Global Data Centers News

BANA Angels and Darpass have announced Investor Tour 2026, a three-day investor networking and startup tour in Yerevan focused on Armenia’s innovation ecosystem.

• The event runs November 19–21, 2026 in Yerevan and includes visits to Picsart, Krisp, NVIDIA Armenia, Adobe Armenia, and TUMO, plus investor networking, startup pitches, and DigiTec 2026.
• The listing says the tour will explore Armenia’s innovation scene and highlights AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA; organizer listed as BANA Angels with a link to bana.am.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) announced a webinar discussing new polling on Americans’ views of data centers and the implications for U.S. AI policy.

• Event details: Wednesday, August 26, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT; format: webinar.
• Discussion focus: public opposition to nearby data center development, concerns about electricity prices, water use, land use, and quality of life, and what this means for U.S. AI competitiveness.
• Speakers:Daniel Castro (President, ITIF) and Seb Wride (Partner, Public First); audience questions collected via Slido.
• The event frames AI leadership as dependent on building the physical infrastructure that powers it and explores policy approaches to address community concerns without sacrificing infrastructure expansion.

The UK Government and partners have announced a £300 million financing package for the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone, alongside Dell Technologies’ plan to base its Scottish team in the area.

• The package includes a £202 million guarantee from the National Wealth Fund, unlocking £300 million in financing from ING, ABN AMRO, Santander, the Scottish National Investment Bank and Siemens Financial Services.
• DataVita will expand its existing DV1 datacentre and build a second facility; the development is expected to support more than 3,400 jobs and the first facility is said to complete this year.
• Dell Technologies will move its Scottish team to Mercury House in the Lanarkshire AI Innovation Park.
• The article also says the site is intended to be among the first AI Growth Zones in the UK and that a £543 million community fund is in the works.

NVIDIA has announced a partnership with SB Energy to secure LPS capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Portsmouth, Ohio, for an AI factory that OpenAI will occupy as tenant.

• The initial deployment is expected to deliver 4.25 gigawatts of AI factory capacity, with NVIDIA’s support covering approximately 4 gigawatts over a 20-year term and becoming effective in phases as data centers are placed in service between 2028 and 2030.
• NVIDIA said the site could support multiple upgrade cycles over 20 years; each generation could represent about 1.5 million GPUs and $150 billion to $200 billion in NVIDIA revenue, while broader OpenAI commitments through 2030 were said to represent about 12 gigawatts of NVIDIA compute, expandable to 16 gigawatts if the remaining capacity is extended.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has released remarks by Managing Director Chia Der Jiun at the MAS Annual Report 2025/2026 media conference in Singapore.

• The speech reviews monetary policy, financial stability, financial sector development, AI-related risks, and MAS’ FY2025/26 financial results.
• It highlights a new Future of Finance Institute, updated cyber and quantum resilience expectations for financial institutions, and the impact of AI investment and data centre spending on global growth.
• This is a speech and policy update, not a standalone commercial deal announcement; it also references prior MAS announcements and upcoming circulars/expectations.

The UK government has announced new planning rules to fast-track thousands of homes around England’s rail, tram and underground stations under a revised National Planning Policy Framework.

• The policy introduces a default ‘yes’ for homes within reasonable walking distance of well-connected stations, plus new minimum expectations for housing around stations and reduced planning bureaucracy.
• Ministers said the changes will help deliver the government’s 1.5 million homes target, while also supporting jobs, investment, growth, and protecting pubs, music venues, and other local facilities; the notes to editors also mention stronger support for AI Growth Zones and data centres.
• The policy statement and related Housing Delivery Test results were published on Monday 17 August; the article is a government announcement and commentary, not a transcript of a speech or a report of a private-sector deal.

Digital Edge has described its Navi Mumbai campus and operating model for the Mumbai data center market.

• The BOM campus in Navi Mumbai is planned for 350MW across 47 acres of freehold land, with eight to nine build-to-suit buildings and BOM1 as the first phase.
• Digital Edge says the first phase includes an 83MW solar PPA with Hexa Climate Solutions, with power delivered in phases from December 2026; the campus also uses 10 million litres of recycled water per day for liquid cooling and targets PUE 1.25 and WUE below 1.75.
• The campus is presented as holding ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, plus SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS, with LEED Gold expected.

DataBank has announced that its employees, vendors, and customers completed a backpack drive for Bluffdale Elementary students and teachers, delivering 60 backpacks stocked with school supplies. - Over $1,250 was donated to purchase backpacks and supplies, and 27 employees helped pack them at the Salt Lake City data center.

• The backpacks included items such as a water bottle, notebook, ruler, crayons, pencil pouch, pencils, eraser, pencil sharpener, glue stick, and kid scissors; extra school supplies were also set aside for teachers.
• The article is a community relations / CSR recap, not a first-time product or infrastructure announcement, and it also references several past DataBank community activities at other data centers.