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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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.
