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운영 중인 데이터센터 옆에 두 번째 시설이 공사 중인 도쿄 인근 조경 캠퍼스.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

STTGDC secured ¥93bn for Tokyo. The green test is still a design setting.

STTGDC has secured a JPY 93bn green-loan facility for fitting out and operating two data centres in Inzai, beside Tokyo. Its environmental eligibility test puts a number on the drawing: design PUE of 1.3 or below. The interesting part is what the announcement measures, and what…

Oct 27, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a data-centre aisle opening onto a research desk, for Brazil’s Redata policy choice.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends

Redata has a 10% fork: Brazil’s market, or another R&D bill

Brazil’s new data-centre tax regime puts a choice inside its 10% domestic-supply rule: make qualifying capacity available at home, or spend an additional 10% of eligible equipment value on research. The difference will live in the accounting, the regulations and, eventually, the…

Oct 27, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a proposed data centre on Ceará’s coast, with wind turbines, reused water and a scale contrast.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends

One future data centre takes 88% of the bill. The export forecast takes five.

Brazil has approved a R$181.7bn Voltalia data-centre project in Pecém. It dominates a five-project investment package, but the government’s R$40bn annual export forecast belongs to the whole ensemble.

Oct 27, 2026
A conceptual open clasp lies before wind turbines, transmission lines and a generic data-centre silhouette at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Soluna freed the assets. Two June debt figures are still $1.2m apart.

Soluna says it has repaid Generate Capital and released the liens tied to its Dorothy projects, clearing a stated path for power to move to Dorothy 3. Its October announcement puts the facility’s June principal at $28.7 million; its June 10-Q says $27.5 million. The lights are…

Oct 26, 2026
Conceptual Gulf-region data-centre skyline, a three-page calendar and fibre network balancing long and short investment horizons.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

du’s licence runs to 2046. Its royalty note stops at three years.

The twenty-year licence gives du a long runway to invest in networks and data centres. Its latest results leave investors with a shorter regulatory clock—and no price tag for the toll.

Oct 25, 2026
A conceptual Vancouver data centre shows one lit server hall beside an unfinished future bay.

North America Datacenter Trends

VAN-2’s Second Megawatt Has a Future Tense

Uniserve leased 10,000 square feet for a 2 MW Vancouver data centre. Its latest update puts 1 MW on the Q4 2026 opening target and leaves the other megawatt for later. The useful question is now less about the brochure’s ceiling than the evidence behind the first live rack.

Oct 25, 2026
두 데이터센터가 하나의 빛나는 광섬유로 이어지고, 파란 지붕은 부지 일부만 덮는다.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

One customer books Scotland’s £300m AI-centre capacity for 15 years

A £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee sits inside DataVita’s roughly £300m debt facility. The full capacity of the two financed data centres is contracted to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease.

Oct 25, 2026
A data-centre cooling complex split by a glass partition, with one side in sharp detail and the other fading into soft focus.

Global Datacenter Trends

SLB’s data-centre business is booming. Its profit has no separate column.

Data Center Solutions brought in $230 million in the third quarter, 76% more than a year earlier. SLB has still tucked the business inside “All Other,” where its profit shares a room with two unrelated operations.

Oct 25, 2026
표식 없는 정부 조달 서류에서 빛나는 광섬유가 뻗어 황혼 속 여러 데이터센터 건설 현장으로 이어진다.

Africa Institutional Trends

Nigeria’s US$750m cloud bet has one big customer: the government

Abuja wants private capital to build a regional cloud market. Its plan starts with something the state already controls: what federal agencies buy, how they buy it and whether those contracts are predictable enough to finance new capacity.

Oct 24, 2026
수출금융 장부와 공사 중인 데이터센터 캠퍼스를 서로 분리해 그린 편집 삽화.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

The £7bn Isn’t the Cheque: Oman’s AI Centre Has Its Own Deal

Britain raised its export-finance ceiling for Oman to £7bn as Yamna prepared a separate agreement for a large AI data centre in Salalah. The two announcements share a stage. They do not share a disclosed funding line.

