Data centre expansion stories

Global Switch inks eight-year RWE wind PPA to power its AI-focused London Docklands data centre with Welsh onshore renewable electricity.

Polarise lands EUR €117m financing from Macquarie to expand Munich AI data hub and fund GPU-driven data centre projects across Europe.

Ark has begun building a Surrey data centre billed as the UK’s first dedicated AI power hub, featuring a 25MVA medium-voltage UPS.

Virtus Data Centres has named industry veteran Adam Eaton as chief executive to spearhead its next phase of UK and European expansion.

Vertiv wins preferred supplier role for GreenScale’s AI-ready, liquid-cooled data centre campuses, supporting nearly 1 GW expansion in Europe.

BluSky AI hires finance leader Riley Cooney as corporate development and strategy chief to accelerate its modular AI data centre expansion.

Digital Realty and BW Digital have partnered to link Singapore and Batam with a high-speed submarine cable, boosting data centre connectivity and AI infrastructure growth.

UK data centres face soaring demand from AI growth, driving urgent shifts to sustainable, resilient designs with advanced cooling and renewable power.

Scotland plans to slash electricity costs for AI data centres by GBP £24 per MWh, boosting competitiveness and green energy use without raising consumer bills.

AWS’s $11bn Rainier data centre in Indiana powers Anthropic’s AI surge, hosting 500,000 custom chips to drive model training and global expansion.

UK data centre spending is set to soar from GBP £1.75bn to over GBP £10bn annually by 2029, driven by AI demand and regional development shifts.

Avison Young has appointed Oliver Squires to lead its UK & EMEA data centre sector, enhancing expertise amid booming demand and major UK investments.

Scintil Photonics has raised $58 million to scale its AI chip tech, expanding production and workforce in France and the US for next-gen data centres.

Fluke Networks has launched Versiv Data Centre Kits across EMEA to enhance connectivity and uptime amid rapid data centre growth driven by AI and cloud technologies.

Nebius has struck a multi-billion USD $ deal with Microsoft to supply AI cloud infrastructure from its new Vineland data centre, boosting growth from 2026.

AVK appoints Paul Hood as COO to drive data centre expansion and strengthen power chain services across the UK and Europe.

Vertiv has completed its USD $200 million acquisition of Great Lakes, enhancing its data centre rack and cabinet solutions for AI and edge computing needs.

DigiCo reports FY25 EBITDA of AUD $99m, outpacing forecasts with strategic certification and growth in Australian and US data centre operations.

Optimising existing data centre infrastructure boosts performance and sustainability amid rising AI demands and shrinking space, budgets, and energy resources.

Mark Pont, former Microsoft Cloud and AI executive, is appointed CEO of Australian Data Centres to lead national expansion in AI and cloud infrastructure.