News Turner to build $2bn Ohio data centre campus Turner Construction has broken ground on a $2bn data centre campus in New Albany, central Ohio. The project, which is for IT services company Vantage, will have a floor area…
News Microsoft is building a timber data centre Microsoft is building a data centre with some cross-laminated timber (CLT) as it tries to become carbon-negative by 2030. The demonstration project in northern Virginia will aim to use enough…
News US company raises $2bn to boost power supply to its data centres US company DataBank has raised $2bn to spend on installing additional generating capacity for its fleet of data centres. The company intends to add 850MW to meet demand, which is…
News Google orders multiple small reactors to power AI data centres Google will buy nuclear energy from small modular reactors (SMRs) built and run by California’s Kairos Power as the internet giant races to secure enough clean electricity to power artificial…
News Nigerian mobile operator MTN to build West Africa’s largest data centre MTN Nigeria announced on Saturday that it was planning to build West African largest data centre, business website Nairametrics reports. The company, which is based in South Africa, has not…
News Skanska wins two US contracts worth $204m Skanska has won three contracts in the US: a $155m data centre job in Arizona and a deconstruction and demolition project in Georgia worth $49m. In Arizona, the comany has…
News Leighton Asia to fit out Hyderabad data centre A joint venture of Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia and Indian company Sterling and Wilson has been selected to fit out a data centre in Hyderabad, India, by a multinational technology…
News Skanska wins two US jobs worth $143m Swedish contractor Skanska has won a data centre worth $90m in the US state of Georgia and a $53m initial build contract at Virginia Tech university. In Georgia, the contract…
News Skanska wins three US contracts worth $436m Skanska has recently landed three contracts worth a total of $436m: data centre projects in Arizona and Georgia and a university building in Texas. In Georgia, Skanska will build a…
News Microsoft to build $3.3bn AI centre in Wisconsin Microsoft plans to invest $3.3bn in a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The site in Mount Pleasant will employ 2,300 during construction…
News Amazon to spend $9bn on data centres in Singapore Amazon’s cloud computing unit will spend US$9bn expanding its data storage capacity in Singapore. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it would help meet growing demand for cloud computing services there…
News Google begins work on €600m green data centre in Belgium Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…
News Skanska wins three US contracts worth $447m Skanska has won a data centre project in Virginia, a supplemental waterfront facility in the eastern US and a road in Los Angeles. In Virginia, Skanska has landed a $242m…
News Skanska to build data centre and healthcare facility in Norway Swedish contractor Skanska has won two building projects worth a total of $185m in southern Norway, one for a data centre, the other for a health and care facility. The…
News Amazon to build two data centres worth $10bn in Mississippi Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to build two data centres near Jackson, Mississippi. Together, the projects will cost $10bn, making them the largest capital investment in the state’s…
News Heidelberg data centre is ‘Europe’s biggest printed building’ Peri 3D Construction has handed over a printed data centre in Heidelberg, Germany. It calls the 600-sq-m building, named “Wavehouse”, Europe’s biggest printed building so far. Yesterday, it handed the…
News Turner Construction to build $800m data centre for Meta in Indiana Turner Construction has been selected to build a 700,000 sq ft data centre campus for Meta in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The $800m development will contain a number of buildings, and will…
News Funds raised for $1.9bn data centre in Arizona Data centre developer EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has raised $1.9bn, partly from a “green loan”, to build a facility in Mesa, southern Arizona. The project will be part of a 3.1…