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AI-generated illustration of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with Wi-Fi 7 infrastructure and HPE network operations.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

Tottenham Hotspur upgrades stadium network with Wi-Fi 7

HPE will add outdoor Wi-Fi 7 and bring data-centre, campus and edge network management into Aruba Central at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Sep 4, 2026
Two electrical VDC engineers review a luminous conduit model beside prefabrication racks and an unfinished fictional data hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

Augmenta's 8.5x clock stops at the first populated model

An 82-hour model-population result may be commercially useful on a large data-centre job. It is not yet a clock for design approval, fabrication, installation or the finished building.

Sep 4, 2026
An abstract power-conversion core faces an amber temporary bridge, two unfinished steel rails and a distant separation gate in a dark industrial landscape.

Global Datacenter Trends

Flex Has a $4.4bn Bridge for a $4.4bn Deal, Not SpinCo’s Final Balance Sheet

The acquisition price, the temporary funding ceiling and the planned separation sit on three different clocks. Investors still need the permanent financing and allocation record that connects them.

Sep 4, 2026
A conceptual basswood data-centre model is divided into utility, fitted-hall and open acceptance stages beside a blank checklist and fibre module.

North America Datacenter Trends

A 54-MW turnkey promise still needs an acceptance sequence

Northampton and Provident have formed a joint venture for a North Dallas data centre targeted for late 2027. The commercial test is how utility, fit-out, network and customer obligations turn a site figure into accepted computing capacity.

Sep 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration of Telehouse Building N at its Frankfurt data-centre campus, highlighting 5.4MW of new capacity.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Telehouse opens 5.4MW Building N in Frankfurt

Telehouse has opened Building N in Frankfurt, adding 5.4MW of live capacity at its established Kleyerstraße data-centre campus.

Sep 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration of water-treatment infrastructure serving a hyperscale data-centre campus in West Texas.

North America Datacenter Trends

Gradiant wins West Texas AI data-centre water contract

Gradiant will supply potable-water and wastewater systems for an unnamed hyperscale AI data-centre campus under development in West Texas.

Sep 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of WIOCC digital infrastructure in Africa showing data centres, terrestrial fibre and subsea connectivity alongside the $300m investment.

Africa Regional ISP

WIOCC signs $300m investment deal

AFC and Vision Invest have agreed to invest $300m in WIOCC Group to support data-centre, terrestrial fibre and subsea expansion across Africa.

Sep 3, 2026
OIF and the work to align 1.6-terabit links

Global Institutional

OIF and the work to align 1.6-terabit links

The Optical Internetworking Forum sits between formal standards and commercial products, turning optical, electrical and management decisions into implementation agreements that suppliers can build to and operators can test. Its influence is strongest where coherent modules, host…

Sep 3, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of AI data centres in Texas and North Carolina representing Nscale's $3bn financing

North America Datacenter Trends

Nscale closes $3bn financing for two US AI sites

Nscale will use the facilities to fund GPU systems and supporting infrastructure at its Ward County and Madison AI sites.

Sep 3, 2026
Engineers testing multi-vendor optical networking equipment in an interoperability lab with fibre links, coherent modules and OIF-related validation displays.

Global Institutional

OIF and the work of making 1.6-terabit links agree

The Optical Internetworking Forum sits between formal standards and commercial products, turning optical, electrical and management choices into implementation agreements that vendors can build and operators can test. Its influence is clearest when several layers have to work…

Sep 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of a large data-centre campus and server racks representing PwC’s forecast for rising global data-centre capital expenditure through 2050.

Global Datacenter Trends

PwC forecasts US$31.6tn in AI data-centre capex by 2050

PwC expects repeated server, GPU and networking upgrades to keep AI data-centre spending rising long after facilities are first built.

Sep 3, 2026
A stable steel valuation ring surrounds four rebalanced capital blocks supporting a Nordic data-centre platform, while separate blue lending and amber capacity conduits branch toward operating and unfinished halls.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Equinix's atNorth Stake Closed at 34%, Not the Planned 40%

Equinix reached the atNorth closing with a smaller cheque and a smaller stake than its February filing described. The disclosed commitment moved from up to US$963 million for approximately 40% to US$895 million for approximately 34%. That US$68 million gap is real as a comparison…

Sep 2, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing a data centre and the key terms of Host Digital's 43MW Oklahoma lease

North America Datacenter Trends

Host Digital signs $1.25bn lease for 43MW in Oklahoma

Host Digital has signed a 15-year lease for 43MW of IT capacity at an already powered Oklahoma data centre, with handover expected in the first half of 2027.

Sep 2, 2026
Editorial infographic representing Corvex's planned expansion to about 8MW of IT capacity across two US data centres

North America Datacenter Trends

Corvex targets 8MW across two US data centres

Corvex has signed agreements to expand across two existing powered data centres, with about 8MW expected by year-end and another 12.5MW remaining optional.

Sep 2, 2026
An unlit surveyed greenfield parcel sits apart from an illuminated existing substation and industrial compute compound near Rockdale, with an unfinished conduit trench stopping at the land boundary.

North America Datacenter Trends

Bitdeer’s $100m Rockdale Land Deal Adds No Disclosed Megawatts to Its 742MW Plan

Bitdeer has converted a leased-land risk into fee-simple control over roughly 200 acres near Rockdale. That is a real asset change. The power headline is different: 563MW online plus 179MW planned already appeared in the company’s site tables before the purchase. The disciplined…

Sep 2, 2026
Editorial illustration of data centres and power infrastructure in Saudi Arabia representing the AWS Saudi Region and planned HUMAIN AI Zone

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

AWS sets December launch for Saudi Region

AWS says its first Saudi Region is on track for December 2026, while AWS and HUMAIN target up to 50MW in a separate AI Zone by 2028.

Sep 2, 2026
Editorial illustration of a planned AI data centre and power infrastructure in Saudi Arabia representing the Together AI and HUMAIN partnership

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Together AI, HUMAIN plan 250MW Saudi data centre

The partnership links HUMAIN's Saudi AI infrastructure with Together AI's cloud platform and customers, with a new 250MW facility planned.

Sep 2, 2026
Illustration of CoolIT workers assembling liquid-cooling equipment at a Calgary manufacturing facility for AI data centres

North America Datacenter Trends

CoolIT expands Calgary operations as AI cooling demand rises

CoolIT is expanding manufacturing, engineering and R&D in Calgary as liquid cooling moves from specialised hardware into higher-volume AI infrastructure production.

Sep 2, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a 100MW data-centre development at Oxagon with construction cranes, cooling equipment and electrical infrastructure.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

HUMAIN, DataVolt start 100MW NEOM AI data-centre build

HUMAIN and DataVolt are developing 100MW at Oxagon as DataVolt begins construction on its wider 360MW first phase, targeting service from 2028.

Sep 2, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing SLB and Kelvion branding between industrial infrastructure, heat-exchange equipment and data-centre server racks.

Global Datacenter Trends

SLB agrees $4.1bn Kelvion deal for data-centre cooling

SLB is buying Kelvion to bring thermal management into the same data-centre delivery stack as its engineering, modular construction and digital systems.

Sep 2, 2026