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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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
