Baker Hughes, Halliburton and SLB move into sector by supplying power generation, cooling technology and expertise

Saudi Arabia is not only making data centres, it is also using them. ALLAM, an Arabic-language AI model built with the Saudi Data & AI Authority ( SDAIA ), another wing of the state, has been provided to civil servants. Humain has also signed deals with firms like Adobe to have this model incorporated in their applications.

Surging use of AI has led to a frenzy of construction activity to build new data centres, particularly in the U.S. Estimates put the total number of these facilities in operation worldwide this year at 6,

In a series of communications to potential investors over the past month, Las Vegas-based  Jet.AI  and Vancouver’s Consensus Core announced plans to build an A.I. data centre on a 141-hectare (350-acre) parcel of land north of Île-des-Chênes,

This year saw innovation and policy both clashing with and fuelling infrastructure, heightening uncertainty about the power industry’s future.

A proposal on whether to allow the building of a controversial £250 million data centre on former Ministry of Defence (MOD) land is to be decided by a council's strategic planning committee next week. Ark Data Centres wants to build the facility, on an 18-acre site known locally as the Donkey Field, near Corsham in Wiltshire.

Oaktree Capital‑backed Pure Data Centres said on Monday it plans to invest up to 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in a new Amsterdam campus, one of Europe's largest hyperscale data‑centre commitments this year.

New data centres in Ireland could need additional energy supply that is almost equal to the peak electricity demand for the entire country. The scale of demand from “prospective” data centres in the medium term could be as high as an extra 5.8 gigawatts (GW), on top of the already-high existing energy demands of the sector.

A leading energy expert has warned Victorians’ electricity bills could skyrocket unless the state government acts now.