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North America Datacenter Trends
SpaceX’s AI build-out has a conversion problem: turn $15.8bn of quarterly capex into durable demand
SpaceX’s second-quarter filing shows an AI infrastructure programme expanding faster than its current revenue base. The strategic question is no longer whether it can finance capacity, but whether concentrated customers and partly terminable contracts can absorb that capacity…

Global Institutional
Ultra Ethernet Consortium: Rebuilding Ethernet for AI at Scale
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium is trying to turn the data centre’s most familiar network into a complete AI and high-performance-computing fabric—from libfabric APIs and RDMA semantics to packet spraying, congestion control, link recovery, security and 200 Gb/s lanes. Its…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Traefik Labs: The gateway layer for cloud-native applications
Traefik Labs evolved from an open-source proxy designed to track constantly changing container infrastructure into a company that aims to govern application traffic, APIs, artificial intelligence and the Model Context Protocol through a single gateway layer. The position that…

Global Datacenter Trends
KKR’s $19.2bn Fund V gives it allocation power, not finished infrastructure
KKR has completed fundraising for its largest infrastructure fund, giving the manager a larger pool from which to buy and build critical assets across North America and Western Europe. The close matters because it concentrates investment discretion; it does not mean $19.2 billion…

North America Datacenter Trends
Nashville turns data-centre opposition into authority to buy the land
Nashville’s council has approved an ordinance authorising the city to negotiate for, or condemn, a 23.49-acre parcel beside the zoo where DC BLOX plans a data centre. The vote gives Metro leverage and a route to control the site. It does not give Metro the deed, fix the…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer for Cloud-Native Applications
Traefik Labs evolved from an open-source proxy tracking fast-changing container infrastructure into a company aiming to govern application, API, AI, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through a single gateway layer. The position that makes Traefik convenient also carries…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
London proposes dedicated planning policy for data centres
The draft London Plan would require developers to address power, water and local impacts earlier when selecting and designing data-centre sites.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Maincubes completes first phase of FRA03 data centre
The first phase of FRA03 is complete, with customer availability planned for the third quarter as Maincubes continues work towards the site’s full 16MW capacity.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Exclaim Robotics raises $4.95m for data-centre robots
Exclaim Robotics has raised $4.95 million to develop robots for rack-side data-centre maintenance, with customer testing and operating results still to come.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
FuriosaAI plans phased 15MW Stockholm AI data centre
Velox has started construction, but the first 2MW phase and 1,800 planned RNGD accelerators are not expected to enter service until early 2027.

North America Datacenter Trends
Big Tech commits $1.09tn to future leases
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have signed leases for facilities that are not yet available for use, mostly data centres.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus adds $896m to Paju AI data centre
LG Uplus is adding fresh capital to its Paju project as construction advances on the first building of the planned 200MW campus.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Samsung Heavy signs floating data-centre engineering deal
Samsung Heavy and Mousterian have moved their US floating data-centre partnership into engineering, although no site, customer or construction order has been announced.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Telstra and Teneo warn AI is disrupting network forecasts
Telstra and Teneo executives say operators need new planning assumptions as AI changes where traffic originates, how it moves and when capacity is required.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer for Cloud-Native Applications
Traefik Labs emerged from an open-source reverse proxy built for rapidly changing container architecture, then transformed into a company seeking to manage application traffic, APIs, AI, and Model Context Protocol through a single gateway layer. The same position that makes…

North America Datacenter Trends
Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test
Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…

North America Datacenter Trends
Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban
Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
FiberCop has one live Rome edge node and a 99-site execution question
FiberCop’s first converted telecom exchange in Rome is now reported live as an edge data centre. The milestone gives physical form to a programme that aims to reuse 100 copper exchanges. It does not make the other 99 sites operational, nor turn the operator’s 10,500-exchange…

North America Datacenter Trends
AMD’s $6.7bn data-centre quarter turns the AI forecast into an execution test
AMD’s second-quarter record is less interesting as a victory lap than as a change in the burden of proof. Data Center supplied 58% of company revenue, and its $6.7 billion was more than double the prior-year level. Management now guides to roughly $13 billion for the third…

North America Datacenter Trends
Caterpillar’s $20.5bn quarter shows where the data-centre power bottleneck is becoming revenue
Caterpillar’s first quarter above $20 billion did more than set a company record. It exposed one route by which the data-centre buildout reaches the industrial economy: through large generator sets, turbines, construction fleets and the service capacity needed to keep them…
