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Illustration of a corporate handshake overlooking a large data-centre campus with power infrastructure and financial charts

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.

Jul 22, 2026
Radiologist reviewing an AI-assisted chest X-ray on a clinical workstation branded Telefónica Tech and Harrison.ai

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a data centre beside power lines, with collateral documents and court materials in the foreground

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.

Jul 22, 2026
Technician working on fibre beside a suburban home with fixed-wireless equipment and a distant mobile tower

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…

Jul 22, 2026
Watch for completion of the Singapore landing and system testing, followed by a revised ready-for-service date and commercial launch. Published launch capacity, route details and interconnection options at Nongsa Digital Park and Digital Realty’s SIN12 facility will show what customers can order and whether NCC provides a distinct path from existing Batam–Singapore systems.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Telin and BW Digital land Nongsa Changi cable in Batam

Telin and BW Digital landed the 50km Nongsa Changi Cable in Batam, but the Batam–Singapore link still has no revised service date.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of an Intel-branded corporate entrance representing planned layoffs in the company’s Data Center Group.

North America Datacenter

Intel targets Data Center Group in latest wave of job cuts

Intel plans to cut staff without changing its data-centre roadmap, leaving the effect on product delivery tied to the teams affected.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a desert data centre beside solar panels, wind turbines and battery storage, representing Envision’s Mission Gobi plan

Global Datacenter Trends

Envision sets 5GW target for Mission Gobi data centres

Mission Gobi combines computing capacity with renewable power, storage and grid infrastructure, but Envision has not named projects for its 5GW target.

Jul 22, 2026
Data-centre servers and power infrastructure representing PJM’s capacity auction and rising electricity demand from large computing facilities.

North America Datacenter Trends

PJM monitor attributes US$6.3bn auction charges to data centres

PJM’s market monitor wants data-centre demand backed by new generation or procured through a separate long-term auction.

Jul 22, 2026
Two network engineers test temporary 5G equipment on a Kyiv rooftop overlooking the city and Dnipro

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Kyiv’s three 5G operators are measuring three different things

Ukraine has extended its government-coordinated 5G pilot to Kyiv. Kyivstar reports speed, Vodafone reports district-level test availability and lifecell reports traffic growth. Together they show demand and technical performance, but they do not yet disclose a commercial price…

Jul 22, 2026
Lakeland City Hall representing the proposed pause on data-centre and large-load applications in Lakeland, Florida.

North America Datacenter

Lakeland considers 12-month pause on data-centre applications

Lakeland is considering a pause while it decides where data centres may be permitted and how its utility should assess large power requests.

Jul 22, 2026
Technician connecting fibre on a Moroccan rooftop with older copper cable and a mobile mast in the distance

Africa National Telecom Trends

Maroc Telecom’s 39.7% profit fall begins with last year’s exceptional gain

Maroc Telecom’s first-half revenue rose 5.4% and EBITDA rose 5.1%, yet reported group net income fell 39.7%. The apparent contradiction is largely a comparison problem: the 2025 base included exceptional Wana-related income. Separating that item from repeatable operations changes…

Jul 22, 2026
File tiles paused at an upload gateway beside a partially materialized blank image canvas under amber processing light

North America Cloud Services Trends

OpenAI's new file-and-image incident was still live at the reporting cutoff

At 09:40:04 UTC, OpenAI had identified elevated errors affecting file uploads and image generation and was implementing a mitigation. A monitoring update arrived four minutes and thirty-seven seconds later, but it belongs to the next reporting state. The cutoff preserves what…

Jul 22, 2026
Three bright network service channels and two fading legacy channels feed two stable equal-level reservoirs

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

KPN lowers the full-year growth bar without lowering cash guidance

KPN now expects full-year service-revenue growth of about 1.5%, down from a prior 2%–2.5% range, after second-quarter group service revenue rose only 0.8% to €1.35 billion. It still expects 2%–2.5% growth in the second half and retains EBITDA and free-cash-flow guidance, making…

Jul 22, 2026
Three selected business phones highlighted beside a roaming globe and exit path, separate from unaffected phones

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Odido puts a €1.50 price on a business-mobile upgrade—and an exit beside it

Selected Odido business-mobile plans will cost €1.50 more per month, excluding VAT, from 1 September. Download speed and roaming coverage also change, while affected customers may cancel without penalty. The operator has disclosed the unit price move, not the number or mix of…

Jul 22, 2026
Planner gestures over an unlabeled data-centre scale model separated from homes by a broad green buffer

North America Datacenter Trends

Nashville turns data-centre resource costs into permit conditions

Nashville's Metro Council has approved a data-centre zoning package and a temporary permitting moratorium. The new framework bars facilities above 500,000 square feet, sends smaller proposals through special-exception review and places siting, generation and water-cooling…

Jul 22, 2026
Submarine fibre lands at a coastal station and branches toward several small data facilities

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Chunghwa will use submarine cables as an APN test bench, not a launch platform

Chunghwa Telecom, Fujitsu and 1Finity have agreed to a two-year programme to verify all-photonics networking on Chunghwa’s submarine-cable systems and study distributed data centres. The commitment creates a real test surface, but no equipment order, capacity figure, route…

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Microsoft-branded data centre beneath a global grid showing hourly zero-carbon power matching

Global Datacenter Trends

Microsoft weighs delay to hourly clean-power target

Microsoft’s review focuses on a harder task than annual procurement: matching zero-carbon power to data-centre demand on the same grid, hour by hour.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a NEXTDC-branded data centre beside a cable landing station at sunset

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

NEXTDC’s SC2 falls outside planned Australian data-centre rules

SC2 is outside the proposed rules, but Australia has yet to say how they will apply to later phases at existing campuses.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Canadian data centre beside power lines, with poll figures on electricity costs and environmental concerns

North America Datacenter Trends

Canadians fear data-centre power costs

Canadian support for data centres may depend on whether operators can show who will pay for the power and infrastructure their projects require.

Jul 22, 2026
Large communications satellite with an open mesh reflector and deployed boom in deep space above a distant Earth

Global National Telecom Trends

ViaSat-3 F3 cleared a mechanical gate, not the service-entry gate

Viasat says the reflector and boom on ViaSat-3 F3 have deployed successfully 35,786 kilometres above Earth. That removes one of the mission's most visible mechanical uncertainties and allows in-orbit testing to advance, but Asia-Pacific capacity is not yet an operating service.

Jul 22, 2026