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AI-generated editorial illustration of a Firmus-branded data-centre development with cranes, a Singapore skyline and proposed A$7 billion fundraising figures

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Firmus pitches A$7bn AI float to Asian investors

Firmus is courting investors for a proposed Australian listing while five of its seven AI computing sites remain under development.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated illustration of expanding data-centre campuses and server infrastructure alongside PwC's $31.6tn global capex forecast through 2050.

Global Datacenter Trends

PwC sees data-centre capex reaching $31.6tn

PwC expects annual data-centre investment to keep rising through 2050 as servers, GPUs and other computing equipment are replaced repeatedly.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a US political speech beside a large data-centre campus as local residents protest over power bills, land use and community impact.

North America Datacenter Trends

Trump backs data centres as local resistance grows

The White House is defending AI infrastructure investment, but local approvals, power costs, and community opposition are becoming harder for developers to ignore.

Sep 15, 2026
Conceptual miniature construction projects beside a camera and separate progress-plan sketches

Global Cloud Services Trends

Buildots' new capital puts portfolio progress data to the test

A $130 million round supports the construction-software company's push into multi-year portfolio agreements. For data-centre buyers, comparable evidence matters more than a common dashboard.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a large Saudi Arabian data-centre campus with Riyadh skyline, engineers and a map showing national digital infrastructure growth.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Saudi data-centre capacity rises 57% since 2024

Savills says Saudi Arabia's live IT capacity has grown 57% since 2024, while government plans call for 3GW of data-centre capacity by 2030.

Sep 15, 2026
Conceptual AI collage of a data-hall cutaway inside rolled architectural paper, with a construction helmet, blank envelope and property key.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

TECROWD's data-centre plan defers ¥550m until the sale

Fund 103 proposes no bank borrowing, yet ¥550m of construction cost would be paid from the eventual property sale before investor distributions. That payment order matters more than treating the advertised yield as a promise.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Microsoft data-centre campus showing capacity rising from about 12GW today to a reported 38GW target by 2032

Global Datacenter Trends

Microsoft targets 38GW of data-centre capacity by 2032

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft wants to more than triple its data-centre capacity by 2032, with a larger share of the fleet built for AI workloads.

Sep 15, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a data-centre site in a snowy Swedish landscape representing Vertical Data’s 4.5MW acquisition and proposed expansion

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Vertical Data agrees to buy 4.5MW Swedish data-centre site

The acquisition covers a site with 4.5MW today; the proposed expansion to 100MW remains subject to separate power and development approvals.

Sep 15, 2026
Two clasped stone blocks sit apart from miniature server cabinets, symbolising a completed merger and a separate equipment-funding stage.

North America Datacenter Trends

Volato's AI merger closes, but $500m is not build-out cash

The Alignment Engine deal changes Volato's business before it settles the financing, conversion approvals and equipment orders needed to deliver Ohio computing capacity.

Sep 14, 2026
An amber glass canopy covers part of a row of miniature server-like objects, with unmarked brass discs nearby.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

NEXTDC's cash hedge does not cancel dilution

The data-centre developer is spending A$93.61 million on capped calls alongside its convertible notes. The protection is economic; the distinction matters for both construction cash and future ownership.

Sep 14, 2026
A roofless scale model of an empty industrial hall sits beside power and cooling equipment, with blank clipped paper in the foreground.

North America Datacenter Trends

Atlantic HPC's earnout starts with a lease, not a working hall

A proposed merger puts a seven-year customer commitment at the centre of the seller reward. Financing and fitting out the AI facility remain separate tests.

Sep 14, 2026
An architectural data-hall model stands behind separate capped blue cables and an unconnected small network module.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Digital Realty's Türkiye entry is a build, not a ready-made hub

A new joint venture has an Ankara campus in development and Istanbul in view. Constructing capacity and attracting usable network connections are different jobs.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of NICT time infrastructure and NTP servers in Japan, representing an incident involving incorrect public timestamps

Asia-Pacific Institutional

NICT reports incorrect timestamps from public time servers

NICT says part of its public time service sent incorrect timestamps for 11 minutes, putting the focus on whether connected systems accepted the wrong time.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a proposed Cape Town data-centre site near the airport, with cooling, water and electricity requirements highlighted.

Africa Datacenter Trends

Cape Town data-centre approval faces appeal

Campaigners are appealing approval for two proposed Cape Town data centres as questions over zoning, water, and electricity remain unresolved.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Bangkok data centre with diesel fuel tanks, drainage infrastructure and nearby high-rise buildings.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Bangkok diesel case prompts data-centre permit review

Officials found more than 200,000 litres of unlicensed diesel at a Bangkok data centre, bringing backup power, drainage and urban siting under closer review.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated illustration of multiple data-centre sites across the UAE connected as part of a distributed AI infrastructure concept

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

UAE weighs splitting Stargate AI campus across sites

A multi-site Stargate UAE could reduce local outage risk, but resilience will depend on how workloads recover between locations.

Sep 14, 2026
AI-generated illustration of an Australian data-centre development beside electricity infrastructure and water systems, representing proposed federal power and water rules.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Approved Australian data centres may fall outside new rules

ABC found 25 approved but unbuilt projects that may not be covered by proposed federal power and water rules, leaving existing approval conditions to matter.

Sep 14, 2026
An invented Canadian data-centre campus behind five blank evidence plates linked to power, water, local procurement, fibre access and community infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

Canada’s Data-Centre Principles Still Need a Project-Level Receipt

“Must” is a strong word, but it is not a receipt. Canada now says a data centre must pay the electricity-system costs it causes, limit water impacts, disclose local effects, leave durable benefits and add strategic value. That is a useful national test. Yet a mayor, utility…

Sep 13, 2026
A bounded gas conduit feeds an anonymous generator, five transparent accounting chambers and three data-centre halls in different construction stages before a narrow public-grid connection.

North America Datacenter Trends

Project Phoenix Has a 2GW Campus. Its Power Receipt Has Five Meters

Ground was broken in Shippingport with a 2-gigawatt promise on the data-centre side and a 205,000-dekatherm-a-day contract on the fuel side. Those figures are both real disclosures, but they do not meet in the middle. Between them sit conversion losses, the plant’s own load…

Sep 13, 2026
Four staggered steel obligations pass through a transaction frame as a smaller amber maturity exits and a larger cobalt cash reserve remains on a transparent balance-sheet plinth.

Global Datacenter Trends

Dell’s $5 Billion Note Sale Refinances Only $1.75 Billion Due in October

Dell is preparing to sell $5 billion of new bonds before $1.75 billion of existing notes mature on 1 October. Calling the transaction a refinancing obscures the larger movement. The filed pro-forma table repays the October notes, yet still adds $3.25 billion to debt principal and…

Sep 13, 2026