Global Datacenter Trends
Global Datacenter Trends
Datacenter trend intelligence tracks data centre market trends, AI-driven capacity demand, power availability, colocation growth, interconnection strategy, and regional campus investment worldwide, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.
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Nebius has disclosed the carbon cost of expansion, but not its full footprint
Nebius reported 65,001 tonnes of market-based Scope 1 and 2 emissions for 2025, roughly 32 times the 2,036 tonnes disclosed a year earlier. The multiplication is striking, but its meaning depends on a changed operating base: the company says it expanded to seven active sites. The…
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ENGIE’s 7GW data-centre number is two pipelines wearing the same unit
ENGIE has moved a much larger share of its prospective data-centre work into an advanced stage: 4GW at the end of June, up from 0.8GW at the end of 2025. Together with 3GW at an early stage, that makes a 7GW project pipeline. Separately, the energy group also describes 7GW of…
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CyrusOne appoints John Hatem as CEO
John Hatem has taken over as CyrusOne CEO, widening his authority from commercial and project delivery functions to company-wide strategy.
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Veolia keeps €1bn data-centre and chip revenue target
CyrusOne’s appointment of John Hatem keeps an executive who linked customer commitments to procurement and construction in charge of its next expansion phase.
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An Ohio automotive factory is being reassigned to the AI cooling cycle
Mitsubishi Electric’s planned data-centre cooling plant in Mason, Ohio, begins with an asset from another industrial era: part of an existing automotive-electrical production site. The company will establish MEHITS US in August, invest approximately $30 million in renovation and…
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AEP is reserving turbines for a 69GW load book that has not reached the meter
American Electric Power has begun matching contracts for future electricity demand with reservations for future generation equipment. It added 6GW of signed load agreements in the second quarter, primarily in Texas, taking contracted load growth through 2030 to 69GW. The customer…
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Exelon has put a price on the difference between a data-centre request and a credible queue
Exelon now describes about 11GW of prospective large load as “high probability”, but the useful disclosure is not the adjective or even the scale. It is the evidence underneath it. Projects in that group have reached advanced design or obtained FERC-approved Transmission Security…
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Europe’s AI gigafactory tender is a contract for demand
The European Union has opened procurement for up to seven AI gigafactories, backed by as much as €10 billion of EU and national money and an expectation of at least €20 billion in private investment. The significant instrument is not the subsidy alone. EuroHPC and 18 Member…
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Microsoft’s 88 data centres are a throughput claim, not a map
Microsoft says it brought 31 new data centres online across five continents in its final fiscal quarter and 88 across the year. The larger revelation is not the pin count. In the same quarter it added another gigawatt of capacity, while cutting the time needed to move new GPUs…
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A management port is not a breach—but 24,650 pre-login replies redraw the risk
Lava’s internet measurement does not show 24,650 compromised servers. It shows something more precise: 24,650 public IPMI endpoints returned password-derived authentication material before a client had authenticated. That distinction separates evidence from alarm. It also exposes…
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Prysmian’s €550m prepayment turns an AI cable forecast into a capacity wager
Molex is putting cash ahead of delivery while Prysmian commits €1.25bn to fibre and optical-cable expansion. The arrangement shares some demand risk, but its headline maxima are neither guaranteed orders nor revenue already earned.
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Nebius puts GPUs and customer cash flows behind a $775m facility
Nebius's first senior secured facility shows how long-term AI capacity contracts can turn fast-depreciating hardware into financeable infrastructure, while leaving the operator with execution and covenant risk.
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S&P flags changing contract models for AI data centres
AI data centre contracts are increasingly defining how projects are financed and delivered before construction begins.
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Nscale secures US$900m credit facility for AI data centres
Nscale has added a syndicated bank credit facility to support the next stage of its global AI data centre expansion.
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National Grid invests $1.75bn in Joulent power venture
National Grid's investment in Joulent shows how utilities are moving beyond supplying electricity to investing directly in power infrastructure for large data centre projects.
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IBM brings z17 mainframe to standard data centre racks
IBM's latest rack-mounted systems bring mainframes closer to standard data centre environments, making them easier to deploy alongside existing infrastructure.
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Operational Scale Becomes the Next Data Centre Challenge
Colt's CIO appointment suggests operating hyperscale infrastructure is becoming as important as building it.
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Qualcomm targets $15bn data centre revenue
Qualcomm is betting that AI inference efficiency can rival raw compute as the next data centre battleground. Dragonfly and the $3.8bn Modular acquisition give it silicon plus software leverage. Meta's early commitment provides credibility, but the $15bn revenue target will depend…
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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…
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Tesla files Megapod trademark for AI hardware
Tesla is tracked because its energy storage solutions, AI compute demand, and infrastructure initiatives can influence data centre and AI infrastructure supply chains.