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North America National Telecom Trends
NTIA sends 4.4GHz spectrum study plan to Congress
NTIA has sent the 4.4GHz study plan to Congress, starting a 60-day review before agencies can receive funding for engineering work.
North America Datacenter Trends
Dozens protest Meta’s planned Alberta data centre
Local opposition has emerged after Meta secured key permits for its 1GW Alberta data centre, focusing attention on grid use, water and project oversight.
North America National Telecom Trends
TELUS cuts dividend 55% as digital unit loses value
TELUS is retaining more cash for debt reduction as it focuses resources on connectivity and reviews assets outside its core telecom business.
Global Datacenter Trends
Data centre executives challenge ‘energy guzzler’ label
Industry executives argue that power source, computing output and cooling design give a fuller picture of data-centre resource use.
North America Datacenter Trends
Apple shares fall on chip shortage warning
Apple’s weaker outlook shows how AI-driven memory demand and separate processor shortages are raising costs and limiting device supply.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Palo Alto Networks moves Unit 42 intelligence into Cortex—and closer to the customer’s switching cost
Palo Alto Networks launched Unit 42 Threat Intelligence on 3 August through an embedded Cortex product and a separate analyst-led service. The offer is designed to sell something more valuable than another threat feed: a judgement about which threats matter inside a customer’s…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Twilio’s Deepgram model outage showed why a backup is not a failover plan
For two hours and 43 minutes on 3 August, Twilio tracked a major incident in which ConversationRelay customers configured with Deepgram’s nova-2 or nova-3 speech models were described as “hard down.” Other named model paths remained available, but Twilio’s own advice contained…
North America Datacenter Trends
Iowa’s data-centre tool turns local controversy into questions that can be audited
The University of Iowa has released a decision tool for counties, cities and communities considering data-centre development. It does not tell officials to approve or refuse a project. Its value is more procedural: it converts arguments about water, power, taxes, land and…
Global Cloud Services Trends
DigitalOcean renewed internal certificates after a 234-minute control-panel access incident
For nearly four hours on 3 August, some DigitalOcean customers intermittently could not enter the Cloud Control Panel. The visible clue was an “mTLS verification failed” message; the disclosed corrective act was renewal of affected internal certificates. That is enough to locate…
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas puts a proof gate in front of its 474GW data-centre queue
Texas has ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project advancing through the grid connection process before it can move forward. The state says requests now exceed 474GW—more than five times ERCOT’s record peak demand—and that roughly 90% of new power requests come…
North America Datacenter Trends
Lakeland’s 50MW line buys a year to write rules before approving concentrated load
Lakeland’s City Commission voted 4-3 for a twelve-month moratorium on large-scale data centres and other proposed customers with peak demand of at least 50MW. The pause covers the city’s acceptance, processing, review and approval of relevant development applications while…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s Workers Builds incident shows why software can be live but unable to change
Cloudflare marked an August 3 Workers Builds incident resolved after one hour and 51 minutes. The revealing moment came earlier: at 15:38 UTC, builds were no longer failing, yet users could still encounter delays. That interval separates two kinds of availability—keeping an…
North America National Telecom Trends
Hughes has put part of its satellite business behind a court wall, not switched it off
Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation and eleven wholly owned subsidiaries entered Chapter 11 on 2 August. The petitions move debt enforcement and major restructuring decisions into a supervised legal process while management says customer operations should continue. The useful…
North America Datacenter Trends
Google’s 155MW Oklahoma solar deal has contracted an output, not delivered a data-centre load
Google has agreed to buy the entire output of RWE’s planned 155MWac Crooked Creek Solar project for 15 years. The contract can give the project a durable buyer and give Google a long-term renewable-energy position in the Southwest Power Pool. It does not mean the plant is…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s London egress incident exposed the narrow risk inside a stable outbound identity
Cloudflare restored Gateway service after a two-hour incident in which customers using dedicated IPv4 egress addresses homed in London could have been unable to reach the public Internet. The public record is precise about the affected path and the five operational states, but…
North America Datacenter Trends
Yondr has bought a Manassas site; 72MW still has to climb the entire delivery ladder
Yondr and investment funds managed by Cerberus have acquired a 40-acre site in Manassas, Virginia, where Yondr plans a 72MW data-centre campus with a 2029 ready-for-service target. The acquisition moves the project past the search for land, but not past the harder conversions…
North America Datacenter Trends
Prysmian’s $3.8 billion Atkore agreement is a route to control, not control itself
Prysmian has agreed to pay $95 in cash for each Atkore share in a transaction carrying an enterprise value of about $3.8 billion. The industrial case reaches from electrical conduit to data-centre construction, but every claimed benefit still sits beyond a shareholder vote…
North America Datacenter Trends
Brookfield, NextEra plan $100bn Kentucky data-centre campus
Brookfield and NextEra plan a 1.8GW Kentucky campus with dedicated gas generation, battery storage and local utility service.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub restored Copilot after multi-model request failures exposed a shared work queue
GitHub resolved a 92-minute Copilot incident after chat and agent requests across multiple models suffered degraded availability. The service recovered, but the public record leaves enterprises without the denominator needed to judge how much work failed, waited or succeeded on…
North America Datacenter Trends
PJM proposes capacity rules for large data centres
PJM wants new data centres to pair grid connections with firm capacity or accept earlier curtailment during regional shortages.