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Global Cloud Services Trends
A static IP is an identifier, not a security control
A stable address simplifies hosting, monitoring and partner allowlists. It also gives attackers a durable target and does not authenticate the system behind it.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloud computing needs a lifecycle price
Rapid provisioning makes the first month easy to measure. The harder costs arrive through data movement, support, idle resources, compliance and eventual migration.
Story
AFRINIC published an audit opinion. Its Audit Committee’s work remains off the public record
AFRINIC’s 2025 accounts carry an unmodified external-audit opinion, an independence statement and a disclosure that the auditor received no other service fees. Those are real safeguards. But they do not answer the separate question created by AFRINIC’s own Audit Committee…
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AFRINIC elected three GovCom members. Its two Board appointments remain unpublished
AFRINIC completed the membership vote for three Governance Committee seats in June and opened the remaining two voting seats to Board appointment on 17 July. Applications closed on 28 July. At the 11 August evidence cut-off, the registry’s current committee page still said…
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AFRINIC’s Legal Committee has four names—and no public charter
AFRINIC’s Board and Receiver created a Legal Committee in October 2025 to inventory every ongoing case, optimise legal resources and review information about allegedly fraudulent election documents. Nearly ten months later, AFRINIC’s public register names the four committee…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional
BELLA II’s five-country expansion is still a design process
RedCLARA has moved from market soundings to structured supplier dialogue, but Peru and four Central American priority countries should not yet be treated as new operational backbone nodes.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange Polska extends EDF wind-power deal to 2035
Orange Polska’s renewed EDF wind-power deal covers about 200GWh a year, equal to roughly 40% of the operator’s electricity demand.
North America Datacenter Trends
AWS explores Homer City data-centre project
Amazon is discussing the Pennsylvania site while Homer City builds its gas-fired power project, but no definitive AWS agreement has been signed.
North America Datacenter Trends
PowerHouse plans 300MW Westlake data-centre campus
Circle T would comprise four 300,000-square-foot buildings and a developer-funded Oncor substation, while later phases still require specific-use permits.
Story
AFRINIC named six bylaw reviewers—but not the members they represent
AFRINIC says its Board, acting with the Receiver’s consent, selected one person from each of six sub-regions for a committee that would filter public input and draft bylaw changes. The invitation had been limited to representatives of Resource Members. Yet the 2 March appointment…
North America Datacenter Trends
Minneapolis 511 Building outage disrupts regional connectivity
The carrier hotel hosts MICE, dozens of carriers, and several colocation providers, giving one downtown facility an important role in regional connectivity.
Academics
Nick Feamster designed tools to explain networks – and revealed their limits
In 2005, a tool he co-wrote flagged over 1,000 previously undetected faults in the configurations of 17 autonomous systems. The same drive to make hidden infrastructure legible was later applied to spam, broadband, censorship, connected homes and machine learning – while showing…
Academics
Nick Feamster created tools to explain networks and revealed their limits
In 2005, a checker he co-authored detected over 1,000 previously unidentified faults in configurations of 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make hidden infrastructure legible later extended to spam, broadband, censorship, connected homes and machine learning, repeatedly…
North America Datacenter Trends
US data-centre opponents challenge local approvals in court
Lawsuits are testing whether US data-centre approvals can withstand scrutiny over public notice, zoning and transparency.
North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon plans Texas data centre with on-site gas power
Amazon’s Pecos County campus will initially use private generation, while GW Ranch’s gas permit allows up to 33 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.
Academics
Nick Feamster built tools to explain networks—and exposed their limits
In 2005, a checker he co-authored reported more than 1,000 previously undetected faults across configurations from 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make hidden infrastructure legible later reached spam, broadband, censorship, smart homes and machine learning—and…
Story
AFRINIC’s legal review says dashboard punishment rules are still unwritten
AFRINIC’s 23 June assessment of a proposed automated compliance dashboard warns that the draft leaves staff to define essential sanction rules, omits adequate due process and data protections, and gives the Board a vague exception power. The proposal was still “Under Discussion”…
North America Datacenter Trends
Pado says older data centres can handle AI inference
Pado says older data centres can run many AI inference workloads, offering a way to use existing power and hardware before building new capacity.
Global Cloud Services
Lambda’s integrated AI cloud is also a test of financing capability
Lambda has raised billions of dollars through equity and debt to combine NVIDIA systems, high-speed networking, storage, schedulers and datacentre capacity into managed AI infrastructure. Its advantage is taking on integration work for customers; its risk is that every additional…
North America Datacenter Trends
US lenders scrutinise local opposition in data-centre financing
US lenders are scrutinising community opposition when assessing data-centre loans, adding local political risk to financing decisions as project resistance spreads.