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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Hitachi, SPACECOOL test passive cooling
Hitachi and SPACECOOL are testing whether passive radiative cooling can protect exposed infrastructure equipment from heat without adding powered cooling.
North America Datacenter Trends
Bell proposes Saskatchewan AI expansion to 1.2GW
A non-binding agreement could add 900MW through partner-built gas generation, while Bell's original 300MW project targets first service in 2027.
Global National Telecom Trends
Viasat, Space42 commit $1bn to Equatys
The partners have moved their shared direct-to-device satellite project towards company formation and constellation procurement, backed by up to $1 billion in founder funding.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
AirTrunk studies cryogenic data-centre cooling
The partners will study whether running computing hardware at cryogenic temperatures can improve performance without letting refrigeration erase the energy gains.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vietnam shuts down 2G, exposing VoLTE gaps
Some older 4G phones may keep mobile data but lose voice calls after Vietnam's 2G shutdown unless VoLTE is supported and enabled.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
USTDA backs Thailand-US subsea cable study
USTDA is funding feasibility work for National Telecom's proposed THUS cable, which would avoid the South China Sea and could connect five other Southeast Asian markets.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
CEC launches standalone BizAxis IaaS in Japan
CEC has launched a Japan-based infrastructure service that runs independently of VMware, with backup, monitoring and security sold separately.
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas orders enforcement over data-centre water reporting
Missing water-use reports can now affect permits and ERCOT interconnection, putting water compliance alongside power in Texas data-centre development.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
SES launches final three O3b mPOWER satellites
SES has completed the O3b mPOWER launch programme, but the final three satellites must still be commissioned before their capacity can serve customers.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Sarvenmaa data-centre consultation closes
Polarnode's Keminmaa project includes power connections extending into Tornio, putting infrastructure beyond the data-centre site inside the planning review.
Global Institutional Trends
GitLab patch deadline passes for exploited flaw
Self-managed GitLab users need an urgent patch that can take single-node installations offline while database migrations complete.
Africa National Telecom
NIGCOMSAT orders NigComSat-2A from Thales Alenia Space
NIGCOMSAT has ordered a nearly four-tonne GEO satellite covering much of Africa, but no launch date, contract value or service-entry timetable has been disclosed.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SECI, HyperVault sign Hyderabad power MoU
The agreement covers renewable generation, land, and transmission for HyperVault's proposed campus, but does not yet set megawatts or an energisation date.
North America National Telecom Trends
Samsung and Verizon test 5G crowd sensing in Dallas
Samsung and Verizon used a virtualised 5G network and 40MHz of CBRS spectrum to map crowd density in near real time without separate radar equipment.
North America Cloud Services Trends
PaperCut replaces emergency patches as CISA deadline passes
PaperCut's new maintenance builds give administrators clearer version records, but site and secondary servers still need to be checked.
North America Cloud Services Trends
CISA deadline passes for exploited ScreenConnect flaw
ConnectWise says the flaw affects ScreenConnect clients, not servers, leaving providers to verify updates across the endpoints they support.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ESpanix adds DDoS filtering in Madrid and Barcelona
Nokia Deepfield Defender lets participating networks filter attack traffic inside ESpanix rather than always diverting it to an external scrubbing centre.
Global Institutional Trends
MikroTik patch deadline passes for RouterOS flaw
CISA's deadline has passed for CVE-2026-86060, but patched routers may still need checks for changes made before the update.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mumbai backs data centres, plans regulation
Mumbai's civic chief has backed data-centre development while signalling future regulation, leaving project-level rules and site conditions unresolved.