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Regional planners compare eastern Ohio sites for potential data centres using land maps, utility studies and permitting documents.

North America Datacenter Trends

Lake to River reports surge in data-centre inquiries

Lake to River reports nearly 10 data-centre leads in eastern Ohio, but none have reached a named project, site selection, or permit filing.

Aug 3, 2026
Michigan policy debate on data-centre power, water, jobs and community conditions, illustrated beside a data-centre campus and energy infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

El-Sayed campaigns on binding data-centre rules

Michigan’s Senate primary is testing voter support for binding conditions on data-centre power, water, jobs and community benefits.

Aug 3, 2026
Woodburn officials review planning documents as a proposed data-centre development and power infrastructure remain behind a pause barrier.

North America Datacenter Trends

Woodburn council weighs data-centre moratorium

A moratorium would affect projects only after Woodburn defines which permit actions city staff must stop and from what date.

Aug 3, 2026
A resident addresses a public hearing beside two separate translucent planning models for proposed data-centre power equipment.

North America Datacenter Trends

Hamlet put 649 diesel engines through one public doorway

More than 100 people attended a North Carolina hearing on two air-permit applications tied to Amazon’s Energy Way Tech Campus in Hamlet. One application covers 592 Amazon emergency engines—588 critical units and four ancillary units. The other covers 57 Duke Energy engines…

Jul 31, 2026
A Nordic data-centre campus is shown with server cooling, substations, heat-reuse pipes and translucent emissions-accounting boundaries.

Global Datacenter Trends

Nebius has disclosed the carbon cost of expansion, but not its full footprint

Nebius reported 65,001 tonnes of market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions for 2025, roughly 32 times the 2,036 tonnes disclosed a year earlier. The multiplication is striking, but its meaning depends on a changed operating base: the company says it expanded to seven active sites. The…

Jul 31, 2026
A private Ohio energy island combines modular generators, a switchyard and battery storage beside an AI data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Veolia takes the operating risk in Ohio’s 350MW private power island

Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW behind-the-meter microgrid for an undisclosed AI data-centre campus in Ohio. Gas engines and linear generators are expected to supply the campus, with a 430MWh battery supporting the system. The contract places Veolia at…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating data-centre block stands beside several unfinished halls, cranes, a substation and power conduits at the Paju construction site.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on

LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…

Jul 31, 2026
Four solid engineered power routes and three wireframe routes lead toward mixed-stage data-centre sites, while three blank contract folders remain separate.

Global Datacenter Trends

ENGIE’s 7GW data-centre number is two pipelines wearing the same unit

ENGIE has moved a much larger share of its prospective data-centre work into an advanced stage: 4GW at the end of June, up from 0.8GW at the end of 2025. Together with 3GW at an early stage, that makes a 7GW project pipeline. Separately, the energy group also describes 7GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
An active Western Sydney data-centre construction site sits behind a blank contract folder and a completed architectural campus model.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

AirTrunk’s 400MW-plus SYD3 has a builder for its next phase, not a live meter

Bouygues Construction’s €1.2bn contract for the next phase of AirTrunk’s SYD3 campus is a large, bounded construction event. Awarded through Australian subsidiary A W Edwards, it assigns work and a delivery horizon toward mid-2028. It does not establish the final cost of the…

Jul 31, 2026
Two operational data-centre buildings stand behind unequal ownership tokens, an operator tablet and a plain access card at blue hour.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Yondr is selling control of two Slough data centres without giving up the operating room

Yondr has agreed to sell a majority interest in a UK data-centre campus to GLIL Infrastructure, while retaining a minority stake and responsibility for operational management after completion. The asset consists of two fully operational hyperscale buildings in Slough serving one…

Jul 31, 2026
A suited data-centre executive standing beside server racks, with a global network map and data-centre campus in the background.

Global Datacenter Trends

CyrusOne appoints John Hatem as CEO

John Hatem has taken over as CyrusOne CEO, widening his authority from commercial and project delivery functions to company-wide strategy.

