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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…
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.
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.
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.…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australian states oppose data-centre power rules
Australia plans mandatory power, water and efficiency standards for large data centres, but two jurisdictions oppose part of the proposed national framework.
Global Cloud Services
EU fines Google €890m over Search and Play
Google has 60 days to change Search presentation and Play steering rules after two DMA fines totalling €890 million.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Anthropic showed the breadth of its outage, but not its denominator
Anthropic marked a cross-model Claude incident critical after four product surfaces moved into major-outage status. Its final timeline bounds elevated errors to 101 minutes, yet the record never says how many requests or customers failed. That gap turns a familiar status page…
North America Datacenter Trends
Microsoft’s $329.1bn lease stack is capacity that has not started
Microsoft has disclosed $329.1 billion of additional leases, primarily for datacentres, that had not commenced at 30 June. The number maps a future infrastructure commitment, not live computing capacity or cash already spent. A simultaneous accounting change makes the distinction…
North America National Telecom Trends
The Space Force bought 18 launch slots; execution is the scarce asset
Two U.S. Space Force task orders give SpaceX a $1.6 billion campaign of 18 Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg through the end of 2027. The award does not buy completed constellations. It buys access to a launch system, range infrastructure and operating cadence that can convert…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
The CMA’s Microsoft 365 probe turns renewal design into the evidence
Britain’s competition regulator is investigating whether Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers saw a cheaper continuity option clearly enough before renewal. The annual difference was £25, but the economic question is larger than the price: when a supplier adds Copilot…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s $2.325bn loan funds a build, not a finished 270MW campus
AirTrunk has closed US$2.325 billion of green financing for JHB2 in Johor Bahru, turning a loan that was being marketed in May into committed project funding. The 30-institution syndicate is substantial, but it proves neither that the scalable 270MW campus is complete nor that…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan’s regulator made KDDI’s mailbox breach a governance test
Japan’s communications ministry has issued KDDI written administrative guidance and a severe admonition after stolen credentials left about 7.62 million users’ mailbox contents viewable. The figure describes exposure, not proof that every mailbox was opened. The new event is the…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KDDI’s Kumamoto relief is four different product interventions
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular will offer data support from 30 July to 31 August to customers tied to 21 Kumamoto municipalities. The headline number, 100GB, applies differently across brands: UQ users must claim it, povo1.0 users receive it, and povo2.0 users instead get five…
North America National Telecom Trends
$1.5 billion gives Verizon’s outsourced fibre model an execution budget
Bain Capital is leading a $1.5 billion investment in Eaton Fiber, with Tillman Global Holdings also reported as an investor, to support a Verizon fibre expansion targeting more than one million locations beyond its existing footprint. The capital does not mean those locations…
North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T owns EchoStar’s spectrum now; the buildout clock has started
AT&T has closed its approximately $23 billion purchase of EchoStar spectrum licences, adding about 30 MHz in the 3.45 GHz band and 20 MHz at 600 MHz across virtually every US market. The assets can widen coverage and capacity, but a licence transfer is not a network upgrade. The…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telefónica raised its cash-operating target; the definitions matter more than the headline
Telefónica lifted its 2026 adjusted operating cash flow growth target from above 2% to above 3% after reporting €2.654 billion for the first half. The upgrade is useful, but the measure is adjusted OpCFaL rather than statutory cash flow. Revenue, EBITDA, free cash flow, debt and…