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About Data Center Tracker

Data Center Tracker is an independent, automatically updated, US-first tracker of public-sector data center contracts: US federal awards and opportunities, plus UK and European tenders and contract awards.

Sources: United States (federal)

US federal data center contracts come first (choose United States in the country filter on the notices page). Contract awards come from the keyless USAspending.gov API (US Department of the Treasury), searched by award description for data-center phrases. Open opportunities come from the SAM.gov Get Opportunities API. Both are US government works in the public domain. The same rules and AI check decide what counts, using US Product and Service Codes (PSC) and NAICS codes in place of CPV codes: construction, maintenance and electrical codes support a notice, and IT product or service codes send it to the AI check. US recipients are matched to their parent company from SAM.gov data (via their USAspending recipient profile), then to a listing through GLEIF and OpenFIGI or an exact name match in the SEC company list.

United Kingdom

UK notices come from the official UK government services Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, via their open OCDS APIs. The data is Crown copyright and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Below-threshold Scottish notices come from the Public Contracts Scotland OCDS API (Open Government Licence v3.0); notices that also appear on Find a Tender are kept only once. We show the official facts and short excerpts, and always link to the official notice. The page text is written by us.

Europe

European notices come from the keyless TED Search API of the Publications Office of the European Union (choose Europe or a country in the country filter). TED publishes notices above the EU thresholds from the EU and EEA; we search titles and descriptions for data-center phrases in the EU languages, then apply the same rules and AI check. Titles and excerpts are shown in the notice's own language. UK buyers' notices on TED are skipped, because they are on Find a Tender.

News

The News section covers private-sector work that public tenders miss: hyperscale and colocation builds, M&E and construction packages, financing and acquisitions. We read the public RSS feeds of DatacenterDynamics, Data Centre Review, DCNN, DataCentre News UK, Construction Enquirer, New Civil Engineer, Construction News, The Construction Index, PR Newswire UK, and the press-release feeds of Equinix and Global Switch. A rules filter and a small AI model keep items about UK data center projects. We store and show only the headline, the source, the date and the link, plus a one- or two-sentence summary we write ourselves. We never republish article text. Companies named in the headline are linked to their supplier pages and checked for a listed parent.

What counts as a data center notice

A notice is included when its title or description refers to a data center (in US or UK spelling), data hall, server or computer room, colocation or hosting facility, and the rest of the notice supports that: for example power, cooling, UPS, generators, fit-out, construction or relevant CPV codes. Notices that only mention data centers in passing, such as software that must be hosted in UK data centers, are left out. Borderline cases are checked by a small AI model. Mistakes are possible, so check the official notice.

Parent companies and tickers

For each supplier we look up its Legal Entity Identifier in GLEIF, using its Companies House number or an exact legal-name match. When GLEIF has no LEI or no parent link, we use the official Companies House API: we confirm the company (the registered name must match), then follow its "persons with significant control" chain through companies that hold majority control. We follow GLEIF's ultimate-parent relationship and check the parent's securities against OpenFIGI. We only show a ticker when the data confirms a listed equity. We never guess. Each supplier page shows exactly how its match was made. Suppliers without a confirmed listing are shown as "Unlisted / private". A small manual override table fixes known gaps.

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Disclaimer

This is not investment advice. The information is provided as-is, from official notices that buyers can change or withdraw.