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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
XS4ALL and the afterlife of Dutch ISP trust
XS4ALL no longer sells itself as an independent access provider in the ordinary retail sense. Its more interesting economic life is now inside KPN: in retained subscribers, preserved e-mail addresses, FRITZ!Box expectations, civil-liberties goodwill, and the migration risk that…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
The Margin Above Rented Glass: TSNET in Italy's Wholesale Fibre State
Italy has rebuilt its fixed-line network around companies that are forbidden, by charter or by choice, from selling to the households and firms the network exists to serve. Someone still has to face the customer. In a village on the Modena plain, a thirty-year-old firm of telecom…
Africa National Telecom
TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth
TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Africa…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
EMEA Data Centres Compete on Deliverability
Power availability has become the defining constraint on EMEA data centre expansion. Colliers says investors are increasingly prioritising markets that can secure electricity, planning approval and timely project delivery as AI infrastructure demand accelerates.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Remote NT Cattle Station Tests Off-grid AI Infrastructure
A proposed hyperscale AI campus in remote northern Australia highlights a growing industry trend: as established data centre markets run into power constraints, developers are increasingly taking compute to energy rather than energy to compute.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Spark Technical Services is a provincial fiber bet, not a hidden national carrier
Spark Technical Services for Communication matters because its public record points to a specific kind of Iraqi internet company: a small but real resource-holding network operator whose commercial face is AL-RAHMA FTTH, whose retail promise is fiber access across Anbar, and…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Local power in Pularghat: F.T Link BD and the economy of a small Bangladeshi ISP
Local power in Pularghat: F.T Link BD and the economy of a small Bangladeshi ISP intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
North America Datacenter Trends
Hundreds march against Telus AI data centres in Vancouver
Hundreds marched in Vancouver against two planned Telus AI data centres, turning the projects into a test of local consent over water, power and urban infrastructure.
North America Cloud Services
Oracle, Database Rent and AI Infrastructure Risk
Oracle's cloud inflection is real, but the company is shifting from a high-margin software rent to a more capital-intensive infrastructure cycle, tied to energy, GPUs, multi-cloud interconnection, and customer concentration.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
2degrees: The Economics of a Challenger Telecom Operator in New Zealand
TWO-DEGREES-AS-AP denotes the network resource layer of 2degrees, but the economics now come from a converged mobile network operator covering broadband, energy, enterprise, and the public sector after the Vocus integration.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s Singapore HQ coordinates growth; it does not add 180MW
AirTrunk opened a regional office in Singapore. Its three facilities total a company-reported 180MW IT load, but the office itself creates no new data-centre capacity.
North America Datacenter Trends
OpenAI drops 600 MW at Abilene; the 1.2 GW Stargate build continues
OpenAI and Oracle did not cancel their operating Abilene campus. They dropped a separate 600 MW expansion option; Microsoft later became the customer for two adjacent buildings.
North America Datacenter Trends
The White House data-centre draft became a seven-company power pledge—implementation is the test
A February draft became the Ratepayer Protection Pledge on 4 March. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI promised to fund new power and grid costs, but utilities and states must turn voluntary commitments into enforceable rates and contracts.