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Rows of wrapped, unlit data-centre racks recede beneath translucent planning layers towards a small blue-lit section in the distance.

Global Cloud Services Trends

Meta’s invisible infrastructure queue has reached $279bn

Meta spent $31.08 billion on capital equipment and finance-lease principal in the second quarter. The larger number is waiting outside the period’s visible expenditure: $278.99 billion of operating and finance lease obligations for data centres, colocation and certain network…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional European computing landscape links seven luminous data-centre halls to a public institution, a power substation and a transparent procurement schematic.

Global Datacenter Trends

Europe’s AI gigafactory tender is a contract for demand

The European Union has opened procurement for up to seven AI gigafactories, backed by as much as €10 billion of EU and national money and an expectation of at least €20 billion in private investment. The significant instrument is not the subsidy alone. EuroHPC and 18 Member…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional data-centre hall shows one unbranded rack arriving at left, separate power and cooling systems in the centre, and an orderly row of live racks at right.

Global Datacenter Trends

Microsoft’s 88 data centres are a throughput claim, not a map

Microsoft says it brought 31 new data centres online across five continents in its final fiscal quarter and 88 across the year. The larger revelation is not the pin count. In the same quarter it added another gigawatt of capacity, while cutting the time needed to move new GPUs…

Jul 30, 2026
A fictional unbranded server rack exposes a separate lower management-controller layer reached by one thin amber network path.

Global Datacenter Trends

A management port is not a breach—but 24,650 pre-login replies redraw the risk

Lava’s internet measurement does not show 24,650 compromised servers. It shows something more precise: 24,650 public IPMI endpoints returned password-derived authentication material before a client had authenticated. That distinction separates evidence from alarm. It also exposes…

Jul 30, 2026
Unbranded modular engine generators feed an abstract data-centre hall through a restrained illuminated power path.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Three ledgers turn Rolls-Royce’s data-centre power story into earnings

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has moved data-centre demand beyond the language of pipeline and potential. Its half-year result now shows the theme in three separate ledgers: power-generation orders rose 55%, power-generation revenue rose 41%, and the division’s operating margin…

Jul 30, 2026
Chinese data-centre campus with a map showing planned computing projects in Dongguan and Jiashan

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Chinese localities expand data centres despite overbuild concerns

China’s local data-centre push is expanding into towns and counties, raising questions over whether new computing capacity will attract enough demand.

Jul 30, 2026
Editorial infographic showing an Indian data-centre campus, key states and capacity rising from 2.2GW in 2025 to 12GW by 2030.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

India data-centre capacity forecast to reach 12GW by 2030

Wood Mackenzie expects India’s data-centre capacity to reach 12GW by 2030, with power and water availability shaping where projects are delivered.

Jul 30, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data-centre development in Johor with residents protesting over water use and community impact

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Malaysia’s data-centre boom strains local resources

Malaysia’s data-centre buildout is increasing pressure on power, water and communities, particularly in Johor, the country’s main development hub.

Jul 30, 2026
AI data-centre campus in India beside transmission lines, a substation and renewable power infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

India projects 26.3GW AI data-centre load by 2032

India has nearly doubled its estimate of the electricity demand expected from AI data centres by 2031–32, expanding the transmission, balancing and siting task facing power authorities.

Jul 30, 2026
Australian data centre beside solar panels, wind turbines, battery storage and transmission infrastructure

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Australian states oppose data-centre power rules

Australia plans mandatory power, water and efficiency standards for large data centres, but two jurisdictions oppose part of the proposed national framework.

Jul 30, 2026
A partly built, mostly dark data-centre campus with unfinished power connections, cooling units and sealed equipment awaiting installation.

North America Datacenter Trends

Microsoft’s $329.1bn lease stack is capacity that has not started

Microsoft has disclosed $329.1 billion of additional leases, primarily for datacentres, that had not commenced at 30 June. The number maps a future infrastructure commitment, not live computing capacity or cash already spent. A simultaneous accounting change makes the distinction…

Jul 30, 2026
Photorealistic editorial image for Limited Liability Company "DataHarbour"

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

DataHarbour must keep occupied capacity ahead of power and replacement capital

DataHarbour must keep occupied capacity ahead of power and replacement capital intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…

Jul 30, 2026
Photorealistic editorial image for Limited Liability Company "De Novo"

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

De Novo must make resilience revenue exceed the cost of operating through disruption

For Limited Liability Company "De Novo", the central economic question is not whether Ukrainian customers like local cloud capacity; it is whether enough of them will keep paying a resilience premium large enough to fund redundant power, carrier diversity, security, engineering…

Jul 30, 2026
A tropical data-centre campus under construction beside a substation, with unbranded project folders and a site plan in the foreground

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

AirTrunk’s $2.325bn loan funds a build, not a finished 270MW campus

AirTrunk has closed US$2.325 billion of green financing for JHB2 in Johor Bahru, turning a loan that was being marketed in May into committed project funding. The 30-institution syndicate is substantial, but it proves neither that the scalable 270MW campus is complete nor that…

Jul 29, 2026
Orange and Morrison logos above an illustrated data-centre campus in France at sunset

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Orange and Morrison plan €3bn French data-centre venture

Orange would combine its French data-centre assets with Morrison’s capital to pursue 400MW of capacity. However, the venture has not yet been formed.

Jul 29, 2026
Meta and BlackRock branding beside a data-centre campus under construction in El Paso, Texas

North America Datacenter

Meta and BlackRock form $14bn Texas data-centre venture

Meta is bringing external capital into its 1GW El Paso campus while retaining responsibility for construction management and occupying the completed site.

Jul 29, 2026
Editorial cutaway of a Manhattan interconnection building with power infrastructure, a small live GPU zone, prepared contracted racks, unfinished halls and dense fibre routes

North America Datacenter Trends

Hudson’s 2.8MW contract total is a ladder to revenue, not revenue itself

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure says new agreements have lifted contracted IT load on Hudson Interxchange’s sixth floor at 60 Hudson Street from roughly 0.9MW to about 2.8MW. The commercial advance is real, but the units occupy different stages: utility power, saleable IT load…

Jul 29, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing semiconductor wafers, advanced chips, packaging components and engineers inside a chip manufacturing facility.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services

Samsung and Broadcom sign chip MOU worth over US$200bn

Samsung and Broadcom have outlined a five-year semiconductor collaboration, but its manufacturing scale will depend on later product and order commitments.

Jul 29, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a large data-centre development in Ohio representing reported financing talks between Nvidia, OpenAI and SB Energy.

North America Datacenter

Nvidia in talks over $250bn OpenAI Ohio guarantee

Nvidia’s proposed guarantee could support financing for OpenAI’s Ohio lease, but the terms remain under negotiation and the first phase is not yet funded.

Jul 29, 2026
Electricity transmission infrastructure in Texas, representing new grid-connection rules for large data-centre projects

North America Datacenter

Texas moves grid costs towards data-centre developers

Texas is developing rules that would make large data-centre projects bear more of their grid-connection costs before operations begin.

Jul 29, 2026