Data centers & fiber: archive
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The £2bn Scotland project shows consent is the new constraint
A pre-application data center campus in the Scottish Borders has already drawn a 10,000-signature petition, evidence that community resistance now shapes the buildout as much as power and capital.
Actis starts Brazil AI campus with a 300MW substation
Terronova's Campinas build begins with a 300MW substation, the scarce asset in the AI data center race.
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Colombia pulls Amazon fiber tender after risk review
The withdrawn 1.14 trillion-peso Amazon fiber tender tried to be a rural connectivity program and an international corridor on one balance sheet.
Wind developer Vapat to build 160MW data center campus
The Spanish wind group is betting its own turbines and substation connection can anchor a data center campus.
Nvidia takes minority stake in powered-land firm Cloverleaf
Nvidia's Cloverleaf stake ties powered-land projects to its DSX spec as the chipmaker spreads capital across the power queue.
Latos files plans for Newton Heath edge data center
The developer's 40-node 'neural Edge' network faces its first planning test in Manchester.
Meta files for 497 Tbps U.S.-Denmark subsea cable Aurora
The Aurora system would add an open cable to a crowded Atlantic, with a dark-fiber option that lets Meta sell capacity into the secondary market.
Charter closes $34.5bn Cox deal; Cox stays for 26%
The combined cable giant reaches 38 million customers across 45 states, and Cox Enterprises keeps a quarter of the equity.
HTS feeders swap a crowded trench for a 24/7 cryogenic plant
The technology can unlock 50 to 100MW where the corridor is full; the test is whether operators run the refrigeration plant with mission-critical discipline.
Harworth's second powered land deal sets up an 800MW UK pipeline
The exclusivity pact with an unnamed hyperscale provider sets up a second land sale, part of a six-site, 800MW data center pipeline.
AWS expands UK region, adds Las Vegas Local Zone
The launches extend a hyperscaler buildout that keeps private capital busy in data centers, power, and edge sites.
Telia Towers breaks ground on a satellite Earth station in Finland
The tower unit's Pyhäjärvi site links satellites to terrestrial networks, but the economics stay hidden.
Prometheus and Istmo plan a grid-free Texas data campus
The Pecos project will generate its own power behind the meter, using pipeline gas and methane from a fractionation plant on site — no ERCOT queue.
Telecom Argentina offers fiber to unlock $1.245bn Movistar deal
A proposed fiber divestiture to Metrotel is the regulatory remedy that could let Telecom Argentina close its Telefónica acquisition.
Macquarie sells its Polish fiber duo to Deutsche Telekom for €1bn
The two Polish networks fold into T-Mobile Polska while Macquarie puts the proceeds to work in data centers and towers.
Itochu enters data center development with ten sites in Japan
The trading house plans to lease the facilities to U.S. tech giants, then sell them, with 500MW of capacity coming by 2030.
Most 2026 governor candidates have staked out a data-center stance
A Data Center Dynamics analysis finds 80 percent of Democratic and Republican candidates have taken a position, and even the friendly ones are wary of making ratepayers pay for grid upgrades.
Tendercapital-backed Cobra Green wins Colleferro approval for 150MW AI data center
The municipal vote moves the project toward a 2027 start, but the Italian government has yet to sign off and no tenant or compute capacity has been disclosed.
Singapore allocates 200MW to four data center developers
Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel, and STT GDC each take 50MW in the city-state's second capacity call, which mandates low-carbon fuel, liquid cooling, and a Jurong Island site.
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BBT Group powers up 78kW data center at German hospital
BBT Group spent €3.6 million to open a data center at Caritas Hospital. The 78kW facility is owned AI compute, not rented cloud capacity.
Zayo locks in Corning fiber for 15,000-mile AI buildout
A tripled route-mile target gets the supply-chain certainty to match its ambition.
J.G. Petrucci files 100MW Allentown data center plan
The project's substation-first structure is a bet on power scarcity.
Hudson River Trading signs multi-billion-dollar AI cloud deal with CoreWeave
The trading firm will run AI research on Nvidia systems, with no dollar figure, capacity number, or schedule made public.
InfraTech plans $2.7B Texas data center and fiber buildout
A 5,000-acre site in the Texas Panhandle and a fiber manufacturing bet, with no tenant or manufacturing partner named.
Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom share fiber to stop parallel network builds
An open-access deal lets two Ukrainian carriers sell internet over each other's fiber.
Keel decommissions all four US Bitcoin mines in AI pivot
The former Bitfarms has the cash and the sites. It still needs a signed tenant contract.
Norway Green Energy pulls its 50MW Panay data center plan
A hostile public consultation preceded the withdrawal; Panay now has no active data center proposal.
Upper Merion denies five-site King of Prussia data center plan
The denial removes 4.6 million square feet of proposed capacity as Pennsylvania tightens its data center rules.
I Squared backs Saragon with up to $1B for edge data centers
The platform opens with ten former Sprint switching sites in nine US markets and a mandate to buy more.
Openreach extends XGS-PON expansion, lifting full-fiber top speed to 8.5Gbps
The faster tier reaches more than a million premises in its first year, and Openreach says the wider push will take new construction and equipment work.
Eight Globalstar satellites reach orbit as Amazon deal looms
The first satellites in a 17-satellite replenishment are now in orbit, securing the emergency SOS network Apple relies on and Amazon is about to own.
Bitdeer has pre-sold half of a Malaysian AI data center for $400 million
A five-year deal for half the 9.5MW facility shows how AI cloud providers lock in revenue before a building goes live.
Bloom's Power Connect pre-fabricates the data center power plant
The factory-built platform moves wiring and testing off the job site, with Oracle, Equinix, and American Electric Power already lined up as customers.
Twenty markets hold most of the world's hyperscale data center capacity
Northern Virginia alone accounts for 11 percent of global capacity, and power and permitting are already redrawing the list.
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Pennsylvania speeds permits for data centers that self-supply power
Priority permitting for data centers that meet Pennsylvania's infrastructure standards turns a political fight into a cost calculation.
NorthPoint's rumored Modesto data center stirs zoning fight
A 45-acre former chemical plant tests whether local land-use rules can hold against data center demand.
Liquid Death and Garage Beer monetize data center water anxiety
The 'we want your pee' campaign shows consumer anger becoming a permitting risk for AI infrastructure buildout.
EU data center efficiency labels will reset how private capital prices assets
A-to-G ratings in 2027 and minimum standards in 2030 will separate modern heat-reusing facilities from legacy stock and shift how they are underwritten.
Relativity raises $22m, lands $40m hollow-core fiber order
A SAFE round and a hyperscaler contract back a fiber technology aimed at stretching the distance between AI data centers.
Google confirms 506-acre Project Clydesdale data center near Tulsa
The company's $15 billion Oklahoma buildout includes water-line upgrades for Washington County Rural Water District and grid commitments in Tulsa County.