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…

Swiss telecoms company Leuk TDC has turned two obsolete satellite dishes on its land into sun-tracking solar power plants to help power its data centre. Building technology specialist CKW installed…

Google is planning to invest $10bn in a 486ha datacentre complex in West Memphis, Arkansas, local media report. West Memphis lies to the west of Memphis, Tennessee across the Mississippi…

Several of the world’s leading data centre hyperscalers are eyeing Northern Italy – and Milan, in particular – to expand their footprint. This has nothing to do with the catwalks.…

Microsoft says it will slow or pause work on some data centres currently at an early construction stage. Cloud operations president Noelle Walsh said in a LinkedIn post that the…

French automation and energy company Schneider Electric says it will spend $700m in the US over the next two years developing its manufacturing capacity, digitalisation and energy infrastructure for artificial…

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…