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Data Centre Investment
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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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…
