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Global Datacenter Trends
Impact Drones offers counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, but no data-centre customer or operational results have been disclosed.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Alibaba Cloud’s 100-day data-centre clock still lacks a named project
Alibaba Cloud says a fully modular design has cut delivery of a large AI data centre to 100 days, reduced overall construction cost by more than 10% and will support a more-than-twofold increase in global modular capacity this year. Those are striking operating claims from a…

North America Datacenter Trends
Theseus gives Anthropic a financing machine, but not yet a first address
Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management and GIC have created a vehicle meant to finance, build, operate and lease AI data centres, initially in the United States. The structure can turn a long-term computing commitment into an investable asset, yet the announcement omits the first…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Firebird has opened Hrazdan; the load curve now matters more than the ribbon
Firebird’s first Hrazdan facility is officially open, giving Armenia an operating AI-infrastructure claim rather than another construction promise. Yet the ceremony did not disclose the four denominators that would prove the scale of that claim: installed accelerators, energised…

North America Datacenter Trends
Tucson adopted data-centre rules; their first real test starts in September
Tucson has filled a regulatory gap without declaring a moratorium. The council's 6-1 vote created thresholds, buffers and a public approval sequence for large data centres, but the ordinance does not take effect until 4 September—and its practical force will only become visible…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Aofei updated Gu'an's building count, not its capacity bridge
Aofei Data says eight buildings at its Langfang Gu'an data-centre project had been built, delivered and put into operation by 30 June. The disclosure advances one physical counter from the year-end baseline, but leaves the commercial counters—cabinets, energised MW, occupied load…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
JLL puts FLAP-D live data-centre capacity at 3.8GW
FLAP-D remains tight as large AI training projects look to power-rich secondary markets for room to grow.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Bridge Data Centres launches PowerCore 5.0 power module
Bridge Data Centres launched PowerCore 5.0, a prefabricated power module that moves assembly and testing off-site for high-density AI facilities.

North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon has left the Calvert site, not explained where the capital goes
Amazon says it will not proceed with the Calvert Technology Center site in Maryland and, in its first on-record explanation, describes the move as a portfolio-allocation decision rather than a political one. The proposed three-campus, roughly 500 MW concept has left the local…

North America Datacenter Trends
Hillsboro has closed the data-centre intake, not the project pipeline
Hillsboro’s 120-day land-use moratorium stops new data-centre and battery-storage applications from entering the city system. It does not cancel projects already being built or assessed. A separate 180-day pause applies to Strategic Investment Program agreements with stand-alone…

North America Datacenter Trends
Oregon advisers reject statewide data-centre moratorium
Oregon advisers reject a statewide data-centre moratorium as Kotek backs local pauses while the state develops new rules.

North America Datacenter Trends
SoftBank has paid ahead of its US infrastructure; conversion is now the test
SoftBank Group spent JPY968.929bn in one quarter acquiring US power-generation and data-centre assets, and JPY637.772bn—65.8%—was recorded as advance payments. The scale is substantial, but it does not describe a commissioned fleet or even a data-centre-only portfolio. A second…

North America Datacenter Trends
Bell’s AI build is taking cash before its megawatts become measurable
BCE generated more cash from operations in the second quarter, yet had less free cash left after investment. Operating cash flow rose 11% to C$2.162bn while free cash flow fell 9.5% to C$1.042bn, as capital expenditure climbed 41.5% to C$1.080bn. Bell AI Fabric construction is…

North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon’s 7.65GW private-power bet moves the grid boundary, not the risk
Amazon has confirmed that its planned Pecos County data centre will rely on new on-site generation. The confirmation supplies the missing customer-side link to Pacifico Energy’s GW Ranch, a private-power campus whose Texas air permit covers 7.65GW of gross gas-fired generation.…

North America Datacenter Trends
AWS’s Gilroy build exposes the gap between public record and public visibility
Amazon Web Services did not build in Gilroy without paperwork. The city ran a 45-day environmental review, received six comment letters and published the approval record. Yet the 56-acre, 438,500-square-foot campus reached construction without a Planning Commission or City…

North America Datacenter Trends
TeraFab’s $16.8bn first phase moves the bottleneck inside the factory gate
SpaceX has now put an address and an opening capital estimate on its TeraFab ambition: Grimes County, Texas, and approximately $16.8bn for an initial phase funded by SpaceX and Tesla. That is a material narrowing of a project that was already visible in prospectus and county…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Sharon AI has sold five years of demand before it has started the revenue clock
Sharon AI’s new contract creates a precise commercial promise and an imprecise operating obligation. An unnamed global AI platform has agreed to a five-year, $373m take-or-pay service, with an initial deployment expected to use 2,048 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. Revenue is expected only…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SKY47 and ZTE launch 8.5MW Islamabad data centre
Karakoram-01 has launched with 8.5MW of stated total power, but available IT capacity and customer deployments have not been disclosed.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Harworth in talks to sell second data-centre site
Harworth is negotiating a second data-centre land sale at a site with planning and power, while its wider 800MW connection portfolio remains at different stages.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CDC files for 144MW Kemps Creek data centre
CDC's 144MW KC1 proposal has entered New South Wales' planning process, but construction and power-delivery dates have not been disclosed.
