Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has said it intends to increase investment in data centers, positioning the sector as strategic digital infrastructure. The fund identified the United States, China and Europe as priority regions and said energy efficiency and renewable energy will be key areas of focus.
Market Research Center has released its Global Transformer-Optimized AI Accelerators Market 2026–2032 report, covering data-center and edge AI accelerator segments. The report forecasts the global market to rise from $193.694 billion in 2025 to $737.129 billion in 2032, with a projected 17.1% CAGR for 2026–2032.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it struck the Bi-Mobile data center in Kyiv with high-precision weapons and drones, alongside the Radionics enterprise. The ministry alleged that the facility held intelligence data and network equipment used by Ukraine’s armed forces; the claim and the impact on the site have not been independently confirmed in the provided material.
Investors are increasingly weighing whether calls from AI industry leaders to slow the pace of advanced-model development could temper the infrastructure investment cycle. No evidence of widespread cancellations of data-center projects or equipment orders had emerged at the time of publication.
Huawei has presented OceanStor M900, a context-memory storage product positioned to accelerate AI inference in hyperscale data centers. The available source provides no product specifications, availability details or commercial deployment information.
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have announced the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), an industry group focused on flexible management of AI data-center electricity demand. Founding partners span data centers, power markets, software and energy storage.
Nippon Life Insurance plans to commit ¥2 trillion to infrastructure lending, including financing for construction of AI-oriented data centers. The United States is expected to be its principal lending market, while projects in Japan are also under consideration.
IndexBox forecasts expansion in the global bitumen-rubber waterproofing-sheet market during 2026–2035, supported by investment in semiconductor fabs, data centers and high-specification electronics manufacturing. Hyperscale and edge facilities are identified as a major source of demand for durable waterproofing in below-grade structures and roofs.
President Donald Trump has announced an “AI Force” intended to oppose efforts to impede or constrain the growth of the U.S. AI industry. The announcement explicitly links the federal policy stance to disputes over restrictions on construction of new AI data centers.
Site preparation is under way for a large data center project in Kitakyushu Science and Research City’s Hibikino district, Fukuoka Prefecture. The proposed facility’s proximity to Hibikino Municipal Elementary School has intensified resident opposition focused on round-the-clock cooling noise, heat discharge and safety.
A Japanese analytical blog, citing IMARC Group, projects Japan’s data center networking market will grow from $250 billion in 2025 to $630 billion by 2034. The projection attributes demand to cloud adoption, AI deployments, rising inter-server traffic and requirements for low-latency infrastructure.
The Japanese government has approved loan financing for three large natural-gas power plants planned in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. The projects have been linked to power infrastructure for US AI data centers, although available information does not identify the intended campuses or provide plant capacities.
Nippon Life Insurance plans to raise infrastructure financing, including lending for AI data-center construction, to JPY2 trillion by fiscal 2035, while Mitsubishi UFJ Bank has decided to invest in an AI-infrastructure fund exceeding JPY4 trillion in size. In parallel, a 500 MW grid-connected data-center concept is advancing in Akita Prefecture and SoftBank is developing a 300 MW grid-connected facility in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.
Yokogawa Test & Measurement says AI and HPC workloads are making data-center power demand more dynamic, reducing the usefulness of measurement approaches based on long averaging periods. The company argues that operators need more detailed, synchronized visibility into electrical parameters to manage fast-changing loads.
An industry technology overview identifies liquid and hybrid cooling as the response to rising thermal densities from HPC and AI workloads. It describes Direct Liquid Cooling for high-density zones alongside conventional air cooling elsewhere in the data center.
Asia Pacific Land (APL) is preparing a two-building data center project in Kitakyushu Science and Research City with a stated total connected power capacity of 120 MW. Site-preparation earthworks are under way, but the project faces resident opposition over construction noise, waste heat, fire and accident risks, and its proximity to Hibikino municipal elementary school.
Executives from the Development Bank of Japan visited Akita Prefecture on 18 September following their appointments and met with Akita Sakigake Shimpo. The related publication’s headline linked tax revenues from data centers to urban development, but the available text contains no project-level details or decisions.
Defiance, Ohio, has imposed a six-month moratorium on approvals for new data-center projects as residents pursue a November 3 vote to restrict all but the smallest facilities. Separately, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has paused new applications for data-center tax exemptions pending legislative changes.
Taiwanese copper-clad laminate supplier ITEQ said its M9 low-CTE, ultra-low-loss material passed validation by a U.S. GPU manufacturer in the second half of 2025. The company is positioning the qualification within its push toward advanced materials for AI servers and other high-end electronics markets.
Alibaba Cloud plans to open its first cloud regions in Finland, the Netherlands and Türkiye within the next 12 months, while adding capacity in Germany and France. The Netherlands is the only new market with a stated launch timing: the data center is expected to enter service in October.