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A SONiC-labelled network switch connected by blue and grey cables inside a data-centre rack.

Global Institutional

SONiC and the unfinished separation of switch software from hardware

Born inside Microsoft Azure, SONiC turned a hyperscaler’s switching stack into a shared Linux-based platform used across cloud, enterprise and AI networks. Its portability remains conditional: common software still ends at vendor SAI code, proprietary SDKs, platform drivers and…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration showing a FreeBSD Foundation sign in front of data-centre server racks.

Global Institutional

The FreeBSD Foundation and the operating system behind internet infrastructure

The FreeBSD Foundation turns voluntary funding into engineering, security, hardware, legal and community capacity for an operating system used across networks, storage systems, clouds and commercial appliances. Its central challenge is sustaining that shared technical base when…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of optical transport equipment carrying high-capacity fibre connections between several data-centre facilities.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Ekinops and the economics of carrying more data through the optical layer

Ekinops began as a specialist in optical transport and became a broader connectivity group through access equipment, software and security acquisitions. Its history makes the French public company a useful test of what “lower cost per bit” really means: coherent transmission can…

Aug 4, 2026
Conceptual aerial illustration of Ishikari’s data-centre cluster with power infrastructure, renewable energy and a panel explaining the new consortium

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Ishikari City and 11 companies launch data-centre consortium

The new group will coordinate power, communications, disaster planning, and workforce development across Ishikari’s growing data-centre cluster.

Aug 4, 2026
Conceptual aerial view of the Start Campus data-centre site in Sines, with coastal infrastructure, wind turbines and a project information sign

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Start Campus targets 2027 opening for 200MW SIN02

Start Campus plans to open its 200MW SIN02 data centre in 2027, alongside Nscale’s planned deployment of more than 66,000 Rubin GPUs.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of engineers reviewing plans beside electrical and cooling systems at a data-centre construction site.  Caption: Editorial illustration representi

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Sunway Construction wins RM1.02bn Johor data-centre fit-out

Sunway Construction will deliver a RM1.02 billion MEP fit-out for an unnamed US technology company’s data centre in Johor.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of protesters holding signs near a construction site representing Meta’s planned Alberta data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends

Dozens protest Meta’s planned Alberta data centre

Local opposition has emerged after Meta secured key permits for its 1GW Alberta data centre, focusing attention on grid use, water and project oversight.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data centre with cooling equipment, server racks, power lines and wind turbines at sunset.

Global Datacenter Trends

Data centre executives challenge ‘energy guzzler’ label

Industry executives argue that power source, computing output and cooling design give a fuller picture of data-centre resource use.

Aug 4, 2026
A civic planning table connects six evidence stations to a translucent, not-yet-built data-centre campus model.

North America Datacenter Trends

Iowa’s data-centre tool turns local controversy into questions that can be audited

The University of Iowa has released a decision tool for counties, cities and communities considering data-centre development. It does not tell officials to approve or refuse a project. Its value is more procedural: it converts arguments about water, power, taxes, land and…

Aug 3, 2026
Data-centre connection paths converge on an illuminated audit checkpoint before reaching the Texas grid.

North America Datacenter Trends

Texas puts a proof gate in front of its 474GW data-centre queue

Texas has ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project advancing through the grid connection process before it can move forward. The state says requests now exceed 474GW—more than five times ERCOT’s record peak demand—and that roughly 90% of new power requests come…

Aug 3, 2026
A municipal planning table and utility map face a translucent temporary barrier before a proposed data-centre campus in a Florida cityscape.

North America Datacenter Trends

Lakeland’s 50MW line buys a year to write rules before approving concentrated load

Lakeland’s City Commission voted 4-3 for a twelve-month moratorium on large-scale data centres and other proposed customers with peak demand of at least 50MW. The pause covers the city’s acceptance, processing, review and approval of relevant development applications while…

Aug 3, 2026
Survey stakes and translucent future solar rows occupy an undeveloped Oklahoma site while a regional grid continues toward distant evening digital infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

Google’s 155MW Oklahoma solar deal has contracted an output, not delivered a data-centre load

Google has agreed to buy the entire output of RWE’s planned 155MWac Crooked Creek Solar project for 15 years. The contract can give the project a durable buyer and give Google a long-term renewable-energy position in the Southwest Power Pool. It does not mean the plant is…

Aug 3, 2026
An undeveloped secured Virginia parcel carries a translucent blueprint of a future data-centre campus beside distant power and fibre corridors.

North America Datacenter Trends

Yondr has bought a Manassas site; 72MW still has to climb the entire delivery ladder

Yondr and investment funds managed by Cerberus have acquired a 40-acre site in Manassas, Virginia, where Yondr plans a 72MW data-centre campus with a 2029 ready-for-service target. The acquisition moves the project past the search for land, but not past the harder conversions…

Aug 3, 2026
Editorial illustration showing energy and digital cable systems separated from electrical conduit and distribution infrastructure by an open regulatory checkpoint before a proposed acquisition closes.

North America Datacenter Trends

Prysmian’s $3.8 billion Atkore agreement is a route to control, not control itself

Prysmian has agreed to pay $95 in cash for each Atkore share in a transaction carrying an enterprise value of about $3.8 billion. The industrial case reaches from electrical conduit to data-centre construction, but every claimed benefit still sits beyond a shareholder vote…

Aug 3, 2026
Conceptual aerial view of the planned Paducah data-centre and energy campus with generation, battery storage and grid infrastructure

North America Datacenter Trends

Brookfield, NextEra plan $100bn Kentucky data-centre campus

Brookfield and NextEra plan a 1.8GW Kentucky campus with dedicated gas generation, battery storage and local utility service.

Aug 3, 2026
Data centre connected to a regional power grid, illustrating firm capacity and conditional service subject to curtailment.

North America Datacenter Trends

PJM proposes capacity rules for large data centres

PJM wants new data centres to pair grid connections with firm capacity or accept earlier curtailment during regional shortages.

Aug 3, 2026
Regional planners compare eastern Ohio sites for potential data centres using land maps, utility studies and permitting documents.

North America Datacenter Trends

Lake to River reports surge in data-centre inquiries

Lake to River reports nearly 10 data-centre leads in eastern Ohio, but none have reached a named project, site selection, or permit filing.

Aug 3, 2026
Michigan policy debate on data-centre power, water, jobs and community conditions, illustrated beside a data-centre campus and energy infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

El-Sayed campaigns on binding data-centre rules

Michigan’s Senate primary is testing voter support for binding conditions on data-centre power, water, jobs and community benefits.

Aug 3, 2026
Woodburn officials review planning documents as a proposed data-centre development and power infrastructure remain behind a pause barrier.

North America Datacenter Trends

Woodburn council weighs data-centre moratorium

A moratorium would affect projects only after Woodburn defines which permit actions city staff must stop and from what date.

Aug 3, 2026
A resident addresses a public hearing beside two separate translucent planning models for proposed data-centre power equipment.

North America Datacenter Trends

Hamlet put 649 diesel engines through one public doorway

More than 100 people attended a North Carolina hearing on two air-permit applications tied to Amazon’s Energy Way Tech Campus in Hamlet. One application covers 592 Amazon emergency engines—588 critical units and four ancillary units. The other covers 57 Duke Energy engines…

Jul 31, 2026