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Eight translucent building footprints fade over undeveloped Maryland land while an unmarked conceptual planning folder closes in the foreground.

North America Cloud Services Trends

AWS’s Lusby withdrawal ends one site-plan process, not the data-centre argument

Calvert County says Amazon Data Services, also referred to as AWS, formally withdrew the Conceptual Site Development Plan for the Calvert Technology Center on 4 August. The application had passed acceptance and a first review but had not reached construction. Local reporting…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of an Apple iPhone beside a silicon wafer and falling share chart, representing chip shortages and higher memory costs.

North America Datacenter Trends

Apple shares fall on chip shortage warning

Apple’s weaker outlook shows how AI-driven memory demand and separate processor shortages are raising costs and limiting device supply.

Aug 4, 2026
Data-centre connection paths converge on an illuminated audit checkpoint before reaching the Texas grid.

North America Datacenter Trends

Texas puts a proof gate in front of its 474GW data-centre queue

Texas has ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project advancing through the grid connection process before it can move forward. The state says requests now exceed 474GW—more than five times ERCOT’s record peak demand—and that roughly 90% of new power requests come…

Aug 3, 2026
Survey stakes and translucent future solar rows occupy an undeveloped Oklahoma site while a regional grid continues toward distant evening digital infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

Google’s 155MW Oklahoma solar deal has contracted an output, not delivered a data-centre load

Google has agreed to buy the entire output of RWE’s planned 155MWac Crooked Creek Solar project for 15 years. The contract can give the project a durable buyer and give Google a long-term renewable-energy position in the Southwest Power Pool. It does not mean the plant is…

Aug 3, 2026
An undeveloped secured Virginia parcel carries a translucent blueprint of a future data-centre campus beside distant power and fibre corridors.

North America Datacenter Trends

Yondr has bought a Manassas site; 72MW still has to climb the entire delivery ladder

Yondr and investment funds managed by Cerberus have acquired a 40-acre site in Manassas, Virginia, where Yondr plans a 72MW data-centre campus with a 2029 ready-for-service target. The acquisition moves the project past the search for land, but not past the harder conversions…

Aug 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of three infrastructure teams reviewing a tabletop model for a prospective Southeast Asian AI data-centre partnership.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

SoftBank unit's Southeast Asia AI data-centre pact allocates roles, not capital

SB Telecom Singapore, SC ZEUS Data Centers and Robust HPC Group have divided the work needed to pursue AI data centres across Southeast Asia. The memorandum creates a development chain, but names no site, megawatts, power supply, customer, capital budget or delivery date.

Aug 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of inspection teams working inside two intact semiconductor fabrication plants in Kumamoto before a staged restart.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Mitsubishi's August target does not yet restore its quake-hit chip output

Mitsubishi Electric says two semiconductor factories halted after the Kumamoto earthquake should move back to normal operations during August. The timetable narrows the disruption, but it does not disclose current output, lost production or when customers will again receive…

Aug 3, 2026
A resident addresses a public hearing beside two separate translucent planning models for proposed data-centre power equipment.

North America Datacenter Trends

Hamlet put 649 diesel engines through one public doorway

More than 100 people attended a North Carolina hearing on two air-permit applications tied to Amazon’s Energy Way Tech Campus in Hamlet. One application covers 592 Amazon emergency engines—588 critical units and four ancillary units. The other covers 57 Duke Energy engines…

Jul 31, 2026
A Nordic data-centre campus is shown with server cooling, substations, heat-reuse pipes and translucent emissions-accounting boundaries.

Global Datacenter Trends

Nebius has disclosed the carbon cost of expansion, but not its full footprint

Nebius reported 65,001 tonnes of market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions for 2025, roughly 32 times the 2,036 tonnes disclosed a year earlier. The multiplication is striking, but its meaning depends on a changed operating base: the company says it expanded to seven active sites. The…

Jul 31, 2026
Tokyo radio sites connect to a centralised baseband room where compact new compute shelves sit beside older equipment.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

DOCOMO’s Ericsson choice moves the RAN bottleneck into compute

NTT DOCOMO has selected Ericsson RAN Compute as a baseband platform spanning 4G, 5G and 5G-Advanced. The decision matters because radio capacity is increasingly governed by processing, pooling and software lifecycle as well as antennas. Ericsson says the new generation can…

