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Data Centre Investment
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Kota Damansara data-centre dispute is headed to Malaysia's Cabinet
The announced escalation does not cancel the proposal, but it turns a local planning objection into a test of whether Malaysia's data-centre screening should cover neighbourhood siting as explicitly as power and water.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Meta-Anthropic talks test whether private AI compute can become a market
Reported talks over a two-year compute lease would give Meta a first large external customer and Anthropic another source of capacity, but the proposed $10 billion ceiling is not a contract, committed revenue or proof that Meta has spare infrastructure.
North America Cloud Services Trends
General Compute's $400m facility starts with a $100m bet on inference chips
Upper90 is financing a cloud built around non-Nvidia inference silicon, but only the first $100 million is immediate; the remaining capacity depends on customer demand and still-undisclosed credit terms.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Nebius puts GPUs and customer cash flows behind a $775m facility
Nebius's first senior secured facility shows how long-term AI capacity contracts can turn fast-depreciating hardware into financeable infrastructure, while leaving the operator with execution and covenant risk.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
EU grid plan would make data-centre queues an economic contest
Brussels is proposing to replace simple place-in-line logic with a test of who imposes grid costs, who can ease congestion and whose project delivers the strongest public benefit.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
HeungKong's 27MW data-centre bet starts with an empty order book
A five-year RMB795.6 million capacity plan in Ningxia puts recurring costs ahead of customer demand at a company already contending with falling revenue and continuing losses.
North America Datacenter Trends
Justin Hotard and HPE's Exascale-to-AI Translation Problem
Frontier became a record-setting supercomputer before it became accepted infrastructure, and accepted infrastructure before it could serve as evidence for a repeatable enterprise AI business. Justin Hotard's HPE years expose the difficult managerial distance between those…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
AS24989’s Fourteen Prefixes Do Not Map Equinix Germany’s Facility Footprint
AS24989’s Fourteen Prefixes Do Not Map Equinix Germany’s Facility Footprint 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…
Leaders
Abhisak Chulya and the Hard Economics of Building a Thai Cloud
Abhisak Chulya's consequential decision was not simply to start a technology company, but to keep changing what that company was prepared to own: first a Thai-language route into the internet, then advertising services, and eventually the software, servers, networks and support…
North America Datacenter
New York pauses large data centre permits
New York halts incomplete state permit applications for large data centres while developing new rules on energy, water use, and grid costs.
Global Cloud Services
Who Can Stop the Job? Northern Data Software GmbH and the Control Layer Beneath 22,000 GPUs
Northern Data Software GmbH looks, on a register, like the software company behind a European AI compute fleet. The more revealing reality is a chain of control: a German services company, an Irish cloud vendor, Norwegian and other hardware operators, Ardent data centre…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Macquarie acquires site in Sydney for 200MW data centre campus
Macquarie developed its campus plan in Sydney, but the size and timing of each construction stage have not yet been determined.
Global Cloud Services
The Rack Has a Return Address: Quanta Computer USA at AI’s Factory Boundary
The spectacular part of an AI system is the compute; the consequential part is often the transition. Quanta Computer USA Inc. sits at that less visible boundary, where a rack assembled from processors, cards, power modules, cooling, and firmware from around the world becomes a…
North America Datacenter
Microsoft deploys 3M optical connectors in Azure data centers
Microsoft adopts an optical connector designed to simplify fiber installation and maintenance in dense data center environments.
North America Datacenter
TSMC commits additional $100 billion to Arizona expansion
TSMC expands its manufacturing programme in Arizona after record quarterly earnings, but the additional capacity has no published delivery schedule.
Global Cloud Services
Nine Rooms, One New Flag: What Actually Changed When Rogers' Data Centres Became Qu
Qu Data Centres did not start with a blank site plan. It started with nine operational facilities, hundreds of legacy customers, and an ongoing relationship with Rogers for sales and network. This gives the new Canadian platform something most data centre companies spend years…
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter
Zonamerica Cali's Tier IV certificate covers 405 kilowatts, not the whole campus
At Cali's southern edge, a certified data hall sits inside a 38-hectare free-trade zone whose roads, gates, utility handoffs and carrier entrances remain outside the certificate's stated 405-kilowatt boundary. The distinction matters to every tenant buying continuity: Wave DC can…
Global Cloud Services
LightEdge has assembled one infrastructure company—and many boundaries of responsibility
LightEdge’s acquisition-led expansion gives regulated mid-market companies something they often struggle to buy: colocation, private cloud, IBM Power, public-cloud operations, recovery and security support from one provider. The bargain is less simple than the portfolio suggests.…
Global Cloud Services
The shutdown button still bills: testing 3HCloud’s converged infrastructure promise
3HCloud proposes an unusually tactile alternative to the abstract public cloud: put virtual machines, provider-supplied bare metal and customer-owned servers behind one operating surface, then charge for the pieces in plain view. The proposition is credible enough to merit…
Global Cloud Services
AIMS Data Centre: the shortest cable can become the longest dependency
AIMS sells protected space, power and cooling, but its most consequential product is often a much smaller physical entity: the cross-connect that puts a customer within a few metres of Malaysia’s densest concentration of networks. That proximity can lower latency, simplify…