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AI-generated editorial graphic showing an AI data centre and power infrastructure with SK Telecom AIDC revenue growth of 92.5% and SK Hyper’s 5GW target

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

SK Telecom AIDC revenue nearly doubles in Q2

SK Telecom’s AIDC revenue reached KRW136.2bn in Q2, while SK Hyper must secure sites, build substations and acquire customers for 5GW from 2029.

Aug 7, 2026
Four illuminated customs gates stand before raw silicon, ingots and wafers, solar cells and modules, with an unfinished factory beyond.

North America Institutional Trends

America’s polysilicon floor is a customs price rule, not an instant factory boom

The United States has moved polysilicon policy from a threat of future action to four explicit price floors and a downstream tariff. From 4 December, covered imports will face minimum values ranging from USD21 per kilogram of polysilicon to USD0.38 per watt of solar modules…

Aug 6, 2026
A generic precision factory inspects fibre-optic connector arrays and liquid-cooling plates for high-density computing equipment.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Furukawa’s profit surge reaches the component layer, but its capex plan did not accelerate

Furukawa Electric’s first-quarter results show that data-centre demand is no longer confined to cloud operators and construction contractors: it is reaching optical connectors, specialist fibre, cooling modules and other components. The company lifted its full-year…

Aug 6, 2026
A conceptual AI data-centre campus links liquid-cooled compute racks to substantial power and fibre infrastructure at dusk.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

Zankore’s 1GW ambition begins with a 200MW delivery test

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Ooredoo Group, Nokia and NVIDIA have launched Zankore by Indosat as an Indonesian AI-infrastructure platform. Its headline is a 1GW deployment target, but the first accountable milestone is narrower: approximately 200MW of AI capacity in the first half…

Aug 6, 2026
A generic long-haul fibre corridor is under construction beside rail infrastructure, with data-centre buildings in the distance.

North America National Telecom Trends

Zayo names NVIDIA, but the 8,000-mile build was already on the books

Zayo has named NVIDIA as a collaborator on connectivity for distributed AI infrastructure. The counterparty is new public information; the route package is not. Zayo disclosed the same more-than-8,000-mile plan, including six new routes and ten overbuild corridors, on 16 April…

Aug 6, 2026
Anonymous research engineers operate blurred consoles beside a generic high-density managed compute hall.

North America Cloud Services Trends

IMC expands its CoreWeave footprint without disclosing the capacity it bought

Quantitative trading firm IMC has committed to a significantly larger CoreWeave footprint, including CoreWeave Kubernetes Service, after running several clusters in production since 2025. The decision enlarges an existing dependency rather than creating a first deployment, while…

Aug 6, 2026
Three Indian data-centre compounds sit behind a commissioning room with only selected capacity shown active.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

Microsoft’s largest India cloud region opens behind an early-access boundary

Microsoft has opened its largest data-centre hub in India, but the live Azure service table still labels India South Central as available only to early-access customers. The distinction matters: an operational region with selected users is a real infrastructure milestone, yet it…

Aug 6, 2026
Solar, wind and battery projects under construction connect by planned routes to an unfinished Wisconsin data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Vantage’s Wisconsin power build has three projects and several incompatible denominators

We Energies has started construction on solar, wind and battery projects in Wisconsin, with roughly half of each project’s capacity allocated to Vantage Data Centers’ Port Washington campus. The work gives the $15 billion development a visible supply programme, but it does not…

Aug 6, 2026
Several existing data-centre halls converge on a shared fibre spine beside power and cooling infrastructure at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Amazon is rewiring its Indiana AI campus before buying a new one

An internal plan to join several Indiana data-centre buildings into one Trainium supercluster is a capital-allocation decision disguised as an engineering diagram. Amazon wants more than 6,000 servers deployed faster for its next in-house model, but the value lies in whether…

Aug 6, 2026
Industrial switchgear and power cabling lead toward an unfinished data-hall structure at dawn.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Siemens’ €6bn data-centre signal begins in the electrical order book

Siemens has disclosed around €6 billion of Smart Infrastructure data-centre orders across the first nine months of fiscal 2026. That is an unusually clear upstream measure of the build cycle—but it remains order intake, not commissioned capacity, recognized revenue or a map of…

Aug 6, 2026
A silicon wafer and power-semiconductor modules sit between a precision manufacturing line and a high-density data-centre power aisle.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Infineon’s AI reservation figure is a funnel, not yet a backlog

Infineon has put a high-single-digit-billion-euro number around multi-year capacity reservations for AI customers. The disclosure makes data-centre power a manufacturing question—but because it combines concluded agreements with negotiations, the number cannot yet carry the…

Aug 6, 2026
An open enterprise flash-storage tray with NAND packages and a silicon wafer sits inside an unbranded data-centre aisle.

