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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.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Helios Towers raises 2026 guidance again
Helios Towers raised its tenancy, earnings, and cash-flow forecasts after record first-half additions across Africa and the Middle East.
Global National Telecom Trends
AccelerComm completes Eclipse Space physical-layer design
AccelerComm has completed physical-layer design work for Eclipse Space’s planned direct-to-device and broadband satellite platform.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EE launches 8Gbps fibre in Guildford and Woking
EE has begun selling 2.3Gbps and 8Gbps broadband over Openreach’s XGS-PON network in selected Surrey postcodes.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Derbyshire firefighters use O2 Satellite in wildfire
Derbyshire firefighters used O2 Satellite to exchange updates and access information while responding to a wildfire outside terrestrial mobile coverage.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Iraq uses AI to forecast 135% Karbala traffic surge
Iraq is using traffic forecasts to prepare Karbala’s mobile networks for a projected 135% surge during the Arbaeen pilgrimage.
North America Datacenter Trends
Lake to River reports surge in data-centre inquiries
Lake to River reports nearly 10 data-centre leads in eastern Ohio, but none have reached a named project, site selection, or permit filing.
North America Datacenter Trends
El-Sayed campaigns on binding data-centre rules
Michigan’s Senate primary is testing voter support for binding conditions on data-centre power, water, jobs and community benefits.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SoftBank unit's Southeast Asia AI data-centre pact allocates roles, not capital
SB Telecom Singapore, SC ZEUS Data Centers and Robust HPC Group have divided the work needed to pursue AI data centres across Southeast Asia. The memorandum creates a development chain, but names no site, megawatts, power supply, customer, capital budget or delivery date.
North America Datacenter Trends
Woodburn council weighs data-centre moratorium
A moratorium would affect projects only after Woodburn defines which permit actions city staff must stop and from what date.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mitsubishi's August target does not yet restore its quake-hit chip output
Mitsubishi Electric says two semiconductor factories halted after the Kumamoto earthquake should move back to normal operations during August. The timetable narrows the disruption, but it does not disclose current output, lost production or when customers will again receive…
Global Cloud Services Trends
NTT's OptQC pact adds capital to a roadmap, not a million-qubit machine
NTT and OptQC have turned a research relationship into a capital and business alliance, with NTT planning to invest in the University of Tokyo spin-out. The agreement creates a longer operating horizon for photonic quantum computing, but the price, stake and funding date remain…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Twilio sees Safaricom Kenya receipt recovery after 57 minutes, but the cause stays undisclosed
Twilio says SMS delivery receipts on a route to Safaricom subscribers in Kenya recovered after a 57-minute public incident window. The underlying messages may have succeeded while their acknowledgements arrived late. Service is being monitored, not declared resolved, and the…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Zoom’s status object kept Meetings operational while reporting degraded quality
Zoom says a subset of users in its US region experienced degraded meeting quality for ten minutes on 2 August. The incident record appeared about 48 minutes after that interval ended, pairing an operational component state with a narrative account of impaired experience.
North America National Telecom Trends
Michigan’s nine water-system reports widen the cyber incident without showing unsafe water
Michigan says nine water systems reported malicious activity consistent with a federal alert. The systems kept operating safely and local teams addressed the issues, leaving a serious operational-technology investigation but no disclosed public-health impact or named culprit.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Twilio saw recovery on a subset of SMS routes to Safaricom, but had not closed the incident
Twilio reported delays and failures from some alphanumeric sender IDs and long codes to Safaricom subscribers in Kenya. It identified an undisclosed cause, observed recovery after 94 minutes and was still monitoring stability at the fixed cutoff.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
EU AI transparency duties take effect with separate obligations for providers and deployers
Article 50 of the EU AI Act now requires in-scope systems to disclose AI interaction, embed detectable machine-readable markings in synthetic output, and label specified biometric, deepfake and public-interest uses. The duties are binding; signing the supporting code remains…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Zoom disclosed a 76-minute Marketplace and AI Companion degradation only after it had ended
Zoom says users experienced degraded service across Marketplace and AI Companion from 00:00 to 01:16 UTC on 2 August. The incident record appeared roughly 29 minutes later, naming two service families but no affected function, cause, scale or geography.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s 15-minute Istanbul network incident left a precise window but almost no diagnosis
Cloudflare says elevated latency and connection errors affected Istanbul for 15 minutes on 1 August. The unusually exact interval is the firmest part of a record that identifies no product, route, cause or scale—and whose only visible notice appeared after the reported impact had…
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub restored GPT-5.6 Luna after 74 minutes, but the incident exposes a model-routing dependency
GPT-5.6 Luna became degraded across GitHub Copilot products and IDE surfaces because of an unnamed upstream model provider on 1 August. GitHub offered a practical escape route—choose another model or Auto—but published no measure of how many requests failed or what functional…