Jul 31, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data centre beside Veolia water infrastructure, with water, waste and energy linked through the Resource 360 service.

Global Datacenter Trends

Veolia keeps €1bn data-centre and chip revenue target

CyrusOne’s appointment of John Hatem keeps an executive who linked customer commitments to procurement and construction in charge of its next expansion phase.

Jul 31, 2026
A provisional Texas data-centre campus model sits between blank credit files, a separate gas-power model and an unlabelled support arch.

North America Datacenter Trends

A reported $15bn loan would make Anthropic’s Texas compute a test of Google’s balance-sheet reach

The notable number in the reported financing talks for a data-centre campus in Hubbard, Texas, is not only the $15bn banks may lend. It is the obligation that could sit behind the debt. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Morgan Stanley-led consortium was discussing financing…

Jul 31, 2026
A monitored boundary separates an active legacy industrial cleanup from a translucent model of a proposed data-centre, power and battery campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Paducah’s proposed AI campus joins a $100bn headline to a 17bn-dollar cleanup ledger

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate a proposed AI data-centre and energy complex at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. AP reports a headline value of $100bn, with NextEra expected to build and own 2GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
A removable parcel model with three data-centre buildings and one substation sits apart from a blank deed folder and key in a rainy Oregon planning room.

North America Datacenter Trends

Oregon cancelled the Salem land sale; Verrus says the data-centre proposal may still have another route

Gov. Tina Kotek has directed Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state land-sale contract tied to Verrus’s proposed data-centre campus at Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem. The proposal had been described at about $5.1bn, with three…

Jul 31, 2026
Mobile gas-turbine trailers stand beside newly empty equipment pads while cranes and unfinished structures mark construction of a permanent power plant.

North America Datacenter Trends

Southaven’s temporary turbine bridge finally has an exit calendar

SpaceXAI says an agreed order with Mississippi regulators now sets dates for removing all 69 temporary mobile gas turbines at its Southaven power site: work may begin in August 2026 and is scheduled to finish by July 2027. In parallel, a permitted permanent plant designed for…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating server hall glows beside rows of wrapped, uncommissioned racks and equipment awaiting installation on a data-centre floor.

Global Cloud Services Trends

AWS is growing faster just as Amazon’s AI build turns free cash flow negative

Amazon’s cloud business accelerated in the second quarter, while the group’s trailing free cash flow moved below zero. Those are not opposing stories. They are two stages of the same investment cycle. AWS sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion and segment operating income reached $16.6…

Jul 31, 2026
Technicians commission a blue-piped data-centre cooling line inside an older industrial hall that retains automotive production fixtures.

Global Datacenter Trends

An Ohio automotive factory is being reassigned to the AI cooling cycle

Mitsubishi Electric’s planned data-centre cooling plant in Mason, Ohio, begins with an asset from another industrial era: part of an existing automotive-electrical production site. The company will establish MEHITS US in August, invest approximately $30 million in renovation and…

Jul 31, 2026
A blue-hour electrical substation has one amber-lit transmission path leading towards a distant data-centre building while unlit bays extend across the site.

Global Datacenter Trends

Exelon has put a price on the difference between a data-centre request and a credible queue

Exelon now describes about 11GW of prospective large load as “high probability”, but the useful disclosure is not the adjective or even the scale. It is the evidence underneath it. Projects in that group have reached advanced design or obtained FERC-approved Transmission Security…

Jul 30, 2026
A partly wrapped industrial turbine package sits on an installation cradle beside an unfinished cable trench, with a substation and data-centre building beyond.

Global Datacenter Trends

AEP is reserving turbines for a 69GW load book that has not reached the meter

American Electric Power has begun matching contracts for future electricity demand with reservations for future generation equipment. It added 6GW of signed load agreements in the second quarter, primarily in Texas, taking contracted load growth through 2030 to 69GW. The customer…

Jul 30, 2026