{Linkedin} A top UAE official plans to visit Washington to press for easier access to American technology and discuss investment in the US, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking to sway the Trump administration on export controls governing the advanced semiconductors needed to power artificial intelligence.

{Linkedin} Amazon Web Services (AWS) has received the green light for its planned data center campus in Marysville, Ohio.

{Linkedin} CommScope is launching its Propel XFrame solution as the latest addition to the Propel portfolio of high-performance data center solutions.

{Linkedin} Kao Data is expanding one of its London campuses with a new data center.

{Linkedin} ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), one of the world’s fastest-growing data centre colocation service providers headquartered in Singapore, today announced it is now an NVIDIA colocation partner.

{Linkedin} Telco Spark New Zealand has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to include the use of HPE's GreenLake cloud-to-Edge offering.

{Linkedin} On Thursday, Toronto-based Cohere Inc. is set to announce a new model called Command A that can carry out complicated business tasks while running on just two of Nvidia Corp.’

{X} Talen Energy sues FERC over its Nov ’24 ruling that blocked AWS’s behind‐the‐meter PPA. The decision, citing transparency and market competition concerns, could reshape how data centers secure energy.

{X} Equinix is planning a US$1B data center in Saudi Arabia—a major step in bolstering the Kingdom’s digital infrastructure and aligning with Vision 2030. A strategic hub for cloud, edge, and hybrid solutions!

{X} Malaysia launches initiatives to boost digital transformation via upgraded infrastructure, innovation & FDI. Experts predict sustainable growth.

{X} South Korea's government plans to secure 10,000 high-performance GPUs by the end of 2025 through public-private collaboration to enhance the nation's AI computing capabilities.

{X} Nvidia's stock surged after the launch of Grok-3, Elon Musk’s latest AI chatbot, reversing the losses from the DeepSeek panic. Nvidia remains at the forefront of AI hardware despite competition.

{X} According to Arizton's latest research, the Middle East data center construction market is projected to grow from USD 1.93 billion in 2024 to USD 6.98 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 23.91%.

{X} Du (@dutweets) inks deal to extend #PEACESubsea cable to UAE!

{X} Aramco’s @WaedVentures backs AI cloud leader.

{X} Saudi Arabia's DataVolt to develop new data center in Riyadh, boosting digital transformation and cloud computing.

{X} February 25, 2025，Cisco and NVIDIA partner to create AI-ready data center networks, simplifying enterprise AI deployment.

{X} OpenAI and Oracle intend to start filling a massive new data center in Texas with tens of thousands of powerful AI chips from Nvidia in the coming months.

{X} Oracle and privately held OpenAI plan to fill their new U.S.-based data center with billions of dollars worth of Nvidia microchips and processors.

{X} Saigon Asset Management(SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The 124-acre project will offer 150MW of IT capacity.

{X} Liu Weiguang, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, stated, 'Starting this year, Alibaba Cloud will invest unprecedented resources to more decisively expand its overseas markets.

{X} POWER DISTRIBUTOR Manila Electric Co. is aiming to supply approximately 35 megawatts of power to data centers this year amid rising demand for digital infrastructure.

{X} Intuitive Machines has successfully landed on the Moon's south pole, carrying the celestial body's first data center from Lonestar Data.

{X} LG Sinar Mas has broken ground on a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia.

{X} Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, will spend $100 billion in the US over the next four years to expand its production capacity and bring its most advanced semiconductor processes to its operations in Arizona.

{X} ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, the largest digital infrastructure provider in Thailand, announced the commencement of construction on STT Bangkok--the third data centre facility in Thailand.

{X} The European Commission is set to raise $20 billion to develop four innovative "AI gigafactories" as it attempts to bridge the artificial intelligence gap with the U.S. and China.

{X} There’s a power crunch looming as AI and cloud providers ramp up data center construction. But a new report suggests that Advanced geothermal power could supply nearly two-thirds of new data center demand by 2030.

{X} Texas continues to lead the charge in data center employment, with the second-highest number of jobs nationwide, new data shows.

{X} Cerebras Systems announced a significant expansion of its data center footprint and two major enterprise partnerships that position the company to become the leading provider of high-speed AI inference services.

{X} Facebook owner Meta is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems, a key milestone as it moves to reduce reliance on external suppliers like Nvidia.

{X} CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia, has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI ahead of its hotly anticipated stock market launch.

{X} Oracle's CEO Safra Catz on Monday gave a strong growth outlook for its fiscal 2026 and 2027. To support its data-intensive AI services, the company has been expanding its infrastructure with investments.

{X} AI cloud provider Ori's UK GPU deployment is in Kao Data's facility in Harlow. The company said that it would deploy Nvidia H200 GPUs in the UK late last year.

{X} Majority of businesses intrigued by the potential of AI in achieving sustainability goals whilst energy consumption concerns persist, Alibaba Cloud said in its latest survey report Monday.

{Linkedin} U.S. wind and solar development still has significant room for expansion to power data centers, particularly in the Midwest wind corridor and sunny southwest, Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis told Reuters at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston on Wednesday.

{Linkedin} Dealmakers expect 2025 to be a bumper year for mergers and acquisitions in the U.S.

{Linkedin} Energy-hungry data centers powering artificial intelligence are expected to spike electricity demand, including in the United States where its use has been mostly flat for two decades.

