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North America Datacenter Trends
Nashville turns data-centre opposition into authority to buy the land
Nashville’s council has approved an ordinance authorising the city to negotiate for, or condemn, a 23.49-acre parcel beside the zoo where DC BLOX plans a data centre. The vote gives Metro leverage and a route to control the site. It does not give Metro the deed, fix the…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
London proposes dedicated planning policy for data centres
The draft London Plan would require developers to address power, water and local impacts earlier when selecting and designing data-centre sites.
Global National Telecom Trends
NEC’s overseas transfer is a test of the boundary it has drawn
NEC has signed away a defined slice of its international equipment-resale and public-sector IT operations, but the strategic meaning lies less in the undisclosed price than in what must cross the boundary—and what NEC intends to keep controlling after the handover.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia AI cluster in Taiwan
Foxconn says the cluster is commercially available and more than 90% utilised, but has not explained how that figure is calculated.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Microsoft begins consultation on proposed Langley data centre
Microsoft is consulting on its Langley proposal before submitting a full planning application, with the final design and development timetable still to be confirmed.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Maincubes completes first phase of FRA03 data centre
The first phase of FRA03 is complete, with customer availability planned for the third quarter as Maincubes continues work towards the site’s full 16MW capacity.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Exclaim Robotics raises $4.95m for data-centre robots
Exclaim Robotics has raised $4.95 million to develop robots for rack-side data-centre maintenance, with customer testing and operating results still to come.
North America Datacenter
Perimeter Compute targets spare office power for edge AI
The startup plans to install GPU infrastructure in commercial buildings with unused electrical capacity, but it has not disclosed a signed site, customer or operating deployment.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
FuriosaAI plans phased 15MW Stockholm AI data centre
Velox has started construction, but the first 2MW phase and 1,800 planned RNGD accelerators are not expected to enter service until early 2027.
North America National Telecom Trends
IonQ commits $15m to EPB quantum-memory lab
IonQ and EPB will test quantum memory on Chattanooga’s operational fibre network through a five-year research programme.
North America Datacenter Trends
Big Tech commits $1.09tn to future leases
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have signed leases for facilities that are not yet available for use, mostly data centres.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus adds $896m to Paju AI data centre
LG Uplus is adding fresh capital to its Paju project as construction advances on the first building of the planned 200MW campus.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK full-fibre coverage reaches 85% in H1 2026
UK full-fibre coverage rose again in the first half, although more construction took place in areas where fibre was already available.
North America Datacenter Trends
FCC drafts Chinese data-centre transceiver ban
A proposed US restriction could require data-centre operators to check the regulatory status of optical components before approving network designs.
North America Datacenter Trends
Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test
Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…
North America Datacenter Trends
Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban
Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…
North America National Telecom Trends
Flight 14 is where Starship must stop being a test and start delivering network capacity
SpaceX says its next Starship flight will attempt something the programme has never done: carry Starlink V3 satellites to operational orbit. The tentative end-of-August mission would connect the rocket directly to the economics of the company’s broadband network. Yet the…
North America Cloud Services Trends
DigitalOcean fixed the billing feed; customers still need the reconciliation trail
DigitalOcean’s Spaces Cold Storage incident did not take stored entities offline. It made daily usage and current invoice values unreliable for some customers. The provider traced the problem to its billing-processing system and corrected the data synchronization, but its public…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
FiberCop has one live Rome edge node and a 99-site execution question
FiberCop’s first converted telecom exchange in Rome is now reported live as an edge data centre. The milestone gives physical form to a programme that aims to reuse 100 copper exchanges. It does not make the other 99 sites operational, nor turn the operator’s 10,500-exchange…
North America Datacenter Trends
AMD’s $6.7bn data-centre quarter turns the AI forecast into an execution test
AMD’s second-quarter record is less interesting as a victory lap than as a change in the burden of proof. Data Center supplied 58% of company revenue, and its $6.7 billion was more than double the prior-year level. Management now guides to roughly $13 billion for the third…