Saudi Arabian company DataVolt will invest $5bn in a 1.5GW datacentre in Neom, Saudi Arabia’s vast new economic zone planned for its northern Red Sea coast. Located in the Oxagon…

Emmanuel Macron said his government will try to attract €109bn of private investment in AI, the Financial Times reports. Speaking ahead of France’s AI Action Summit that opens in Paris…

Microsoft has paused construction work for its planned second phase of a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The company said in an…

Energy Northwest, a power company in the state of Washington, has hired Montreal-headquartered engineer AtkinsRéalis to be owner’s engineer in a project to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) for Amazon…

A team of Turner Construction Company, DPR Construction, and MA Mortenson have been contracted to build the biggest data centre yet for Meta – which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp…

Cimic Group company Leighton Asia has acquired Malaysia-headquartered Maverick United Consulting Engineers for an undisclosed sum. Maverick specialises in designing data centres, an expanding sector Leighton Asia is targeting. “The…

Two Swedish companies, financial services provider Vinga Group and circular industry specialist WA3RM, have joined forces to develop three commercial greenhouses in Scandinavia, two heated by data centres and one…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…