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VIRTUS Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion financing package to support its next phase of expansion across the UK
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A consortium backed by BlackRock Inc. and IFM Investors has entered exclusive talks to acquire Stack Infrastructure’s Asia Pacific data
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INDUSTRY DEALS & CAPEX TRACKER
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VALUE
TYPE
SECTOR
STATUS
03 SEP 2026
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Acquisition of EPC Power – 800V power conversion for AI data centres & grid applications
EPC Power Corp
$4.4B
M&A
POWER / DATA CENTRES
PENDING
02 SEP 2026
Vertiv
Acquisition of Utility Innovation Group – microgrid controls & behind-the-meter power ($1.45B cash + up to $1.15B earnout)
Utility Innovation Holdings
$1.45B
M&A
DATA CENTRES
CONFIRMED
26 AUG 2026
Anthropic
Six-year AI compute capacity lease, 460MW, Nvidia Vera Rubin chips – “Monarch” campus, West Virginia
Nscale
$45.0B
INFRA
AI / DATA CENTRES
SIGNED
19 AUG 2026
Etched
Funding round – AI inference chip startup, valuation doubled in under a month to $21B
Jane Street, Sequoia, a16z, Tiger Global
$700M
FUNDING
AI / SEMICONDUCTORS
CLOSED
07 AUG 2026
Energy Vault
1.25GW AI data centre power infrastructure agreement – BESS + Caterpillar generators, Texas
Undisclosed Data Centre Customer
$550M
INFRA
ENERGY
SIGNED
07 AUG 2026
Amazon
“Project Eagle” campus expansion – 6 additional buildings (10 total), Wharton County, Texas
Internal CapEx Programme
$3.0B
CAPEX
DATA CENTRES
CONFIRMED
Top Stories
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PT Telkom Indonesia is advancing talks with potential strategic partners for NeutraDC, opening the door to a majority stake sale
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Zeo Energy Corp. is expanding its data center strategy through a partnership
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Uzbekistan is building a more distributed digital infrastructure as its state telecom
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India’s artificial-intelligence infrastructure expansion is beginning to draw the kind of long-duration financing traditionally
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the Special Taxation Regime for Data
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Firmus Technologies is preparing one of Australia’s largest potential stock-market debuts, with the AI
- AI & Machine Learning
- Aakruti Thakkar
Khazna Data Centers and Siemens have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to examine technologies
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Ecolab Deepens Cooling Strategy With $4.75B CoolIT Acquisition
Ecolab is making one of its biggest moves yet into AI infrastructure after completing its $4.75 billion acquisition of liquid cooling specialist CoolIT Systems
Pure DC and AVK Deploy Europe’s First 110 MW Data Center Microgrid in Dublin
The Pure DC Dublin microgrid has made history as Europe’s first large-scale on-site data center microgrid, launched in partnership with power solutions provider AVK at Pure DC’s campus in Ireland.
Pace Digitek Partners With MEGMEET to Expand AI Data Center Power Business
India’s AI infrastructure ecosystem continues to mature as domestic technology manufacturers move beyond traditional telecommunications and industrial markets toward high-growth digital infrastructure opportunities
CapitaLand Sells Singapore Data Center to Unlock Capital for Growth
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (CLAR) has agreed to sell one of its long-held Singapore data center assets in a transaction that highlights how infrastructure owners are increasingly recycling mature digital assets to fund the next phase of expansion
Supermicro Expands End-to-End DCBBS Liquid Cooling Portfolio for High-Density AI Infrastructure
Supermicro is responding to that shift by expanding its Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) portfolio, giving operators additional pathways to deploy liquid cooling across both greenfield and existing facilities.
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$612B
GLOBAL AI CAPEX
2026 forecast, up 38% YoY
4.2GW
NEW DC CAPACITY Q1
Record quarter for commissioning
68%
TSMC AZ YIELD RATE
Up from 48% in Q4 2025
$8B
NEO CLOUD VC Q1
Largest quarter on record
1.00PUE
EQUINIX BEST SITE
Liquid cooling deployment
140MS
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As AI accelerates infrastructure demand, power delivery is becoming the defining constraint of scale.
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Redefining Data Centers for Sustainability and Society
Janne Sigurdsson, atNorth
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Thermal chain efficiency and the connected thermal-power ecosystem in AI infrastructure
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AI infrastructure has fundamentally altered the thermal equation inside data centers.
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The geopolitics of semiconductors gets all the attention, but the real battleground is where those chips are deployed — and who controls the power to run them.
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Governments rushing to adopt open-weight models as a sovereignty strategy are missing the infrastructure problem entirely.
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52% of UK IT leaders cite rising power costs as top data centre concern. As rack densities rise from 8kW
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The next phase of data infrastructure will not be defined by how fast we build, but by how intelligently we
AI Buyers May Need Thermal Evidence Before Accepting New Capacity
A new block of AI capacity can look finished long before its complete cooling path has proved itself under load.
VIRTUS Lands £2.45 Billion to Accelerate European Expansion
VIRTUS Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion financing package to support its next phase of expansion across the UK
Hochul, Levine Detail New York’s Clean Investment Push
New York is putting fresh capital behind an energy system facing a complicated convergence of rising electricity demand, infrastructure constraints
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are surging, environmental regulations are changing, and the continued use of traditional diesel backup generators is
Can You Deploy Sovereign AI Without Owning Your Thermal Strategy
A sovereign AI program can keep its models inside national borders and still surrender a critical part of operational control.
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