia-Pacific logistics and data-center real estate platform.
ESR completed the sale of a fully leased data and logistics centre located in Goyang, South Korea.

Vertiv is expanding its manufacturing capacity in Reynosa, Mexico to serve growing global demand for data center and AI infrastructure, creating approximately 1,000 jobs.
CPP Investments has partnered with India-based data centre operator CtrlS to develop hyperscale campuses across India.
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City approval clears a low-friction path to new AI infrastructure — no rezoning, no new footprint, just a rewiring of space Nvidia already occupies San Jose has cleared the way for a Silicon Valley research building already leased by Nvidia to become a full-fledged data center, the latest sign that the AI boom is…
Combined investment of $1bn in facilities
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Wixom officials refuse request as developer eyes three-building campus
Facility is expected to be completed by June 2027
Will finance the expansion of one and the completion of another
Wildflower scheme set to be held up
Local officials overturned planning commission decision
Former owner of iseek takes over five sites
Sweet news leaves developer buzzing
Council upholds decision in May not to grant permit for data center campus
Potential site located at the Gateway Business Park

KE chce potrojenia unijnej mocy centrów danych w perspektywie pięciu, siedmiu lat. Proponowane rozwiązania nie biorą pod uwagę końcowego zastosowania tej infrastruktury. Tymczasem lokalizacje data centers w Europie powinny to uwzględniać.
A legal challenge threatens to delay data centre development activity in Ireland.
“Those are a lot of primary investments, and then those will have spinoff effects to labourers, small businesses, service providers ..."
The 650-megawatt natural gas power plant is proposed for northeast of Peace River and is highlighting broader environmental concerns about Alberta's rapidly expanding AI data centre industry

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Samsung SDS targets 6.6 trillion won in annual data center revenue by 2031, expanding AI data centers in Haenam and Gumi and growing its DBO design-build-operate business to over 500 MW.

Xi S&D CEO Koo Bon-sam vows defect-free construction as its premium, targeting 2 trillion won in orders and expanding into senior housing and AI data centers.
Company expanding MU4

New York's governor signed an executive order establishing a one-year moratorium on data-center development projects with power capacities of 50 megawatts or more.
QTS Realty Trust, backed by Blackstone, announced plans for a major data center campus development in the Texas Panhandle region.
A proposed moratorium on data centre development in Scotland threatens to impact billions of pounds in planned investment in the sector.

Telus and Canada's AI minister announced two new Vancouver AI data centres, part of a ~$9B BC investment.

Google confirmed an ~$8B data center at 411 Pegasus Pkwy in LaGrange, GA (Atlanta metro), including community energy-affordability investments.

Alibaba Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Jinshan District government to build a hyperscale AI computing centre.

Hyosung Heavy Industries and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres inaugurated STT Seoul 1, a 30MW Tier III-certified AI/cloud data centre in Geumcheon District.
Digital Realty, via its JV with Mitsubishi Corporation, opened NRT14 in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo), bringing the campus to ~100MW.

Singapore-based Zerra DC unveiled plans to develop a data centre on the former Ford Falcon assembly plant site in Campbellfield.

NEXTDC unveiled a $7bn, ~550MW hyperscale AI campus at Eastern Creek, with OpenAI signed as inaugural anchor tenant under an MOU.
Equinix plans a four-story, 372,517 SF data center at 1550 W. Mockingbird Lane, its ninth in DFW.

HydraVault received a foundation permit to convert a two-story building at 2538 S. Wabash Ave. into a 20MW, liquid-cooled AI data center.
Iron Mountain Data Centers started construction on an 85MW AI-ready hyperscale campus in Mumbai.

Thailand's BOI approved TikTok's plan to invest ~$25bn expanding data-storage and processing infrastructure across Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Chachoengsao.
Equinix opened HK6, its sixth Hong Kong IBX data center, a US$124m AI-focused facility with 1,000 cabinets in phase one.
DayOne broke ground on a 20MW, ~40,000 sqm data center in Singapore, signing a 10-year renewable power purchase agreement with Sembcorp.

Digital Realty filed permits to demolish a former Bed Bath & Beyond building at Third and Virginia and build a six-story facility with a co-location data center.

DataBank and Goodman Group formed a 50/50 JV to develop a 32MW data center at 3094 E Vernon Avenue, Vernon (Greater LA).

PowerHouse signed a long-term lease with an undisclosed hyperscale tenant for its 37-acre, 615,000 SF, 120MW campus in Loudoun County (DC metro).
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) agreed to invest up to INR 70 billion ($742 million) in Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters -- INR 40 billion ($588 million) for an 8.2% direct equity stake, plus up to a further INR 30 billion ($441 million) committed to a new joint venture in which CPPIB will hold 48% (CtrlS 52%) to develop hyperscale data-centre campuses across India. CtrlS operates more than 250MW of IT capacity across Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai, plus edge sites in Lucknow and Patna; the Competition Commission of India cleared the acquisition.
CPP Investments and Equinix agreed to jointly acquire Nordic data-center operator atNorth for approximately $4 billion -- CPP Investments investing about $1.6B for a roughly 60% controlling interest, Equinix holding the remaining 40% -- adding atNorth's eight data centers across five Nordic countries, about 1GW of secured power and an 800MW pipeline.
Digital Realty agreed to purchase Blackstone-affiliated funds' blended 64% equity interest in three fully-leased Northern Virginia data centers (two in Manassas, one in Sterling; 288MW combined IT capacity) for $3.5 billion ($1.2B cash + $2.3B in Digital Realty shares) -- a $7.8 billion gross portfolio valuation. All three carry 15-year leases to investment-grade hyperscale tenants.
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Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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Partnership to reduce data center deployment times… and dust