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Data Centre Investment
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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…
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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…
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…

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.

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.

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.
