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North America Datacenter Trends
Lakeland’s 50MW line buys a year to write rules before approving concentrated load
Lakeland’s City Commission voted 4-3 for a twelve-month moratorium on large-scale data centres and other proposed customers with peak demand of at least 50MW. The pause covers the city’s acceptance, processing, review and approval of relevant development applications while…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s Workers Builds incident shows why software can be live but unable to change
Cloudflare marked an August 3 Workers Builds incident resolved after one hour and 51 minutes. The revealing moment came earlier: at 15:38 UTC, builds were no longer failing, yet users could still encounter delays. That interval separates two kinds of availability—keeping an…
North America National Telecom Trends
Hughes has put part of its satellite business behind a court wall, not switched it off
Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation and eleven wholly owned subsidiaries entered Chapter 11 on 2 August. The petitions move debt enforcement and major restructuring decisions into a supervised legal process while management says customer operations should continue. The useful…
North America Datacenter Trends
Google’s 155MW Oklahoma solar deal has contracted an output, not delivered a data-centre load
Google has agreed to buy the entire output of RWE’s planned 155MWac Crooked Creek Solar project for 15 years. The contract can give the project a durable buyer and give Google a long-term renewable-energy position in the Southwest Power Pool. It does not mean the plant is…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare’s London egress incident exposed the narrow risk inside a stable outbound identity
Cloudflare restored Gateway service after a two-hour incident in which customers using dedicated IPv4 egress addresses homed in London could have been unable to reach the public Internet. The public record is precise about the affected path and the five operational states, but…
North America Datacenter Trends
Yondr has bought a Manassas site; 72MW still has to climb the entire delivery ladder
Yondr and investment funds managed by Cerberus have acquired a 40-acre site in Manassas, Virginia, where Yondr plans a 72MW data-centre campus with a 2029 ready-for-service target. The acquisition moves the project past the search for land, but not past the harder conversions…
North America Datacenter Trends
Prysmian’s $3.8 billion Atkore agreement is a route to control, not control itself
Prysmian has agreed to pay $95 in cash for each Atkore share in a transaction carrying an enterprise value of about $3.8 billion. The industrial case reaches from electrical conduit to data-centre construction, but every claimed benefit still sits beyond a shareholder vote…
North America Datacenter Trends
Brookfield, NextEra plan $100bn Kentucky data-centre campus
Brookfield and NextEra plan a 1.8GW Kentucky campus with dedicated gas generation, battery storage and local utility service.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub restored Copilot after multi-model request failures exposed a shared work queue
GitHub resolved a 92-minute Copilot incident after chat and agent requests across multiple models suffered degraded availability. The service recovered, but the public record leaves enterprises without the denominator needed to judge how much work failed, waited or succeeded on…
North America Datacenter Trends
PJM proposes capacity rules for large data centres
PJM wants new data centres to pair grid connections with firm capacity or accept earlier curtailment during regional shortages.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Helios Towers raises 2026 guidance again
Helios Towers raised its tenancy, earnings, and cash-flow forecasts after record first-half additions across Africa and the Middle East.
Global National Telecom Trends
AccelerComm completes Eclipse Space physical-layer design
AccelerComm has completed physical-layer design work for Eclipse Space’s planned direct-to-device and broadband satellite platform.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EE launches 8Gbps fibre in Guildford and Woking
EE has begun selling 2.3Gbps and 8Gbps broadband over Openreach’s XGS-PON network in selected Surrey postcodes.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Derbyshire firefighters use O2 Satellite in wildfire
Derbyshire firefighters used O2 Satellite to exchange updates and access information while responding to a wildfire outside terrestrial mobile coverage.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Iraq uses AI to forecast 135% Karbala traffic surge
Iraq is using traffic forecasts to prepare Karbala’s mobile networks for a projected 135% surge during the Arbaeen pilgrimage.
North America Datacenter Trends
Lake to River reports surge in data-centre inquiries
Lake to River reports nearly 10 data-centre leads in eastern Ohio, but none have reached a named project, site selection, or permit filing.
North America Datacenter Trends
El-Sayed campaigns on binding data-centre rules
Michigan’s Senate primary is testing voter support for binding conditions on data-centre power, water, jobs and community benefits.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SoftBank unit's Southeast Asia AI data-centre pact allocates roles, not capital
SB Telecom Singapore, SC ZEUS Data Centers and Robust HPC Group have divided the work needed to pursue AI data centres across Southeast Asia. The memorandum creates a development chain, but names no site, megawatts, power supply, customer, capital budget or delivery date.
North America Datacenter Trends
Woodburn council weighs data-centre moratorium
A moratorium would affect projects only after Woodburn defines which permit actions city staff must stop and from what date.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mitsubishi's August target does not yet restore its quake-hit chip output
Mitsubishi Electric says two semiconductor factories halted after the Kumamoto earthquake should move back to normal operations during August. The timetable narrows the disruption, but it does not disclose current output, lost production or when customers will again receive…