Data centres are the specialised buildings that house computing and network infrastructure. Coverage tracks leasing, power availability, hyperscale demand, construction pipelines and the AI-driven surge in capacity requirements.
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The next decade of digital infrastructure will be shaped by how quickly power can reach the right place, at the right time, at an acceptable cost

Commentary: The future of rural Texas should be decided by the people who call it home, not by corporations that see it as another place for financial gain. Greg Abbott isn’t going to save us from data centers. We have to do it ourselves. was first posted on August 15, 2026 at 11:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio…

As San Jose hammers out local review standards for data center projects, some residents are calling for the city to follow the lead of other jurisdictions and enact an immediate moratorium on new developments. The proposed standards are expected to address widespread concerns that a glut of new projects working…

Data centers in space shift from concept to early operational demonstrations
Government says plan will provide “meaningful benefits” for locals

Colo provider has two facilities in Frankfurt and another in development

Is Global Reference Design the answer to support this standardization?
Residents fear the facility on the border of towns of Piaseczno and Józefosław will spark water shortages

Mass timber sees growth as Big Tech and Congress expand use, driven by eco-friendly benefits and stable prices.
Good for water bills, bad for orangutans?

Company targeting the commercialization of its wave-powered solution in 2027
Will use 64MW of electricity and provide 48MW of IT load, according to planning documents

Advanced power management strategies to help data centers improve resilience, efficiency and reliability as demand continues to grow
Renewable energy firm looks to expand data center portfolio
Reported a 6GW surge in its contracted large-load pipeline
Madrid 2 to add 56MW of capacity
San Jose has launched a formal process to write uniform development standards for data centers and other large energy-use projects, an emerging asset class that already has nine applications pending before the city and could generate as much as $7 million a year per facility in local revenue. The post San Jose…

Partners Real Estate represented AI Prefab Solutions, a Texas-based critical-infrastructure manufacturer, in its lease of a new 196,523-sq.-ft. Class A facility in Hutto, Texas. The facility, known as Innovation 8, stretches just under three football fields in length and will serve as the company’s headquarters and…
Will support construction of first 16MW phase
The facility will form part of a renewable energy hub planned for the southeast of the city

Seoul's Yeongdeungpo District won unanimous backing to restrict data centers in residential zones, aiming to revise city ordinances and the Building Act.
Announcements made alongside company’s Q2 2026 results

Dallas-Fort Worth's industrial market soars with record 40.3M SF leased in the first half, driven by data centers and logistics.
Signs MoUs to support 89MW factory conversion project

Plans total net investments of €42 billion from 2026 to 2031 to meet skyrocketing demand

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust is slamming the door shut on the self-storage sector. BREIT sold its final 79 assets in the sector during the second quarter, Bisnow reported, citing the firm’s second-quarter earnings report. BREIT scored an $852 million deal from the sale, netting $177 million in gains from the…
The company's net revenue rose in the quarter to $1.78 billion, while profit was up to $150.3 million

Rockpoint and Oppidan appear to have scrapped a long-dormant plan for a manufacturing building at 865 Embedded Way in favor of an 18-megawatt data center, betting that proximity to PG&E’s expanded Santa Teresa substation outweighs whatever the site was worth for industrial use. A 10-acre parcel that sat idle for…
Samsung Electronics opens its first FläktGroup plant in Pune, India, to make data center cooling systems and target the growing Asia-Pacific B2B market.

Korea's steel, petrochemical and engineering firms are pivoting to AI data center infrastructure, from specialty steel to energy-storage materials, to…
During which time new regulations may be developed, though won’t come into force until next year
AI cloud firm to deploy Nvidia GPUs at CLW1 site
Project sounds ambitious, but is apparently based on proven technologies
A data center company has taken over an entire Santa Clara research-and-development building, adding to the intense competition for space in a city that has become ground zero for the Bay Area’s data center and AI infrastructure expansion. ECL has leased the full 75,810-square-foot building at 2175 Mission College…

Real estate firm looks to expand existing sites and repurpose industrial sites