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…

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…