Uruguay’s government has partnered with Spain’s Solaria on up to 500 megawatts of data centre capacity, Datacenter Dynamics reported, a striking number for a country of 3.4 million people whose pitch is renewable power and political stability. CapitaLand will launch a 53 megawatt data centre in Chennai, India, before the end of the year, and a data centre in Langenhorn, Germany, won provisional municipal approval, the week’s European planning counterpoint to Britain, where the government rejected an AI Growth Zone bid that would have powered a data centre from the Drax biomass plant in Selby.
Taiwan’s AI ambitions are running into a talent gap, EE Times reported, the constraint behind Anthropic’s new hub in today’s edition. Digi Power X said it has secured 200 million dollars in debt financing for an Alabama data centre project, and the City of New York awarded NYU 29.2 million dollars to establish a quantum fabrication facility, Datacenter Dynamics reported; both items were single sourced in today’s gap check. An application has also been filed for a 3.3 million square foot data centre campus in Augusta, Georgia, the latest very large campus proposal in the US Southeast.