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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…
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC has moved Covered List risk inside the device
The Federal Communications Commission has closed a route by which a product could obtain a new US authorization even when its essential logic came from a company already judged a security risk. The rule changes the compliance question from who assembled the finished device to who…
North America National Telecom Trends
Broadband labels survive, but their bulk-data shadow does not
The FCC has kept consumer broadband labels while removing the separate machine-readable spreadsheet and the two-year archive for discontinued plans. Providers lose two compliance systems; comparison tools and researchers lose structured and historical evidence. The 3–0 decision…
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC’s Upper C-band winners will inherit the bill for clearing it
The FCC has adopted rules for a future auction of 160MHz between 3.98GHz and 4.14GHz. The spectrum is valuable because it can extend the existing C-band mobile ecosystem, but it is not empty: satellite users must move and aircraft altimeters must be upgraded. Future licensees…
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC has redesigned the satellite-licensing queue, not removed it
Part 100 turns satellite licensing into a more explicit sorting system. Applications that fit standard, presumed-acceptable conditions should move through a predictable lane; exceptions receive targeted review. The gain is administrative sequence, not permission to ignore…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Anthropic closed one incident 28 seconds before opening another
Anthropic resolved elevated errors on Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 at 15:23:37 UTC, then opened a Sonnet 5 error record at 15:24:05. Both minor incidents named the same five service surfaces. The 28-second gap creates operational continuity for customers, but it does not prove one…
North America Datacenter Trends
OpenAI has a 3.2GW power contract before Project Camellia has a final design
OpenAI says it is contracting with Georgia Power for 3.2 gigawatts to be delivered in phases from 2028 to 2032 for Project Camellia in Effingham County. The scale is material, but it describes a future power-supply plan, not commissioned computing load today. Financing, design…
North America Cloud Services Trends
AMD bought an option on Anthropic’s deployment, not two gigawatts of certainty
AMD and Anthropic have agreed on an accelerator programme of up to 2GW, beginning with as much as 1GW of MI450 capacity in the first half of 2027. AMD may also invest up to $5 billion as deployment milestones are met. The scale is large, but every headline number is conditional…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
TIM board endorses Poste Italiane takeover offer
TIM’s board has backed Poste Italiane’s offer, but no changes to network investment, governance or tower arrangements have been announced.
Global Cloud Services
11:11 Systems launches managed SASE with Cato Networks
11:11 will act as customers’ main contact across carrier connectivity, SD-WAN and Cato’s security platform.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom prioritises 160MHz of upper 6GHz for Wi-Fi
Ofcom will prioritise 160MHz of upper 6GHz for Wi-Fi, while higher-power use across the band will require automated coordination.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Scottish Water awards BT up to £130m network contract
BT will manage about 7,000 connections and combine network and security operations under a contract that remains subject to due diligence.
North America Datacenter
AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP complete $40bn Aligned acquisition
AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP completed the $40bn Aligned acquisition and committed another $5bn to support its 51-campus portfolio.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telefónica Tech offers Harrison.ai chest X-ray tool in Spain
Telefónica Tech will integrate and support Harrison.ai’s chest X-ray software, but the companies have not identified a live deployment in Spain.
North America Datacenter
Oracle could face $7bn collateral for Wisconsin data centre
Oracle says Wisconsin utility rules could require more than $7bn in collateral for power infrastructure serving its Port Washington data-centre campus.
North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T’s million-add quarter was really three different network bets
AT&T added more than one million advanced-connectivity customers across fibre, fixed wireless and postpaid phones in the second quarter. The total is impressive, but the useful signal is the mix: the operator is using several access technologies to widen its addressable market…