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Engineers study a three-building data-centre scale model beside liquid-cooling and fan heat-rejection hardware

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget

NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…

Jul 23, 2026
Two operational data-hall buildings connect to electrical and water utility work in a central Texas landscape

North America Datacenter Trends

Meta's Temple opening turns a construction promise into operating load

Meta has opened its Temple, Texas data centre after four years of construction, moving the project from a planning claim to a live operating facility. That transition makes jobs and infrastructure measurable, but the eventual $1.2 billion-plus value, renewable-energy matching and…

Jul 23, 2026
Surveyors review plans in an undeveloped Georgia field with transmission lines far in the background

North America Datacenter Trends

OpenAI has a 3.2GW power contract before Project Camellia has a final design

OpenAI says it is contracting with Georgia Power for 3.2 gigawatts to be delivered in phases from 2028 to 2032 for Project Camellia in Effingham County. The scale is material, but it describes a future power-supply plan, not commissioned computing load today. Financing, design…

Jul 22, 2026
Planner gestures over an unlabeled data-centre scale model separated from homes by a broad green buffer

North America Datacenter Trends

Nashville turns data-centre resource costs into permit conditions

Nashville's Metro Council has approved a data-centre zoning package and a temporary permitting moratorium. The new framework bars facilities above 500,000 square feet, sends smaller proposals through special-exception review and places siting, generation and water-cooling…

Jul 22, 2026
Unbranded infrastructure scene illustrating the article's evidence boundary

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

LM1 is visible, but Equinix Peru's useful-capacity questions remain local

Equinix makes its Lima footprint unusually easy to locate: LM1 has a street address, a published floor-area figure, a stated 0.7 MW total capacity and a place in the company's Peru data-centre pages. Yet those facts describe a facility boundary, not the service a customer can…

Jul 22, 2026
Conceptual secured development site with a closed transparent threshold, a ghosted future data hall, an earlier gas-generation phase and a distant unbuilt nuclear concept

North America Datacenter Trends

A 1GW proposal has won a negotiation, not a right to build

The Savannah River Site plan puts a one-gigawatt AI campus beside roughly two gigawatts of proposed generation. That pairing is large enough to change the development route, but not advanced enough to be called capacity. NNSA has selected Amentum to negotiate a phased lease…

Jul 20, 2026
Conceptual balance with one incentive token lifted away while open permitting, public-power and water-review paths still lead toward a data-centre campus

North America Datacenter Trends

Nebraska stopped a subsidy, not data-centre construction

Nebraska has removed ImagiNE Act incentives from new data-centre applications while leaving construction, zoning, power connection and financing as separate decisions. Governor Jim Pillen's executive order also starts a cross-agency review and a resource task force. It changes…

Jul 20, 2026
Editorial visualization of one power backbone serving an operating data hall and a second hall under construction

North America Datacenter Trends

Hut 8’s second Beacon Point lease doubles capacity—and one tenant exposure

The same unnamed counterparty now accounts for 704MW at the Texas campus. Secured power gives Hut 8 commercial leverage, but a $19.6bn base-term value still depends on construction, finance and delivery extending into 2028.

Jul 20, 2026
A transparent conceptual data-centre massing hovers over an empty tropical parcel beside homes, survey markers and a utility corridor.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Kota Damansara data-centre dispute is headed to Malaysia's Cabinet

The announced escalation does not cancel the proposal, but it turns a local planning objection into a test of whether Malaysia's data-centre screening should cover neighbourhood siting as explicitly as power and water.

Jul 18, 2026
A secure computing hall, cooling plant and electrical substation on a research campus at dusk, illustrating the UK's AIRR host-site competition.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

UK opens host-site EOI for £750m sovereign AI supercomputer

The 17 July request asks eligible UK research hosts to prove that sovereign compute can be placed, powered and governed as a national service; it is a site-selection step, not a new funding award or tender.

Jul 18, 2026
An unbranded data-centre campus beside a constrained electrical substation and an unfinished grid-connection bay.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

EU grid plan would make data-centre queues an economic contest

Brussels is proposing to replace simple place-in-line logic with a test of who imposes grid costs, who can ease congestion and whose project delivers the strongest public benefit.

