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North America Datacenter Trends
Sangha gets conditional ERCOT classification for Texas campus
Sangha has 19.9MW available today; another 90.5MW is expected in 2028, while ERCOT verification remains incomplete.
North America Datacenter Trends
Bell's next 900MW in Saskatchewan must bring its own power
The proposed AI hub keeps its original 300MW grid arrangement. Its much larger addition depends on separately developed generation, customers and approvals—not merely a bigger capacity headline.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Vertical Data agrees to buy 4.5MW Swedish data-centre site
The acquisition covers a site with 4.5MW today; the proposed expansion to 100MW remains subject to separate power and development approvals.
North America Regional ISP Trends
WiscNet starts two-area splicing after roadwork fibre damage
Two Ashwaubenon outage notices now describe splicing work and a 10pm Central restoration estimate. The incident puts the boundary between a redundant backbone and a resilient site connection in view.
North America National Telecom Trends
Verizon tests crowd sensing on its existing 5G network
A Dallas trial turns radio-channel changes into a crowd-density map. The commercial question is whether that extra network output can earn a place in venue operations.
CASE FILE
An IXP Classifier Cleared 90% on Tested Exchanges. That Is Not a Global Map
A new model can distinguish route-server exchange from bilateral interconnection with better than 90% accuracy on the exchanges used for its transfer test. That is a promising result. The public record still needs to say which exchanges, relationships and errors sit behind the…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
F5 confirms its Seoul edge is live
The new location extends a shared application-security platform. Buyers still need to distinguish a pooled request count from the rest of the service bill.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Site restoration leads Gigapower's Apple Valley update
A city update puts reinstatement and resident concerns at the centre of the week's work. A cable in the ground is not the end of a fibre project's obligations.
Story
LACNIC’s Hackathon Repo Sends Agents to an Unpinned Sibling Harness
A September change makes the repository’s agent rules more explicit, yet the rulebook itself still lives behind a 13-byte relative link. The useful control is not another instruction: it is a receipt identifying the external instructions that governed each mutating run.
CASE FILE
Let’s Encrypt’s 99.21% IP-Certificate Signal Came From Three Days
A new study found Let’s Encrypt behind 99.21% of the IP certificates in one July 2026 stream. Its full-year 2025 data put ZeroSSL first. The apparent reversal is useful news, but only if the time window, counting unit and attribution chain travel with the percentage.
North America Datacenter Trends
Frederick rejects Catellus's deal over future local rules
The county has rejected a proposed community-benefits agreement and extended a separate hold on data-centre applications. A precise prior-approval exception means neither decision should be read as a blanket shutdown.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Austin Energy seeks time to put two cloud links out to bid
A proposed extension of access to two Logix fibre connections would keep billing and other cloud-dependent services connected while the utility prepares a competitive procurement.
North America Datacenter Trends
Volato's AI merger closes, but $500m is not build-out cash
The Alignment Engine deal changes Volato's business before it settles the financing, conversion approvals and equipment orders needed to deliver Ohio computing capacity.
ICANN
ICANN’s Proposed UA Dashboard Must Keep Self-Reports Separate From Tests
Two dashboard cells can both say that a service is Universal Acceptance-ready. One may contain an operator’s answer to a questionnaire; the other may contain a completed multilingual account-recovery test. The words match. The evidence does not. ICANN’s final UA guidelines now…
Story
ARIN Approved a Revised Strategic Plan. Its Public PDF Still Says December 2025.
ARIN’s draft minutes record an August 2026 vote on a “new” or “revised” strategic plan. The plan linked from ARIN’s public planning page, however, identifies itself as the version adopted in December 2025. That mismatch does not prove the strategy changed. It does show that the…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Thales adds a UK boundary for cloud-key recovery
The new Luna Cloud HSM offer keeps the stated key lifecycle, including backups, in the UK. That answers a location question without settling every question about restoring a usable service.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Braze’s messaging and infrastructure bills drove 73% of its delivery-cost increase
Braze grew revenue by more than a quarter, but the cost of delivering that growth rose faster. Two disclosed third-party lines explain nearly three quarters of the increase. They reveal where the platform pays a toll—and why neither AI excitement nor a headline gross margin can…
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas makes missing water records a data-centre permit risk
The state's latest directive reaches beyond a prospective grid audit to past water-use returns. For developers, evidence that a survey is complete matters more than a claim that cooling is efficient.
Africa National Telecom Trends
NigComSat-2A needs its own capacity catalogue
Nigeria's satellite operator has signed for a new spacecraft. The next commercial question is what a customer will be able to buy from it, on what terms, and through which ground services.
ICANN
ICANN’s Alternative-Name Integration Needs a Verifiable Turn-Down
ICANN’s draft model would let a gTLD registry coordinate the same name across the global DNS and another naming system. The report recommends a mandatory plan for switching that integration off. The harder governance test is whether the operator can later prove that every…