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A removable parcel model with three data-centre buildings and one substation sits apart from a blank deed folder and key in a rainy Oregon planning room.

North America Datacenter Trends

Oregon cancelled the Salem land sale; Verrus says the data-centre proposal may still have another route

Gov. Tina Kotek has directed Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state land-sale contract tied to Verrus’s proposed data-centre campus at Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem. The proposal had been described at about $5.1bn, with three…

Jul 31, 2026
Two Angolan network engineers monitor an Angola-shaped service map with a mix of restored, degraded and inactive mobile-network paths.

Africa National Telecom Trends

UNITEL has contained a cyber incident; Angola is still waiting for a complete recovery ledger

A national mobile network does not return with one switch. UNITEL says phased restoration of voice, data and internet began at 11:45 local time on 29 July after a cyberattack had disrupted those services across Angola. Its 30 July market notice described partial service in 13…

Jul 31, 2026
Mobile gas-turbine trailers stand beside newly empty equipment pads while cranes and unfinished structures mark construction of a permanent power plant.

North America Datacenter Trends

Southaven’s temporary turbine bridge finally has an exit calendar

SpaceXAI says an agreed order with Mississippi regulators now sets dates for removing all 69 temporary mobile gas turbines at its Southaven power site: work may begin in August 2026 and is scheduled to finish by July 2027. In parallel, a permitted permanent plant designed for…

Jul 31, 2026
An anonymous first responder stands between two separated network-control zones while a distributed United States node display glows beyond the glass.

North America National Telecom Trends

FirstNet’s new 5G core moves public safety into a separate network decision room

A different 5G symbol on an emergency worker’s handset would say little about who controls the connection. FirstNet’s consequential change is deeper in the network: subscribers have begun moving to a nationwide standalone 5G core dedicated to public safety and physically separate…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating server hall glows beside rows of wrapped, uncommissioned racks and equipment awaiting installation on a data-centre floor.

Global Cloud Services Trends

AWS is growing faster just as Amazon’s AI build turns free cash flow negative

Amazon’s cloud business accelerated in the second quarter, while the group’s trailing free cash flow moved below zero. Those are not opposing stories. They are two stages of the same investment cycle. AWS sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion and segment operating income reached $16.6…

Jul 31, 2026
Technicians commission a blue-piped data-centre cooling line inside an older industrial hall that retains automotive production fixtures.

Global Datacenter Trends

An Ohio automotive factory is being reassigned to the AI cooling cycle

Mitsubishi Electric’s planned data-centre cooling plant in Mason, Ohio, begins with an asset from another industrial era: part of an existing automotive-electrical production site. The company will establish MEHITS US in August, invest approximately $30 million in renovation and…

Jul 31, 2026
A blue-hour electrical substation has one amber-lit transmission path leading towards a distant data-centre building while unlit bays extend across the site.

Global Datacenter Trends

Exelon has put a price on the difference between a data-centre request and a credible queue

Exelon now describes about 11GW of prospective large load as “high probability”, but the useful disclosure is not the adjective or even the scale. It is the evidence underneath it. Projects in that group have reached advanced design or obtained FERC-approved Transmission Security…

Jul 30, 2026
A partly wrapped industrial turbine package sits on an installation cradle beside an unfinished cable trench, with a substation and data-centre building beyond.

Global Datacenter Trends

AEP is reserving turbines for a 69GW load book that has not reached the meter

American Electric Power has begun matching contracts for future electricity demand with reservations for future generation equipment. It added 6GW of signed load agreements in the second quarter, primarily in Texas, taking contracted load growth through 2030 to 69GW. The customer…

Jul 30, 2026
Rows of wrapped, unlit data-centre racks recede beneath translucent planning layers towards a small blue-lit section in the distance.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Meta’s invisible infrastructure queue has reached $279bn

Meta spent $31.08 billion on capital equipment and finance-lease principal in the second quarter. The larger number is waiting outside the period’s visible expenditure: $278.99 billion of operating and finance lease obligations for data centres, colocation and certain network…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional European computing landscape links seven luminous data-centre halls to a public institution, a power substation and a transparent procurement schematic.

