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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Advanced power management strategies to help data centers improve resilience, efficiency and reliability as demand continues to grow
Good for water bills, bad for orangutans?
Will use 64MW of electricity and provide 48MW of IT load, according to planning documents

Colo provider has two facilities in Frankfurt and another in development
Government says plan will provide “meaningful benefits” for locals
Residents fear the facility on the border of towns of Piaseczno and Józefosław will spark water shortages

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…

Is Global Reference Design the answer to support this standardization?
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…

Company targeting the commercialization of its wave-powered solution in 2027
Madrid 2 to add 56MW of capacity
Renewable energy firm looks to expand data center portfolio
Reported a 6GW surge in its contracted large-load pipeline

Mass timber sees growth as Big Tech and Congress expand use, driven by eco-friendly benefits and stable prices.

Plans total net investments of €42 billion from 2026 to 2031 to meet skyrocketing demand
Air Products' hopes to develop its old HQ dashed
AI cloud firm to deploy Nvidia GPUs at CLW1 site
The facility will form part of a renewable energy hub planned for the southeast of the city
The outage, which originated in Northern Virginia, brought approximately 4GW of data center load offline

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…

Dallas-Fort Worth's industrial market soars with record 40.3M SF leased in the first half, driven by data centers and logistics.

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…
Signs MoUs to support 89MW factory conversion project
Project sounds ambitious, but is apparently based on proven technologies

AI is grabbing the headlines, but investors still have their eye firmly on the cloud
Announcements made alongside company’s Q2 2026 results
During which time new regulations may be developed, though won’t come into force until next year

Seoul's Yeongdeungpo District won unanimous backing to restrict data centers in residential zones, aiming to revise city ordinances and the Building Act.
Real estate firm looks to expand existing sites and repurpose industrial sites
The company's net revenue rose in the quarter to $1.78 billion, while profit was up to $150.3 million

Korea's steel, petrochemical and engineering firms are pivoting to AI data center infrastructure, from specialty steel to energy-storage materials, to…
Will support construction of first 16MW phase

GPUs for initial CDC deployment have been ordered, companies said


Frank Weber, Senior Director Client Solutions Datacenter & New Energies bei JLL Deutschland, sieht viel Datacenter-Potenzial jenseits der überlaufenen Metropolen.
Company currently has 90.7MW of IT load