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Global Datacenter Trends
Ecolab links cooling-loop fill to week-long data centre outage
A week-long outage linked to the wrong cooling-loop fill shows why coolant verification matters before direct-to-chip systems enter operation.

North America Datacenter
Compu Dynamics moves AI data-centre construction off-site
Compu Dynamics is expanding factory-built delivery for AI projects, shifting more power, cooling and white-space work away from the construction site.

North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta NDP seeks pause on AI data-centre approvals
Alberta’s NDP wants new AI data-centre approvals paused until the province sets broader rules for assessing project impacts.

North America Datacenter Trends
Sault Ste. Marie moves to pause data centres above 50MW
Council has ordered a bylaw for 21 September that would pause applications above 50MW while the city writes rules for large data centres.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SK Telecom brings KKR and IMM into AI data-centre unit
SK Telecom will carve data-centre and submarine-cable assets into SK Horizon, backed by KRW3.08 trillion in equity from KKR and IMM.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Hengtong optical communications revenue jumps 130% in H1
Hengtong's optical communications business grew sharply in the first half as fibre demand and prices rose, while the company prepares additional preform capacity.

Africa Datacenter Trends
MTN and Al Ashram plan 150MW of African AI data centres
Africa Data Hub Holding will initially target South Africa and Nigeria, with MTN saying land purchases and power negotiations are already under way.

Global Datacenter Trends
Eaton and Trane combine power and cooling for AI data centres
Eaton and Trane have developed a joint AI data-centre design that brings power and cooling planning together around NVIDIA DSX infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Australia backs national standards for large data centres
Australia’s governments have agreed to develop mandatory national standards covering the energy, water and land-use requirements of large data centres.

North America Cloud Services Trends
Everpure Grew 38%. One Cash-Flow Line Absorbed $577 Million
Everpure's record quarter contains two truthful stories that do not yet meet. Revenue rose 38% and GAAP operating income reached US$63 million. Operating cash flow was negative US$136 million, however, after `prepaid expenses and other assets` consumed US$577 million. The company…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
GDS's RMB838m Profit Included RMB960m of Investee Income
GDS ended the second quarter with RMB837.6 million of net income. A larger number sat one line above the bottom line: RMB959.9 million from equity-method investees, arising mainly from a DayOne dilution gain. That is a valuation event, not a receipt for operating data centres.

North America Datacenter
OpenAI data-centre chief leaves after team reorganisation
Chris Malone’s exit follows an earlier reorganisation that placed OpenAI’s data-centre engineering, compute and build-and-delivery work under separate leaders.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
KKR and IMM’s KRW3.08tn SK Horizon Deal Includes KRW1.20tn of New Capital
The headline number has two destinations. KKR and the IMM Investment–Stonebridge consortium are due to pay KRW1.881 trillion for shares held by SK Telecom and approximately KRW1.20 trillion for new shares issued by the future SK Horizon. Both payments buy ownership. Only the…

Global Datacenter Trends
Equinix’s 5.25% Dollar Note Became 3.95% Euro Funding After the Swap
Equinix sold a US-dollar bond and chose a euro liability. On 6 August, its Europe 2 financing subsidiary issued US$850 million of 5.250% senior notes due in 2031, backed by Equinix’s full and unconditional guarantee. Cross-currency swaps then changed the principal obligation to…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Alibaba’s HK$79.7bn AI Raise Starts With 3.57% New Share Capital
Alibaba has completed the financing before it has completed the infrastructure. The company placed 710 million new shares at HK$112.70, leaving approximately HK$79.7 billion of net proceeds and making the new block 3.57% of enlarged issued capital. Sixty per cent is intended for…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Snowflake Put Annual Floors Inside a US$6bn Cloud Commitment
Snowflake's new AWS commitment is usually presented as one large five-year number. The contract is tighter than that headline. It combines a US$6 billion cumulative minimum with a minimum for every contract year, while allowing some shortfall payments to fund qualifying use later…

Global Datacenter Trends
Cisco's US$9.3bn AI Orders Do Not Make a US$5.3bn Backlog
Cisco closed fiscal 2026 with US$9.3 billion of AI-infrastructure orders from hyperscalers and approximately US$4 billion of AI-infrastructure revenue. Subtraction produces US$5.3 billion, but not a backlog: the company has not supplied the opening cohort, conversion bridge or…

Global Datacenter Trends
Marvell's Google Warrant Has 240 Revenue Gates and a US$206.58 Strike
Google can earn a large claim on Marvell equity, but the contract makes that claim pass through several ledgers. A product must qualify, Marvell must recognise revenue, a US$500 million step must be certified, shares must vest and the option must still be worth exercising. The…

Global Datacenter Trends
Dell's US$51.3bn AI Backlog Came with a US$11.7bn Payables Offset
Dell has proved that customers want its AI systems. The harder market question is who finances the interval between a scarce component, a configured rack and a collected invoice. Its latest filed quarter shows that suppliers, customers and Dell all carry a different part of that…

North America Institutional Trends
Dycom Added US$2.7bn to Backlog but Only US$114m to the Next 12 Months
Dycom's backlog expanded sharply in six months, but almost all of the increase entered the longer-dated portion. That does not make the work unreal. It makes customer authorization, field capacity, margin and collection more important than the record total.
