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Helios opens Tervola data centre planning process
Helios Nordic Energy has started planning an 860-hectare data centre development in Tervola, Finnish Lapland, close to planned grid infrastructure.
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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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Schwarz links Lübbenau data centre to heat network
Schwarz Digits will feed waste heat from its 200MW Lübbenau data centre into the local district-heating network from 2028.
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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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US AI pipeline could add 101.5Mt CO₂
Sixty planned US data centres from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta could be associated with 101.5m tonnes of annual CO₂ on the current generation mix, highlighting the widening gap between compute growth and electricity-sector decarbonisation.
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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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England planning rules strengthen data centre support
England’s new National Planning Policy Framework explicitly links data centre development with generating capacity, grid connections, water infrastructure, and AI Growth Zones, embedding physical infrastructure requirements more firmly in national planning policy.
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Scotland tightens oversight of 50MW data centres
Scottish planning authorities must now notify ministers within seven days of validating data centre applications above 50MW, adding national oversight as the government examines the infrastructure and environmental effects of the development pipeline.
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Echelon and Trinovium develop liquid cooling systems
Echelon Data Centres and Trinovium will develop direct-to-chip cooling fluids, monitoring systems, and modular thermal technology as high-density AI infrastructure puts coolant stability and reliability under greater scrutiny.