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Editorial illustration of municipal water being added to a direct-to-chip cooling loop alongside a data centre commissioning checklist

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.

Sep 1, 2026
Illustration of a factory-built data-centre module being manufactured off-site and lifted into place at a construction site

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.

Sep 1, 2026
Editorial illustration of an Alberta data centre representing the NDP proposal to pause new AI data-centre approvals

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.

Sep 1, 2026
Editorial illustration of Sault Ste. Marie with a proposed moratorium on data-centre applications above 50MW

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.

Sep 1, 2026
Infographic showing SK Horizon's ownership, data-centre portfolio and KRW3.08 trillion investment

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.

Aug 31, 2026
Illustration of Hengtong fibre manufacturing, optical preforms and rising optical communications revenue

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.

Aug 31, 2026
Illustration of AI data centres and power infrastructure linked across South Africa and Nigeria

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.

Aug 31, 2026
Illustration of an AI data centre showing coordinated electrical power and cooling systems around server infrastructure

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.

Aug 31, 2026
Illustration of an Australian data-centre campus with national standards covering energy, water and land use

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.

Aug 31, 2026
Separate amber working-capital chambers feed flash wafers and component trays through a contract-manufacturing line toward unbranded storage modules and a partially replenished blue cash reservoir.

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…

Aug 31, 2026
An operating data-centre floor sits beneath a separate lattice of changing ownership nodes.

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.

Aug 30, 2026
A business executive leaving a data-centre corridor beside graphics representing compute, engineering and construction responsibilities

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.

Aug 29, 2026
One capital conduit splits between a detached ownership-transfer chamber and the foundation of a partly built data-centre and subsea-cable platform.

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…

Aug 29, 2026
Four metallic funding channels cross an invented data hall; one remains continuous while a separate transparent mechanism carries two counterflowing currency streams.

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…

Aug 29, 2026
One completed reservoir of blank capital tiles divides into separate compute and data-centre routes, with dark modules still awaiting commissioning.

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…

Aug 29, 2026
Five checkpoints span a cloud-infrastructure conduit while an amber shortfall balance leaves and later rejoins the main flow.

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…

Aug 28, 2026
Network switches and component inventory move through rack integration toward a separately lit system-acceptance handoff.

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…

Aug 28, 2026
An unbranded custom semiconductor in a transparent test frame sends a few illuminated paths through a long field of dark revenue gates toward a separate raised exercise threshold.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
Component trays feed a central server rack on an unbranded integration floor, with only a few completed racks and shipping crates beyond.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
A telecommunications crew installs orange conduit in a short foreground trench while a surveyed corridor continues toward unfinished data-centre shells.

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.

Aug 27, 2026