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial reconstruction of a cloud operator, customer reliability lead and facility technician tracing a stopped AI job from scheduler to GPU rack.

Global Cloud Services

Who Can Stop the Job? Northern Data Software GmbH and the Control Layer Beneath 22,000 GPUs

Northern Data Software GmbH looks, on a register, like the software company behind a European AI compute fleet. The more revealing reality is a chain of control: a German services company, an Irish cloud vendor, Norwegian and other hardware operators, Ardent data centre…

Jul 17, 2026
AI-generated editorial reconstruction of a technician inspecting infrastructure inside a Canadian data-centre suite.

Global Cloud Services

Nine Rooms, One New Flag: What Actually Changed When Rogers' Data Centres Became Qu

Qu Data Centres did not start with a blank site plan. It started with nine operational facilities, hundreds of legacy customers, and an ongoing relationship with Rogers for sales and network. This gives the new Canadian platform something most data centre companies spend years…

Jul 17, 2026
AI-generated editorial reconstruction: a field engineer checks satellite, fibre and backup-power equipment at a wet remote Colombian site.

Global Regional ISP

Why Sencinet Colombia's five-teleport reach cannot bypass the branch handoff

A terrestrial circuit fails at a remote Colombian operations site. What happens next depends less on a regional asset count than on the power, access carrier, satellite terminal, gateway, control system and people that must all work at the same time.

Jul 17, 2026
AI-generated editorial reconstruction: an engineer checks switchgear and generator connections in a wet Cali data-centre utility yard at dawn.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

Zonamerica Cali's Tier IV certificate covers 405 kilowatts, not the whole campus

At Cali's southern edge, a certified data hall sits inside a 38-hectare free-trade zone whose roads, gates, utility handoffs and carrier entrances remain outside the certificate's stated 405-kilowatt boundary. The distinction matters to every tenant buying continuity: Wave DC can…

Jul 17, 2026
AI editorial reconstruction of a technician tracing a short fibre cross-connect through a dense carrier meet-me room.

Global Cloud Services

AIMS Data Centre: the shortest cable can become the longest dependency

AIMS sells protected space, power and cooling, but its most consequential product is often a much smaller physical entity: the cross-connect that puts a customer within a few metres of Malaysia’s densest concentration of networks. That proximity can lower latency, simplify…

Jul 16, 2026
Editorial risk and accountability image for Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.

North America Institutional

Winter Storm Uri made Texas weatherization a grid-market accountability test

Winter Storm Uri was not a contest in which one fuel source failed and another passed. It was a common-mode failure across generation, natural-gas production and delivery, demand forecasting, critical-load mapping, market settlement, emergency communication and public…

Jul 16, 2026
AI-generated editorial reconstruction: a compact carrier-neutral data-centre site in Batam, Indonesia, shown with physical power, cooling and fibre systems; the scene does not depict OMNIDC-BTM1.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Omni markets 1.2MW at Batam; the independent Tier III record stops at Jakarta's design

One Omni document puts 1.2MW of IT load behind two electrical paths in Batam. A separate Uptime Institute listing names only "OMNI DC JKT1, IT Hall 1, 2nd Floor" and records Tier III Certification of Design Documents in Jakarta. Between those two facts sits the central question…

Jul 16, 2026
Editorial risk and accountability image for British Airways Plc

Europe and Middle East Institutional

British Airways made data-centre power recovery a passenger-continuity accountability test

British Airways' May 2017 disruption began with a power failure at its primary data centre and became a three-day test of whether an airline could recover the digital operating fabric behind check-in, flight dispatch, baggage, customer communication and rebooking. The public…

Jul 16, 2026
Technicians conduct a generator and transfer-switch load test outside a Honduran data-centre building during tropical rain, with cooling equipment and two separated fibre approaches visible.

Global Datacenter

Cable Color's dual AC bus leaves the decisive resilience question outside the cabinet

Cable Color markets a Tier II colocation room with 48 hours of energy, an N+1 backup generator and two AC buses at every cabinet. The public record does not show whether those paths remain independent through utility loss, cooling, fuel, building entrances, external carriers, the…

Jul 16, 2026