Swedish contractor and developer Skanska has had a busy couple of weeks, notching up three contracts and one commercial property sale in Europe and the US – together worth US$765m.…

Google says it will spend €5.5bn between 2026 and 2029 in infrastructure and offices across Germany, creating an estimated 9,000 jobs a year. Plans include building a new data centre…

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is driving a global construction surge for data centres with some projects now costing more than $20bn, according to a new…

Vantage Data Centers says it will invest $2bn in a data centre campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Called VA4, the project involves three data centres on 82 acres with a…

Firm also warns of skills shortage, saying its own AI projects will need 20% of the country’s skilled tradespeople over the next five years. OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT…

Spain’s Ferrovial has acquired fellow Spanish company Powernet, a telecommunications and systems engineer for an unspecified sum, in order to boost its profile in the data centre construction market. Powernet…

Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI company Humain has partnered with AirTrunk, the Asia-Pacific data centre operator owned by Blackstone, to invest $3bn in a hyperscale data centre campus in the Kingdom,…

The US arm of Sweden’s Skanska has set up “Skanska Advanced Technology”, or SAT, a new division to meet demand for data centres and semiconductor facilities. Its 285 people will…

Microsoft has confirmed it will invest an extra $4bn over the next three years at its complex in Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, creating what the company describes as the “world’s…

American data centre company Quality Technology Services (QTS) has announced a $10bn campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Developed in partnership with the City of Cedar Rapids, the 612-acre site will…

Technology giant Meta is trialling mass timber for an administrative building at a data centre campus in Aiken, South Carolina. This year, the company plans to build mass timber buildings…

ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Norwegian industrial group Aker and London-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale have announced plans to build “Stargate Norway”, OpenAI’s first European gigafactory. When finished in 2026, it will…

A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater metropolitan area are mounting opposition over concerns about about…

New York-based investor Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest $10bn in AI infrastructure in Sweden. The centrepiece will be an AI data centre in Strängnäs, about 20km west of Stockholm.…

A group of state and private sector partners in China launched a project to build an offshore wind-powered data centre under the sea off Shanghai on Tuesday. The idea is…

Amazon will invest at least $20bn setting up cloud computing and AI innovation campuses in Pennsylvania, with Salem Township, Luzerne County and Falls Township, Bucks County confirmed as the first…