Data center

United States

Google Signs $3BN Hydropower Deal for Pennsylvania Data Centres

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have entered a 20-year framework agreement to supply up to 3 gigawatts (GW) of hydropower for Google’s data centers…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Malaysia Boosts Coal Power Output, Imports to Meet Rising Demand

Malaysia has significantly increased its coal-fired power generation to meet growing electricity demand, particularly from data centers, according to a Reuters …

Saudi Arabia

XDS, ICS Arabia Partner to Build Saudi Arabia’s First 10MW Immersion-Cooled Dates Centers

On July 8, 2025, XDS DATACENTRES, based in the UK and Dubai, signed a 15-year agreement with ICS Arabia in Riyadh to construct two 10 MW immersion-cooled data c…

Singapore

BDx Launches Southeast Asia’s First Hybrid Quantum AI Testbed in Singapore

On July 11, 2025, BDx Data Centers, in partnership with Anyon Technologies, launched Southeast Asia’s first hybrid quantum AI testbed at its SIN1 data cen…

South Korea

SK Group, AWS Join Hands to Build $5.13 Billion AI Data Center, Korea’s Largest

SK Group has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to construct a 7-trillion-won ($5.13 billion) AI data center in Ulsan, South Korea. SK Group Chairman Chey…

China

Alibaba’s New Data Center in Korea to Begin Operation This Month

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Alibaba Group, announced that its second data center in South Korea will begin operations later this month. Locat…

Poland

New HUBER+SUHNER Site in Poland to Boost POLATIS® OCS Output for Hyperscale Growth

HUBER+SUHNER has launched a new manufacturing facility in Pisary, Poland, dedicated to producing POLATIS® optical circuit switches (OCS) for AI and hypersca…

China

Shanghai Group to Put a Wind-Powered Data Centre Under the Sea

A collaboration of state and private sector partners in China has initiated a project to construct an offshore wind-powered data center submerged beneath the se…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Talen and Amazon Sign 1.92MW Nuclear Energy PPA

Talen Energy has broadened its collaboration with Amazon through a new power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply carbon-free electricity from its Susquehanna nuc…

Substation

PG&E Partners Smart Wires to Enhance Grid Capacity in California

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a natural gas and electric utility, has partnered with Smart Wires to launch a project enhancing grid reliability to me…

France

First-Of-Its-Kind Project Converts Datacenter Waste Heat Into Biomass

Data4, a prominent European data center operator based in Paris, France, has partnered with the Fondation de l’Université Paris-Saclay to launch an…

United States

EdgeCore Digital Expands Mesa Data Center Campus With 450 MW Capacity Boost

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has expanded its Mesa, Arizona, data center campus by acquiring 43.87 acres, boosting capacity to over 450 MW and doubling build…

United States

Chemours and Datavolt to Develop Liquid Cooling Solutions for AI Data Centers

The Chemours Company, based in Wilmington, Delaware, has announced a strategic collaboration with DataVolt, a designer and operator of sustainable digital infra…

Electricity Transmission

Hot Weather and High Demand to Pressure US Power Grid This Summer, FREC Says

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday that electricity consumption in the U.S. is projected to reach a four-year high this summe…

Electricity Trade

French Utility Engie Signs Deal to Sell Power to US Data Center Company

French energy company Engie announced a new agreement, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, to supply up to 300 megawatts of wind power to Cipher Mining Inc., a U.S.-based…