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Two low-rise grey-clad data centre halls standing at the inland edge of the Westland polder beside long rows of glass greenhouses, with several separate dark fibre conduits converging across wet grass toward a single entry point; no substation or signage is visible.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Greenhouse Datacenters Publishes Its Interconnection Story and Leaves the Power Envelope Unstated

A Naaldwijk colocation operator has just been named an additional landing partner for the IOEMA subsea cable. Its public record is unusually detailed on connectivity partners, exchange count, certifications and a power usage ratio — and silent on the figure that decides how much…

Oct 18, 2026
An unmarked data-centre building at dusk beside a high-voltage substation and pylons, with a buried conduit route running along the perimeter fence toward a distant treeline.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter

Ascenty: The Megawatt That Travels Without Its Basis

Brazil's data-centre buildout is routinely described in megawatts, but the documents gathered for this report on 18 October 2026 contain no megawatt figure for Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações S/A at all — and that gap is the story, because the unit itself is doing work…

Oct 18, 2026
Conceptual editorial illustration of a modern data-centre campus, with one finished-looking hall beside a hall under construction and visible power and cooling equipment; it is not a photograph of Chennai 01.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

CapitaLand’s Chennai data centre has to make capital recycling pay

CapitaLand’s unveiling of Chennai 01 put a ₹1,940 crore plan and a 53 MW power figure on display. The investment case now turns on a less visible conversion: how much of the facility’s 34 MW of IT capacity becomes contracted, commissioned and cash-paying load.

Oct 18, 2026
Комплекс дата-центров в Сингапуре в сумерках: две зоны освещены по-разному, видны системы охлаждения и подстанции.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Singapore’s infrastructure bill draws two lines for data-centre duties

Singapore’s new framework separates a 3 MW sustainability licence from a 10 MW resilience regime, while large cloud services are measured by Singapore revenue. The hard part now is matching each rule to what operators can actually control.

Oct 17, 2026
Концептуальная модель планируемого кампуса дата-центров: два отдельных электрокабельных маршрута заканчиваются перед границей участка.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Vietnam’s $2.1bn AI Campus Faces a Power-Tariff Test Before Construction

A July investment certificate put a US$2.1bn figure on Ho Chi Minh City’s planned AI campus. HEPZA’s October request shows that registration has not yet settled the cost of electricity, the rule governing each use, or the power plan needed before the first phase can break ground.

Oct 17, 2026
Conceptual cutaway of a geothermal power station and subsurface well in a Utah desert landscape.

North America Datacenter Trends

Fervo’s first Cape Station block earns revenue; scale remains unproven

Cape Station’s first 33 MW GeoBlock has crossed into commercial operation and reported PPA revenue. The milestone moves the question from construction to repeatable generation and cash conversion, while leaving both unmeasured.

Oct 17, 2026
Concept illustration of rural data-centre halls, a solar array and a high-voltage substation connected by transmission lines.

Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends

Uruguay’s 500 MW campus tests Solaria’s powered-land model abroad

Solaria’s first-half data-centre business already generated €99.6 million from development milestones. Its new Uruguay agreement adds a much larger project headline, but public disclosures leave the future tenants, capital providers and division of project cash flows…

Oct 17, 2026
Концептуальный вид сверху: дата-центр, общий аккумуляторный накопитель, подстанция и соседние потребители подключены к одной электросети.

North America Datacenter Trends

NiSource’s $1.75bn savings figure is not Microsoft’s bill credit

Microsoft’s 20-year Indiana power agreement adds about 1,100 MW of generation resources to NiSource’s GenCo pool, while a related 600 MW battery will serve multiple large-load customers. NiSource’s larger savings estimate covers existing NIPSCO electric customers across…

Oct 17, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a nuclear station, regional power lines, a cooperative community and a distant data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Palisades’ March 2027 date is the real test of its nuclear restart

The three U.S. reactor restarts now grouped under a roughly $4.4 billion federal financing headline do not have the same customer or delivery test. Palisades sells to two electric cooperatives, and its contracts attach a conditional payment to the March 2027 in-service date.

Oct 17, 2026
Illustration conceptuelle d’un centre de données côtier projeté, d’un réservoir d’eau douce, d’une conduite et d’éoliennes au loin.

