Markets and policy
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Ministers require EIA for Fife data centre
Scottish ministers have directed that the proposed Cato data centre near Auchtertool must undergo an Environmental Impact Assessment, delaying its planning determination.
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DataVita secures £300m Scottish financing
DataVita has secured approximately £300m of debt financing to expand DV1 and build DV3 in North Lanarkshire’s AI Growth Zone.
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Polarise puts value on SWI debt reset
Polarise says its revised financing agreement with SWI could provide a high double-digit million-euro debt facility for European AI infrastructure expansion.
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BCG proposes grid-positive data centre model
BCG argues flexible connections, storage, onsite generation, and movable compute could allow European data centres to energise earlier without requiring firm grid access everywhere.
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Dutch NIS2 law activates data centre duties
The Netherlands’ Cybersecurity Act has taken effect, bringing data centre providers into a broader regime of cybersecurity risk management, incident reporting, and supervision.
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Madison Air agrees $5.4bn ebm-papst acquisition
Madison Air has agreed to acquire German airflow specialist ebm-papst, bringing a major data centre cooling supplier into its air-quality portfolio.
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Nvidia backs OpenAI’s 8GW Ohio campus
Nvidia will invest $1.5bn in SB Energy and provide financial support for OpenAI’s long-term lease at the PORTS-Pike campus, linking chip supply, project finance, power infrastructure, and tenant credit at unprecedented scale.
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Amazon explores grid link for private power campus
Amazon says its 8,000-acre Pecos County AI campus is designed to move from private generation towards grid-connected service, potentially turning onsite supply into a resource that could also support other ERCOT customers.
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NSW links faster approvals to infrastructure rules
New South Wales will offer 75-day assessments to qualifying data centre projects that meet energy, water, environmental, community, and skills requirements, while moving to recover network and water infrastructure costs from operators.
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Who reports the incident when nobody sees the whole stack?
New resilience rules are putting data centre incidents under closer scrutiny, but colocation divides control across operators, customers, and suppliers, complicating who can see, classify, and explain a serious disruption.