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North America Datacenter Trends
American Tower Consolidates CoreSite’s US$586m Revenue Ahead of a 64% Equity Claim
CoreSite’s first-half numbers all enter American Tower’s accounts: US$586mn of revenue, US$360.1mn of gross margin and US$308.9mn of segment operating profit. Ownership follows a different route. Stonepeak’s preferred equity was due to convert in August, leaving American Tower…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Two AWS Rent Clocks Sit Beneath Cipher’s US$793m NOI Average
Cipher Digital can put US$11.4bn of contracted revenue and US$793mn of average annualised net operating income on one slide. Cash will still arrive one data hall at a time. Black Pearl has begun earning its first AWS rent; Stingray is targeting two starts in 2027. Between those…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Cable One’s $480m MBI Cheque Sits Beside $920m of Debt
The cheque that closes Cable One’s acquisition of Mega Broadband Investments is expected to be about $480 million. The obligation that arrives beside it is larger: MBI is expected to carry about $920 million of net debt when it becomes wholly owned. One buys the remaining equity…
North America Cloud Services Trends
TeraWulf Exchanged Abernathy’s 25-Year Upside for Three Instalments
The simple arithmetic is an US$80mn spread between TeraWulf’s US$450mn investment and approximately US$530mn of sale consideration. The useful arithmetic is harder. The buyer pays on three dates through April 2027, while TeraWulf gives up every share of a 168MW project with a…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Shentel’s 21.1% Fibre Penetration Is Not a Payback Rate
Shentel can now connect almost half a million premises in its expansion markets, but those premises do not have the same economic age. The reported 21.1% penetration blends neighbourhoods already above 40% with recent builds still near 5%. The investment case turns on the shape…
North America Cloud Services Trends
The Ledgers Inside Galaxy’s 5.7GW Pipeline
Galaxy’s Texas power pipeline adds up to more than 5.7GW. What it adds together is the more important story. One part is approved gross power, another is still in the interconnection process, one site has a 74MW initial agreement inside a 500MW ambition, and two acquired sites…
Global Regional ISP Trends
Only $57m of Cogent’s Data-Centre Sale Was Free to Move
Cogent received $224.2 million from selling ten former Sprint data centres, yet about $168 million entered a creditor-controlled account and only about $57 million was available for general corporate purposes. The split reveals a company whose fibre, IPv4 leases, acquisition…
North America Institutional Trends
Crown Castle Sold the Diversification, Not the Bargaining Risk
Crown Castle turned an $8.4 billion disposal into more than $7 billion of debt repayment and a $1 billion buyback. The cleaner balance sheet is real. So is the company left behind: a 40,000-tower landlord whose three largest tenants supplied 93% of its second-quarter rental…
Global Institutional Trends
A10’s One-Cent Microsoft Warrant Is a Rebate, Not Backlog
A10 Networks gave Microsoft a conditional claim on as many as 800,000 shares for one cent apiece. That sounds like an equity deal until the warrant explains its own purpose: the shares vest against purchases and are intended to be recorded as a customer rebate that reduces…
North America Regional ISP Trends
The Dollar Before the Splice: Lumen’s Prepaid Fibre Test
At Lumen Technologies, customer cash can arrive while a long-haul network is still an unfinished physical system: before the final splice is made, before optics are commissioned across the route, and before service has satisfied the conditions needed for customer delivery and…
Global Institutional Trends
The Registry Receipt Was Not a Price Tape
On 18 August, one Spanish address holder became the offering party in seven RIPE NCC transfer records. What left VODAFONE ONO, S.A. did not travel as one neat block. It was cut into eight prefixes, from /24 slices to a /20, and registered to seven organisations across six…
Global Datacenter Trends
GE Vernova data-centre orders top $5bn
GE Vernova booked more than $5bn of data-centre orders in its Electrification business during the first half of 2026, already more than double its 2025 total.
North America Datacenter Trends
Pennsylvania ties data-centre permits to local approval
Pennsylvania has tightened its data-centre approval process by linking state permitting, tax treatment and project support to new infrastructure and community requirements.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
ACT rejects pause on new data centres
Canberra will continue assessing new data-centre proposals under its existing planning system while Australia develops national standards for large facilities.
North America Datacenter Trends
Smith responds to Alberta data-centre backlash
The Alberta premier has responded after tense town halls over AI data centres, while promised setback rules for large projects have yet to be published.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Proximus fibre lines reach 820,000 in Belgium
Proximus added 44,000 active fibre lines in the second quarter as its Belgian fibre footprint reached 2.75 million homes and businesses.
Global Cloud Services Trends
A Certificate Transparency Receipt Is Not Browser Acceptance Until the Log Set Is Reconciled
A certificate authority can return a certificate carrying several valid log receipts and still leave an operator with a failed browser handshake. Certificate Transparency becomes operational evidence only when the receipt is reconciled with the policy and log set used by the…
Global Regional ISP Trends
IPv4-as-a-Service Makes Translation State an Operating Contract
An IPv6-only access line can look perfectly healthy while one old application, one literal IPv4 address or one changed resolver loses the IPv4 Internet. IPv4-as-a-Service saves scarce addresses by moving compatibility into a chain of synthesis and translation; it also moves the…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Gigaclear’s Wi-Fi guarantee stops at the broadband contract
A room-level speed promise sounds like protection for the whole broadband purchase. Gigaclear’s current terms draw a narrower boundary: a failed Smart WiFi test can release the mesh add-on and produce one month’s broadband credit, while the underlying broadband service continues…
Global Cloud Services Trends
From 200 Days to 47, TLS Renewal Becomes Runtime State
Public TLS certificates are getting shorter. The consequential change is not a busier expiry calendar; it is that authority, issuance, deployment and external verification must now behave like one continuously observed production system.
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