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Global Datacenter Trends
AEP is reserving turbines for a 69GW load book that has not reached the meter
American Electric Power has begun matching contracts for future electricity demand with reservations for future generation equipment. It added 6GW of signed load agreements in the second quarter, primarily in Texas, taking contracted load growth through 2030 to 69GW. The customer…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Meta’s invisible infrastructure queue has reached $279bn
Meta spent $31.08 billion on capital equipment and finance-lease principal in the second quarter. The larger number is waiting outside the period’s visible expenditure: $278.99 billion of operating and finance lease obligations for data centres, colocation and certain network…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Nscale is buying the control layer above its GPUs
Nscale’s agreement to acquire Anyscale is an attempt to move up the AI infrastructure stack. The buyer already assembles power, data centres, accelerators and cloud services; the target supplies the software through which developers distribute data processing, training, inference…

Global Datacenter Trends
Europe’s AI gigafactory tender is a contract for demand
The European Union has opened procurement for up to seven AI gigafactories, backed by as much as €10 billion of EU and national money and an expectation of at least €20 billion in private investment. The significant instrument is not the subsidy alone. EuroHPC and 18 Member…

Global Datacenter Trends
Microsoft’s 88 data centres are a throughput claim, not a map
Microsoft says it brought 31 new data centres online across five continents in its final fiscal quarter and 88 across the year. The larger revelation is not the pin count. In the same quarter it added another gigawatt of capacity, while cutting the time needed to move new GPUs…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Three ledgers turn Rolls-Royce’s data-centre power story into earnings
Rolls-Royce Power Systems has moved data-centre demand beyond the language of pipeline and potential. Its half-year result now shows the theme in three separate ledgers: power-generation orders rose 55%, power-generation revenue rose 41%, and the division’s operating margin…

North America Datacenter Trends
Microsoft’s $329.1bn lease stack is capacity that has not started
Microsoft has disclosed $329.1 billion of additional leases, primarily for datacentres, that had not commenced at 30 June. The number maps a future infrastructure commitment, not live computing capacity or cash already spent. A simultaneous accounting change makes the distinction…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
The CMA’s Microsoft 365 probe turns renewal design into the evidence
Britain’s competition regulator is investigating whether Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers saw a cheaper continuity option clearly enough before renewal. The annual difference was £25, but the economic question is larger than the price: when a supplier adds Copilot…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s $2.325bn loan funds a build, not a finished 270MW campus
AirTrunk has closed US$2.325 billion of green financing for JHB2 in Johor Bahru, turning a loan that was being marketed in May into committed project funding. The 30-institution syndicate is substantial, but it proves neither that the scalable 270MW campus is complete nor that…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSmart and ZTE widened the AI-network agenda before proving its economics
XLSmart and ZTE have signed a memorandum covering AI across radio, transport, core and operations, alongside wider 5G and fixed-wireless ambitions in Indonesia. The scope is strategically large, but the evidence is still narrow: a company-reported implementation saved more than…

North America Datacenter Trends
Hudson’s 2.8MW contract total is a ladder to revenue, not revenue itself
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure says new agreements have lifted contracted IT load on Hudson Interxchange’s sixth floor at 60 Hudson Street from roughly 0.9MW to about 2.8MW. The commercial advance is real, but the units occupy different stages: utility power, saleable IT load…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
ITU-T begins work on SK Telecom robot-data standard
SK Telecom’s proposal begins work on common robot-data interfaces, but interoperability will depend on the final standard and supplier adoption.

North America Cloud Services Trends
S&P Global is buying a map of data-centre scarcity, but it has not yet bought the outcome
The most valuable number in a data-centre market is often the one that explains why a building cannot be built: available megawatts, a realistic delivery date or the price of capacity in a specific corridor. S&P Global has signed a definitive agreement to acquire datacenterHawk…

North America Cloud Services Trends
Flexential's 108MW Texas ambition begins with one secured 36MW block
Flexential has bought 110 acres near Talty, Texas, for a three-building data-centre campus. The headline scale is 108MW, but the investable fact is smaller and more immediate: the first approximately 375,000-square-foot building has 36MW of secured utility power, site work is…

North America Datacenter Trends
AMD has secured a 500MW starting point, not a 2.5GW operating estate
AMD will secure more than 500MW of United States data-centre capacity from Core Scientific for customer deployments beginning in 2027, with an ability to expand up to 2.5GW. The agreement gives AMD a physical route for systems built around its chips and software. It does not say…

North America Datacenter Trends
Meta can own 20% of El Paso and occupy 100% of it
Meta and BlackRock have disclosed the operating contract beneath their El Paso data-centre venture: BlackRock-managed funds will own 80%, Meta 20%, while Meta leases the entire campus as its initial sole occupant. Equity ownership, customer concentration and residual-value…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Orange’s €3bn data-centre plan has capital targets before it has a signed deal
Orange and Morrison have entered exclusivity over a contemplated 50/50 French data-centre joint venture targeting 400 MW of capacity and a €3 billion investment programme. Five data centres across four campuses define the starting footprint, but signing, approvals and closing…

North America Cloud Services Trends
PG&E’s 12 GW data-centre pipeline is a queue, not yet a load forecast
PG&E says prospective data-centre projects in its service area now exceed 12 GW. Its estimate that each additional 1 GW could cut monthly customer bills by 1% or more depends on “appropriate pricing”—the condition that decides whether new load shares grid costs or transfers them.

North America National Telecom Trends
Verizon’s $1bn Google fibre deal discloses value without its operating units
Verizon’s chief executive disclosed a dark-fibre agreement worth more than $1 billion to connect Google data centres. The figure signals material AI-infrastructure demand, but duration, route miles, fibre capacity, delivery schedule, margin and revenue recognition were not…

Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia’s €2.8bn AI order book arrives before the cash
Nokia has found a fast-growing customer class in AI and Cloud, but its second quarter shows why orders, accounting profit and cash cannot be treated as the same result. The company expects only about half of €2.8 billion of new orders to become revenue within 12 months, while…
