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Editorial illustration showing data-centre server racks beside electricity pylons and a Ratepayer Protection Pledge panel.

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.

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial illustration showing a data centre, electrical substation and transmission lines beside the US Capitol, with a policy sign marked H.R. 9340.

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.

Jul 23, 2026
Engineers study a three-building data-centre scale model beside liquid-cooling and fan heat-rejection hardware

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…

Jul 23, 2026
Two operational data-hall buildings connect to electrical and water utility work in a central Texas landscape

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…

Jul 23, 2026
Operating server rows stand beside technicians installing the next data-centre expansion

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…

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Mainstream doo Beograd

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.…

Jul 23, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for ODERLAND Webbhotell AB

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…

Jul 23, 2026
Photorealistic editorial view of "GIGATRANS UKRAINE", LLC infrastructure operations

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…

Jul 23, 2026
Surveyors review plans in an undeveloped Georgia field with transmission lines far in the background

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…

Jul 22, 2026
Illustration of a corporate handshake overlooking a large data-centre campus with power infrastructure and financial charts

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a data centre beside power lines, with collateral documents and court materials in the foreground

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of an Intel-branded corporate entrance representing planned layoffs in the company’s Data Center Group.

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a desert data centre beside solar panels, wind turbines and battery storage, representing Envision’s Mission Gobi plan

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.

Jul 22, 2026
Data-centre servers and power infrastructure representing PJM’s capacity auction and rising electricity demand from large computing facilities.

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.

Jul 22, 2026
Lakeland City Hall representing the proposed pause on data-centre and large-load applications in Lakeland, Florida.

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Microsoft-branded data centre beneath a global grid showing hourly zero-carbon power matching

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.

Jul 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a NEXTDC-branded data centre beside a cable landing station at sunset

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.

Jul 22, 2026

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