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Illustration of a data centre in Lakeland beside a city sign announcing a proposed 12-month moratorium.

North America Datacenter

Lakeland data-centre moratorium advances to final vote

Lakeland has advanced a 12-month pause on large data-centre projects while officials review electricity, water, noise and planning requirements.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of OpenAI’s planned 3.2GW Project Camellia data-centre campus in Effingham County, Georgia.

North America Datacenter

OpenAI plans 3.2GW Georgia data-centre campus

OpenAI has secured phased power delivery for Project Camellia, but its financing, design and operating plans are still being developed.

Jul 26, 2026
Residents view a proposed data-centre site near homes, power lines and water infrastructure during a public hearing.

North America Datacenter Trends

Poll finds rising US opposition to nearby data centres

A POLITICO poll found that opposition to nearby data-centre projects has overtaken support, with the largest change among Democratic voters.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for The Framestore Limited

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Framestore must make creative scale survive project volatility

Film, television and advertising buyers hire The Framestore Limited because visually complex work transfers execution risk: a studio or brand can sell a story before every creature, world, interface, character, shot and screen experience exists. The economic question is whether…

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Claranet Portugal S.A

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Claranet Portugal Must Make Managed Cloud Complexity Recurring

Portuguese organisations are not only buying servers, licences or migrations from Claranet Portugal. They are paying to move cloud, security, data, application and workplace accountability to a specialist that can sit between local operating constraints and global technology…

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for TEMPLUS BARCELONA S.L.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Templus Barcelona must fill capacity before capital outruns demand

The economic reason to use Templus Barcelona is not that a local rack is fashionable. It is that a customer can buy resilient, nearby, connected capacity in Barcelona without funding its own computer room, waiting for a distant hyperscale region, or carrying the fixed cost of…

Jul 25, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Rackspace Germany GmbH

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Rackspace Germany must make multicloud complexity pay

Enterprises use Rackspace Germany GmbH when they want cloud accountability shifted to an operator without giving up AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, private-cloud or sovereign choices. The economic test is whether Rackspace can turn that complexity into recurring, high-utilisation…

Jul 24, 2026
Generic data center details image used as editorial context for Equinix interconnection and cloud infrastructure coverage.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Equinix and the real cost of cloud dependency infrastructure

Equinix is often discussed as if it were a simple data-center landlord or a neutral place where cloud networks meet. The useful public question is narrower and more practical: what does Equinix help customers assemble, what risks does that assembly move rather than remove, and…

Jul 23, 2026
Protest and development signs beside rural land representing opposition to the proposed Project Sail data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter

Coweta County halts new data-centre proposals

Coweta County paused new data-centre proposals after approving Project Sail’s rezoning, as residents challenged its local impact.

Jul 23, 2026
Illustration of Molex and Prysmian branding beside fibre-optic cables and a manufacturing facility

Global Datacenter Trends

Molex signs Prysmian fibre deal worth up to €5.5bn

Molex is committing to long-term optical cable purchases as Prysmian prepares to expand fibre production in the US and Europe.

Jul 23, 2026
County planning documents beside an Orangeburg County administration building, representing proposed restrictions on data-centre development.

North America Datacenter

Orangeburg County weighs data-centre moratorium

Orangeburg County may pause planning, permit and incentive applications while it develops rules for data centres and other computing facilities.

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial illustration showing data-centre server racks beside electricity pylons and a Ratepayer Protection Pledge panel.

North America Datacenter Trends

Trump to expand data-centre power pledge

Trump is set to extend the Ratepayer Protection Pledge to utilities and developers, bringing in the groups that negotiate power rates and grid connections for new data centres.

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial illustration showing a data centre, electrical substation and transmission lines beside the US Capitol, with a policy sign marked H.R. 9340.

North America Datacenter Trends

US House panel advances data-centre grid cost bill

US state utility regulators would consider requiring 100 MW data-centre customers to fund the grid upgrades needed to serve their sites.

Jul 23, 2026
Engineers study a three-building data-centre scale model beside liquid-cooling and fan heat-rejection hardware

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget

NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…

Jul 23, 2026
Two operational data-hall buildings connect to electrical and water utility work in a central Texas landscape

North America Datacenter Trends

Meta's Temple opening turns a construction promise into operating load

Meta has opened its Temple, Texas data centre after four years of construction, moving the project from a planning claim to a live operating facility. That transition makes jobs and infrastructure measurable, but the eventual $1.2 billion-plus value, renewable-energy matching and…

Jul 23, 2026
Operating server rows stand beside technicians installing the next data-centre expansion

North America Cloud Services Trends

Alphabet’s $112bn quarter is mostly an investment gain, not operating cash

Alphabet reported extraordinary second-quarter profit, but the number that matters for its infrastructure build is less flattering: $44.924bn of capital expenditure exceeded $39.069bn of operating cash flow. Google Cloud is growing fast enough to support the investment case…

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Mainstream doo Beograd

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Mainstream Serbia Must Make Local Control Pay

A Serbian buyer does not pay Mainstream doo Beograd merely for compute. The buyer pays to keep critical applications under local operational control, close to users, with an accountable team that can answer when capacity, security, invoices or uptime become board-level problems.…

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for ODERLAND Webbhotell AB

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Oderland must make Swedish hosting worth the premium

Oderland's economic problem starts with a customer's willingness to pay more for Swedish jurisdiction, reachable support and a hosting provider that owns enough of its stack to solve problems without passing every incident to a global ticket queue. The company can defend that…

Jul 23, 2026
Photorealistic editorial view of "GIGATRANS UKRAINE", LLC infrastructure operations

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

GIGATRANS Ukraine can sell continuity, but it has to price every route and battery into the contract

An enterprise that stays online during outages is not buying a commodity megabit. It is buying route diversity, backup power, repair labour, local data-centre adjacency and a provider willing to keep Ukrainian business systems reachable when electricity, transport and…

Jul 23, 2026
Surveyors review plans in an undeveloped Georgia field with transmission lines far in the background

North America Datacenter Trends

OpenAI has a 3.2GW power contract before Project Camellia has a final design

OpenAI says it is contracting with Georgia Power for 3.2 gigawatts to be delivered in phases from 2028 to 2032 for Project Camellia in Effingham County. The scale is material, but it describes a future power-supply plan, not commissioned computing load today. Financing, design…

Jul 22, 2026