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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
