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Editorial illustration of construction at Pure DC's Brent Cross campus, where Glencar has started piling for the LON01B2 West Cold Shell

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Pure DC starts final 70MW Brent Cross phase

Glencar has started the West Shell of Pure DC's 70MW B2 facility, with completion scheduled for the second quarter of 2029.

Sep 8, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a digital infrastructure conference discussing data centres, power grids, construction and fibre deployment

North America Datacenter Trends

Lipman flags power and fibre constraints in US buildout

At Metro Connect Fall, Andrew Lipman linked AI demand to practical limits in grid access, fibre deployment, permitting and project delivery.

Sep 8, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a Thailand data-centre construction site under government rules review

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Thailand asks 49 data-centre projects to pause

Thai officials have asked developers of 49 data-centre projects under construction to pause voluntarily while new national rules are prepared.

Sep 8, 2026
Editorial illustration of Digital Realty's NBO2 data centre in Nairobi with graphics showing 6.4MW capacity and access to more than 100 networks

Africa Datacenter

Digital Realty opens 6.4MW Nairobi data centre

NBO2 adds 6.4MW of capacity beside Digital Realty's existing Nairobi facility and an established Kenya Internet Exchange location.

Sep 8, 2026
AI-generated illustration comparing a 20-year data-centre lifespan with a five-to-seven-year GPU refresh cycle

Global Datacenter Trends

DigitalBridge flags data-centre and GPU lifespan mismatch

DigitalBridge's Jon Mauck says data centres can last 20 years while GPUs may last five to seven, complicating long-term AI infrastructure finance.

Sep 8, 2026
AI-generated illustration of workers handling a prefabricated data-centre module beside LG Uplus and partner branding

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus forms alliance for 100MW modular AI data centres

LG Uplus and four construction partners will develop modular designs for 100MW-class AI data centres and conversions of existing buildings.

Sep 8, 2026
Occupied server rows lead into an energized but empty data-centre hall and an unfinished expansion zone.

Global Datacenter Trends

VNET’s 96.3% Commitment Still Leaves a 226MW Move-In Gap

VNET has almost sold out the wholesale capacity it has already put into service. It has not yet activated all of it. At 30 June, 970MW was committed under effective customer agreements while 744MW was being utilized. The 226MW between those states is where an impressive order…

Sep 8, 2026
A network construction site sits above separate amber earnings and blue operating-cash channels divided by a closed acceptance gate.

North America Institutional Trends

ITG’s US$72.4m Free Cash Flow Excludes Its US$47.0m Operating Cash Use

ITG reported US$72.4 million of free cash flow for the first half of 2026 while its cash-flow statement recorded US$47.0 million used by operations. Both numbers are disclosed correctly, but they answer different questions. ITG defines free cash flow as adjusted EBITDA minus…

Sep 7, 2026
An operating data-centre campus stands before unfinished halls and a larger dark expanse of powered development land.

Global Datacenter Trends

STTGDC Has 780MW Operating; Nearly 2GW Is Still a Delivery Queue

The KKR–Singtel consortium has completed its acquisition of STTGDC, but it has not acquired a finished version of the operator's development plan. The closing update puts operational capacity at 780MW and nearly 2GW of powered land in construction or development. Those figures…

Sep 7, 2026
Horizontal pressure vessels move through fabrication stages in an industrial hall, with an unfinished factory bay and data-centre cooling plant beyond.

North America Datacenter Trends

Argan's 2,000 data-centre vessels have no disclosed contract value

Argan has put a physical count on one of the less visible components of data-centre construction: roughly 2,000 pressure vessels for thermal-energy storage and chilled-water buffer cooling. It has not put a price on that order. The difference matters because unit count, segment…

Sep 7, 2026
A detached high-voltage substation package sits beyond a bright transfer line, while three translucent gates separate the unfinished land and data-centre site.

North America Datacenter Trends

Plug got $40 million from Texas. The other $50.5 million is still conditional

Plug Power’s sale of its Graham, Texas project was announced as a source of up to $90.5 million of liquidity. The August closing delivered $40 million for a defined package of high-voltage equipment. Land, grid rights, an earnout and the expected release of collateral remain on…

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of the planned TCS HyperVault AI data-centre campus in Hyderabad, India

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

TCS HyperVault secures Hyderabad site for 1GW data centre

TCS HyperVault has secured 264 acres in Hyderabad for a phased AI data-centre campus designed to scale to 1GW.

Sep 7, 2026
An enclosed transformer bank glows beside a separate public power corridor in front of an unfinished data-centre campus, with two blank ledgers divided in the foreground.

North America Datacenter Trends

WEC’s data-centre return sits outside earnings sharing

Wisconsin Electric’s special tariff for very large customers does not merely assign the cost of a new power plant to a new data centre. It gives that investment its own return, capital structure and exit rules—and then removes the resulting economics from the mechanism that…

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of a prefabricated data-centre module being installed as part of a modular AI data-centre project

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus, GS E&C form modular data-centre alliance

LG Uplus and GS E&C are developing modular AI data-centre models for a 100MW new build and conversions of existing buildings.

Sep 7, 2026
A small clipped bundle of blank equity papers sits beside a much larger stack of lease folders in an unfinished data-centre power hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

HCWC’s Four-Percent Stub Is Not a $1.25 Billion Lease

Host Digital’s long lease, the board’s $425 million merger price and the fraction left for HCWC’s existing shareholders are three different numbers. Collapsing them into one valuation story hides the transaction’s real transfer of control and execution risk.

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of two separate fibre connections entering an underground conduit that stops at an unfinished construction section between two unbranded data-centre sites.

North America Regional ISP Trends

LSC’s Second Tenant Changes the Risk, Not the Delivery Gate

A second hyperscale signature can improve the economics of a fibre corridor before it improves the network. The missing evidence lies between contracted demand and a route that is built, accepted and billable.

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of a large data-centre campus and power infrastructure in Hyderabad representing TCS HyperVault’s planned 1GW AI data-centre development

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

TCS HyperVault Secures 1GW AI Site in Hyderabad

The 264-acre site is planned for phased development, while first-phase capacity, power supply and construction timing remain undisclosed.

Sep 7, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of residents outside a civic building with signs opposing data-centre development, with a large data-centre building in the background

North America Datacenter Trends

Judge dismisses Edgerton suit against data-centre petitioners

A Johnson County judge dismissed Edgerton’s case against residents, while their data-centre petition remains under separate court review.

Sep 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of a 400ZR optical module being inserted into network equipment, representing OIF's CMIS-LT and Coherent CMIS 1.5 agreements

Global Institutional

OIF approves CMIS link training and 400ZR updates

OIF's new CMIS-LT agreement and C-CMIS 1.5 update define common methods for host-link training and 400ZR module management.

Sep 7, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of two workers inspecting pipes and drainage outside a newly built data centre

North America Datacenter Trends

Cerv warns of maintenance gaps in new data centres

Cerv says some new data centres are entering service with preventable site-care gaps as North American construction reaches a record 7.48GW.

Sep 7, 2026