Global Datacenter Trends

Europe’s AI gigafactory tender is a contract for demand

The European Union has opened procurement for up to seven AI gigafactories, backed by as much as €10 billion of EU and national money and an expectation of at least €20 billion in private investment. The significant instrument is not the subsidy alone. EuroHPC and 18 Member…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional data-centre hall shows one unbranded rack arriving at left, separate power and cooling systems in the centre, and an orderly row of live racks at right.

Global Datacenter Trends

Microsoft’s 88 data centres are a throughput claim, not a map

Microsoft says it brought 31 new data centres online across five continents in its final fiscal quarter and 88 across the year. The larger revelation is not the pin count. In the same quarter it added another gigawatt of capacity, while cutting the time needed to move new GPUs…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional unbranded server rack exposes a separate lower management-controller layer reached by one thin amber network path.

Global Datacenter Trends

A management port is not a breach—but 24,650 pre-login replies redraw the risk

Lava’s internet measurement does not show 24,650 compromised servers. It shows something more precise: 24,650 public IPMI endpoints returned password-derived authentication material before a client had authenticated. That distinction separates evidence from alarm. It also exposes…

Jul 30, 2026
Unbranded modular engine generators feed an abstract data-centre hall through a restrained illuminated power path.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Three ledgers turn Rolls-Royce’s data-centre power story into earnings

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has moved data-centre demand beyond the language of pipeline and potential. Its half-year result now shows the theme in three separate ledgers: power-generation orders rose 55%, power-generation revenue rose 41%, and the division’s operating margin…

Jul 30, 2026
Chinese data-centre campus with a map showing planned computing projects in Dongguan and Jiashan

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Chinese localities expand data centres despite overbuild concerns

China’s local data-centre push is expanding into towns and counties, raising questions over whether new computing capacity will attract enough demand.

Jul 30, 2026
Editorial infographic showing an Indian data-centre campus, key states and capacity rising from 2.2GW in 2025 to 12GW by 2030.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

India data-centre capacity forecast to reach 12GW by 2030

Wood Mackenzie expects India’s data-centre capacity to reach 12GW by 2030, with power and water availability shaping where projects are delivered.

Jul 30, 2026
An unbranded indoor radio unit and detached credential connect through subtle checkpoints toward an abstract mobile-network core.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

KT’s fine is 225 times the theft the regulator could count

South Korea’s privacy regulator fined KT KRW53.979 billion after a rogue femtocell exposed identifiers belonging to 16,647 people and enabled about KRW240 million of unauthorised mobile payments. The arithmetic is striking: the fine is roughly 225 times the confirmed direct loss.…

Jul 30, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data-centre development in Johor with residents protesting over water use and community impact

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Malaysia’s data-centre boom strains local resources

Malaysia’s data-centre buildout is increasing pressure on power, water and communities, particularly in Johor, the country’s main development hub.

Jul 30, 2026
AI data-centre campus in India beside transmission lines, a substation and renewable power infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

India projects 26.3GW AI data-centre load by 2032

India has nearly doubled its estimate of the electricity demand expected from AI data centres by 2031–32, expanding the transmission, balancing and siting task facing power authorities.

Jul 30, 2026
Illustration of low Earth orbit satellites linking directly to smartphones over North America, with ground stations and network connections.

North America National Telecom

Amazon seeks FCC approval for 5,105 D2D satellites

The filing would add direct mobile links to Amazon Leo, but deployment still depends on regulatory approval, spectrum access and operator integration.

Jul 30, 2026
Map showing the operating SEA-H2X submarine cable and the planned SHV-HK route between Cambodia and Hong Kong.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

SEA-H2X enters commercial service as SHV-HK lands

SEA-H2X is now commercial, while SHV-HK has reached Hong Kong, adding one live route and another planned link across intra-Asia networks.

Jul 30, 2026