This Week's Top Five Stories in the Data Centre Industry

Inside Google’s Next AI Data Centre Development in Austria

Google has announced plans to build its first data centre in Austria, marking a significant step in its European infrastructure strategy as demand for cloud and AI services accelerates.

The new facility, located in Kronstorf in Upper Austria, is designed to strengthen the region’s position within the global digital economy while supporting the next wave of AI-driven innovation.

Once operational, the site is expected to create around 100 direct jobs, alongside thousands more across construction, supply chains and local businesses.

Why Oracle & BorderPlex Chose Bloom to Power Project Jupiter

Oracle is reshaping the energy architecture of one of its largest planned AI data centre developments, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

It is turning to fuel cell technology by Bloom Energy to meet the growing demands of high-performance computing while addressing environmental and infrastructure constraints.

The move was confirmed by Oracle alongside its partner, BorderPlex Digital Assets. The fuel cells are a lower-emission alternative to the companies' earlier plans to use gas turbines and diesel generators.

Their decision consolidates the site into a single, large-scale microgrid designed to support AI-driven workloads.

With up to 2.45GW of installed capacity, the facility is positioned as one of the largest data centre microgrid deployments in the US.

Pantheon AI: Inside Europe's Next Hyperscale Campus

With the announcement of a new Pantheon AI campus, a transatlantic investment group is spearheading a project set to become the largest investment in Croatian history.

Topusko, a small town in central Croatia near Zagreb, has only 945 residents and may seem like an unusual location for a hyperscale company to hedge its bets.

But in 2027, Pantheon AI will be situated there: a 310-acre hyperscale AI data centre and innovation campus worth EU€50bn, the equivalent to US$58bn.

Pantheon Atlas will be developing what the company claims to be among the largest private US investments into Europe.

The design of the facility will position Croatia as a regional hub for digital infrastructure, aligning with NVIDIA GW-Scale AI factory standards.

Iran War: Pure Data Centres Halts Middle East Developments

A major data centre company has halted investment decisions and developments in the Middle East, according to reporting by CNBC.

The decision follows collateral damage to one of the company's data centres from Iranian attacks.

Pure Data Centres Group, which operates in the United Arab Emirates, had its Abu Dhabi data centre on Yas Island hit by shrapnel from a nearby strike.

Since the impact on its facility and wider disruption to digital infrastructure across the Gulf, Gary Wojtaszek, Pure Data Centres' CEO, made the executive decision to pause further data centre plans in the region.

Before the halt, the company had plans to expand in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh.

AirTrunk Expands in Malaysia with Two New Hyperscale Sites

AirTrunk is expanding its data centre footprint in Malaysia with plans to develop two new hyperscale campuses in Johor Bahru, adding more than 280MW of IT capacity to support growing cloud and AI demand.

The Asia-Pacific and Middle East data centre platform confirms it will invest MYR12bn (US$3bn) in the developments, known as JHB3 and JHB4. Located in Iskandar Puteri, the new sites will sit close to the company’s existing JHB1 and JHB2 campuses, forming a larger interconnected hub for digital infrastructure.

With the addition of these facilities, AirTrunk’s total capacity in Malaysia will exceed 700MW across four campuses, supported by total committed investment of around MYR27bn (US$6.8bn).