Oct 24, 2026
Иллюстрация строящегося кампуса дата-центров в Осаке; на переднем плане видны системы электроснабжения и охлаждения.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

KIX15 Has 24 MW on the Drawing Board—and No Tenant Named

Digital Realty’s Japanese joint venture has started work on a fifth Osaka-campus building due in 2028. The capacity is specific; the customer, price and project bill are not.

Oct 23, 2026
Дата-центр ждёт у подстанции, пока заявки на подключение проходят три этапа проекта.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

A Grid Queue Is Not a Free Parking Lot: Ofgem’s Data Centre Fee

Britain’s grid queue held 125 GW of contracted demand in June 2025, including about 73 GW of data-centre projects. Ofgem wants developers to put money behind those positions and prove that their projects can reach energisation. The hard question is whether the rules can spot a…

Oct 23, 2026
Illustration of technicians inspecting a partly assembled AI server rack in an unbranded manufacturing facility.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Adani and Jabil’s AI Hardware Venture Still Needs a Binding Deal

June set out an ambition; October supplied a proposed 50:50 structure. The distinction matters: the partners have described a manufacturing platform, but their latest public document is still a non-binding memorandum, not a funded factory or a customer-backed production plan.

Oct 21, 2026
An unstaffed Tokyo data-centre aisle seen from a low angle: two rows of tall dark cabinets recede under cool overhead light, and in the nearest row one bay stands empty with its bare mounting frame exposed.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

BroadBand Tower: the card was wrong about two things, and silent on the money

A trade-press page puts BroadBand Tower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard market and dates its founding to February 2000. The same page, plus three facility listings from one publisher, leave the operator's revenue mix, capital spending and running capacity unstated — and…

Oct 21, 2026
Two low-rise grey-clad data centre halls standing at the inland edge of the Westland polder beside long rows of glass greenhouses, with several separate dark fibre conduits converging across wet grass toward a single entry point; no substation or signage is visible.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Greenhouse Datacenters Publishes Its Interconnection Story and Leaves the Power Envelope Unstated

A Naaldwijk colocation operator has just been named an additional landing partner for the IOEMA subsea cable. Its public record is unusually detailed on connectivity partners, exchange count, certifications and a power usage ratio — and silent on the figure that decides how much…

Oct 18, 2026
An unmarked data-centre building at dusk beside a high-voltage substation and pylons, with a buried conduit route running along the perimeter fence toward a distant treeline.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

Ascenty: The Megawatt That Travels Without Its Basis

Brazil's data-centre buildout is routinely described in megawatts, but the documents gathered for this report on 18 October 2026 contain no megawatt figure for Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações S/A at all — and that gap is the story, because the unit itself is doing work…

Oct 18, 2026
Conceptual editorial illustration of a modern data-centre campus, with one finished-looking hall beside a hall under construction and visible power and cooling equipment; it is not a photograph of Chennai 01.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

CapitaLand’s Chennai data centre has to make capital recycling pay

CapitaLand’s unveiling of Chennai 01 put a ₹1,940 crore plan and a 53 MW power figure on display. The investment case now turns on a less visible conversion: how much of the facility’s 34 MW of IT capacity becomes contracted, commissioned and cash-paying load.

Oct 18, 2026
A single thick closed manila document folder on a pale wooden desk, tied across the middle with a black ribbon, with a dim corridor of tall dark filing cabinets blurred far behind it.

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

Colt's UK register names its controller but not the terms that bind it

Companies House fixes COLT Technology Services Group Limited at company number 03232904, records four consecutive years of full accounts and shows a single corporate person with significant control holding 75% or more of shares and votes. What the register does not show is the…

Oct 18, 2026
AI illustration of large data-centre-like buildings, cooling fans, pipes and electrical equipment beside a bay at dusk.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

A cooling failure can stop a payment. Singapore wants the responsibility pinned down.

Two power thresholds and a cloud-revenue test underpin Singapore's new infrastructure regime. The harder question is who can fix the systems when they fail.

Oct 17, 2026
AI concept illustration of translucent campus buildings on an undeveloped plot, with blue and amber utility paths stopping short of them.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Vietnam's AI campus has a $2.1bn plan. Its electricity bill is still a question.

SGI-HCM Campus aims to sell computing power to customers in Vietnam and abroad. Before that business can take shape, its backers need to know how the power running it will be priced.

Oct 17, 2026