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Data Centre Investment
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
