We look at some of the latest data center developments announced over the past month.
The demand for new data centers isn’t showing any sign of slowing. With new projects announced each week, keeping track of the latest data center developments is not always easy.
To keep you informed about the latest data center news involving design, construction, and related developments, we bring you the highlights from the past month.
This curated selection will help you stay on top of the latest data center development news with ease.
North American Data Center Deals
As new research from CBRE indicates that data center vacancy rates reached an all-time low, this past month saw a wave of new construction and investment announcements.
The Stargate joint venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group, and Oracle is close to selecting additional sites for data center campuses in Texas and eyeing more projects in over a dozen other states, as the companies work to fulfill an ambitious plan to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in AI infrastructure.
OpenAI is far along in the process of picking several locations in Texas for massive data center projects to support artificial intelligence services, according to a company spokesperson.
Amazon warned investors that it could face capacity constraints in its cloud computing division despite plans to invest some $100 billion this year, with most of the money going toward data centers, homegrown chips, and other equipment to provide artificial intelligence services.
The concerns echo those of rival Microsoft, which last month said its cloud sales growth was hurt because it didn’t have enough data centers to handle demand for its AI products.
Apple said it will hire 20,000 new workers and produce AI servers in the U.S., as the company seeks relief from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods imported from China.
The tech giant will also expand its data center capacity in Arizona, Oregon, Iowa, Nevada, and North Carolina, all states with existing Apple capacity.
Iron Mountain has broken ground on its first data center in Miami. Situated on a 3.4-acre site, the MIA-1 facility will deliver 16 MW of capacity to the market.
Arizona Land Consulting snapped up 160 acres in the state as it expands its bet on the data center boom. The firm closed on the purchase in Buckeye, Arizona, for nearly $22 million in February. The site has the potential for as much as 3.5 million square feet of data centers and is located near a Tract data center project.
Aligned Data Centers is expanding in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new campus in Mansfield, Texas. The DFW-03 facility, set to go live in Q4 2025, will support growing AI, cloud, and enterprise demand with a 27-acre site and on-site substation.
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Dominion Energy, the biggest utility in Virginia, saw demand from data centers in development almost double in the last half of 2024.
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Amazon lost a fight to escape regulatory oversight for a proposed data center northwest of Minneapolis.
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Industry leaders will meet in Salt Lake City on March 17–19 for Advancing Data Center Construction West.
Latin American Data Center Developments
As Latin America’s digital infrastructure expands, major investments in data centers and energy capacity continue to shape the region’s future.
ODATA has energized 200 MW of capacity at its DC QR03 campus in Querétaro, Mexico, addressing long-standing energy constraints in the region. The site, which is on track to reach 400 MW, is part of a $3.3 billion investment to support hyperscale cloud and AI growth.
Elea Data Centers is expanding its AI-ready infrastructure in São Paulo, Brazil, with a 50 MW high-voltage site. The company has partnered with WEG to supply transformers, ensuring efficient delivery and reducing carbon emissions.
Also in Brazil, Tecto is set to build a 200 MW hyperscale data center in São Paulo. The facility, powered entirely by renewable energy, will support the region’s rising demand for cloud, AI, and machine learning applications.
European Data Center Developments
In Europe, Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest €20 billion ($20.7 billion) to develop data centers and AI infrastructure in France over the next five years, as the competition to dominate AI intensifies.
The New York-based investment firm has allocated €15 billion to data center investments, which will be led by its portfolio company Data4, according to a statement. Brookfield plans to invest the remaining amount on AI infrastructure projects, such as data transfer, chip storage, and energy generation across France.
The UK’s data center sector is growing with DC01UK, a £4 billion ($5.1 billion) hyperscale AI and cloud campus now approved. Located near key fiber and power infrastructure, it will be one of Europe’s largest AI and cloud hubs.
Yondr Group has broken ground on the third phase of its London campus in Slough. The 40 MW expansion will bring the campus to over 100 MW, making it one of the largest in the UK. The site, formerly a derelict paint factory, is now being repurposed for digital infrastructure.
Virtus Data Centres is entering the Italian market with its first facility in Milan’s Cornaredo cluster. The 70 MW site, located on a 71,000-square-meter brownfield property, will cater to hyperscalers, enterprises, and service providers as demand for capacity grows across Europe.
Further north, Verne has acquired land for expansion at its Helsinki data center campus in Finland, reinforcing its commitment to sustainable high-performance computing. The site, with a 70 MW capacity, supports AI and other compute-intensive workloads, benefiting from strong connectivity and proximity to key infrastructure.
Asia-Pacific Data Centers Builds
In Asia-Pacific data center news, Chinese-owned video platform TikTok pledged to spend $8.8 billion in data center hosting services in Thailand over the next five years, more than doubling an earlier investment target for the Southeast Asian nation.
ByteDance’s most valuable service is putting the infrastructure in place to support domestic users, including some 50 million on TikTok alone, Vice President of Public Policy Helena Lersch said.
The pledge follows the government’s signoff on TikTok’s plan to invest $3.8 billion in the country of 70 million people. Thailand is among Southeast Asian nations drawing investment from global tech companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple, all seeking to tap the growth potential of the fast-digitizing region.
The progress made by Chinese startup DeepSeek means that more data center capacity is needed to handle the growing artificial intelligence workload, according to Brookfield Corporation’s Bruce Flatt.
As the cost of running AI comes down, more use cases come about and that’s what’s going to happen in the next 10 years, the investment firm’s chief executive officer told Bloomberg.
Elsewhere, LG Electronics founding family member Brian Koo has teamed with the South Korean government to build what is being billed as the world’s largest AI data center.
Construction on the AI data center in South Korea is set to begin this year, representing a major milestone for the country. The project is expected to generate $3.5 billion in initial annual revenue, with the potential to reach a total value of $35 billion.
In Australia, Goodman Group plans to raise $2.6 billion to expand its global network of data centers as the AI gold rush accelerates.
In its Q4 2024 filings, the real estate giant said it would raise the funds through a “fully underwritten institutional placement.”
“The net proceeds raised provide the group with greater financial flexibility to pursue a number of growth opportunities across Goodman’s logistics and data center operations,” the company said.
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GDS Holdings is reportedly considering a U.S. initial public offering of its international data center division, DayOne.
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CtrlS has launched a new data center park in Chennai’s Ambattur Industrial Estate, India.
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AirTrunk is expanding its Malaysia platform with a second cloud and AI-ready data center in Johor.
Middle East and Africa Data Center Investments
Saudi Arabia-based data center developer DataVolt is investing $5 billion in a net-zero AI data center campus to support Neom, the futuristic city at the northern tip of the Red Sea.
Neom is part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 project, the Kingdom’s broad initiative to diversify its economy and reduce reliance on revenue from fossil fuels. In 2022, Neom announced its first data center project known as ZeroPoint DC.
The latest data center will be built in Oxagon, Neom’s industrial zone on the Red Sea coast. Oxagon will purportedly include access to cost‑competitive renewable energy sources, including green hydrogen, and benefits from subsea fiber connectivity.
The facility’s target capacity is 1.5 GW, and the power will be supplied entirely from renewable energy sources. As such, the project is set to achieve net‑zero carbon emissions.
Ooredoo Group has signed an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build the Fibre in Gulf (FIG) submarine cable, connecting Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.
Axian Telecom has secured a $160 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to accelerate the modernization and expansion of its network infrastructure across nine African markets.
The Mauritius-based telecom operator will focus on scaling its 4G and 5G deployments, strengthening digital access for its 42.9 million mobile subscribers, 11.4 million data users, and 15.2 million mobile financial service users.
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