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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hispasat’s Madrid teleport reaches WTA’s highest certification tier
Hispasat’s Arganda del Rey teleport has entered the World Teleport Association registry at Tier 4 Full, the programme’s highest level. The certification gives customers an independently inspected signal about operational discipline at a ground facility that links satellite…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare applied a fix in Hamburg, but the incident was still under watch at cutoff
Cloudflare reported request errors or failures for customers whose traffic routed through its Hamburg location on 31 July. The company identified a problem at 15:20:19.991 UTC and said a fix was in place at 16:58:19.585. At the 17:49:33 Wave 45 cutoff, the incident remained in…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Zoom’s Whiteboard and Tasks incident recovered, then returned
Zoom’s US-region status record shows two distinct degradation phases on 31 July. Users first lost the ability to list Zoom Whiteboards; Task creation was added to the affected scope fifteen minutes later. Both components entered monitoring at 12:45:35 UTC, and that was the state…

North America Datacenter Trends
Hamlet put 649 diesel engines through one public doorway
More than 100 people attended a North Carolina hearing on two air-permit applications tied to Amazon’s Energy Way Tech Campus in Hamlet. One application covers 592 Amazon emergency engines—588 critical units and four ancillary units. The other covers 57 Duke Energy engines…

Global Datacenter Trends
Nebius has disclosed the carbon cost of expansion, but not its full footprint
Nebius reported 65,001 tonnes of market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions for 2025, roughly 32 times the 2,036 tonnes disclosed a year earlier. The multiplication is striking, but its meaning depends on a changed operating base: the company says it expanded to seven active sites. The…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan’s warning to LY Corporation is about a missing control path, not a data-sale finding
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued written administrative guidance to LY Corporation after a LINE game-development partner transmitted MID identifiers and other specified user information to a third-party analytics service. The ministry says the path…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
DOCOMO’s Ericsson choice moves the RAN bottleneck into compute
NTT DOCOMO has selected Ericsson RAN Compute as a baseband platform spanning 4G, 5G and 5G-Advanced. The decision matters because radio capacity is increasingly governed by processing, pooling and software lifecycle as well as antennas. Ericsson says the new generation can…

North America Datacenter Trends
Veolia takes the operating risk in Ohio’s 350MW private power island
Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW behind-the-meter microgrid for an undisclosed AI data-centre campus in Ohio. Gas engines and linear generators are expected to supply the campus, with a 430MWh battery supporting the system. The contract places Veolia at…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s 70-minute incident separated its control plane from its edge
Cloudflare recorded a minor incident at 11:51:07 UTC on 31 July, initially warning that Dashboard and related-API requests might fail while Analytics was degraded. The event later expanded to Pages and Worker builds, entered monitoring at 12:43:57 and was marked resolved at…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on
LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…

Global Datacenter Trends
ENGIE’s 7GW data-centre number is two pipelines wearing the same unit
ENGIE has moved a much larger share of its prospective data-centre work into an advanced stage: 4GW at the end of June, up from 0.8GW at the end of 2025. Together with 3GW at an early stage, that makes a 7GW project pipeline. Separately, the energy group also describes 7GW of…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s 400MW-plus SYD3 has a builder for its next phase, not a live meter
Bouygues Construction’s €1.2bn contract for the next phase of AirTrunk’s SYD3 campus is a large, bounded construction event. Awarded through Australian subsidiary A W Edwards, it assigns work and a delivery horizon toward mid-2028. It does not establish the final cost of the…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Yondr is selling control of two Slough data centres without giving up the operating room
Yondr has agreed to sell a majority interest in a UK data-centre campus to GLIL Infrastructure, while retaining a minority stake and responsibility for operational management after completion. The asset consists of two fully operational hyperscale buildings in Slough serving one…

Global Cloud Services Trends
OpenAI resolved a short chat incident but left its failure domain unnamed
OpenAI’s public incident record moved from identification at 09:04 UTC to mitigation at 09:06 and resolution at 09:28 on 31 July. The detailed update said some ChatGPT Business and Education users saw elevated errors when starting or continuing conversations. At this briefing’s…

Global Datacenter Trends
CyrusOne appoints John Hatem as CEO
John Hatem has taken over as CyrusOne CEO, widening his authority from commercial and project delivery functions to company-wide strategy.

Global Datacenter Trends
Veolia keeps €1bn data-centre and chip revenue target
CyrusOne’s appointment of John Hatem keeps an executive who linked customer commitments to procurement and construction in charge of its next expansion phase.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
CityFibre shareholders propose £900m equity injection
CityFibre’s proposed funding ties network expansion and acquisitions to unresolved negotiations over its existing debt.

North America Datacenter Trends
A reported $15bn loan would make Anthropic’s Texas compute a test of Google’s balance-sheet reach
The notable number in the reported financing talks for a data-centre campus in Hubbard, Texas, is not only the $15bn banks may lend. It is the obligation that could sit behind the debt. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Morgan Stanley-led consortium was discussing financing…

North America Datacenter Trends
Paducah’s proposed AI campus joins a $100bn headline to a 17bn-dollar cleanup ledger
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate a proposed AI data-centre and energy complex at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. AP reports a headline value of $100bn, with NextEra expected to build and own 2GW of…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Trans-Caspian cable has entered the seabed; it has not yet entered service
A specialised vessel has departed Baku and begun laying fibre toward Aktau, converting the Trans-Caspian project from stored equipment into a physical route across the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan’s government says regulatory, organisational and customs obstacles were resolved, a…
