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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
Three lanes of semiconductor inputs and AI system assemblies lead from a bright factory toward a dark unfinished data-centre shell.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
Copper-toned advance-payment blocks enter a sealed tray before NAND wafers and flash components cross into a data-storage assembly and downstream collection reservoir.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
An engineer stands between an operating AI data-centre aisle, a bay under installation and a dark future-capacity hall.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
An operating rack aisle stands beside a dark uncommissioned expansion hall, with sealed server crates and a commissioning cart awaiting deployment.

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.

Aug 27, 2026
A transparent accounting frame encloses an interconnected data-centre campus while a narrow cash path reaches two unequal interlocking ownership plates.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
Two unlabelled project binders and analogue clocks sit before one illuminated data-centre campus and a second campus under construction in West Texas.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
Two business counterparts hand over an unlabelled project binder above three sealed envelopes, with a Texas data-centre campus and substation under construction beyond the glass.

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…

Aug 27, 2026
Inside a liquid-cooled GPU rack, a green link indicator sits beside an unresolved chain of optics, fibre, NIC and switch hardware.

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…

Aug 25, 2026
An open x86 server shows many access paths converging on one packet-forwarding and shared-state domain, with a second server left undefined in the background.

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.

Aug 25, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a proposed data-centre campus in Colleferro, Italy, showing power infrastructure and the remaining national approval step.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a planned Japanese data-centre campus with power infrastructure, representing ITOCHU’s reported plan for about 10 facilities by 2030.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
AI-generated illustration of Vapat’s proposed 160MW DC Mudarra data-centre campus in Valladolid beside wind farms and electrical infrastructure.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
AI-generated editorial infographic showing OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft community commitments around US data-centre development, including funding, workforce training and disclosure.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of data-centre infrastructure in Canberra with planning documents representing the ACT's decision to continue project assessments.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
AI-generated illustration of a proposed powered data-centre site with transmission infrastructure, land development plans and Nvidia DSX design tools.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
Editorial infographic showing Generac and Siemens factory expansion as US AI data-centre demand increases orders for generators and electrical equipment.

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.

Aug 24, 2026
A high-voltage substation feeding one energised data-centre campus while other connection corridors end at construction sites and empty foundations

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…

Aug 23, 2026
Illustration of students learning about an 800VDC data-centre power system beside server racks and electrical equipment in Singapore.

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.

Aug 22, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a proposed gas power plant near homes in Olds, Alberta, showing the AUC rejection of Synapse’s 1.4GW project.

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.

Aug 22, 2026