{Linkedin} Power management company Eaton (ETN.N), opens new tab said on Tuesday it will buy Fibrebond Corporation in a $1.4 billion deal as it looks to expand its reach into the data center market.

{Linkedin} Japanese conglomerate Mitsui is spending 18 billion Yen ($121 million) to acquire a hyperscale data center as the seed asset for a new digital infrastructure investment fund.

{Linkedin} The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center.

{Linkedin} Samsung Electronics has announced it's working with Nvidia to advance AI-RAN technologies.

{Linkedin} Accenture is buying construction consultancy Soben to boost its data center development expertise.

{Linkedin} Cisco IT designed AI-ready infrastructure with Cisco compute, best-in-class NVIDIA GPUs, and Cisco networking that supports AI model training and inferencing across dozens of use cases for Cisco product and engineering teams.

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{Linkedin} Facebook owner Meta, opens new tab is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems.

{Linkedin} Munters has launched a new cooling distribution unit (CDU).

{Linkedin} Texas continues to lead the charge in data center employment, with the second-highest number of jobs nationwide, new data shows.

{Linkedin} Cerebras Systems, an AI hardware startup, announced Tuesday a significant expansion of its data center footprint and two major enterprise partnerships.

{Linkedin} Advanced geothermal power could supply nearly two-thirds of new data center demand by 2030.

{Linkedin} The European Commission is set to raise $20 billion to develop four innovative "AI gigafactories" as it attempts to bridge the artificial intelligence gap with the U.S. and China.

{Linkedin} Digital Infrastructure Technical Forum 2025 (DITF2025)，building a New Paradigm for Digital Infrastructure Development in Southeast Asia.

{Linkedin} CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab, has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI ahead of its hotly anticipated stock market launch. As part of the pact, CoreWeave will provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI.

{Linkedin} Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab CEO Safra Catz on Monday gave a strong growth outlook for its fiscal 2026 and 2027.To support its data-intensive AI services

{Linkedin} Orange Wholesale has outlined plans to leverage its data center assets as the French telco looks to capitalize on the growth around data center demand

{Linkedin} Majority of businesses intrigued by the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in achieving sustainability goals whilst energy consumption concerns persist, Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, said in its latest survey report Monday.

{Linkedin} Chinese data center operator GDS Holdings is selling some of its data centers to a private real estate investment trust (REIT).

{Linkedin} xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis

{Linkedin} Swiss private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Australian data center firm GreenSquareDC.

{Linkedin} Spanish data center firm Templus has announced plans to expand into Portugal.It plans to reach 20 operational facilities by the end of the year, including one in Portugal.

{Linkedin} Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota.

{Linkedin} South Korean telco SK Telecom has announced several data center-related partnerships as it looks to build out its AI offerings.

{Linkedin} Engineering firm Avacon has announced it has topped out its Sehnde data center in the Hanover region of Germany.

{Linkedin} ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand), the largest digital infrastructure provider in Thailand, announced the commencement of construction on STT Bangkok 2

{Linkedin} President Trump on Monday said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, will spend $100 billion in the United States over the next four years to expand its production capacity and bring its most advanced semiconductor processes to its operations in Arizona.

{Linkedin} LG Sinar Mas has broken ground on a data center in Jakarta, Indonesia.

{Linkedin} Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam.

{Linkedin} Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI and Oracle (ORCL) intend to start filling a massive new data center in Texas with tens of thousands of powerful AI chips from Nvidia (NVDA) in the coming months

{Linkedin} EDF has launched a call for expressions of interest from data center developers for three "ready-to-use" sites in France, offering grid connections and land spaces.

{Linkedin} Nebius plans to build a 300MW data center campus in New Jersey, USA, and launch a new colocation deployment in Iceland in Q2 2025.

{Linkedin} EDF has launched a call for expressions of interest from data center developers for three "ready-to-use" sites in France, offering grid connections and land spaces.

{Linkedin} Hetzner and MHB Montage have launched a solar venture, HT Clean Energy GmbH, to supply Hetzner's German data centers with renewable energy.

{Linkedin} Microsoft Announces New Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Zaragoza, Spain

{Linkedin} Microsoft Announces $1.4B Data Center Expansion in Medina County, Texas

{Linkedin} NRG Energy to Build Four Natural Gas Plants for Data Center Power Demand

{Linkedin}  UAE telecom giant e& has finalized a $2.2 billion deal to divest its 40% stake in Khazna Data Centers, exiting its joint venture with G42. 

{Linkedin} Cisco and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Accelerate AI Adoption in the Enterprise

{Linkedin} Malaysian property giant Eco World Development Group announced a landmark deal with Pearl Computing Malaysia

{Linkedin} Digital Infrastructure Technology Forum (DITF) 2025, co-hosted by China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) and Digital Infrastructure Technology Committee (DITC), Asia’s premier platform for advancing next-gen digital ecosystems, gathers global leaders, innovators, and policymakers. 

{Linkedin}  New Data Center Development in Riyadh by Saudi Arabia's DataVolt Saudi Arabia's leading data center company, DataVolt, has announced the development of a new data center in Riyadh.

{Linkedin} Du & PEACE Cable International Partner to Expand Subsea Connectivity to UAE

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