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Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
London draft plan proposes dedicated data-centre policy
The draft would make electricity, water, heat recovery and site suitability explicit planning considerations for future data-centre development in London.

North America Datacenter
Hillsborough moves to draft data-centre moratorium
Hillsborough is preparing data-centre rules before applications arrive, with potable-water use for cooling among the conditions under review.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Partners Group plans $1bn AVK investment
The investment gives AVK capital to take its 110MW Dublin microgrid model into a wider pipeline of on-site data-centre power projects.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Microsoft opens fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad
Hyderabad gives Azure customers another Indian region for running workloads and disaster recovery, although Microsoft says more services will be added over time.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Furukawa’s profit surge reaches the component layer, but its capex plan did not accelerate
Furukawa Electric’s first-quarter results show that data-centre demand is no longer confined to cloud operators and construction contractors: it is reaching optical connectors, specialist fibre, cooling modules and other components. The company lifted its full-year…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Zankore’s 1GW ambition begins with a 200MW delivery test
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Ooredoo Group, Nokia and NVIDIA have launched Zankore by Indosat as an Indonesian AI-infrastructure platform. Its headline is a 1GW deployment target, but the first accountable milestone is narrower: approximately 200MW of AI capacity in the first half…

North America National Telecom Trends
Zayo names NVIDIA, but the 8,000-mile build was already on the books
Zayo has named NVIDIA as a collaborator on connectivity for distributed AI infrastructure. The counterparty is new public information; the route package is not. Zayo disclosed the same more-than-8,000-mile plan, including six new routes and ten overbuild corridors, on 16 April…

North America Datacenter Trends
Vantage’s Wisconsin power build has three projects and several incompatible denominators
We Energies has started construction on solar, wind and battery projects in Wisconsin, with roughly half of each project’s capacity allocated to Vantage Data Centers’ Port Washington campus. The work gives the $15 billion development a visible supply programme, but it does not…

North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon is rewiring its Indiana AI campus before buying a new one
An internal plan to join several Indiana data-centre buildings into one Trainium supercluster is a capital-allocation decision disguised as an engineering diagram. Amazon wants more than 6,000 servers deployed faster for its next in-house model, but the value lies in whether…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Siemens’ €6bn data-centre signal begins in the electrical order book
Siemens has disclosed around €6 billion of Smart Infrastructure data-centre orders across the first nine months of fiscal 2026. That is an unusually clear upstream measure of the build cycle—but it remains order intake, not commissioned capacity, recognized revenue or a map of…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Infineon’s AI reservation figure is a funnel, not yet a backlog
Infineon has put a high-single-digit-billion-euro number around multi-year capacity reservations for AI customers. The disclosure makes data-centre power a manufacturing question—but because it combines concluded agreements with negotiations, the number cannot yet carry the…

North America Datacenter
Gilbert, Arizona, weighs stricter data-centre rules
Gilbert, Arizona, would limit data centres to light-industrial sites, ban potable-water cooling and require wider setbacks from nearby homes.

North America Datacenter
Texas halts data-centre grid approvals
Texas has frozen new data-centre grid approvals, leaving ERCOT’s first large-load allocation process without a timetable.

North America Datacenter
Oregon Democrats plan three-year data-centre moratorium
Four Oregon lawmakers plan a three-year pause on new large data centres as the state reviews power, water, tax and land-use rules.

North America Datacenter Trends
Sandisk’s datacenter surge still carries a NAND price tag
Sandisk doubled quarterly datacenter revenue while adding five customer agreements, but two-thirds of its company-wide sequential growth came from higher pricing. The result is a powerful signal of storage demand—not yet proof that contracts have neutralised the NAND cycle.

North America Datacenter
FCC reportedly drafts ban on new Chinese optical transceivers
The FCC’s reported proposal could force US data-centre operators to review Chinese optical-transceiver suppliers earlier in the network-design process.

Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for AI at Scale
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium aims to expand the most familiar network in the data centre into a complete fabric for artificial intelligence and high performance computing — from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics through packet spraying, congestion control and link recovery to…

Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for Large-Scale AI
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium aims to transform the most common data centre network into an integrated connectivity fabric for AI and high-performance computing, from libfabric interfaces and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link recovery, security, and 200…

Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: rebuilding Ethernet for AI at scale
Ultra Ethernet Consortium seeks to turn the data centre's most familiar network into a complete infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing: from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link recovery, security, and…

Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for Large-Scale AI
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium seeks to transform the data centre's most familiar network into a complete infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link-level recovery…
