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Asia-Pacific National Telecom
HFCL profit rebounds as fibre exports rise
HFCL is expanding fibre and data-centre connectivity manufacturing after exports helped lift its quarterly revenue and profit.
North America National Telecom
AT&T records 646,000 fibre and fixed wireless additions
AT&T’s second-quarter broadband growth came from both fibre and Internet Air, giving the operator two ways to add home internet connections.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Flotek acquires Clear Telecom in 16th deal
Flotek’s 16th acquisition adds Clear Telecom’s Essex-based IT, communications and connectivity business to its UK managed-services group.
Global Cloud Services
Google connects Nuvem cable to Portugal
Google’s connection of Nuvem at Sines completes a key landing milestone, but the cable’s full operating status and usable capacity remain undisclosed.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada funds development of two PEI power cables
Canada has committed C$5.9 million to advance two planned submarine power cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
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…