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…
News Blackstone JV plans $7bn worth of data centres in EU and US Investor Blackstone and data centre developer Digital Realty have teamed up to spend $7bn on 10 new data centres in western Europe and the US. The data centres will be…
News Besix and Bouygues to build Belgian data centre Belgian contractor Besix and Bouygues subsidiary Equans have won a design-and-build contract for a data centre in Neder-Over-Heembeek on behalf of Dutch developer KevlinX. The turnkey project will have a…
News Why data centre construction costs are rising around the world An upsurge in data centre construction in emerging markets is driving up costs, according to research from Turner & Townsend. Its Data Centre Cost Index 2023 analyses costs from some…
News Hill lands Spanish data centre contract Paris-headquartered data-centre operator Data4 has hired Hill International to project manage a new campus at San Agustín de Guadalix, a town some 45km north of Madrid. The campus called MAD2…
News Amazon to spend $7.8bn on Mid-West cloud computing infrastructure Amazon has announced plans to spend $7.8bn on data centres in Ohio by 2030. These will contain servers, data storage and networking equipment for cloud computing. Numerous localities in the…
News Wisconsin village approves Microsoft’s plans for $1bn data centre Microsoft’s plans to build a $1bn data centre campus in Wisconsin got a boost last night when representatives of the Village of Mount Pleasant in Racine County voted in favour…
News Ferrovial to build Microsoft data centre near Madrid amid $12bn investment plan Microsoft has hired Spanish contractor Ferrovial to build a data centre near Madrid as the first step in a $12bn investment programme, business journal Cinco Días reports. The facility, which…
News Meta abandons work on Danish data centres as it pivots to AI US tech company Meta Platforms has ended work on two data centres in Odense, Denmark, and will instead focus on a new type of data centre used for AI, Reuters…