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Data Centre Investment
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North America Datacenter Trends
Trump to expand data-centre power pledge
Trump is set to extend the Ratepayer Protection Pledge to utilities and developers, bringing in the groups that negotiate power rates and grid connections for new data centres.

North America Datacenter Trends
US House panel advances data-centre grid cost bill
US state utility regulators would consider requiring 100 MW data-centre customers to fund the grid upgrades needed to serve their sites.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget
NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…

North America Datacenter Trends
Meta's Temple opening turns a construction promise into operating load
Meta has opened its Temple, Texas data centre after four years of construction, moving the project from a planning claim to a live operating facility. That transition makes jobs and infrastructure measurable, but the eventual $1.2 billion-plus value, renewable-energy matching and…

North America Cloud Services Trends
Alphabet’s $112bn quarter is mostly an investment gain, not operating cash
Alphabet reported extraordinary second-quarter profit, but the number that matters for its infrastructure build is less flattering: $44.924bn of capital expenditure exceeded $39.069bn of operating cash flow. Google Cloud is growing fast enough to support the investment case…

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Mainstream Serbia Must Make Local Control Pay
A Serbian buyer does not pay Mainstream doo Beograd merely for compute. The buyer pays to keep critical applications under local operational control, close to users, with an accountable team that can answer when capacity, security, invoices or uptime become board-level problems.…

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Oderland must make Swedish hosting worth the premium
Oderland's economic problem starts with a customer's willingness to pay more for Swedish jurisdiction, reachable support and a hosting provider that owns enough of its stack to solve problems without passing every incident to a global ticket queue. The company can defend that…

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
GIGATRANS Ukraine can sell continuity, but it has to price every route and battery into the contract
An enterprise that stays online during outages is not buying a commodity megabit. It is buying route diversity, backup power, repair labour, local data-centre adjacency and a provider willing to keep Ukrainian business systems reachable when electricity, transport and…

North America Datacenter Trends
OpenAI has a 3.2GW power contract before Project Camellia has a final design
OpenAI says it is contracting with Georgia Power for 3.2 gigawatts to be delivered in phases from 2028 to 2032 for Project Camellia in Effingham County. The scale is material, but it describes a future power-supply plan, not commissioned computing load today. Financing, design…

North America Datacenter
AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP complete $40bn Aligned acquisition
AIP, MGX and BlackRock’s GIP completed the $40bn Aligned acquisition and committed another $5bn to support its 51-campus portfolio.

North America Datacenter
Oracle could face $7bn collateral for Wisconsin data centre
Oracle says Wisconsin utility rules could require more than $7bn in collateral for power infrastructure serving its Port Washington data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter
Intel targets Data Center Group in latest wave of job cuts
Intel plans to cut staff without changing its data-centre roadmap, leaving the effect on product delivery tied to the teams affected.

Global Datacenter Trends
Envision sets 5GW target for Mission Gobi data centres
Mission Gobi combines computing capacity with renewable power, storage and grid infrastructure, but Envision has not named projects for its 5GW target.

North America Datacenter Trends
PJM monitor attributes US$6.3bn auction charges to data centres
PJM’s market monitor wants data-centre demand backed by new generation or procured through a separate long-term auction.

North America Datacenter
Lakeland considers 12-month pause on data-centre applications
Lakeland is considering a pause while it decides where data centres may be permitted and how its utility should assess large power requests.

Global Datacenter Trends
Microsoft weighs delay to hourly clean-power target
Microsoft’s review focuses on a harder task than annual procurement: matching zero-carbon power to data-centre demand on the same grid, hour by hour.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
NEXTDC’s SC2 falls outside planned Australian data-centre rules
SC2 is outside the proposed rules, but Australia has yet to say how they will apply to later phases at existing campuses.
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…

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.

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…
