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Data Centre Investment
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Hitachi, SPACECOOL test passive cooling
Hitachi and SPACECOOL are testing whether passive radiative cooling can protect exposed infrastructure equipment from heat without adding powered cooling.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
AirTrunk studies cryogenic data-centre cooling
The partners will study whether running computing hardware at cryogenic temperatures can improve performance without letting refrigeration erase the energy gains.

North America Datacenter Trends
Texas orders enforcement over data-centre water reporting
Missing water-use reports can now affect permits and ERCOT interconnection, putting water compliance alongside power in Texas data-centre development.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mumbai backs data centres, plans regulation
Mumbai's civic chief has backed data-centre development while signalling future regulation, leaving project-level rules and site conditions unresolved.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Firmus pitches A$7bn AI float to Asian investors
Firmus is courting investors for a proposed Australian listing while five of its seven AI computing sites remain under development.

Global Datacenter Trends
PwC sees data-centre capex reaching $31.6tn
PwC expects annual data-centre investment to keep rising through 2050 as servers, GPUs and other computing equipment are replaced repeatedly.

North America Datacenter Trends
Trump backs data centres as local resistance grows
The White House is defending AI infrastructure investment, but local approvals, power costs, and community opposition are becoming harder for developers to ignore.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Buildots' new capital puts portfolio progress data to the test
A $130 million round supports the construction-software company's push into multi-year portfolio agreements. For data-centre buyers, comparable evidence matters more than a common dashboard.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Saudi data-centre capacity rises 57% since 2024
Savills says Saudi Arabia's live IT capacity has grown 57% since 2024, while government plans call for 3GW of data-centre capacity by 2030.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
TECROWD's data-centre plan defers ¥550m until the sale
Fund 103 proposes no bank borrowing, yet ¥550m of construction cost would be paid from the eventual property sale before investor distributions. That payment order matters more than treating the advertised yield as a promise.

Global Datacenter Trends
Microsoft targets 38GW of data-centre capacity by 2032
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft wants to more than triple its data-centre capacity by 2032, with a larger share of the fleet built for AI workloads.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Vertical Data agrees to buy 4.5MW Swedish data-centre site
The acquisition covers a site with 4.5MW today; the proposed expansion to 100MW remains subject to separate power and development approvals.

North America Datacenter Trends
Volato's AI merger closes, but $500m is not build-out cash
The Alignment Engine deal changes Volato's business before it settles the financing, conversion approvals and equipment orders needed to deliver Ohio computing capacity.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NEXTDC's cash hedge does not cancel dilution
The data-centre developer is spending A$93.61 million on capped calls alongside its convertible notes. The protection is economic; the distinction matters for both construction cash and future ownership.

North America Datacenter Trends
Atlantic HPC's earnout starts with a lease, not a working hall
A proposed merger puts a seven-year customer commitment at the centre of the seller reward. Financing and fitting out the AI facility remain separate tests.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Digital Realty's Türkiye entry is a build, not a ready-made hub
A new joint venture has an Ankara campus in development and Istanbul in view. Constructing capacity and attracting usable network connections are different jobs.

Asia-Pacific Institutional
NICT reports incorrect timestamps from public time servers
NICT says part of its public time service sent incorrect timestamps for 11 minutes, putting the focus on whether connected systems accepted the wrong time.

Africa Datacenter Trends
Cape Town data-centre approval faces appeal
Campaigners are appealing approval for two proposed Cape Town data centres as questions over zoning, water, and electricity remain unresolved.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Bangkok diesel case prompts data-centre permit review
Officials found more than 200,000 litres of unlicensed diesel at a Bangkok data centre, bringing backup power, drainage and urban siting under closer review.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
UAE weighs splitting Stargate AI campus across sites
A multi-site Stargate UAE could reduce local outage risk, but resilience will depend on how workloads recover between locations.
