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Nikkei reported, via Reuters, that NTT Data is in final talks to build Anthropic's first Japan data centre, with up to 500MW and construction costs of up to ¥1tn; neither company confirmed it (MarketScreener, via Reuters; W.Media).

ReNew signed a ₹70,000 crore MoU with the state government for a park in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, developed in phases from 2028 (W.Media).

PDG agreed to sell five facilities to Sinar Mas-backed SM+ for an undisclosed price, keeping its 400MW hyperscale portfolio in the country (W.Media).

The law brings data centres of 3MW and above into a licensing regime, with security, resilience and incident reporting duties for major sites of 10MW or more (W.Media).

The partners signed a non-binding agreement for a campus of more than US$15bn that takes power directly from JERA's gas plant, with operation around 2028 and ambitions for several gigawatts across JERA sites (TNW).

The A$1.26bn Huntingwood facility in western Sydney has 40 data halls and a 140MVA cap (W.Media).

The government approved five size classes by power use and lower tariffs for direct renewable supply, after pausing 49 projects earlier (Asia News Network).

The Australian neocloud set a price of A$11 a share for a raise of at least US$5bn to fund GPUs for its Batam campus; later reports differ on final terms (The Edge).

Governor Dedi Mulyadi ordered construction to stop until environmental (AMDAL) and building (PBG) permits are issued, citing a reported water draw of about 384 litres per second (The Star, via Reuters).

Meta extended its use of Firmus beyond Melbourne to capacity built on Nvidia's DSX platform in Southeast Asia, days before Firmus's planned IPO (The Star).

Goodman cited a significantly changed policy environment and community feedback in dropping its A$1.2bn Lane Cove project; its other Sydney sites continue (The Star).

IT minister Nara Lokesh said the state has signed agreements for 6.5GW of data centre capacity by 2030, including Google's Visakhapatnam campus (Deccan Chronicle).

CDC Data Centres lodged plans for a campus of up to 1.4GW and about A$15bn at Gregadoo, connected to a 330kV Transgrid substation (W.Media).

BDx started Building 1 (120MW) of a six-building, 640MW campus at Jatiluhur with 845MVA of PLN grid power and up to 500kW per rack (TechNode Global).

EQT said most of up to $50bn for India will go to data centres, largely through EdgeConneX and its AdaniConneX joint venture (Pipeline Road).

Bloomberg reported that AirTrunk is raising about US$1.6bn to fund a REIT's purchase of its assets, and separately it lodged plans for a 540MW campus in the Hunter region (W.Media).

Victoria's Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan sets a 150m buffer from homes and requires operators to offset electricity with new renewables and pay grid connection costs (Victorian Government).

Anthropic leased the first stage of Zerra DC's planned 2.16GW campus near Dalby, backed by Dexus and Macquarie, for AI inference, subject to planning and FIRB approval (iTnews).

DayOne started construction at Kodaira, Tokyo, with a 15MW first phase, while its 80MW Fuchu campus is also under way (Baxtel).

Bloomberg and the AFR reported that the Nvidia-backed neocloud was meeting investors ahead of an ASX listing (BeBeez).