Jul 31, 2026
A private Ohio energy island combines modular generators, a switchyard and battery storage beside an AI data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Veolia takes the operating risk in Ohio’s 350MW private power island

Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW behind-the-meter microgrid for an undisclosed AI data-centre campus in Ohio. Gas engines and linear generators are expected to supply the campus, with a 430MWh battery supporting the system. The contract places Veolia at…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating data-centre block stands beside several unfinished halls, cranes, a substation and power conduits at the Paju construction site.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on

LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…

Jul 31, 2026
Four solid engineered power routes and three wireframe routes lead toward mixed-stage data-centre sites, while three blank contract folders remain separate.

Global Datacenter Trends

ENGIE’s 7GW data-centre number is two pipelines wearing the same unit

ENGIE has moved a much larger share of its prospective data-centre work into an advanced stage: 4GW at the end of June, up from 0.8GW at the end of 2025. Together with 3GW at an early stage, that makes a 7GW project pipeline. Separately, the energy group also describes 7GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
An active Western Sydney data-centre construction site sits behind a blank contract folder and a completed architectural campus model.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

AirTrunk’s 400MW-plus SYD3 has a builder for its next phase, not a live meter

Bouygues Construction’s €1.2bn contract for the next phase of AirTrunk’s SYD3 campus is a large, bounded construction event. Awarded through Australian subsidiary A W Edwards, it assigns work and a delivery horizon toward mid-2028. It does not establish the final cost of the…

Jul 31, 2026
Two operational data-centre buildings stand behind unequal ownership tokens, an operator tablet and a plain access card at blue hour.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Yondr is selling control of two Slough data centres without giving up the operating room

Yondr has agreed to sell a majority interest in a UK data-centre campus to GLIL Infrastructure, while retaining a minority stake and responsibility for operational management after completion. The asset consists of two fully operational hyperscale buildings in Slough serving one…

Jul 31, 2026
A provisional Texas data-centre campus model sits between blank credit files, a separate gas-power model and an unlabelled support arch.

North America Datacenter Trends

A reported $15bn loan would make Anthropic’s Texas compute a test of Google’s balance-sheet reach

The notable number in the reported financing talks for a data-centre campus in Hubbard, Texas, is not only the $15bn banks may lend. It is the obligation that could sit behind the debt. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Morgan Stanley-led consortium was discussing financing…

Jul 31, 2026
A monitored boundary separates an active legacy industrial cleanup from a translucent model of a proposed data-centre, power and battery campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Paducah’s proposed AI campus joins a $100bn headline to a 17bn-dollar cleanup ledger

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate a proposed AI data-centre and energy complex at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. AP reports a headline value of $100bn, with NextEra expected to build and own 2GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
Mobile gas-turbine trailers stand beside newly empty equipment pads while cranes and unfinished structures mark construction of a permanent power plant.

North America Datacenter Trends

Southaven’s temporary turbine bridge finally has an exit calendar

SpaceXAI says an agreed order with Mississippi regulators now sets dates for removing all 69 temporary mobile gas turbines at its Southaven power site: work may begin in August 2026 and is scheduled to finish by July 2027. In parallel, a permitted permanent plant designed for…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating server hall glows beside rows of wrapped, uncommissioned racks and equipment awaiting installation on a data-centre floor.

Global Cloud Services Trends

AWS is growing faster just as Amazon’s AI build turns free cash flow negative

Amazon’s cloud business accelerated in the second quarter, while the group’s trailing free cash flow moved below zero. Those are not opposing stories. They are two stages of the same investment cycle. AWS sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion and segment operating income reached $16.6…

Jul 31, 2026
Technicians commission a blue-piped data-centre cooling line inside an older industrial hall that retains automotive production fixtures.

Global Datacenter Trends

An Ohio automotive factory is being reassigned to the AI cooling cycle

Mitsubishi Electric’s planned data-centre cooling plant in Mason, Ohio, begins with an asset from another industrial era: part of an existing automotive-electrical production site. The company will establish MEHITS US in August, invest approximately $30 million in renovation and…

Jul 31, 2026