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Global Datacenter Trends
KKR’s $19.2bn Fund V gives it allocation power, not finished infrastructure
KKR has completed fundraising for its largest infrastructure fund, giving the manager a larger pool from which to buy and build critical assets across North America and Western Europe. The close matters because it concentrates investment discretion; it does not mean $19.2 billion…
Africa National Telecom Trends
MTN clears the shareholder gate in its IHS deal, but control has not transferred
IHS shareholders have authorised the merger that would allow MTN Group to buy the tower company shares it does not already own. The vote removes a material corporate hurdle; regulatory approvals, closing conditions, payment and the transfer to full ownership still stand between…
Africa National Telecom
ATC Uganda pays UGX20.9bn statutory telecom levy
The payment channels part of ATC Uganda’s revenue into government and universal-access funding, but does not represent a new tower investment.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft’s ChainDrop disclosure turns package trust into a credential propagation map
Microsoft has documented a self-propagating npm compromise that moved through publishing rights rather than a single vulnerable server. More than 400 packages were affected, but the decisive economic exposure is not the package count: it is the cost of proving which credentials…
North America Datacenter Trends
Nashville turns data-centre opposition into authority to buy the land
Nashville’s council has approved an ordinance authorising the city to negotiate for, or condemn, a 23.49-acre parcel beside the zoo where DC BLOX plans a data centre. The vote gives Metro leverage and a route to control the site. It does not give Metro the deed, fix the…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
London proposes dedicated planning policy for data centres
The draft London Plan would require developers to address power, water and local impacts earlier when selecting and designing data-centre sites.
Global National Telecom Trends
NEC’s overseas transfer is a test of the boundary it has drawn
NEC has signed away a defined slice of its international equipment-resale and public-sector IT operations, but the strategic meaning lies less in the undisclosed price than in what must cross the boundary—and what NEC intends to keep controlling after the handover.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia AI cluster in Taiwan
Foxconn says the cluster is commercially available and more than 90% utilised, but has not explained how that figure is calculated.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Microsoft begins consultation on proposed Langley data centre
Microsoft is consulting on its Langley proposal before submitting a full planning application, with the final design and development timetable still to be confirmed.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Maincubes completes first phase of FRA03 data centre
The first phase of FRA03 is complete, with customer availability planned for the third quarter as Maincubes continues work towards the site’s full 16MW capacity.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Exclaim Robotics raises $4.95m for data-centre robots
Exclaim Robotics has raised $4.95 million to develop robots for rack-side data-centre maintenance, with customer testing and operating results still to come.
North America Datacenter
Perimeter Compute targets spare office power for edge AI
The startup plans to install GPU infrastructure in commercial buildings with unused electrical capacity, but it has not disclosed a signed site, customer or operating deployment.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
FuriosaAI plans phased 15MW Stockholm AI data centre
Velox has started construction, but the first 2MW phase and 1,800 planned RNGD accelerators are not expected to enter service until early 2027.
North America National Telecom Trends
IonQ commits $15m to EPB quantum-memory lab
IonQ and EPB will test quantum memory on Chattanooga’s operational fibre network through a five-year research programme.
North America Datacenter Trends
Big Tech commits $1.09tn to future leases
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have signed leases for facilities that are not yet available for use, mostly data centres.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus adds $896m to Paju AI data centre
LG Uplus is adding fresh capital to its Paju project as construction advances on the first building of the planned 200MW campus.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK full-fibre coverage reaches 85% in H1 2026
UK full-fibre coverage rose again in the first half, although more construction took place in areas where fibre was already available.
North America Datacenter Trends
FCC drafts Chinese data-centre transceiver ban
A proposed US restriction could require data-centre operators to check the regulatory status of optical components before approving network designs.
North America Datacenter Trends
Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test
Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…
North America Datacenter Trends
Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban
Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…