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Data Centre Investment
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Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave can sell a few months of computing. The machines need a longer career.
Higher prices for short contracts are useful news. Whether the equipment keeps earning after those contracts expire is the harder question for CoreWeave's customers and lenders.
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends
Solaria’s Uruguay bet starts with the plug, not the server
The proposed 500 MW campus puts land, a grid connection and solar generation in the same announcement. Turning them into a business means finding out who pays for each piece, and when.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Mistral's network is visible. Owning the compute is a different question
A numbered network, a French financing deal and a Swedish construction partner make Mistral's infrastructure easier to trace than an earlier account suggested. They also reveal why operating a cloud and owning every part of it are different things.
Global Datacenter
Data Centers Canada: the business outlived the nameplate
An old web address is a poor place to end a data-centre investigation. Acquisition records lead from Data Centers Canada to TERAGO and then to Hut 8's Canadian colocation business.
North America Datacenter Trends
Microsoft is buying power. NiSource's other customers are waiting for the saving.
A new data-centre contract raises NiSource's forecast of customer savings to $1.75bn. The route from a large electricity buyer to a smaller household bill runs through a shared grid—and a longer history than the announcement suggests.
North America Datacenter Trends
Point Tupper’s water plan is the real test for its AI campus
EverWind frames the proposed 420 MW campus’s full-build water use as roughly 1% of Landrie Lake’s safe yield. That comparison is mathematically loose and leaves out the utility’s own planning case: a January forecast had average 2028 demand near the lake’s estimated sustainable…
Global Datacenter Trends
3C Datalec’s US$400m forecast still needs a test after construction
The merger joins liquid cooling to engineering and facilities management, but its first public revenue figure does not show how much business survives the hand-off from project work to ongoing operations.
North America Datacenter Trends
FuelCell Energy's 75 MW reservation moves the test to the factory
A Texas data-centre operator has paid for priority access to 75 MW of planned manufacturing capacity while project agreements are still being finalized. The commercial signal is real; the power plant, delivery schedule and operating result are not yet in evidence.
North America Datacenter Trends
Axiom's spin-off is also Flex's refinancing plan for EPC Power
Flex has completed its $4.4 billion acquisition of EPC Power. The harder question now sits in the financing documents: Flex expects the planned Axiom separation to return enough cash to repay short-term acquisition debt, while a separate preferred investment carries its own…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Tata Power’s 2.8 GW pipeline bundles load, grid and green power
Tata Power’s new data-centre figure is large enough to sound like a single power commitment. Its own breakdown says otherwise: the headline joins upcoming distribution load, transmission-linked opportunities and green-energy engagement. Each sits at a different point in the work…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
2CRSi’s €1bn Strasbourg case still turns on a sale promise
2CRSi says the first Aether AI Factory rollout could generate more than €1 billion in Group revenue. The site transaction, available power, permits, component supply and purchase terms still sit between that estimate and delivered, invoiced servers.
North America Datacenter Trends
Fermi’s AMD Credit Support Begins After Construction
Fermi says its new AMD credit-support agreement will help project financing. The same disclosure places AMD’s obligations after construction is complete and rent begins on final delivery, leaving the build-period funding bridge outside the terms the company has made public.
Global Datacenter Trends
SoftBank controls DigitalBridge’s fee platform; its $40.2bn base is managed capital
SoftBank’s September 30 closing put DigitalBridge under its control and into the parent’s consolidated results. The $40.2 billion FEEUM reported at June 30 measured capital managed to earn fees under investment agreements; it was neither the purchase price nor a like-for-like…
Global Datacenter Trends
TIA’s DCE 9000 reached first draft. Its certification chain is still in development
A first draft gives the data-centre industry a concrete supplier-quality proposal to examine. Whether a certificate can reduce duplicated audits or change procurement will depend on measurement rules, bounded scope and an independent assurance system that TIA says is still being…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra’s AI anchor deal raises an Aura returns test
A contract described as “multiples of the Google deal” signals strong demand for Telstra’s Aura fibre. The comparison still has no public unit, while the Google arrangement exchanges terrestrial capacity for subsea access and Telstra’s published return target groups Aura with…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
DayOne’s Johor facilities tie its project borrowers together
The seven-bank expansion adds stated RM15bn of capacity to finance DayOne’s Johor build. Its prospectus shows what the headline leaves out: four borrowing subsidiaries guarantee one another, some assets and shares secure the facilities, and the parent backs completion and cost…
North America Datacenter Trends
Accelevation’s $650 Million Facility Is Not $650 Million of Growth Cash
The headline is a $650 million commitment. At closing, Accelevation had borrowed $400 million, and those proceeds plus cash on hand repaid its old credit agreement and covered transaction expenses. The remaining nominal capacity is a financing option with a fee, a future pricing…
Africa Datacenter Trends
Kenya’s data-centre licence hinges on who already holds a network permit
Kenya’s September 2026 consultation would create a separate licence for co-location data centres, yet exempt an operator that already holds a Network Facilities Provider or Application Service Provider licence. That makes the proposal’s most consequential boundary the identity…
Global Datacenter Trends
EXFO’s ten-second optics check opens a much longer test
HyperBlazer places a brief transceiver check ahead of a 12–24-hour DCI validation. The commercial prize is not the saved seconds alone; it is the usable module that may return to stock, without confusing a component screen with proof of the whole link.
North America Datacenter Trends
Turkey’s $15.5m headline leaves the tower contribution unpriced
QTS and Lancium have disclosed a schedule for city payments and a ceiling for other infrastructure work, then named a separate water contribution without assigning it a dollar value. For Turkey, Texas, those are different budgets, decision paths and proof obligations.