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North America Datacenter Trends
ChronoScale plans 50MW Microsoft AI deployment for Q1 2027
ChronoScale plans a 50MW NVIDIA GB300 deployment for Microsoft in North America, with completion targeted for the first quarter of 2027.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Green Mountain signs 14MW London neocloud customer
Green Mountain has signed an unnamed neocloud customer for the newly delivered 14MW expansion at its LON-East campus in Romford.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Sterlite’s Credit Upgrade Puts the Next Capex Cycle in Focus
A stronger credit rating recognises the optical-fibre maker’s financial reset. Keeping that improvement while it invests in equipment is a separate task.

Global Datacenter Trends
PwC forecasts US$31.6tn in AI data-centre capex by 2050
PwC expects repeated server, GPU and networking upgrades to keep AI data-centre spending rising long after facilities are first built.

Global Datacenter Trends
HPE's 112% Data-Centre Networking Growth Reverses on Its Normalized Base
HPE reported US$382 million of data-centre networking revenue for its July quarter, more than twice the published figure a year earlier. Against the historical base reconstructed in its own earnings presentation, the same revenue fell about 6%. Neither calculation is a reason to…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Adobe moves AI captioning workloads to HUMAIN in Saudi Arabia
Adobe will run regional AI data-captioning workloads on HUMAIN's Saudi infrastructure using Qualcomm Dragonfly accelerators, keeping the related compute and data inside the Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
E2E Networks signs ₹1,000 crore Blackwell GPU deal
The Indian cloud provider has moved Nvidia Blackwell capacity deployed in May from pay-as-you-go use to a longer-term customer agreement running through June 2029.

North America Datacenter Trends
Host Digital signs $1.25bn lease for 43MW in Oklahoma
Host Digital has signed a 15-year lease for 43MW of IT capacity at an already powered Oklahoma data centre, with handover expected in the first half of 2027.

North America Datacenter Trends
Corvex targets 8MW across two US data centres
Corvex has signed agreements to expand across two existing powered data centres, with about 8MW expected by year-end and another 12.5MW remaining optional.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Bull wins €387.8m LUMI-AI contract
Bull will deploy LUMI-AI at CSC's new Kajaani data centre in the second half of 2027 under a €387.8m EuroHPC procurement contract.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Nvidia invests $3.5bn in MediaTek
MediaTek will help customers develop custom AI accelerators that connect to Nvidia’s interconnect and rack-scale architecture.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
AWS sets December launch for Saudi Region
AWS says its first Saudi Region is on track for December 2026, while AWS and HUMAIN target up to 50MW in a separate AI Zone by 2028.

Global Datacenter Trends
NVIDIA starts shipping Vera CPUs at scale
NVIDIA says Vera CPU systems are shipping at scale, moving its new AI processor from launch plans into customer integration.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Together AI, HUMAIN plan 250MW Saudi data centre
The partnership links HUMAIN's Saudi AI infrastructure with Together AI's cloud platform and customers, with a new 250MW facility planned.

North America Datacenter Trends
Fervo’s 396MW Google PPA Comes in Four Tranches—and the 600MW Option Has a Reimbursement Tail
The nearly-one-gigawatt headline hides four different contractual states. Fervo Energy has signed a 396MW power purchase agreement with Google, divided into four 99MW deliveries. It must also offer roughly 600MW more, but that capacity becomes contracted only if Google accepts…

North America Datacenter Trends
Fervo’s 396 MW Google PPA Has a 600 MW Offer Gate
Fervo Energy and Google have signed for 396 MW of enhanced geothermal power from Cape Station. The same contract also requires Fervo to offer roughly 600 MW more—but Google still has to accept, and both sides still have to sign another agreement. That distinction turns a…

North America Datacenter Trends
Applied Optoelectronics’ Two New Factory Leases Sit Behind a US$102.25m Purchase Gate
Applied Optoelectronics has leased two Houston buildings that do not yet exist. The landlord is expected to construct 1.09 million square feet, while the tenant accepts ten years of escalating base rent, most property operating costs and a US$11.3 million deposit. Yet the new…

North America Datacenter Trends
AIB's 570 MW Label Contains 65 MW of Contracted Power—and No Signed AI Lease
AIB Data Centers has identified 570 MW of potential AI and high-performance-computing capacity. The total sounds like one portfolio. It is not. Most of it remains attached to sites under evaluation; the one binding power position still lacks a signed customer lease, commissioned…

Global Datacenter Trends
Supermicro's US$2.612bn RPO Mirrors Deferred Revenue; Short-Term Backlog Is Excluded
A US$943.4 million increase in non-refundable product advances helped push Super Micro Computer's contract liabilities to US$2.612 billion. The disclosed remaining performance obligations landed on the same rounded figure, but the RPO disclosure still omits contracts originally…

Global Cloud Services Trends
ServiceNow's 650bp Margin Drop Has a US$405m Cost Trail
ServiceNow's subscription engine grew quickly in the second quarter of 2026, but the cost of running it grew faster. Revenue rose 24.5% to US$3.877 billion while GAAP subscription gross margin fell from 80.0% to 73.5%. The filing identifies US$394 million across four cost-driver…
