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North America Datacenter Trends
Talbot County weighs one-year data-centre moratorium
Talbot County may pause data-centre approvals while it studies water and power impacts and writes local rules for future projects.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Australia prepares binding power rules for large data centres
Australia is preparing binding power rules for large data centres as 5.4GW of proposed demand moves through the transmission connection process.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
UK government approves Brick Lane data centre
The government has approved Truman Estates’ Brick Lane data centre after Tower Hamlets councillors unanimously said the application should have been refused.

North America Datacenter Trends
Riot signed the 191 MW lease; Anthropic’s name comes from reporting
Riot Platforms has disclosed a 20-year Rockdale lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab. Independent reporting identifies Anthropic as the tenant. Keeping those evidence layers separate is essential, as is distinguishing $9.1 billion of expected contract revenue from capacity that…

North America Datacenter Trends
Meta’s $1 billion community fund still needs a rulebook
Meta has made local acceptance an explicit input to its US data-centre expansion by launching the Future Is For Everyone Fund. Axios says it is seeded with $1 billion, but the announcement leaves the decisive accountability questions—who qualifies, what is additional and when…

North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon’s Pecos acquisition starts three clocks: construction, power and grid access
Amazon has confirmed that it bought Pacifico Energy’s more than 8,000-acre GW Ranch site in Pecos County, Texas. The customer identity removes one uncertainty from an unusually large behind-the-meter proposition, but permits and plans do not yet establish buildings, energised…

North America Datacenter Trends
PowerHouse plans 300MW Westlake data-centre campus
Circle T would comprise four 300,000-square-foot buildings and a developer-funded Oncor substation, while later phases still require specific-use permits.

Global Datacenter Trends
NVIDIA’s $500 billion financing target begins with six MOUs, not funded AI factories
NVIDIA has recruited six major financial institutions to build independent compute-financing platforms intended to mobilise more than $500 billion over time. The scale is consequential, but the announcement contains no executed final agreement, borrower, site, drawdown or…

North America Datacenter Trends
US data-centre opponents challenge local approvals in court
Lawsuits are testing whether US data-centre approvals can withstand scrutiny over public notice, zoning and transparency.

North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon plans Texas data centre with on-site gas power
Amazon’s Pecos County campus will initially use private generation, while GW Ranch’s gas permit allows up to 33 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.

North America Datacenter Trends
Pado says older data centres can handle AI inference
Pado says older data centres can run many AI inference workloads, offering a way to use existing power and hardware before building new capacity.

North America Datacenter Trends
US lenders scrutinise local opposition in data-centre financing
US lenders are scrutinising community opposition when assessing data-centre loans, adding local political risk to financing decisions as project resistance spreads.

Global Datacenter Trends
Impact Drones offers counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, but no data-centre customer or operational results have been disclosed.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Alibaba Cloud’s 100-day data-centre clock still lacks a named project
Alibaba Cloud says a fully modular design has cut delivery of a large AI data centre to 100 days, reduced overall construction cost by more than 10% and will support a more-than-twofold increase in global modular capacity this year. Those are striking operating claims from a…

North America Datacenter Trends
Theseus gives Anthropic a financing machine, but not yet a first address
Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management and GIC have created a vehicle meant to finance, build, operate and lease AI data centres, initially in the United States. The structure can turn a long-term computing commitment into an investable asset, yet the announcement omits the first…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Firebird has opened Hrazdan; the load curve now matters more than the ribbon
Firebird’s first Hrazdan facility is officially open, giving Armenia an operating AI-infrastructure claim rather than another construction promise. Yet the ceremony did not disclose the four denominators that would prove the scale of that claim: installed accelerators, energised…

North America Datacenter Trends
Tucson adopted data-centre rules; their first real test starts in September
Tucson has filled a regulatory gap without declaring a moratorium. The council's 6-1 vote created thresholds, buffers and a public approval sequence for large data centres, but the ordinance does not take effect until 4 September—and its practical force will only become visible…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Aofei updated Gu'an's building count, not its capacity bridge
Aofei Data says eight buildings at its Langfang Gu'an data-centre project had been built, delivered and put into operation by 30 June. The disclosure advances one physical counter from the year-end baseline, but leaves the commercial counters—cabinets, energised MW, occupied load…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
JLL puts FLAP-D live data-centre capacity at 3.8GW
FLAP-D remains tight as large AI training projects look to power-rich secondary markets for room to grow.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Bridge Data Centres launches PowerCore 5.0 power module
Bridge Data Centres launched PowerCore 5.0, a prefabricated power module that moves assembly and testing off-site for high-density AI facilities.
