North America Trends
North America Trends
North America market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across North American internet infrastructure markets. BTW.
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North America Cloud Services Trends
Election deepfakes demand fast provenance
Perfect detection may arrive after a false video has shaped the news cycle. Elections need a faster chain from source to correction.
North America Cloud Services Trends
AI bias needs an outcome audit
A model does not become neutral because it avoids an offensive phrase. Bias also appears in whose request is understood, trusted or acted upon.
North America Datacenter Trends
AWS explores Homer City data-centre project
Amazon is discussing the Pennsylvania site while Homer City builds its gas-fired power project, but no definitive AWS agreement has been signed.
North America Datacenter Trends
PowerHouse plans 300MW Westlake data-centre campus
Circle T would comprise four 300,000-square-foot buildings and a developer-funded Oncor substation, while later phases still require specific-use permits.
North America Datacenter Trends
Minneapolis 511 Building outage disrupts regional connectivity
The carrier hotel hosts MICE, dozens of carriers, and several colocation providers, giving one downtown facility an important role in regional connectivity.
North America Datacenter Trends
US data-centre opponents challenge local approvals in court
Lawsuits are testing whether US data-centre approvals can withstand scrutiny over public notice, zoning and transparency.
North America Cloud Services Trends
IBM Cloud's 2020 routing flood made provider boundaries an accountability test
IBM Cloud's operator, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), attributed its 9 June 2020 cloud disruption to an external network provider that sent a flood of incorrect route advertisements—messages saying which network can carry traffic to a block of Internet Protocol…
North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon plans Texas data centre with on-site gas power
Amazon’s Pecos County campus will initially use private generation, while GW Ranch’s gas permit allows up to 33 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.
North America Datacenter Trends
Pado says older data centres can handle AI inference
Pado says older data centres can run many AI inference workloads, offering a way to use existing power and hardware before building new capacity.
North America Datacenter Trends
US lenders scrutinise local opposition in data-centre financing
US lenders are scrutinising community opposition when assessing data-centre loans, adding local political risk to financing decisions as project resistance spreads.
North America Institutional Trends
Trump nominates Danielle Thumann Severs for FCC seat
US President Donald Trump has nominated Danielle Thumann Severs to the FCC; confirmation would add a fourth commissioner and create a one-seat quorum margin.
North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T leads neutral-host network at Davis Wade Stadium
AT&T will own a shared stadium DAS designed to support multiple mobile operators across Mississippi State University’s 60,000-plus-seat venue.
North America Regional ISP
Plateau Telecommunications and the Record of Regional Connectivity
Regional communications become dependable through a chain of ordinary controls: usable paths, accurate routing, powered facilities, staffed operations, replaceable equipment and visible regulatory milestones. Plateau Telecommunications offers a useful, bounded record for…
North America Datacenter Trends
Electrovaya launches 7MW ElvaPulse battery for data centres
The 2.88MWh ElvaPulse 1500 targets short-duration, high-power data-centre applications, with certification and first deliveries targeted for 2027.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nuclea, New Mining assess US data-centre microreactors
Nuclea Energy and New Mining will study behind-the-meter microreactors for an existing 30MWe load, without committing either side to a power project.
North America National Telecom
AT&T selects Ericsson for EchoStar 600MHz rollout
AT&T is preparing to deploy EchoStar’s 600 MHz spectrum after already putting the acquired 3.45 GHz holdings into service.
North America Datacenter Trends
Hillsboro has closed the data-centre intake, not the project pipeline
Hillsboro’s 120-day land-use moratorium stops new data-centre and battery-storage applications from entering the city system. It does not cancel projects already being built or assessed. A separate 180-day pause applies to Strategic Investment Program agreements with stand-alone…
North America Datacenter Trends
Oregon advisers reject statewide data-centre moratorium
Oregon advisers reject a statewide data-centre moratorium as Kotek backs local pauses while the state develops new rules.
North America Datacenter Trends
Bell’s AI build is taking cash before its megawatts become measurable
BCE generated more cash from operations in the second quarter, yet had less free cash left after investment. Operating cash flow rose 11% to C$2.162bn while free cash flow fell 9.5% to C$1.042bn, as capital expenditure climbed 41.5% to C$1.080bn. Bell AI Fabric construction is…
North America Datacenter Trends
SoftBank has paid ahead of its US infrastructure; conversion is now the test
SoftBank Group spent JPY968.929bn in one quarter acquiring US power-generation and data-centre assets, and JPY637.772bn—65.8%—was recorded as advance payments. The scale is substantial, but it does not describe a commissioned fleet or even a data-centre-only portfolio. A second…