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North America Datacenter Trends
Core Scientific Paid $444m for a Power Gate. The Data Hall Comes Later.
The Polaris purchase put an Oklahoma substation and rights to develop against up to 440 MW of gross utility capacity inside Core Scientific. Its balance sheet assigns more value to those rights than to the land and electrical plant combined. Getting paid for a new data hall is…
North America Datacenter Trends
PowerBank Has the Land for an AI Data Centre. It Still Needs a Customer.
An Ontario site lease gives PowerBank a place to build a small data centre. The advertised C$2 million annual rent sits on the other side of a tenant contract, permits, financing and a building that has yet to exist.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
The Register Still Files NTT's German Data-Centre Arm Under Its Predecessor's Name
NTT Global Data Centers EMEA GmbH carries NTT's European data-centre business as a legal person. The commercial register treats it as a company in its own right. The RIPE NCC member directory still reaches it through e-shelter. For anyone who has to attribute an operating…
Global Datacenter Trends
Alphabet Backs $48bn of Data-Centre Payments. On Default, It Can Take the Lease.
Third-party operators build the halls; Alphabet carries part of the credit tail. Its September filing describes a backstop that reaches beyond a payment promise: if an underlying party defaults, Alphabet may step into the lease and use or sublet the facility.
North America Datacenter Trends
Cipher Has $3.36bn in Unfinished Halls. Builders Still Have $1.61bn of Orders.
The data-centre pitch counts megawatts and future rent. Cipher Digital's September accounts count steel already under construction and another round of supplier obligations. The distance between those ledgers is where the cash risk lives.
Global Datacenter Trends
Bloom Promised Suppliers $5.8 Billion. Its Customer Schedule Has Another Clock.
Bloom Energy can lock in components faster than a customer can install a power system. Its September filing puts a large, dated number on the first clock. The second runs through deposits, project milestones, acceptance and a revenue base concentrated in two buyers.
North America Datacenter Trends
IREN’s GPU lender gets a 9% clock with every funded batch
IREN can borrow against accepted GPUs at Mackenzie. The lender takes first claim on the equipment, while the parent promises to pay if the borrowing subsidiary cannot. The gear arrives in batches; the debt does too.
North America Datacenter Trends
Cipher's First HPC Rent Was $5.9m. A Google Warrant Gain Was $127m.
One data hall began earning rent in August. The quarterly profit appeared elsewhere: in the changing value of a warrant tied to a different campus. The two numbers belong on separate pages of the ledger.
Global Datacenter
Iron Mountain Booked $263m of Data-Centre Revenue. Growth Investment Reached $472m.
The former document-storage specialist has a fast-growing data-centre business and an even faster construction bill. Its June filings show who has to bridge the time between signing a megawatt and collecting its rent.
Global Datacenter Trends
Equinix Has $6.4 Billion of Construction Work on Order. Most of the Bill Comes Soon.
The new cabinets have a delivery date before they have revenue. Equinix's latest filing puts roughly $6.4 billion of contracted, unaccrued capital work in that gap, with most payments due within twelve months. The construction calendar now matters as much as the bookings chart.
Global Datacenter Trends
Meta's Borrowed Shares Hit the Market. Its $24.9 Billion Waits.
Meta has arranged a financing package for an infrastructure bill measured in years. One part closed in October: mandatory convertible preferred shares with roughly $12.5 billion of expected net proceeds. In the other part, forward sellers borrowed and sold 40 million Meta shares.…
North America Datacenter Trends
MasTec’s power-delivery surge was two-thirds bought
MasTec’s Power Delivery revenue jumped 65.2% in the third quarter. The filing’s bridge is less triumphant and more useful: about $480 million of the $724.5 million increase came from acquisitions, against $244 million of organic growth.
North America Datacenter Trends
Belden's $100m data-centre deal leaves the 50% growth claim without a baseline
A signed 2027 supply agreement puts $100 million of fibre assemblies on Belden's calendar. The company forecasts more than 50% growth in its data-centre business, but its latest SEC filing gives no separate sales base for that line.
North America Datacenter Trends
AIB sets three pay gates for its new COO; half the site bonus waits for handoff
AIB’s offer letter raises Jason Burnett’s base salary when site financing closes. A separate bonus agreement pays for three different steps: construction, commissioning and the customer taking the final hall.
North America Datacenter Trends
Equinix booked $533 million. Now it must deliver the cabinets.
Equinix reported record annualized gross bookings and plans nearly 40% more cabinet deliveries in 2026 than first expected. The gap between those two figures is the company’s next test: the release does not say how much booked demand maps to the added cabinets.
Global Institutional Trends
UNCTAD’s New Checklist Meets a $32bn Drop in Planned Data-Centre Investment
UNCTAD’s Digital Infrastructure Investment Catalyser added a project checklist and training resources just as the announced value of data-centre investment in developing economies fell by $32bn. Preparation can clear a project’s path to investors; it cannot substitute for…
Global Datacenter Trends
Digital Realty signed record rent; the meter waits an average 17 months
Digital Realty says its third-quarter leases carry a record $855 million of annualized GAAP base rent at 100% share. The company’s own share is $627 million. For the new leases signed in the quarter, the weighted-average gap to contractual commencement was 17 months.
Global Datacenter Trends
Caterpillar’s 75% Power-Generation Surge Leaves a Data-Centre Hole in the Scorecard
Power Generation retail sales jumped 75% year on year in Q3; Caterpillar’s own external application sales rose 30%. The business is turning data-centre demand into reported sales, but the company still gives no separate total for that end market.
Global Datacenter Trends
Equinix books the atNorth fee. The investment’s earnings run three months behind.
A closing can improve adjusted earnings before ownership supplies its slower report card. Investors should price the dealmaker’s reward separately from the asset’s return.
Global Datacenter Trends
Meta put $10.8 billion behind glass. The data-centre contracts run to 2030.
A cash-rich balance sheet can still have locked drawers. Meta moved $10.8 billion into infrastructure escrow, with release expected years after this quarter’s spending.