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Data Centre Investment
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
