Canadian power producer TransAlta Corporation has entered into an MoU with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Brookfield to develop a data center in Alberta, for which it will be the exclusive site and power provider

VNET Group has agreed a $137.7 million private placement through the issuance of 81 million newly issued Class A ordinary shares to institutional investors at a price of $1.7 per share, equivalent to $10.2 per ADS

New Era Energy & Digital's strategic partner Thunderhead Energy Solutions has entered into a commercial arrangement with Turbine-X Energy, an authorised channel partner for an original equipment manufacturer

OpenAI has secured $110 billion in investments from SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon

Willis, a WTW business, has launched a global digital infrastructure group to address data centre risks to owners, operators, contractors and hyperscalers

Data centre operator Green Mountain and Norwegian paper company Norske Skog Saugbrugs have signed a letter of intent to jointly explore the feasibility of establishing a data centre in Halden, Norway

Amazon and OpenAI have agreed a multi-year strategic partnership that includes a $50 billion equity investment from Amazon and a major expansion of OpenAI’s cloud and compute commitments with Amazon Web Services

The municipality of Kontiolahti and YIT have agreed to cooperate on advancing a data centre project in the planned Vellamo business area in southern Lehmo, North Karelia

Altibox Carrier has partnered with DataVita to extend the NO-UK subsea cable system directly into Scotland, creating a high-capacity connection between Scotland and the Nordics with services now live

Duos has signed an LOI with Hydra Host to deploy an Nvidia GPU cluster and appointed Doug Recker as chief executive

The Dunkirk Port Authority has issued a call for expressions of interest, seeking developers for a vacant 21-hectare plot to build an AI data centre in France

Lyten has completed the acquisition of Northvolt Ett and Ett Expansion in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Labs in Västerås, Sweden