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Data Centre Investment
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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.

Global Datacenter Trends
NVIDIA’s Supply Commitments Rise to US$279 Billion
NVIDIA has more than doubled the supply and manufacturing capacity it has reserved in a single quarter. The US$279 billion figure is not current spending or guaranteed sales; it is a three-year synchronization test between memory, factories, new chip architectures and data…

Global Datacenter Trends
Everpure Grew 38% While Prepaids and Other Assets Used US$577m
Everpure produced a profitable US$1.19 billion quarter, then used more than half a billion dollars of operating cash on the line called prepaid expenses and other assets. Management says strategic NAND and component purchases caused most of the cash headwind. The investment can…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Cerebras’s $25.4bn RPO Has a Moving Data-Centre Perimeter
Cerebras has one OpenAI relationship and at least three ways to measure it. Contracted performance enters RPO only when consideration can be estimated, customer-specific data-centre costs enter GAAP revenue gross, and the company’s core measure removes those costs while reversing…

North America Cloud Services Trends
DigitalOcean’s $894m RPO Sits Beside $3.04bn of Future Capacity Payments
DigitalOcean has won longer customer commitments just as it has committed itself to a much longer physical estate. The two ledgers strengthen the growth case only if facilities, servers, consumption, revenue and gross profit arrive in the right order.

North America Datacenter Trends
American Tower Consolidates CoreSite’s US$586m Revenue Ahead of a 64% Equity Claim
CoreSite’s first-half numbers all enter American Tower’s accounts: US$586mn of revenue, US$360.1mn of gross margin and US$308.9mn of segment operating profit. Ownership follows a different route. Stonepeak’s preferred equity was due to convert in August, leaving American Tower…

North America Cloud Services Trends
Two AWS Rent Clocks Sit Beneath Cipher’s US$793m NOI Average
Cipher Digital can put US$11.4bn of contracted revenue and US$793mn of average annualised net operating income on one slide. Cash will still arrive one data hall at a time. Black Pearl has begun earning its first AWS rent; Stingray is targeting two starts in 2027. Between those…

North America Cloud Services Trends
TeraWulf Exchanged Abernathy’s 25-Year Upside for Three Instalments
The simple arithmetic is an US$80mn spread between TeraWulf’s US$450mn investment and approximately US$530mn of sale consideration. The useful arithmetic is harder. The buyer pays on three dates through April 2027, while TeraWulf gives up every share of a 168MW project with a…

JPNOG
Green, Up, and Running at a Fraction of Normal: JANOG58's Rack-Scale Acceptance Gap
The LED was green. Link Status was UP. Optical power sat inside the normal range. An NCCL check across all links nevertheless found one connection delivering only an unspecified fraction of normal throughput. SoftBank's JANOG58 account is a compact lesson in the difference…

APRICOT
One Forwarder, 64,000 Subscribers: The Failure Domain Inside APRICOT 2026's x86 BNG
One 144-core processor, one packet forwarder and 64,000 subscriber states: the most revealing number in 5x9 Networks' APRICOT 2026 presentation is not 1.6 Tbps. It is the number of access sessions brought into one execution domain while repeated cache state was removed.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Colleferro approves Cobra Green AI data centre
Colleferro has approved Cobra Green Hyperscale's planned AI data centre, but national clearance is still required before construction can begin.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Itochu targets 10 Japan data centres by 2030
Itochu is reportedly planning around 10 50MW data centres in Japan by 2030, with leasing and eventual asset sales central to the model.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Vapat proposes 160MW Valladolid data-centre campus
Vapat has proposed a 160MW data-centre campus in Valladolid beside its wind assets and La Mudarra substation, with the project under environmental review.

North America Datacenter Trends
Big Tech adds community commitments to data-centre plans
OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft are putting community funding, construction jobs and greater disclosure into data-centre development as local opposition grows.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
ACT keeps data-centre approvals open
Canberra will keep assessing new data-centre projects under existing rules while the federal government develops national standards for large facilities.

North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia invests in powered-land developer Cloverleaf
The minority investment brings Nvidia into the site and power work that takes place before AI hardware can be installed in a data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends
Data-centre orders push US suppliers to expand factories
Generac and Siemens are expanding US manufacturing as data-centre orders increase demand for generators and electrical equipment.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Britain proposes putting up to £712,500 per MW behind a data-centre queue place
Ofgem's proposed commitment fee would turn a cheap grid reservation into a financed option. That is useful discipline, but the security is not a certificate of viability: investors still need to prove that a customer, electrical equipment, finance and an energisation path can…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Eaton, SP launch 800VDC training
Eaton and Singapore Polytechnic will add 800VDC to data-centre training as higher-density AI systems reshape power design.

North America Datacenter Trends
AUC rejects Synapse's 1.4GW Olds power plant
The regulator found Synapse's proposed gas plant too close to homes, forcing a rethink of the power plan behind its 1GW Olds data centre.
