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North America Datacenter Trends
Trump backs data centres as local resistance grows
The White House is defending AI infrastructure investment, but local approvals, power costs, and community opposition are becoming harder for developers to ignore.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
stc orders dedicated Astranis satellite
The MicroGEO satellite is due to launch in 2026, giving stc control over payload configuration and coverage before planned enterprise service in 2027.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank's overseas satellite offer has a retail boundary
Three countries are scheduled for 28 September, with the Philippines to follow in autumn. The shared constellation does not make every subscriber's roaming rights interchangeable.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Buildots' new capital puts portfolio progress data to the test
A $130 million round supports the construction-software company's push into multi-year portfolio agreements. For data-centre buyers, comparable evidence matters more than a common dashboard.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Okazaki's fibre expansion comes with several retail contracts
NTT WEST plans to extend access and television services into parts of the Japanese city. One physical line does not mean one internet subscription, one viewing entitlement or one retail counterparty.
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends
Pecém litigation targets the gap before data-centre operation
Brazilian federal prosecutors and public defenders want environmental evidence and Anacé consultation to become conditions for opening the facility. Their request is not a ruling that the project has been stopped.
North America Regional ISP Trends
LiveOak's Bluffton build faces a second boundary at the building
Phased construction can bring a neighbourhood online before a whole market is finished. For shared buildings, the route from nearby fibre to a usable connection still runs through management decisions and internal wiring.
North America Datacenter Trends
Rocky View puts farmland continuity into data-centre siting
A coming consultation shifts attention from the size of a development parcel to the agricultural operations around it. Permission to begin planning remains a long way from project approval.
History
RFC 2150 and the Long Walk from a URL to Centre Stage
A cultural work could be scanned, uploaded and assigned a URL while remaining far from the institutions that determined how it would be described, funded, preserved, taught and heard. RFC 2150 captured both the Internet’s remarkable power to carry culture and the larger stack of…
North America Regional ISP Trends
BEAD buildout could speed US fibre consolidation
Smaller fibre operators face heavier construction and financing demands as BEAD projects move into delivery, adding to pressure for partnerships and acquisitions.
Global National Telecom Trends
Elveo brings satellite production inside the network operator
Apex will help the direct-to-device company establish its own factory. The operating model gives Elveo a new lever over supply—and a production business to run.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Saudi data-centre capacity rises 57% since 2024
Savills says Saudi Arabia's live IT capacity has grown 57% since 2024, while government plans call for 3GW of data-centre capacity by 2030.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
TECROWD's data-centre plan defers ¥550m until the sale
Fund 103 proposes no bank borrowing, yet ¥550m of construction cost would be paid from the eventual property sale before investor distributions. That payment order matters more than treating the advertised yield as a promise.
Global Datacenter Trends
Microsoft targets 38GW of data-centre capacity by 2032
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft wants to more than triple its data-centre capacity by 2032, with a larger share of the fleet built for AI workloads.
IETF
The Clock Agreed. Did the Traffic? Auditing RFC 9722 Recovery
RFC 9722 gives recovering EVPN peers a common instant for rerunning Designated Forwarder election. That is a precise control-plane promise—not evidence that clocks, forwarding entries and customer packets all crossed the boundary together.
North America Datacenter Trends
Vaughan agenda separates data-centre review from a pause request
Two members' resolutions put different timelines before the city: study the completed provincial framework, or seek a year-long pause on new AI data-centre approvals. Neither is a recorded decision.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Spain proposes hourly renewables rule for data centres
Spain's draft data-centre rules would require large facilities to match at least 80% of hourly electricity use with new renewable generation.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
US and India add undersea-cable security to TRUST
A September workshop put cable resilience and supplier security inside the TRUST framework, but no new route, budget or construction timetable has been announced.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigerian operators complete 70% of network-site upgrades
The NCC says 8,526 of 12,179 committed site deployments or upgrades are complete, while fibre cuts remain a separate source of disruption.
North America Datacenter Trends
St. Louis passes data-centre zoning rules
St. Louis has approved dedicated zoning rules for future data centres, while the 120MW Armory project remains under its earlier permit.