A joint venture of Clark Builders and PCL Construction has broken ground on a C$13bn, 1GW data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta, the company’s first in Canada. Meta also pledged…

Skanska USA has released its Spring 2026 Construction Market Trends Report analysing material costs, the impact of tariffs, a changing labour market and regional and sector growth across the country.

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Detroit-headquartered contractor Wallbridge has broken ground on a $16bn, 1GW data centre called The Barn in Saline, Michigan developed by Related Digital for Oracle and Open AI. The 250-acre campus…

Canada’s AtkinsRéalis has partnered with American technology manufacturer Nvidia to develop a range of nuclear powered, large-scale AI factories. AtkinsRéalis claims the new framework will allow collaboration with developers and…

Amazon will spend $12bn on data centre campuses in Bossier and Caddo parishes in Louisiana to boost its AI and cloud computing services. Stack Infrastructure, an industry specialist, will build…

Turner Construction has begun construction on a $10bn, four-million-sq-ft data centre campus on behalf of Meta in Lebanon, Indiana. The facility will have a 1GW computing capacity to support AI…

Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has been awarded the main works contract for a data centre in Johor Bahru, south Malaysia. Rated at a maximum 57.6MW, it will provide computing and…

Skanska has won two US contracts worth a total of $293m. The biggest is a $228m contract to build a data centre on behalf of an unnamed, previous client, which…

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…