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Editorial aerial of undeveloped Texas land with one solid first-phase footprint and two faint later-phase outlines beside power infrastructure.

North America Cloud Services Trends

Flexential's 108MW Texas ambition begins with one secured 36MW block

Flexential has bought 110 acres near Talty, Texas, for a three-building data-centre campus. The headline scale is 108MW, but the investable fact is smaller and more immediate: the first approximately 375,000-square-foot building has 36MW of secured utility power, site work is…

Jul 28, 2026
One solid model data hall glows before a broad field of transparent unfinished campus frames

North America Datacenter Trends

AMD has secured a 500MW starting point, not a 2.5GW operating estate

AMD will secure more than 500MW of United States data-centre capacity from Core Scientific for customer deployments beginning in 2027, with an ability to expand up to 2.5GW. The agreement gives AMD a physical route for systems built around its chips and software. It does not say…

Jul 28, 2026
An unfinished data-centre model rests on four dark ownership wedges and one blue-grey wedge inside a clear lease band and an open transaction ring

North America Datacenter Trends

Meta can own 20% of El Paso and occupy 100% of it

Meta and BlackRock have disclosed the operating contract beneath their El Paso data-centre venture: BlackRock-managed funds will own 80%, Meta 20%, while Meta leases the entire campus as its initial sole occupant. Equity ownership, customer concentration and residual-value…

Jul 28, 2026
Five solid data-centre models sit on four campus plinths between equal blank portfolios and translucent future structures

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

Orange’s €3bn data-centre plan has capital targets before it has a signed deal

Orange and Morrison have entered exclusivity over a contemplated 50/50 French data-centre joint venture targeting 400 MW of capacity and a €3 billion investment programme. Five data centres across four campuses define the starting footprint, but signing, approvals and closing…

Jul 28, 2026
Unpowered data-centre project models queue behind an interconnection gate beside a live residential grid model

North America Cloud Services Trends

PG&E’s 12 GW data-centre pipeline is a queue, not yet a load forecast

PG&E says prospective data-centre projects in its service area now exceed 12 GW. Its estimate that each additional 1 GW could cut monthly customer bills by 1% or more depends on “appropriate pricing”—the condition that decides whether new load shares grid costs or transfers them.

Jul 28, 2026
A dark fibre cable crosses a neutral handoff boundary between two separately secured data-centre endpoint frames

North America National Telecom Trends

Verizon’s $1bn Google fibre deal discloses value without its operating units

Verizon’s chief executive disclosed a dark-fibre agreement worth more than $1 billion to connect Google data centres. The figure signals material AI-infrastructure demand, but duration, route miles, fibre capacity, delivery schedule, margin and revenue recognition were not…

Jul 28, 2026
Telecom and optical-network chassis wait in front of staged inventory while technicians install active racks in a factory

Global National Telecom Trends

Nokia’s €2.8bn AI order book arrives before the cash

Nokia has found a fast-growing customer class in AI and Cloud, but its second quarter shows why orders, accounting profit and cash cannot be treated as the same result. The company expects only about half of €2.8 billion of new orders to become revenue within 12 months, while…

Jul 28, 2026

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

Click IP's Certified Manaus Facility Does Not Resolve Its Network Boundary

Click IP's Certified Manaus Facility Does Not Resolve Its Network Boundary intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…

Jul 27, 2026
Illustration of fibre optic cable manufacturing linked to data-centre infrastructure and global exports

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

HFCL profit rebounds as fibre exports rise

HFCL is expanding fibre and data-centre connectivity manufacturing after exports helped lift its quarterly revenue and profit.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of a data centre in Lakeland beside a city sign announcing a proposed 12-month moratorium.

North America Datacenter

Lakeland data-centre moratorium advances to final vote

Lakeland has advanced a 12-month pause on large data-centre projects while officials review electricity, water, noise and planning requirements.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of OpenAI’s planned 3.2GW Project Camellia data-centre campus in Effingham County, Georgia.

North America Datacenter

OpenAI plans 3.2GW Georgia data-centre campus

OpenAI has secured phased power delivery for Project Camellia, but its financing, design and operating plans are still being developed.

Jul 26, 2026
Residents view a proposed data-centre site near homes, power lines and water infrastructure during a public hearing.

North America Datacenter Trends

Poll finds rising US opposition to nearby data centres

A POLITICO poll found that opposition to nearby data-centre projects has overtaken support, with the largest change among Democratic voters.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for The Framestore Limited

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Framestore must make creative scale survive project volatility

Film, television and advertising buyers hire The Framestore Limited because visually complex work transfers execution risk: a studio or brand can sell a story before every creature, world, interface, character, shot and screen experience exists. The economic question is whether…

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Claranet Portugal S.A

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Claranet Portugal Must Make Managed Cloud Complexity Recurring

Portuguese organisations are not only buying servers, licences or migrations from Claranet Portugal. They are paying to move cloud, security, data, application and workplace accountability to a specialist that can sit between local operating constraints and global technology…

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for TEMPLUS BARCELONA S.L.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Templus Barcelona must fill capacity before capital outruns demand

The economic reason to use Templus Barcelona is not that a local rack is fashionable. It is that a customer can buy resilient, nearby, connected capacity in Barcelona without funding its own computer room, waiting for a distant hyperscale region, or carrying the fixed cost of…

Jul 25, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Rackspace Germany GmbH

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Rackspace Germany must make multicloud complexity pay

Enterprises use Rackspace Germany GmbH when they want cloud accountability shifted to an operator without giving up AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, private-cloud or sovereign choices. The economic test is whether Rackspace can turn that complexity into recurring, high-utilisation…

Jul 24, 2026

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Equinix and the real cost of cloud dependency infrastructure

Equinix is often discussed as if it were a simple data-center landlord or a neutral place where cloud networks meet. The useful public question is narrower and more practical: what does Equinix help customers assemble, what risks does that assembly move rather than remove, and…

Jul 23, 2026
Protest and development signs beside rural land representing opposition to the proposed Project Sail data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter

Coweta County halts new data-centre proposals

Coweta County paused new data-centre proposals after approving Project Sail’s rezoning, as residents challenged its local impact.

Jul 23, 2026
Illustration of Molex and Prysmian branding beside fibre-optic cables and a manufacturing facility

Global Datacenter Trends

Molex signs Prysmian fibre deal worth up to €5.5bn

Molex is committing to long-term optical cable purchases as Prysmian prepares to expand fibre production in the US and Europe.

Jul 23, 2026
County planning documents beside an Orangeburg County administration building, representing proposed restrictions on data-centre development.

North America Datacenter

Orangeburg County weighs data-centre moratorium

Orangeburg County may pause planning, permit and incentive applications while it develops rules for data centres and other computing facilities.

Jul 23, 2026