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Illustration of the London skyline, a data centre, Greater London map markers and panels summarising draft data-centre planning criteria

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.

Aug 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of Hillsborough County, Florida, with a data centre, wetlands and a notice about land use and water resources

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.

Aug 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of AVK microgrid power equipment beside a data centre representing Partners Group’s planned $1bn investment

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.

Aug 7, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Microsoft data centre with an India map marking Hyderabad and cloud infrastructure imagery

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.

Aug 7, 2026
A generic precision factory inspects fibre-optic connector arrays and liquid-cooling plates for high-density computing equipment.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
A conceptual AI data-centre campus links liquid-cooled compute racks to substantial power and fibre infrastructure at dusk.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
A generic long-haul fibre corridor is under construction beside rail infrastructure, with data-centre buildings in the distance.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Solar, wind and battery projects under construction connect by planned routes to an unfinished Wisconsin data-centre campus.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Several existing data-centre halls converge on a shared fibre spine beside power and cooling infrastructure at dusk.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Industrial switchgear and power cabling lead toward an unfinished data-hall structure at dawn.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
A silicon wafer and power-semiconductor modules sit between a precision manufacturing line and a high-density data-centre power aisle.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Proposed data-centre site in Gilbert, Arizona, beside homes and electrical infrastructure, with planning restrictions shown in an editorial graphic

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Texas data-centre construction site beside a power substation with grid-connection approvals shown as paused

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Oregon data-centre campus beside farmland and power lines with a barrier marking the proposed three-year moratorium

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.

Aug 6, 2026
An open enterprise flash-storage tray with NAND packages and a silicon wafer sits inside an unbranded data-centre aisle.

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Optical transceivers and fibre-connected data-centre switches with the US Capitol visible behind them

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for AI at Scale

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for Large-Scale AI

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Un switch Ethernet central conecta varios nodos de computación de IA mediante rutas de datos paralelas de alta velocidad.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Un commutateur Ethernet central relie plusieurs nœuds d’accélération d’IA au moyen de liaisons de données multipath à haut débit dans un centre de données.

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…

Aug 6, 2026