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Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telefónica Germany plans 1,100 job cuts and 60 shop closures
Telefónica Germany is cutting staff and shops as it consolidates sales and customer service and increases AI use in selected processes.
North America Datacenter
Lakeland data-centre moratorium advances to final vote
Lakeland has advanced a 12-month pause on large data-centre projects while officials review electricity, water, noise and planning requirements.
North America Datacenter
OpenAI plans 3.2GW Georgia data-centre campus
OpenAI has secured phased power delivery for Project Camellia, but its financing, design and operating plans are still being developed.
North America Datacenter Trends
Poll finds rising US opposition to nearby data centres
A POLITICO poll found that opposition to nearby data-centre projects has overtaken support, with the largest change among Democratic voters.
North America Datacenter
Coweta County halts new data-centre proposals
Coweta County paused new data-centre proposals after approving Project Sail’s rezoning, as residents challenged its local impact.
Global Datacenter Trends
Molex signs Prysmian fibre deal worth up to €5.5bn
Molex is committing to long-term optical cable purchases as Prysmian prepares to expand fibre production in the US and Europe.
North America Datacenter
Orangeburg County weighs data-centre moratorium
Orangeburg County may pause planning, permit and incentive applications while it develops rules for data centres and other computing facilities.
North America Datacenter Trends
Trump to expand data-centre power pledge
Trump is set to extend the Ratepayer Protection Pledge to utilities and developers, bringing in the groups that negotiate power rates and grid connections for new data centres.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
IRGC claims cruise missiles destroyed AWS Bahrain infrastructure
The IRGC says it destroyed AWS infrastructure in Bahrain, but Amazon and government officials have not confirmed the attack, and the region was already unavailable after earlier damage.
North America Datacenter Trends
US House panel advances data-centre grid cost bill
US state utility regulators would consider requiring 100 MW data-centre customers to fund the grid upgrades needed to serve their sites.
North America Cloud Services Trends
GitHub's 3% hosted-runner delay reveals the cost of a shared execution queue
For 85 minutes on 22 July, about 3% of GitHub-hosted Actions runs took more than five minutes to start, and a small portion could fail after an extended delay. The incident was narrow, measured and resolved. It nevertheless shows why teams that buy managed execution capacity must…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget
NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…
North America Datacenter Trends
Meta's Temple opening turns a construction promise into operating load
Meta has opened its Temple, Texas data centre after four years of construction, moving the project from a planning claim to a live operating facility. That transition makes jobs and infrastructure measurable, but the eventual $1.2 billion-plus value, renewable-energy matching and…
North America Cloud Services Trends
IBM's software mix is carrying a slower operating machine
IBM raised the floor of its full-year constant-currency growth outlook after a quarter in which software expanded but consulting stalled, infrastructure contracted and free cash flow declined. The stronger guidance is credible as a portfolio-mix signal; it is not yet proof that…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Alphabet’s $112bn quarter is mostly an investment gain, not operating cash
Alphabet reported extraordinary second-quarter profit, but the number that matters for its infrastructure build is less flattering: $44.924bn of capital expenditure exceeded $39.069bn of operating cash flow. Google Cloud is growing fast enough to support the investment case…
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC has moved Covered List risk inside the device
The Federal Communications Commission has closed a route by which a product could obtain a new US authorization even when its essential logic came from a company already judged a security risk. The rule changes the compliance question from who assembled the finished device to who…
North America National Telecom Trends
Broadband labels survive, but their bulk-data shadow does not
The FCC has kept consumer broadband labels while removing the separate machine-readable spreadsheet and the two-year archive for discontinued plans. Providers lose two compliance systems; comparison tools and researchers lose structured and historical evidence. The 3–0 decision…
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC’s Upper C-band winners will inherit the bill for clearing it
The FCC has adopted rules for a future auction of 160MHz between 3.98GHz and 4.14GHz. The spectrum is valuable because it can extend the existing C-band mobile ecosystem, but it is not empty: satellite users must move and aircraft altimeters must be upgraded. Future licensees…
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC has redesigned the satellite-licensing queue, not removed it
Part 100 turns satellite licensing into a more explicit sorting system. Applications that fit standard, presumed-acceptable conditions should move through a predictable lane; exceptions receive targeted review. The gain is administrative sequence, not permission to ignore…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Anthropic closed one incident 28 seconds before opening another
Anthropic resolved elevated errors on Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 at 15:23:37 UTC, then opened a Sonnet 5 error record at 15:24:05. Both minor incidents named the same five service surfaces. The 28-second gap creates operational continuity for customers, but it does not prove one…