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Data Centre Investment
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North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta begins AI data-centre town halls in Ponoka
Alberta is opening public discussions on AI data centres as communities weigh power, water and infrastructure requirements alongside new investment.

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: The common rules inside AI servers
An AI server may combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing vendors. PCI-SIG maintains a common interface that lets these components be discovered, negotiate capabilities and exchange data, while…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rulebook inside the AI server
An AI server can bring together processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing companies. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these parts meet and exchange data, and runs the test programmes used…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: The common rules that power AI servers
PCI-SIG sets the common rules that let AI server components work together and backs them with compliance testing. Its authority is limited to connectivity layer.

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG: the internal rulebook of the AI server
An AI server can bring together processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from competing companies. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these components discover one another and exchange data, then organises…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the internal rules of the AI server
An AI server can bring together processors, accelerators, network adapters, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that compete with one another. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these components discover one another and…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rulebook in the AI server
An AI server can combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that otherwise compete with one another. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface through which these components discover each other and…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the interconnect rules inside AI servers
An AI server may combine processors, accelerators, network cards, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that compete elsewhere. PCI-SIG maintains the shared interface that allows these components to recognise one another, negotiate…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rules that make an AI server work
A single AI server can contain processors, accelerators, network adapters, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security components from companies that compete everywhere else. PCI-SIG maintains the common interface that lets these components find and talk to each other…

Global Institutional
PCI-SIG and the rulebook inside the AI server
An AI server may bring together processors, accelerators, network adapters, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that compete everywhere else. PCI-SIG maintains the shared interface that lets those parts find one another and exchange data…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
GDS raises 2026 bookings target to 1GW
GDS's record first-half bookings expand its delivery pipeline, while 600MW of reservations could add further capacity if converted into contracts.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Nebius to lease Vantage capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud infrastructure through leased data-centre capacity at Vantage's Newport campus in South Wales.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Firebird opens Armenia AI factory, targets 300MW
Firebird has opened its Hrazdan AI factory, with expansion to 300MW and more than 70,000 Nvidia GPUs planned by the end of 2027.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.

North America Datacenter Trends
Arkansas local governments set different data-centre rules
Carroll County has paused approvals while Fayetteville and Little Rock use new rules, creating different local routes for data-centre development.

North America Regional ISP Trends
Hoopa Valley opens data centre for tribal fibre network
The NTIA-funded facility will support network operations as Hoopa Valley expands fibre-to-the-home and builds a separate 23-mile middle-mile route.

North America Datacenter Trends
HD Hyundai wins 1GW US data-centre power order
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will supply 1GW of HiMSEN engine capacity to Corban Energy for data centres operated by an unnamed US technology company.

Global Datacenter Trends
Data-centre capacity starts with usable power
A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.

Global Datacenter Trends
Colocation value is operational, not spatial
Renting a rack is the visible transaction. The durable value comes from resilient power, useful interconnections, physical controls and support that works during an incident.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Magnora, Blix plan 1MW Oslo AI data centre
Magnora and Blix will convert Oslo space in the same building as Blix’s NR5 facility, with 1MW available initially and potential to reach 9MW.
