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Global Cloud Services

ServerChoice and the operating surface behind colocation, connectivity and managed networks

ServerChoice is visible through a set of official pages that describe UK data-centre colocation, connectivity, disaster-recovery and managed network services. The linked BTW directory entry uses an operations/contact-style label, so the responsible article angle is not a…

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Canadian data centre beside power lines, with poll figures on electricity costs and environmental concerns

North America Datacenter Trends

Canadians fear data-centre power costs

Canadian support for data centres may depend on whether operators can show who will pay for the power and infrastructure their projects require.

Jul 22, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Pulsant (Scotland) Ltd

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Pulsant Scotland Must Turn Regional Edge Capacity Into Paid Density

Pulsant (Scotland) Ltd is tracked through network-resource and public-company evidence, but the economic question is larger than a registry entry: whether Pulsant can fill its Scottish edge data-centre capacity with customers willing to pay for local latency, accountable…

Jul 22, 2026
Unbranded infrastructure scene illustrating the article's evidence boundary

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

LM1 is visible, but Equinix Peru's useful-capacity questions remain local

Equinix makes its Lima footprint unusually easy to locate: LM1 has a street address, a published floor-area figure, a stated 0.7 MW total capacity and a place in the company's Peru data-centre pages. Yet those facts describe a facility boundary, not the service a customer can…

Jul 22, 2026
Editorial illustration of one active AI-system assembly cell beside a prepared but idle parallel cell

North America Datacenter Trends

Wistron opened the Texas factory; now the production ramp has to earn the $700 million commitment

Wistron's first United States plant is no longer a site plan. Its Fort Worth D1 factory is open, one manufacturing cell is producing NVIDIA GB300 systems, and a second is intended for Vera Rubin. The operating milestone is real. The harder economic question is whether local…

Jul 21, 2026
Editorial illustration of a technology executive beside a renewable-powered data-centre campus with wind turbines

North America Datacenter

Soluna appoints Ryan Carver to lead AI data-centre delivery

Carver’s remit spans power, design and construction as Soluna works to define the first phase of its Kati 2 AI campus.

Jul 21, 2026
Editorial illustration of a large queue of dark capacity modules passing through construction, power and acceptance gates toward a smaller lit operating group

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

NEXTDC's sales ledger is 740MW; its billing floor is still 175MW

NEXTDC added 73MW of customer contracts and lifted pro forma contracted utilisation to 740MW. The demand signal is substantial, but the operating state is not: 565MW sits in the forward order book while 175MW was billing at 30 June. Sales uncertainty has fallen, and the burden of…

Jul 20, 2026
Conceptual capital-market stacks pass through four partly closed transparent funding gates toward an incomplete desert data-centre campus

North America Datacenter Trends

Project Sopaipilla's $12bn has entered a marketing calendar, not a data centre

Bloomberg reports that a holding company for BlackRock-managed funds' 80% interest in Meta's El Paso project is preparing to sell more than $12bn of bonds. Investor meetings and an expected pricing date move the financing process forward. They do not yet produce settled cash…

Jul 20, 2026
Conceptual balance with one incentive token lifted away while open permitting, public-power and water-review paths still lead toward a data-centre campus

North America Datacenter Trends

Nebraska stopped a subsidy, not data-centre construction

Nebraska has removed ImagiNE Act incentives from new data-centre applications while leaving construction, zoning, power connection and financing as separate decisions. Governor Jim Pillen's executive order also starts a cross-agency review and a resource task force. It changes…

Jul 20, 2026
Conceptual progression from sealed compute equipment through incomplete rack installation to a limited set of powered racks carrying workload light while other racks remain dark

North America Cloud Services Trends

QumulusAI has bought GPUs; seven hand-offs remain before revenue

The financed order for 1,632 B300 GPUs and 192 RTX PRO 6000 units narrows QumulusAI's hardware-access problem. It does not close the operating problem. Delivery, powered space, networking, installation, acceptance, allocation and utilisation still separate a purchase order from a…

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial illustration of contracted demand passing through acceptance checkpoints into AI compute racks at different commissioning stages

Global Cloud Services Trends

IREN has contracted the run rate; it still has to commission the revenue

New AI cloud agreements worth $2.8bn put about 85% of IREN’s raised year-end ARR target under contract. Customer prepayments make the expansion easier to finance, but the company’s own definition places delivery, testing and acceptance between a signed deal and earned revenue.

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial visualization of one power backbone serving an operating data hall and a second hall under construction

North America Datacenter Trends

Hut 8’s second Beacon Point lease doubles capacity—and one tenant exposure

The same unnamed counterparty now accounts for 704MW at the Texas campus. Secured power gives Hut 8 commercial leverage, but a $19.6bn base-term value still depends on construction, finance and delivery extending into 2028.

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial illustration of Hong Kong data-centre sites linked by a glowing fibre route, representing HKT’s planned 3.2Tbps interconnect

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

HKT plans 3.2Tbps hollow-core data-centre link in Hong Kong

HKT plans a 3.2Tbps interconnect between Hong Kong data-centre sites as the city develops new computing capacity at Sandy Ridge.

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial illustration of a planned data-centre campus in Childress, Texas, with solar panels, battery storage and power infrastructure

North America Datacenter

Crusoe and Lancium plan 1GW data-centre campus in Texas

Crusoe and Lancium are taking their Abilene partnership to a planned 1GW Childress campus, where power must be ready before data halls enter service.

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial illustration of five Australian data-centre sites remaining connected during a transition to an independent operating platform

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Fujitsu’s five-centre sale makes continuity the first asset to transfer

Next Capital is buying an operating Australian data-centre platform, not five empty buildings. Contracts and staff are meant to move with it after completion, while Fujitsu keeps the business running and redirects investment toward higher-layer technology services.

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial illustration linking optical-fibre manufacturing to dense cabling inside a data-centre hall

Global Datacenter Trends

Prysmian’s €550m prepayment turns an AI cable forecast into a capacity wager

Molex is putting cash ahead of delivery while Prysmian commits €1.25bn to fibre and optical-cable expansion. The arrangement shares some demand risk, but its headline maxima are neither guaranteed orders nor revenue already earned.

Jul 20, 2026
AI-generated editorial regional interconnection image for Aaron Wendel profile.

Leaders

Aaron Wendel and the Infrastructure Choices Shaping Kansas City’s Interconnection Hub

Aaron Wendel’s public record is not a conventional executive biography. It is a trail of exchange switches, data-centre connections and partner deployments that shows how a regional operator has tried to make Kansas City a more consequential place for networks to meet.

Jul 18, 2026
Workers install raised floors and overhead systems inside an unfinished data hall.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

NTT's Bangkok fit-out award shifts spending into data halls

Leighton Asia will install the internal systems that make an NTT data-centre campus usable, providing a firmer demand signal than a development plan while leaving the project's size and schedule largely undisclosed.

Jul 18, 2026
Financing folders and a blank calculator sit beside an unbranded data-centre corridor.

North America Datacenter Trends

Csquare closes IPO with $1.01bn after underwriting discounts

The colocation operator's completed listing is designed to restore borrowing headroom and lower interest expense, but Brookfield keeps voting control and the company's uncontracted expansion risk remains with the newly public balance sheet.

Jul 18, 2026
A transparent conceptual data-centre massing hovers over an empty tropical parcel beside homes, survey markers and a utility corridor.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Kota Damansara data-centre dispute is headed to Malaysia's Cabinet

The announced escalation does not cancel the proposal, but it turns a local planning objection into a test of whether Malaysia's data-centre screening should cover neighbourhood siting as explicitly as power and water.

Jul 18, 2026