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Data Centre Investment
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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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…
