Data Center

• New Project Media (NPM) has launched new intelligence and data coverage focusing on renewable energy and data centers across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. • Founder and CEO Ken Meehan stated that this expansion transforms NPM into a global intelligence platform, building upon its existing presence in North America and Europe. • The move integrates APAC data with NPM's other offerings, including Distributed Generation, API integrations, and AI-powered intelligence via NPM Edge.

• President Lee Jae Myung announced a massive $649 billion AI investment plan through 2026, led by the Samsung Group's decade-long commitment to robotics, data centers, and semiconductors. • The strategy leverages South Korea's global dominance in high-bandwidth memory chips, which currently account for approximately 80% of the worldwide supply. • This push is supported by the AI Framework Act, which took effect on January 22, 2026, establishing South Korea as one of the first Asian nations with comprehensive AI legislation.

• Nebius, Azur Datacenters, and Inflect are collaborating to develop "AI factories" to enhance digital infrastructure in Northern France. • The project marks a shift from multi-billion dollar investment announcements and sovereign AI planning toward the actual execution of high-capacity data centers. • This initiative is critical for establishing European AI sovereignty by providing the necessary compute power to support large-scale AI model training and deployment.

• Global spending on AI data centers surpassed $300 billion in 2025, marking a significant 60% increase compared to the previous year. • Investment trends indicate that spending on these facilities is projected to reach $27.5 billion specifically in 2026. • This surge highlights the accelerating demand for computational infrastructure to support the rapid growth and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies.

• AI data centers are projected to consume a staggering 1,580 TWh of energy by 2034, highlighting the immense power requirements of the AI revolution. • The training processes for Generative AI create massive carbon emissions, with some models producing footprints that exceed those of entire small nations. • This trend raises critical environmental concerns, particularly regarding the sustainability of rapid AI expansion and its impact on global climate goals.

Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolsterAmid rising concern that the artificial intelligence boom is fueling the climate crisis, a new report has found that nearly 80% of datacenters are also exposed to extreme climate hazards, including flooding, extreme winds and wildfires.Those impacts are leaving the infrastructure vulnerable to disrupted operations, increased time offline and inflated insurance and repair costs, the research from climate risk analytics firm First Street shows. Continue reading...

As datacenters’ connections to electric grids are held up, big tech is forced to throw money at producing its own powerDatacenters are driving unprecedented growth in the US clean energy industry, paradoxically boosting a sector that was sputtering before the artificial intelligence boom even as AI’s rollout creates immense environmental challenges.However, observers caution that while the centers are propelling wind, solar, and other clean energy companies, datacenters remain a climate nightmare. Continue reading...