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Editorial illustration of battery storage, generators and a data centre in Texas representing Energy Vault's 1.25GW AI power agreement.

North America Datacenter Trends

Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal

Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.

Aug 13, 2026
Editorial illustration of drones being detected above a Miami cityscape by a 5G cellular antenna using radio sensing.

North America National Telecom Trends

Lockheed Martin tests NetSense drone sensing on Verizon 5G

The Miami-area demonstration used Verizon spectrum and AI software to detect and track drones, with pilot deployments planned ahead of targeted 2027 availability.

Aug 13, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a CyrusOne-branded data-centre campus representing the approved Southall development in west London.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval

Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.

Aug 13, 2026
AI-generated aerial illustration of a data-centre campus with labels showing different regulatory approaches in Carroll County, Fayetteville and Little Rock, Arkansas.

North America Datacenter Trends

Arkansas local governments set different data-centre rules

Carroll County has paused approvals while Fayetteville and Little Rock use new rules, creating different local routes for data-centre development.

Aug 13, 2026
AFRINIC notified members of a no-approval meeting. Its draft minutes record a 99% adoption

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AFRINIC notified members of a no-approval meeting. Its draft minutes record a 99% adoption

AFRINIC's 23 March notice said the 2021 accounts would only be received and noted on 14 April because no approval was required. The draft minutes record a different operative text: receive, note and adopt. They report a 99%-1% poll but publish no ballot totals. That missing…

Aug 13, 2026
AFRINIC's current Board is making decisions, but its resolutions archive still stops at 2022

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AFRINIC's current Board is making decisions, but its resolutions archive still stops at 2022

AFRINIC says its Board publishes resolutions and the minutes of the meetings where they were taken. As of 13 August 2026, the page making that promise listed years only through 2022—even though the purported current Board has since announced decisions on management, committees…

Aug 13, 2026
Editorial illustration of a compact local-5G base station and ceiling antenna providing wireless coverage to separate conference sponsor booths

JPNOG

JANOG58 turned a sponsor annex into its first local-5G operations trial

JANOG58’s most consequential wireless result was not a headline speed test. Faced with an overflow of sponsor booths in a separate annex, the meeting team assembled a licensed local-5G service, provisioned it through CPE routers and operated it across three conference…

Aug 13, 2026
AFRINIC called an interim takedown order a legal confirmation. The order says less

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AFRINIC called an interim takedown order a legal confirmation. The order says less

The Mauritius Supreme Court temporarily barred Cloud Innovation from falsely attributing judicial approval to AFRINIC-address leasing and ordered related material removed. AFRINIC then presented that ex parte order as confirmation of a wider legal position. The published ruling…

Aug 12, 2026
The RIR governance draft changed hands before the public could inspect version 3

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The RIR governance draft changed hands before the public could inspect version 3

On 28 July, the ASO Address Council delivered its recommended RIR Governance Document to the NRO Executive Council and transferred responsibility for the text. The document, the explanation of changes from version 2 and the redline were not published with that handoff. The next…

Aug 12, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a data-centre building in a forested Hoopa Valley setting, representing a local hub for the tribal broadband network.

North America Regional ISP Trends

Hoopa Valley opens data centre for tribal fibre network

The NTIA-funded facility will support network operations as Hoopa Valley expands fibre-to-the-home and builds a separate 23-mile middle-mile route.

Aug 12, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a HiMSEN power-generation engine representing HD Hyundai’s 1GW US data-centre equipment order.

North America Datacenter Trends

HD Hyundai wins 1GW US data-centre power order

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will supply 1GW of HiMSEN engine capacity to Corban Energy for data centres operated by an unnamed US technology company.

Aug 12, 2026
A controlled workflow separating AI suggestions, human approval, guarded action and a rollback rail.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Artificial intelligence needs an outcome test

A fluent answer is not the same as a useful result. AI earns operational authority only when its output survives a task-specific test and a failed action can be reversed.

Aug 12, 2026
Storage cartridges moving from a server rack through metered processing stages toward a constrained export conduit.

Global Cloud Services Trends

OpenAI dependency needs an exit route

Access to a capable model can accelerate work, but an application becomes exposed when prompts, evaluations and business rules cannot move with it.

Aug 12, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

Global Datacenter Trends

Data-centre capacity starts with usable power

A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.

Aug 12, 2026
A controlled workflow separating AI suggestions, human approval, guarded action and a rollback rail.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Narrow AI needs a scope boundary

A system can outperform people on one task and fail immediately outside its training conditions. The boundary is part of the product, not a footnote.

Aug 12, 2026
An unbranded hardware wallet with sealed backups in separate custody locations and an empty recovery slot.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Bitcoin use starts with custody and settlement

Price movement attracts attention, but the operational decision is who controls the keys, when a transfer is final enough and what recovery remains after a mistake.

Aug 12, 2026
Two submarine fibre cables reaching separate coastal landing facilities and independent inland corridors.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Internet infrastructure needs a bottleneck map

More fibre does not guarantee resilience when cable landings, backhaul, power and interconnection still share one failure domain.

Aug 12, 2026
A registry records desk separated from independently operated network rooms.

Story

AFRINIC continuity depends on verifiable records

A regional registry is trusted through accurate number-resource records, accountable decisions and a continuity plan that survives institutional dispute.

Aug 12, 2026
Operators isolating a server segment and restoring from a clean backup beside an unlabeled timing instrument.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Every open network port needs an owner

A port is only a numbered doorway to a service. The security question is who needs it, who maintains it and how quickly it closes when the service changes.

Aug 12, 2026
A local network cabinet, community premises and a distant tower forming a physical internet access chain.

Global Regional ISP Trends

An internet connection is a service chain, not a speed test

A fast result to a nearby server can hide congestion, weak Wi-Fi, distant routing and slow repair. Reliability is an end-to-end property.

Aug 12, 2026