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North America Datacenter Trends
Data-centre orders push US suppliers to expand factories
Generac and Siemens are expanding US manufacturing as data-centre orders increase demand for generators and electrical equipment.
Story
AFRINIC says GovCom is ready, but its term clock is not
AFRINIC published the committee’s names and end dates. Without start dates, its one-year Board liaison cap and the 2026 transition remain unverified.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare records 48-minute 5xx window on Singapore–North America path
Cloudflare says some customers encountered elevated 5xx errors and timeouts between North American origins and its Singapore data centre from 01:06 to 01:54 UTC on 23 August. The incident was resolved, but its public narrative appeared after the stated impact window had closed.
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AFRINIC removes a nationality bar—but leaves its replacement gate without a record
The August consultation ended with a genuine reform still attached to an unfinished procedure: Mauritian candidates would no longer be excluded by passport, yet the Board could decide who never reaches the CEO’s office without the draft guaranteeing notice, reasons, recusal or…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Google links 27-product disruption to us-west1 optical maintenance
Google Cloud says planned optical maintenance caused unexpected congestion in its Dalles, Oregon metro and `us-west1` region on 20 August. The high-severity incident record names 27 affected products and shows that customers were advised to fail over to other regions before the…
CASE FILE
Internet Society Seated Four Trustees. The Challenge Record Still Stops at “Rejected”
Four Internet Society trustees began three-year terms in July after an election cycle that included one formal challenge. The Board disclosed that it reviewed background material and associated audit results before unanimously rejecting that challenge. What the public still…
ICANN
ICANN Named Seven Leaders. The Selection Crosswalk Is Still Missing
ICANN's 2026 Nominating Committee has disclosed seven selectees, the size and demographics of a 223-person applicant pool, and part of the route from applications to final interviews. It has not yet shown, role by role, how published needs and a new Board-skills methodology…
Latin America and Caribbean Cloud Services Trends
F5 leaves Mexico edge unconfirmed after scheduled go-live
More than 25 hours after F5's stated activation time for its `qro1-mx` Distributed Cloud Regional Edge, the public notice still says `Monitoring` and offers no completion update. The same change also depends on customers allowing a new `159.60.179.0/24` source range into their…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EE launches Fast Lane 5G slicing for consumers
EE is putting network priority into premium plans, but Fast Lane works only on eligible 5G+ connections and does not guarantee speed.
Global Institutional
NTT DATA, Palo Alto set US$1bn alliance target
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks are expanding joint engineering and managed security services under a global alliance targeting US$1bn in business by 2029.
North America Datacenter Trends
IREN delivers first 50MW AI-cloud building to Microsoft
Microsoft has accepted Horizon 1 at IREN's Childress campus, moving the first 50MW of a planned 200MW 2026 deployment into the delivered stage.
Global Datacenter Trends
Dell'Oro forecasts US$120bn DCPI revenue by 2030
Dell'Oro expects data-centre infrastructure manufacturer revenue to reach US$120bn by 2030 as operators add nearly 200GW of capacity.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Eaton, SP launch 800VDC training
Eaton and Singapore Polytechnic will add 800VDC to data-centre training as higher-density AI systems reshape power design.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
L&T secures Together AI order for 10,000-GPU Chennai cluster
The order launches L&T's AI Factory business at its Chennai campus, where the 10,000-GPU deployment must now move through integration and commissioning.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ampito puts Highlight across 5,000 customer connections
Ampito will use Highlight across more than 5,000 customer connections, giving operational and customer-facing teams the same service-performance view.
ICANN
ICANN’s CIP Is Underway. Its Accountability Test Comes Later
ICANN’s first annual progress table for its Continuous Improvement Program shows six of eight community structures at work and one already implementing improvements. That is useful evidence of mobilisation. It is not yet evidence that any structure has become more effective or…
Global Regional ISP Trends
Ubiquiti's $3.27bn Year Was an Enterprise Shift, Not a Service-Provider Rebound
Ubiquiti ended fiscal 2026 with record revenue, but the headline conceals two businesses moving in opposite directions. Enterprise Technology supplied more than all of the company's net growth while Service Provider Technology contracted, shifting the economic centre of the group…
North America Datacenter Trends
AUC rejects Synapse's 1.4GW Olds power plant
The regulator found Synapse's proposed gas plant too close to homes, forcing a rethink of the power plan behind its 1GW Olds data centre.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Latos submits East Manchester data centre plans
Latos's compact edge model now has to clear planning with its power, plant, noise controls and access built into the site design.
North America Institutional Trends
Prince George approves C$400,000 Northern Health fibre link
Prince George will add a second Northern Health fibre link before hospital construction severs an existing route, using revenue from its municipal network.