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Global Datacenter Trends
PwC forecasts US$31.6tn in AI data-centre capex by 2050
PwC expects repeated server, GPU and networking upgrades to keep AI data-centre spending rising long after facilities are first built.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Broadcom launches VMware AI Factory for private AI
VMware AI Factory automates private-AI infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management, with Broadcom aiming to shorten the path from bare metal to a first model.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Oracle launches single-customer regions for Alloy partners
Oracle Alloy partners can now order a cloud region reserved for one customer, including deployment inside that customer's own data centre.
Global National Telecom Trends
Qualcomm unveils IQ-2390 industrial edge processor
Qualcomm has unveiled the IQ-2390, combining on-device AI, machine vision, real-time control and TSN networking for industrial edge systems.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Netskope’s Annual Billing Shift Moves the Cash Test to the Second Half
Revenue guidance has risen, but the cash-flow target has narrowed. A change in payment terms helps explain why subscription growth and the money available to fund it can move on different schedules.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Snowflake's AI Budgets Follow Entry Points, Not Just Agents
A budget attached to a Cortex Agent does not necessarily follow every request that reaches it. Snowflake's treatment of CoWork-originated activity exposes a wider question for enterprise AI: where spending is counted, whose access can be stopped, and how long the stop takes to…
Global National Telecom Trends
Phoenix Tower signs $6.5bn global financing package
PTI’s $6.5bn financing will refinance debt and add funding for capex and acquisitions, with closing targeted by the end of September.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitLab's Supervotes Ended in August. Two Board Seats Run to 2029
Equal votes do not produce a new board overnight. GitLab's conversion to one outstanding class of common stock removed a voting multiplier, while leaving director mandates, meeting access and amendment procedures on different timetables. The distinction matters for anyone…
Global Datacenter Trends
HPE's 112% Data-Centre Networking Growth Reverses on Its Normalized Base
HPE reported US$382 million of data-centre networking revenue for its July quarter, more than twice the published figure a year earlier. Against the historical base reconstructed in its own earnings presentation, the same revenue fell about 6%. Neither calculation is a reason to…
Global Regional ISP Trends
A Second Remote Peering Service Is Not a Second Path
Remote peering can put an exchange within logical reach without putting a second physical route under the buyer’s control. Resilience begins by tracing each service through every handoff, not by counting green entities in a portal.
Global Regional ISP Trends
IPv6 Renumbering Makes Lifetimes, DNS and Rollback One Contract
An IPv6 prefix can change in the routing table within minutes while branches, resolvers, applications and established sessions continue to live on older clocks. The real decision is not when to announce the new prefix, but when the evidence is strong enough to surrender the old…
Global Datacenter Trends
Vertiv’s UIG earnout has two 50% EBITDA cliffs
Vertiv has put approximately US$1.45 billion of cash on the closing table for UtilityInnovation Group. Another US$1.15 billion sits behind two performance tests whose dollar targets are not public. The filed agreement nevertheless reveals the machine: fall just short of half a…
Global Datacenter Trends
NVIDIA starts shipping Vera CPUs at scale
NVIDIA says Vera CPU systems are shipping at scale, moving its new AI processor from launch plans into customer integration.
Global Datacenter Trends
SLB agrees $4.1bn Kelvion deal for data-centre cooling
SLB is buying Kelvion to bring thermal management into the same data-centre delivery stack as its engineering, modular construction and digital systems.
Global Datacenter Trends
Data-centre orders surge at transformer makers
Long transformer backlogs mean data-centre developers may need to secure electrical equipment years before a site is ready to energise.
Global Cloud Services Trends
LivePerson Had 6.05m Shares Present. The Deal Needed 6.17m
LivePerson had enough shares present to hold its merger meeting, but not enough to approve the SoundHound transaction even if every represented share had voted yes. The 114,186-share minimum gap is the difference between participation and control.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Yext's ARR Moved Just $14,000 While Two Customer Books Split by $2.8m
Yext finished its July quarter with almost exactly the same recurring-revenue balance it had three months earlier. That flat total was not stillness. One customer book added US$2.769 million while the other lost US$2.755 million, leaving a disclosed net movement of only…
Global Institutional Trends
MiniMed's $843m Quarter Has Two Organic Growth Rates
MiniMed and Medtronic disclosed the same $843 million diabetes quarter on the same morning. One called organic growth 15.8%; the other called it 14.9%. Both calculations can be followed, but only after the denominator, adjustment policy and unfinished separation are kept in view.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Descartes Put $250m Into Three Deals After Its $377m Cash Snapshot
Descartes announced three cash acquisitions in 57 days: roughly $30 million for Drivin, $100 million for Tai and $120 million for Extensiv. Their $250 million total equalled about two-thirds of the $377 million cash balance last reported before the sequence began. That ratio…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Rezolve's $130.8m Half Has a $10m EBITDA Bridge Gap
Rezolve Ai's revenue surge is real, but two same-period reconciliations in its H1 release do not meet. The larger gap sits inside Adjusted EBITDA and changes the result by exactly $10 million; the other leaves $4.144 million between two operating-cash figures.