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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom lets Openreach raise copper prices at 90% coverage
From April 2029, Openreach can gain more pricing freedom in qualifying exchanges before coverage reaches 100%, while unserved premises remain protected.
North America Datacenter Trends
EIA forecasts record US electricity generation
The EIA expects US electricity generation to set records in 2026 and 2027 as demand grows from data centres, manufacturing and other users.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
DayOne ties Batam expansion to Rp180bn desalination plant
DayOne will fund the plant and hand it to BP Batam to operate, making water supply part of the expansion agreement.
Global Datacenter Trends
Panmnesia’s CXL pitch makes fabric control a buying question
The supplier is promoting a design for more predictable AI execution across racks. The purchasing question concerns a complete interconnect system, not a protocol label alone.
Global Datacenter Trends
Dimaag, Toshiba develop batteries for AI load swings
Dimaag and Toshiba are developing a battery system designed to handle frequent changes in AI computing demand as well as provide backup power.
North America Institutional Trends
Genuine Parts Has Two Command Chains Before It Has Two Balance Sheets
Genuine Parts has named the people who will run its future automotive and industrial companies. That makes the separation feel tangible: one chief executive for GPC, another for Motion, two management benches and two investor days. Yet the legal and financial boundary still lies…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
FlexSysAI tests grid-responsive AI computing in Australia
The live trial will test whether less urgent AI workloads can move when the power grid is under pressure without disrupting customer work.
Global Datacenter Trends
iPronics funds the move from optical design to repeatable delivery
A $125 million round backs the optical-switch supplier’s expansion. The next evidence of scale lies in qualified production and customer integration, not the investor list.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
3M showcases expanded-beam data-centre connectors
3M's Shenzhen demonstration focused on how expanded-beam fibre connectors handle contamination and repeated use in dense AI data-centre networks.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
UK report questions data-centre job forecasts
Verdant's lower estimate has drawn pushback from industry and government, putting more focus on what job numbers actually mean for host communities.
Global Datacenter Trends
DNEG uses deferred payments to advance virtual desktops
With rendering investment already under way, the studio’s desktop project faced a funding squeeze. HPE’s customer case shows what a payment window can—and cannot—change.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Tasmania reveals six more data-centre proposals
Tasmania has six more confidential data-centre proposals that could require at least 500MW, but only two have reached feasibility assessment.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CDC submits A$200m Beard 2 data-centre plan
The Canberra proposal brings CDC's closed-loop cooling into a new planning application, where Beard 2's own water demand will matter.
North America Datacenter Trends
Island Roadhouse outlines Missouri heat-reuse plan
Island Roadhouse plans to sell recovered heat from its Missouri data centre while keeping cooling independent of outside demand.
IETF
A Physical-Site Receipt Can Be External to the Issuer—and Still Controlled by the Site Owner
Revision 03 of a proposed receipt for work at physical sites fixes several ambiguities with admirable candour. It also names a trust edge its own bytes cannot carry. A transparency service may be independent of the receipt issuer yet operated by the owner of the site whose…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Qingyang data-centre power costs equal 45% of revenue
China Energy Engineering says electricity costs equal about 45% of Qingyang data-centre revenue, separating power economics from its efficiency claims.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Fortune plans Telangana AI park with greywater cooling
The proposed 1.2–1.6GW campus would use treated greywater for cooling, putting water infrastructure into the delivery plan for new computing capacity.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
FinXP keeps its ledger as Thredd takes on card processing
The issuing partnership separates programme control from processing capability. Keeping the ledger does not remove the work of coordinating the systems around it.
North America Institutional Trends
Enbridge’s C$2.6bn Equity Raise Does Not Equal Its US$2.55bn Tallgrass Cheque
Two numbers arrived from Enbridge on the same day: C$2.6 billion of gross equity proceeds and US$2.55 billion of cash consideration for Tallgrass crude assets. They look almost made for each other. They are not. The currencies differ, one figure is before fees, the financing…
IETF
ALLDISPATCH Is a Routing Forum, Not a Standards Authority
The IETF-Wide Dispatch session can influence where emerging protocol proposals go next, but its leverage lies in routing and coordination—not in independently approving standards.