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Datacenter
Texas city residents oppose potential AI data centre over water use
Victoria has no data centre proposal yet, but water concerns are already organising residents — a pattern that suggests developers may face political headwinds before filing a single permit. The 2 million-gallon-per-day estimate anchors the debate in rural supply security, not…

Regional ISP
Miner cable strike disrupts Nome telecom services
An excavator struck power and fiber lines near Nome, Alaska, causing widespread telecom outages that lasted several days due to delayed fiber repairs.

National Telecom
Vodafone Australia outage exposes hub-level network fragility
Vodafone Australia’s network outage exposed telco resilience gaps as new ACMA rules prepare to force clearer outage reporting.

National Telecom
EU misses 2030 targets on fibre and chips
EU risks missing 2030 digital targets as FTTP coverage reaches 74% and semiconductor share remains far below its 20% goal.

Cloud Service
SpiderNet IT Service Limited
SpiderNet sits at the intersection of Hong Kong ICT services, Greater China enterprise WAN, cross-border connectivity and cloud access.

Leaders
Rathana Kong
Rathana Kong reflects local ISP operations, access reliability, customer connectivity, IPv6, security, automation, and cloud connectivity concerns in Cambodia.

Regional ISP
Ezee Fiber underground fibre work angers Salem residents
Ezee Fiber faces Salem complaints after underground fibre work allegedly damaged driveways and waterlines.

Institutional
PennDOT fibre theft disables Parkway East message boards
PennDOT says fibre theft disabled Parkway East message boards and cameras, affecting Pittsburgh traffic alerts during repairs.

Cloud Service
Google Cloud reroutes India traffic after Delhi data centre fire
Google Cloud reroutes India traffic after a Delhi data centre fire, while some metro customers still face latency and packet loss.

Cloud Service
AI workload volatility raises data centre power waste
AI training volatility forces data centres to run secondary workloads, raising energy use, cooling demand and grid pressure.

Cloud Service
Third-party data centre fire forces Google Cloud outage
Google Cloud faced India network disruptions after a third-party data centre fire forced emergency shutdowns and reduced capacity.

Cloud Service
Tesla robotaxi fleet goes unsupervised in Austin
Tesla rolls out 50 unsupervised robotaxis across Austin, facing occasional wait times over 30 minutes.

National Telecom
Telia trials quantum encryption on live mobile network
Telia Finland and QMill demonstrate quantum-enhanced encryption on standard mobile networks in Espoo.

Institutional
From Islands to Ideas: PTC's New Leadership Charts the Next Course
PTC is a neutral industry convener whose conference, research, and professional-development programmes influence how digital infrastructure stakeholders align on talent, policy, connectivity, and next-generation infrastructure priorities.
