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AI-generated editorial illustration showing RWE energy infrastructure alongside data centre server racks as two proposed data centre sites near agreement.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

RWE says two data centre site deals near agreement

RWE is moving two data centre sites towards customer agreements as it tests how existing power infrastructure can support new European capacity.

Aug 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a data-centre facility in Waterloo Region, Ontario, representing the region's study of data-centre infrastructure and environmental impacts.

North America Datacenter Trends

Waterloo Region seeks data-centre impact report

The review will assess economic benefits alongside power, water and environmental impacts without changing the local planning approval process.

Aug 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of Oakville, Ontario, showing open development land, transmission infrastructure and a conceptual notice representing the town's one-year data-centre moratorium.

North America Datacenter Trends

Oakville imposes one-year moratorium on data centres

Oakville has paused new data-centre development for one year while it studies planning rules, with no application filed for the proposed 320MW project.

Aug 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a large Envision-branded data-centre campus in Inner Mongolia surrounded by wind turbines and solar generation.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus

The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.

Aug 14, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing transmission lines, a substation and a data-centre campus representing Virginia's proposed large-load transmission cost rules.

North America Datacenter Trends

Virginia orders Dominion to propose data-centre transmission cost rules

Dominion must propose new rules for allocating the cost of transmission facilities built primarily for large-load customers.

Aug 13, 2026
Editorial illustration of battery storage, generators and a data centre in Texas representing Energy Vault's 1.25GW AI power agreement.

North America Datacenter Trends

Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal

Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.

Aug 13, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

Global Datacenter Trends

Data-centre capacity starts with usable power

A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.

Aug 12, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

Global Datacenter Trends

Colocation value is operational, not spatial

Renting a rack is the visible transaction. The durable value comes from resilient power, useful interconnections, physical controls and support that works during an incident.

Aug 12, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

Global Cloud Services Trends

AI electricity needs workload-level accounting

Large models consume power in training and every later inference. A data-centre total cannot show which workload, customer or design choice caused the demand.

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial view of an unfinished Texas data-centre campus with a steel-frame hall, empty pad, substation, wrapped equipment and a redacted lease document.

North America Datacenter Trends

Riot signed the 191 MW lease; Anthropic’s name comes from reporting

Riot Platforms has disclosed a 20-year Rockdale lease with an unnamed frontier AI lab. Independent reporting identifies Anthropic as the tenant. Keeping those evidence layers separate is essential, as is distinguishing $9.1 billion of expected contract revenue from capacity that…

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial diorama of a sealed community fund branching toward a school, emergency station and municipal water and power works beside a data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Meta’s $1 billion community fund still needs a rulebook

Meta has made local acceptance an explicit input to its US data-centre expansion by launching the Future Is For Everyone Fund. Axios says it is seeded with $1 billion, but the announcement leaves the decisive accountability questions—who qualifies, what is additional and when…

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial aerial view of a West Texas ranch with three unfinished data-centre frames, future turbine pads, batteries, solar panels and a distant grid connection.

North America Datacenter Trends

Amazon’s Pecos acquisition starts three clocks: construction, power and grid access

Amazon has confirmed that it bought Pacifico Energy’s more than 8,000-acre GW Ranch site in Pecos County, Texas. The customer identity removes one uncertainty from an unusually large behind-the-meter proposition, but permits and plans do not yet establish buildings, energised…

Aug 11, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing wind turbines and telecom infrastructure representing Orange Polska’s extended wind-power agreement with EDF through 2035.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Orange Polska extends EDF wind-power deal to 2035

Orange Polska’s renewed EDF wind-power deal covers about 200GWh a year, equal to roughly 40% of the operator’s electricity demand.

Aug 11, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of the Homer City redevelopment in Pennsylvania, with AWS branding and an up to 4.4GW gas-power project under construction.

North America Datacenter Trends

AWS explores Homer City data-centre project

Amazon is discussing the Pennsylvania site while Homer City builds its gas-fired power project, but no definitive AWS agreement has been signed.

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial planning table showing data-centre buffers, neighbourhoods and unfinished cooling rules in a high-plains city.

North America Datacenter Trends

Aurora rejected a data-centre pause and started a 35-day clock for the actual rules

Aurora City Council voted 7–4 to direct new data-centre standards while declining a six-month moratorium. The resolution points towards limits on evaporative cooling and residential buffers, but enforceable detail now depends on recommendations due from the city manager within 35…

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial data-centre yard with four installed generators inside a conditional boundary and four unbuilt units shown as transparent silhouettes.

North America Datacenter Trends

The MARKLEY stay pauses four uninstalled generators, not the Lowell data centre

A Middlesex Superior Court order draws a narrow operational boundary around MARKLEY’s Lowell expansion: four backup diesel generators not yet installed are stayed, while four installed earlier may operate under permit conditions. The wider air-permit appeal remains undecided.

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial illustration of a proposed Texas data-centre project behind a transparent standards gate.

North America Datacenter Trends

Meta has accepted Texas’s data-centre rulebook; project ledgers must follow

Meta has agreed to meet Texas standards intended to prevent large data-centre loads from shifting grid costs and undisclosed resource pressures onto existing communities. The commitment is a governance step, not a project approval: no Meta site, demand filing, upgrade payment…

Aug 11, 2026
Editorial illustration of power and capital paths converging on an undeveloped AI data-centre parcel.

North America Datacenter Trends

Theseus gives Anthropic a financing machine, but not yet a first address

Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management and GIC have created a vehicle meant to finance, build, operate and lease AI data centres, initially in the United States. The structure can turn a long-term computing commitment into an investable asset, yet the announcement omits the first…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of a newly opened AI data-centre hall whose illuminated operating section gives way to darker future expansion.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Firebird has opened Hrazdan; the load curve now matters more than the ribbon

Firebird’s first Hrazdan facility is officially open, giving Armenia an operating AI-infrastructure claim rather than another construction promise. Yet the ceremony did not disclose the four denominators that would prove the scale of that claim: installed accelerators, energised…

Aug 10, 2026
Editorial image of a conceptual Tucson data centre viewed through layered public-review and infrastructure constraints.

North America Datacenter Trends

Tucson adopted data-centre rules; their first real test starts in September

Tucson has filled a regulatory gap without declaring a moratorium. The council's 6-1 vote created thresholds, buffers and a public approval sequence for large data centres, but the ordinance does not take effect until 4 September—and its practical force will only become visible…

Aug 10, 2026