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Data Centre Power and Permitting
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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.
