DCD has announced Investment Forum Brasil 2026, a sector event aimed at investors, operators, developers and senior executives in Brazil’s digital-infrastructure market. The programme will examine data center investment, capacity expansion, financing, regulation and long-term power availability.
DatacenterDynamics has announced DCD>Connect | Southern Europe 2027, planned for Palacio Municipal IFEMA Madrid. The organiser expects more than 3,400 professionals and has scheduled dedicated AI Impact and ESG forums.
DCD has announced plans to hold DCD>Connect | APAC in 2027, targeting the Asia-Pacific data center ecosystem. The organiser expects more than 2,500 senior leaders and specialists, alongside three co-located events.
Anthropic has reportedly entered into agreements for 14.8 GW of compute capacity since October last year, with an aggregate stated value of about $517 billion over the past 11 months. The capacity is intended for use over the next several years, rather than representing commissioned data-center capacity or confirmed expenditure.
Crypto-mining data centers in Ethiopia consumed an estimated 8 TWh of electricity in 2025, equivalent to roughly one-third of national power demand, according to a secondary source citing the relevant ministry. The government is planning a major tariff-policy reform in response to the energy crisis.
Cathay Securities says AI investment is set to account for a growing share of US GDP, based on published capital-expenditure forecasts. The firm sees no clear evidence of severe economy-wide resource crowding out yet, but expects continued data center expansion to increase pressure on construction labour, power equipment and capital markets over the next one to two years.
JLL has published an overview of its global data-center services, spanning site selection, land acquisition, financing, construction, operations and energy procurement. The material is a corporate account of the firm’s market and service activity, not an announcement of a new data-center project.
Glencar has begun piling works for the West Shell of LON01B2 at Pure Data Centres Group’s operational LON01 Brent Cross campus in North London. The 70MW phase is planned to take total campus capacity to 90MW, with completion scheduled for Q2 2029.
Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is preparing legislation to establish a register of existing and planned data centers with installed capacity of at least 0.5 MW. In parallel, it is preparing amendments to the Electricity Market Act that would prioritize grid-connection applications when network capacity is constrained.
Data Centre Magazine has published an expert article by Liz Majestic outlining common errors in selecting and operating flow meters for data-center cooling loops. The piece frames accurate flow measurement as a practical input to cooling optimisation, energy efficiency and facility reliability.
QTS and Lancium are building a 465-acre data center campus about five miles south of Turkey, Texas. Against a backdrop of local water-service disruptions, QTS has announced plans to invest $250 million in Texas water infrastructure, including replacement of Turkey’s water tower and associated system upgrades.
A consortium led by Saigon Technology and Telecommunications JSC (SAIGONTEL) has submitted a letter of intent to Tay Ninh provincial authorities for an AI-focused data-center complex in Nam Tan Tap Industrial Park, Vietnam. The proposal targets up to 200MW of IT load, subject to investment-policy approval and agreement on power supply.
Elon Musk said AI-chip demand could outpace power-supply growth by at least 15 GW by 2027, pushing AI infrastructure operators toward dedicated generation. He said SpaceX is building its own power plants to secure the capacity it requires.
ERCOT is applying its Batch Zero process to assess the maturity of large-load projects for transmission planning as Texas faces an unprecedented volume of AI, hyperscale and other power-demand requests. Most of the proposed load in the queue is associated with data centers, but ERCOT’s figures indicate that only a small portion has reached advanced interconnection milestones.
Political resistance to rapid AI data-center expansion is gaining visibility in the United States, with figures across the political spectrum criticizing the buildout and some Republican candidates calling for pauses or new restrictions. The debate is being framed around electricity bills, power and water use, and AI-related job-loss concerns.
PwC, working with Oxford Economics, projects $31.6 trillion of cumulative global data center capital expenditure through 2050 in its central scenario. The model places the plausible range at roughly $22 trillion to nearly $50 trillion, driven primarily by the pace of AI adoption.
DCD Investment Forum | MENA 2026 is positioned for operators, investors and advisory organisations involved in digital-infrastructure investment, financing and M&A. The forum pass includes access to both days of the concurrently held DCD Connect | MENA at Grand Hyatt Dubai on 26–27 October.
Aggregate capacity across primary US data center markets reached 10.9 GW in the first half of 2026, while vacancy fell to 1.4%, according to Data Center Frontier. Atlanta also surpassed Northern Virginia in data center construction activity.
В государственной заявке в Техасе указан планируемый проект дата-центра Colovore Alliance в Форт-Уэрте. Заявленная стоимость всего проекта составляет 430 млн долларов.
Губернатор Мэриленда Wes Moore подписал исполнительный указ о стандартизированном рассмотрении дата-центров мощностью от 25 МВт, если проект запрашивает действия со стороны штата. Процедура включает межведомственную оценку и публичное раскрытие ключевых параметров проектов.