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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…
