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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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…
