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Editorial illustration of the former Langley Business Centre site in Slough with clearance work under way for a proposed Microsoft data centre

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Microsoft begins consultation on proposed Langley data centre

Microsoft is consulting on its Langley proposal before submitting a full planning application, with the final design and development timetable still to be confirmed.

Aug 5, 2026
Civic planners examine a layered infrastructure map while a translucent barrier holds back final approval of a conceptual data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends

Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test

Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…

Aug 5, 2026
An anonymous civic committee considers a data-centre model beside a partially open procedural gate, with seven assent lights and one dissent light.

North America Datacenter Trends

Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban

Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…

Aug 5, 2026
Unbranded yellow generator sets and a turbine are assembled beside construction equipment and an unfinished data-centre campus at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Caterpillar’s $20.5bn quarter shows where the data-centre power bottleneck is becoming revenue

Caterpillar’s first quarter above $20 billion did more than set a company record. It exposed one route by which the data-centre buildout reaches the industrial economy: through large generator sets, turbines, construction fleets and the service capacity needed to keep them…

Aug 4, 2026
Three planned data-centre construction sites sit within an Indonesian tropical landscape, linked by power corridors and transparent architectural outlines.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

CoreWeave’s 360MW Indonesia plan is a capacity promise with a 2028 test

CoreWeave has chosen Indonesia for its first announced data-centre presence in Asia-Pacific: three facilities carrying 360MW of contracted IT power and an expected 2028 start. The number is strategically large, but its state is equally important. It is not active capacity, and…

Aug 4, 2026
Eight translucent building footprints fade over undeveloped Maryland land while an unmarked conceptual planning folder closes in the foreground.

North America Cloud Services Trends

AWS’s Lusby withdrawal ends one site-plan process, not the data-centre argument

Calvert County says Amazon Data Services, also referred to as AWS, formally withdrew the Conceptual Site Development Plan for the Calvert Technology Center on 4 August. The application had passed acceptance and a first review but had not reached construction. Local reporting…

Aug 4, 2026
A civic planning table connects six evidence stations to a translucent, not-yet-built data-centre campus model.

North America Datacenter Trends

Iowa’s data-centre tool turns local controversy into questions that can be audited

The University of Iowa has released a decision tool for counties, cities and communities considering data-centre development. It does not tell officials to approve or refuse a project. Its value is more procedural: it converts arguments about water, power, taxes, land and…

Aug 3, 2026
Data-centre connection paths converge on an illuminated audit checkpoint before reaching the Texas grid.

North America Datacenter Trends

Texas puts a proof gate in front of its 474GW data-centre queue

Texas has ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project advancing through the grid connection process before it can move forward. The state says requests now exceed 474GW—more than five times ERCOT’s record peak demand—and that roughly 90% of new power requests come…

Aug 3, 2026
A municipal planning table and utility map face a translucent temporary barrier before a proposed data-centre campus in a Florida cityscape.

North America Datacenter Trends

Lakeland’s 50MW line buys a year to write rules before approving concentrated load

Lakeland’s City Commission voted 4-3 for a twelve-month moratorium on large-scale data centres and other proposed customers with peak demand of at least 50MW. The pause covers the city’s acceptance, processing, review and approval of relevant development applications while…

Aug 3, 2026
Survey stakes and translucent future solar rows occupy an undeveloped Oklahoma site while a regional grid continues toward distant evening digital infrastructure.

North America Datacenter Trends

Google’s 155MW Oklahoma solar deal has contracted an output, not delivered a data-centre load

Google has agreed to buy the entire output of RWE’s planned 155MWac Crooked Creek Solar project for 15 years. The contract can give the project a durable buyer and give Google a long-term renewable-energy position in the Southwest Power Pool. It does not mean the plant is…

Aug 3, 2026
A resident addresses a public hearing beside two separate translucent planning models for proposed data-centre power equipment.

