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Data Centre Investment
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Eaton, SP launch 800VDC training
Eaton and Singapore Polytechnic will add 800VDC to data-centre training as higher-density AI systems reshape power design.

North America Datacenter Trends
AUC rejects Synapse's 1.4GW Olds power plant
The regulator found Synapse's proposed gas plant too close to homes, forcing a rethink of the power plan behind its 1GW Olds data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends
Meta's Alberta data centre may start before 932MW power plant
Meta's 1GW Alberta data centre may start before its 932MW dedicated gas plant, making interim power arrangements part of the project's delivery plan.

North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta considers setback rules for AI data centres
Alberta is considering minimum separation from homes after the AUC rejected a 1.4GW power plant proposed beside an Olds data-centre project.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Singapore Has Assigned 200MW of Data-Centre Capacity, Not 200MW of Live Compute
Singapore has provisionally divided 200MW of new data-centre capacity among Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The award is a valuable entry in a constrained market, but land, low-carbon energy, construction, customers and…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Mercury Buys Into Datagrid Before the 140MW Power Option Becomes Load
Mercury has paid NZ$53 million for a 12.7% stake and a board seat in Datagrid NZ after signing a 140MW power purchase option. The structure gives the generator an early position beside a possible anchor customer, but it does not turn consent, earthworks or an option into an…

North America Datacenter Trends
Generac commits $250m to data-centre generator capacity
Hyperscale orders are pushing Generac to expand US generator production ahead of 2027 deliveries, while supplier capacity and tariff exposure remain unresolved.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NSW sets 40% wind threshold for data-centre fast track
Projects meeting the new NSW guidelines can seek a 75-day state assessment while committing to additional renewables, storage and flexible electricity demand.

North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia backs first 4.25GW of OpenAI capacity at PORTS-Pike
Nvidia's credit support covers the first 4.25GW tranche at PORTS-Pike, where OpenAI has a 20-year lease and phased delivery targets start in 2028.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.

North America Datacenter Trends
Meta-BlackRock $14bn data centre carries partial insurance
Insurance limits cover only part of Sopaipilla's potential losses, leaving lenders to rely more heavily on Meta's lease and contractual support.

Global Institutional
NVM Express: how storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient way to talk to the flash memory installed in a server. It has become a family of protocols capable of carrying the same command queues and namespaces over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity has made storage composable, while moving part of its…

Global Institutional
NVM Express: how storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient way to communicate with flash memory installed inside a server. It became a family of protocols capable of carrying the same queue, controller and namespace model over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity enabled capacity to be disaggregated, but…

Global Institutional
NVM Express: How storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient language for flash storage in the server. It became a protocol family that carries the same model of queues, controllers and namespaces over PCIe, TCP or RDMA. That continuity made storage composable but shifted complexity into the fabric, firmware…

Global Institutional
NVM Express: How storage became a network protocol
NVMe began as a more efficient protocol for accessing flash inside servers and developed into a family of standards that carries consistent queue, controller and namespace semantics over PCIe, TCP and RDMA. It makes storage easier to pool and compose while shifting complexity…

Global Institutional
NVM Express: How Drives Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a queue architecture for flash drives attached over PCI Express. Over time it grew into a modular protocol family that can reach storage over TCP and RDMA networks, supports resource discovery and multiple paths, describes specialised storage media models and…

North America Datacenter Trends
Ford backs Ontario data centres to keep data in Canada
Ontario's draft framework would assess large data-centre projects on data sovereignty, economic contribution, and community benefit alongside grid requirements.

North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio data centre with $105bn guarantee
Nvidia's guarantee covers leases for 4.25GW of IT capacity, helping SB Energy finance the Ohio campus before OpenAI starts paying rent.

North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta begins AI data-centre town halls in Ponoka
Alberta is opening public discussions on AI data centres as communities weigh power, water and infrastructure requirements alongside new investment.

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: The common rules inside AI servers
An AI server may combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing vendors. PCI-SIG maintains a common interface that lets these components be discovered, negotiate capabilities and exchange data, while…
