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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.