North America Datacenter Trends

Point Tupper’s water plan is the real test for its AI campus

EverWind frames the proposed 420 MW campus’s full-build water use as roughly 1% of Landrie Lake’s safe yield. That comparison is mathematically loose and leaves out the utility’s own planning case: a January forecast had average 2028 demand near the lake’s estimated sustainable…

Oct 16, 2026
Кампус центров обработки данных, подстанция передачи и возобновляемая генерация показаны в единой, но неоднородной энергосистеме.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Tata Power’s 2.8 GW pipeline bundles load, grid and green power

Tata Power’s new data-centre figure is large enough to sound like a single power commitment. Its own breakdown says otherwise: the headline joins upcoming distribution load, transmission-linked opportunities and green-energy engagement. Each sits at a different point in the work…

Oct 15, 2026
A conceptual transmission connection from an industrial campus meets the shared UK grid.

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends

Ofgem’s new self-build route stops at the shared grid

Ofgem paired a new statutory consultation with the rejection of an older code proposal. Customers may gain control of the connection they build, while shared reinforcement that can set the energisation date remains with the wider system.

Oct 14, 2026
Conceptual illustration of grid power flowing through a rapid-response buffer to an AI data-centre rack

Global Datacenter Trends

Siemens pairs investment with an exclusive route into AI data centres

Siemens is buying a strategic position in Skeleton Technologies and the exclusive right to sell its products to data-centre customers. The commercial test is whether that channel can turn fast power buffering into verified customer economics.

Oct 14, 2026
A conceptual standby generator beside the grid substation that would provide primary power to a data-centre campus.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Iver’s 222.98 MWth backup fleet is not 223 MW of data-centre power

A permit application puts a precise number on emergency fuel-burning equipment at Amazon’s proposed Iver site. The number describes heat entering engines under standby conditions; it does not measure electricity for servers or what the grid can deliver.

Oct 14, 2026
A remote Barkly landscape with two translucent assessment layers and a faint outline of an unbuilt campus.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Project Ares’ EIS Is Set, but Federal Species Review Remains Open

The Northern Territory has chosen an environmental impact statement for Project Ares, but that decision does not approve the project or settle its federal referral. Energy North still owes the Commonwealth information on threatened and migratory species, and the NT EPA has paused…

Oct 14, 2026
Unbranded modular generators wait in a staging hall between a regional substation and a data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

AEP’s Mainspring deal has an order path, not a site plan

AEP has bought an initial 190MW tranche of Mainspring linear generators for delivery from 2027, within a framework of up to 1.6GW. The annual options could be worth more than $4 billion if exercised, but AEP has not chosen where the units will operate or how they will connect.

Oct 14, 2026
Conceptual desert-edge data-centre campus with a large on-site power installation and a smaller utility connection.

North America Datacenter Trends

Oracle’s grid deal sits at the edge of Project Jupiter

The proposed El Paso Electric agreement prices a narrow utility connection around a campus whose planned primary supply is an on-site microgrid. Oracle’s separate customer-credit proposal has a different recipient, term and path to proof.

Oct 13, 2026
UPS cabinets and switchgear in a data-centre power room, with server racks and backup generators behind a blank incident log.

Global Datacenter Trends

A data-centre incident tally needs a version history

On 12 October, Energy Incident Register’s live data-centre page counted 92 incidents; its download page still listed a 93-entry file dated a day earlier. The gap is small, but a count without a visible change history is weak input for a reliability model.

Oct 12, 2026
A European data-centre campus shows only some buildings inside a measurement grid, beside electricity, cooling-water and heat-reuse infrastructure.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

The EU’s data-centre floor starts with an incomplete map

The European Commission is preparing minimum performance standards for data centres while its first reporting round captured only part of the facilities that should report. That gap does not make the data useless. It does mean the next rule must separate what the evidence can…

Oct 11, 2026
A conceptual map connects six color-coded regional power grids to a shared central coordination point.

North America Institutional Trends

FERC Set One Clock, Not One Tariff, for Large Loads

FERC put six regional grid operators on a shared timetable to examine large-load interconnection. The June orders opened separate legal cases, left tariff design to each region’s record and preserved the division between federal transmission rules and state retail decisions.

Oct 9, 2026