North America Datacenter Trends

Hamlet put 649 diesel engines through one public doorway

More than 100 people attended a North Carolina hearing on two air-permit applications tied to Amazon’s Energy Way Tech Campus in Hamlet. One application covers 592 Amazon emergency engines—588 critical units and four ancillary units. The other covers 57 Duke Energy engines…

Jul 31, 2026
A Nordic data-centre campus is shown with server cooling, substations, heat-reuse pipes and translucent emissions-accounting boundaries.

Global Datacenter Trends

Nebius has disclosed the carbon cost of expansion, but not its full footprint

Nebius reported 65,001 tonnes of market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions for 2025, roughly 32 times the 2,036 tonnes disclosed a year earlier. The multiplication is striking, but its meaning depends on a changed operating base: the company says it expanded to seven active sites. The…

Jul 31, 2026
A private Ohio energy island combines modular generators, a switchyard and battery storage beside an AI data-centre campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Veolia takes the operating risk in Ohio’s 350MW private power island

Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW behind-the-meter microgrid for an undisclosed AI data-centre campus in Ohio. Gas engines and linear generators are expected to supply the campus, with a 430MWh battery supporting the system. The contract places Veolia at…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating data-centre block stands beside several unfinished halls, cranes, a substation and power conduits at the Paju construction site.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on

LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…

Jul 31, 2026
Four solid engineered power routes and three wireframe routes lead toward mixed-stage data-centre sites, while three blank contract folders remain separate.

Global Datacenter Trends

ENGIE’s 7GW data-centre number is two pipelines wearing the same unit

ENGIE has moved a much larger share of its prospective data-centre work into an advanced stage: 4GW at the end of June, up from 0.8GW at the end of 2025. Together with 3GW at an early stage, that makes a 7GW project pipeline. Separately, the energy group also describes 7GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
An active Western Sydney data-centre construction site sits behind a blank contract folder and a completed architectural campus model.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

AirTrunk’s 400MW-plus SYD3 has a builder for its next phase, not a live meter

Bouygues Construction’s €1.2bn contract for the next phase of AirTrunk’s SYD3 campus is a large, bounded construction event. Awarded through Australian subsidiary A W Edwards, it assigns work and a delivery horizon toward mid-2028. It does not establish the final cost of the…

Jul 31, 2026
A provisional Texas data-centre campus model sits between blank credit files, a separate gas-power model and an unlabelled support arch.

North America Datacenter Trends

A reported $15bn loan would make Anthropic’s Texas compute a test of Google’s balance-sheet reach

The notable number in the reported financing talks for a data-centre campus in Hubbard, Texas, is not only the $15bn banks may lend. It is the obligation that could sit behind the debt. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Morgan Stanley-led consortium was discussing financing…

Jul 31, 2026
A monitored boundary separates an active legacy industrial cleanup from a translucent model of a proposed data-centre, power and battery campus.

North America Datacenter Trends

Paducah’s proposed AI campus joins a $100bn headline to a 17bn-dollar cleanup ledger

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate a proposed AI data-centre and energy complex at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. AP reports a headline value of $100bn, with NextEra expected to build and own 2GW of…

Jul 31, 2026
A removable parcel model with three data-centre buildings and one substation sits apart from a blank deed folder and key in a rainy Oregon planning room.

North America Datacenter Trends

Oregon cancelled the Salem land sale; Verrus says the data-centre proposal may still have another route

Gov. Tina Kotek has directed Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state land-sale contract tied to Verrus’s proposed data-centre campus at Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem. The proposal had been described at about $5.1bn, with three…

Jul 31, 2026
Mobile gas-turbine trailers stand beside newly empty equipment pads while cranes and unfinished structures mark construction of a permanent power plant.

North America Datacenter Trends

Southaven’s temporary turbine bridge finally has an exit calendar

SpaceXAI says an agreed order with Mississippi regulators now sets dates for removing all 69 temporary mobile gas turbines at its Southaven power site: work may begin in August 2026 and is scheduled to finish by July 2027. In parallel, a permitted permanent plant designed for…

Jul 31, 2026