North America Datacenter Trends

Sandisk’s datacenter surge still carries a NAND price tag

Sandisk doubled quarterly datacenter revenue while adding five customer agreements, but two-thirds of its company-wide sequential growth came from higher pricing. The result is a powerful signal of storage demand—not yet proof that contracts have neutralised the NAND cycle.

Aug 6, 2026
Luminous capital streams feed a vast data-centre hall while a few customer conduits pass through reversible mechanical valves.

North America Datacenter Trends

SpaceX’s AI build-out has a conversion problem: turn $15.8bn of quarterly capex into durable demand

SpaceX’s second-quarter filing shows an AI infrastructure programme expanding faster than its current revenue base. The strategic question is no longer whether it can finance capacity, but whether concentrated customers and partly terminable contracts can absorb that capacity…

Aug 5, 2026
A central capital reservoir branches toward fibre, power, renewable-energy, data-centre and transport systems, several of which remain architectural outlines.

Global Datacenter Trends

KKR’s $19.2bn Fund V gives it allocation power, not finished infrastructure

KKR has completed fundraising for its largest infrastructure fund, giving the manager a larger pool from which to buy and build critical assets across North America and Western Europe. The close matters because it concentrates investment discretion; it does not mean $19.2 billion…

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Visionbay.ai data hall containing Nvidia HGX B300 systems and liquid-cooled AI infrastructure

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia AI cluster in Taiwan

Foxconn says the cluster is commercially available and more than 90% utilised, but has not explained how that figure is calculated.

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of GPU server racks installed beside office space and electrical equipment in a commercial building

North America Datacenter

Perimeter Compute targets spare office power for edge AI

The startup plans to install GPU infrastructure in commercial buildings with unused electrical capacity, but it has not disclosed a signed site, customer or operating deployment.

Aug 5, 2026
Unbranded accelerator and processor packages sit on a liquid-cooled compute board inside a large data-centre hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

AMD’s $6.7bn data-centre quarter turns the AI forecast into an execution test

AMD’s second-quarter record is less interesting as a victory lap than as a change in the burden of proof. Data Center supplied 58% of company revenue, and its $6.7 billion was more than double the prior-year level. Management now guides to roughly $13 billion for the third…

Aug 4, 2026
Unbranded yellow generator sets and a turbine are assembled beside construction equipment and an unfinished data-centre campus at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Caterpillar’s $20.5bn quarter shows where the data-centre power bottleneck is becoming revenue

Caterpillar’s first quarter above $20 billion did more than set a company record. It exposed one route by which the data-centre buildout reaches the industrial economy: through large generator sets, turbines, construction fleets and the service capacity needed to keep them…

Aug 4, 2026
Three planned data-centre construction sites sit within an Indonesian tropical landscape, linked by power corridors and transparent architectural outlines.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

CoreWeave’s 360MW Indonesia plan is a capacity promise with a 2028 test

CoreWeave has chosen Indonesia for its first announced data-centre presence in Asia-Pacific: three facilities carrying 360MW of contracted IT power and an expected 2028 start. The number is strategically large, but its state is equally important. It is not active capacity, and…

Aug 4, 2026
Four data halls at different construction stages stand beside Norwegian hydropower while an abstract AI core passes through layered delivery gates.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

The reported Anthropic–Volta deal rests on a Tydal lease with multiple exit tests

Bloomberg identifies Anthropic as the AI lab behind Volta’s announced $10bn strategic partnership. Volta and Bitdeer do not name the lab, so that identity remains reported rather than first-party confirmed. What the first parties do disclose is unusually detailed: a 121MW IT…

Aug 4, 2026