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AI-generated editorial illustration of a data-centre campus protected by a counter-drone launch box and interceptor drones.

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.

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial illustration of modular cooling and electrical units moving toward an unfinished AI data-centre bay.

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…

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial illustration of power and capital paths converging on an undeveloped AI data-centre parcel.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of a newly opened AI data-centre hall whose illuminated operating section gives way to darker future expansion.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of a conceptual Tucson data centre viewed through layered public-review and infrastructure constraints.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial visualization separating data-centre building shells from racks, electrical capacity and occupied customer load.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a large European data-centre campus beside a metropolitan skyline, representing continued FLAP-D capacity growth.

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.

Aug 10, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a prefabricated data-centre power module containing electrical cabinets, transformers and integrated power equipment

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.

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial illustration of a folded data-centre blueprint leaving an undeveloped Maryland site while capital paths branch elsewhere.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of a closed planning gate before an active Oregon data-centre construction queue and battery storage units.

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…

Aug 10, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing an Oregon policy meeting, the state Capitol, data-centre infrastructure and a conceptual map of local approval conditions

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.

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of sealed blank finance cases overlooking an unfinished US solar and data-centre construction site.

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…

Aug 9, 2026
Editorial image of an unfinished data-centre hall and electrical works on a snowy Canadian prairie beside two reflective channels.

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…

Aug 9, 2026
Editorial illustration of a West Texas data-centre campus supplied by separate gas generation, batteries and solar arrays.

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.…

Aug 9, 2026
Editorial illustration of two data-centre buildings under construction beside farmland, utilities and planning documents in Gilroy.

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…

Aug 9, 2026
Editorial illustration of an early-stage Texas semiconductor campus with construction, reservoir water, treatment systems and electrical substations.

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…

Aug 8, 2026
Editorial illustration contrasting installed liquid-cooled GPU racks with a larger dark data-centre hall awaiting future deployment.

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…

Aug 8, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration representing SKY47 and ZTE's Karakoram-01 data centre in Islamabad, highlighting 8.5MW total power and liquid cooling.

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.

Aug 8, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of powered development land, electricity pylons and a substation, representing Harworth's proposed second data-centre land sale.

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.

Aug 8, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a large data-centre campus and electrical substation, representing CDC’s proposed 144MW KC1 project in Kemps Creek.

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.

Aug 8, 2026