Updates on Data Centres

Every AI story we track on Data Centres: 46 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

Today's stories

Public Sector4 min read

Big, noisy and coming to a town near you - why the data centre backlash is growing

BBC

This month

Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns

Covered by 5 sources
Chips & Compute1 min read

MediaTek's Big AI Plans: 2nm Chips, Agentic AI & Data Centres | Anku Jain at IMC 2026

ET AI (The Economic Times)

US AI data centre startups raise $33.5 billion in 2026 amid power constraints: Morgan Stanley

ET AI (The Economic Times)

NTT Data reportedly nears deal to build Anthropic’s first Japan data centre

The Next Web

Sesterce plans €10B AI data centre campus at former Finnish paper mill

The Next Web
Public Sector3 min read

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres

Covered by 4 sources

Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule

The Next Web

CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX

The Next Web

Telecom’s DC power legacy can offer a blueprint for AI data centres: Vertiv’s Greg Funk

ET AI (The Economic Times)

Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland

The Next Web

Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

The Next Web

Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports

The Next Web
Energy & Climate2 min read

Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports

The Next Web

ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says

The Next Web

Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center

Covered by 5 sources

Telangana targets 5 GW data centre capacity by 2029

ET AI (The Economic Times)

Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

The Next Web
Energy & Climate6 min read

No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told

BBC
Public Sector5 min read

Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated

The Next Web
Chips & Compute4 min read

Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027

The Next Web

OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres

The Next Web
Public Sector4 min read

Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules

The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read

JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout

The Next Web
Energy & Climate3 min read

Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to avoid upcoming rules, experts say

Covered by 2 sources

UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025

The Next Web
Energy & Climate4 min read

Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

The Next Web
Energy & Climate4 min read

The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.

The Next Web
Energy & Climate2 min read

Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands

BBC
Energy & Climate4 min read

Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy

Covered by 2 sources
Public Sector4 min read

Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

The Next Web

Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

The Next Web

Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns

The Next Web
Energy & Climate4 min read

AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories

The Next Web

Meta signs new AI computing deals with data-centre firm Crusoe

The Next Web

Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom

The Guardian

Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

The Next Web

AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.

The Next Web

Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

The Next Web
That's everything we have on Data Centres right now