PROJECT WATCH
Announcements, planning decisions and environmental assessments behind the map.
These updates are selected and checked against named sources. The collection covers 12 countries, with 27 reviewed updates. This is a selected editorial collection, not a comprehensive or live news feed. The latest editorial check was 2026-10-13.
Coverage: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, India, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States. Each story distinguishes announcements, applications, construction and openings. Older entries are dated project history.
Dated, source-backed updates. A permitting or environmental issue applies only to the scope described; it does not automatically change a facility’s lifecycle status.
· United States · Construction
Data Center Dynamics reports that Serverfarm placed the final beam on ARK1 at its Clarksville, Arkansas campus, citing the company’s chief executive. The building is planned as the first of four on the campus.
Read context and sources →· United States · Planning application
Data Center Dynamics reports an application for a five-building campus at 2700 Airport Road near Metter, Georgia. Canoochee River RV Resort, LLC is named as the applicant, with rezoning sought for the proposed site.
Read context and sources →· Netherlands · Proposed tenancy
NL Times, citing Financieele Dagblad, reports that Nebius has signed a letter of intent for part of Volt’s proposed AI data-center development at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte.
Read context and sources →· Norway · Project development
VivoPower announced mobilization of works to convert the first 40 MW phase of its Mo i Rana site for AI use, with Øijord & Aanes as the initial contractor.
Read context and sources →· India · Water / Community concerns
AFP reports protests and water-resource concerns around Google’s Visakhapatnam development. Google told AFP it selected air cooling following a watershed assessment; the report also describes remaining freshwater needs.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Project announcement
Sesterce announced plans to redevelop the former Kaipola paper mill in Jämsä. Its announcement describes a 200 MW first phase and potential expansion to 600 MW, with initial works planned for 2026.
Read context and sources →· United States · Project announcement
ThisWay Global announced plans for a Research and AI Compute Center at Texas A&M-RELLIS in Bryan. Following an asset acquisition, the company said it was remobilizing the project and planning 73 MW across a 25-acre site.
Read context and sources →· Japan · Construction
Digital Realty announced that construction has begun on KIX15 at its KIX campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture. MC Digital Realty, its joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation, is developing the facility.
Read context and sources →· United States · Project registration
Texas’s architectural-barriers register lists Project Longhorn – Building One near Earl Callahan and Walter Hoffman roads in Cedar Creek. The filing describes a 498,165-square-foot data-center building with an estimated $366 million cost and a proposed 30 November 2026 construction start.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Environmental assessment / Project preparation
Finland’s Lupa- ja valvontavirasto calls on Tuike Finland to suspend environmentally significant preparatory work immediately, and by 23 October at the latest, until environmental impact assessments are complete. Low-impact planning, measurements and soil surveys are excluded.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Power agreement / Project announcement
Applied Digital announced an agreement providing access to up to 1 GW of potential power capacity in Finland. It plans a phased AI campus, with initial power availability anticipated from 2028.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Project announcement
atNorth announced plans for FIN05 on a 28.6-hectare site in Salo. The company says power is secured for a planned 75 MW first phase, with a path to as much as 230 MW across the wider development.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Environmental assessment / Public consultation
Tuike Finland has submitted an environmental impact assessment programme for its Vaala data-center project. The programme is open for consultation until 2 November 2026 and describes up to four server buildings around five kilometres northwest of Vaala.
Read context and sources →· United States · Delivery uncertainty
Axios reports that Oracle delivered a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter in New Mexico amid concerns about potential completion delays.
Read context and sources →· Belgium · Permit decision / Water
In a parliamentary response, Wallonia’s minister confirmed that a Crystal Computing permit application in Farciennes was refused on appeal on 13 August. The application included infrastructure expansion and cooling towers supplied from the Sambre; the response cited concerns over water quality and resource management.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Investment / Project announcement
Google announced €13 billion of investment in Finland over the following two years, covering infrastructure, energy and partnerships, and identified Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala as local communities involved.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Construction / Capacity agreement
Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland announced a Mikkeli project backed by seven-year capacity agreements. Their release says construction of the initial 50 MW phase is underway, with contracted IT capacity intended to scale in stages to 165 MW.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Project financing
Pure DC announced €1.3 billion of committed senior debt for the first phase of SJK01 in Seinäjoki. The company describes that phase as fully leased and planned to deliver 110 MW, with its first data hall’s substation already live.
Read context and sources →· United States · Project development
Meta announced an expansion of its Louisiana data-center development in Richland Parish, describing a planned 5 GW of compute capacity and more than $50 billion of regional investment.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Construction contract
YIT and XTX Markets announced an agreement for the shell and core of a third data center in Kajaani. YIT said construction was scheduled to begin in summer 2026.
Read context and sources →· Finland · Permits / Power agreement
AmpTank said its DataTank subsidiary had obtained legally valid building permits and a binding grid connection agreement for a 200 MW project in Utajärvi. The company targeted construction for the second half of 2026.
Read context and sources →· Malaysia · Opening
NEXTDC announced the launch of KL1 in Greater Kuala Lumpur, its first international data center. The facility is intended to serve Malaysia and wider Southeast Asian demand.
Read context and sources →· Brazil · Opening / Construction
Ascenty announced the start of operations at SPO05 and construction of SPO06 at its Greater São Paulo campus. The company targets May 2027 for SPO06.
Read context and sources →· India · Construction
Google announced groundbreaking for its AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, marking the construction phase of the India investment programme announced the previous October.
Read context and sources →· Australia · Development approval
NEXTDC announced Victorian development approval for its M4 technology campus at 127 Todd Road, Port Melbourne.
Read context and sources →· South Africa · Expansion / Project history
Teraco announced completion of an expansion at its CT2 data center in Cape Town.
Read context and sources →· United Kingdom · Opening / Project history
Google announced the opening of its Waltham Cross data center as part of a wider two-year UK investment programme.
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