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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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An unbranded custom semiconductor in a transparent test frame sends a few illuminated paths through a long field of dark revenue gates toward a separate raised exercise threshold.

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Marvell's Google Warrant Has 240 Revenue Gates and a US$206.58 Strike

Google can earn a large claim on Marvell equity, but the contract makes that claim pass through several ledgers. A product must qualify, Marvell must recognise revenue, a US$500 million step must be certified, shares must vest and the option must still be worth exercising. The…

Aug 27, 2026
Component trays feed a central server rack on an unbranded integration floor, with only a few completed racks and shipping crates beyond.

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Dell's US$51.3bn AI Backlog Came with a US$11.7bn Payables Offset

Dell has proved that customers want its AI systems. The harder market question is who finances the interval between a scarce component, a configured rack and a collected invoice. Its latest filed quarter shows that suppliers, customers and Dell all carry a different part of that…

Aug 27, 2026
Four unmarked cable channels converge on an AI interconnect board before branching into an indistinct field of server racks.

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Astera Labs' 82% Direct-Customer Table Is Not Its End-Demand Map

Four directly invoiced accounts generated most of Astera Labs' latest quarterly revenue. Yet some of those accounts manufacture for other companies, so a change in the visible customer table may record production routing rather than a change in the owners of AI demand.

Aug 27, 2026
Three lanes of semiconductor inputs and AI system assemblies lead from a bright factory toward a dark unfinished data-centre shell.

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NVIDIA’s Supply Commitments Rise to US$279 Billion

NVIDIA has more than doubled the supply and manufacturing capacity it has reserved in a single quarter. The US$279 billion figure is not current spending or guaranteed sales; it is a three-year synchronization test between memory, factories, new chip architectures and data…

Aug 27, 2026
Copper-toned advance-payment blocks enter a sealed tray before NAND wafers and flash components cross into a data-storage assembly and downstream collection reservoir.

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Everpure Grew 38% While Prepaids and Other Assets Used US$577m

Everpure produced a profitable US$1.19 billion quarter, then used more than half a billion dollars of operating cash on the line called prepaid expenses and other assets. Management says strategic NAND and component purchases caused most of the cash headwind. The investment can…

Aug 27, 2026
Editorial illustration of GE Vernova electrical equipment being delivered beside a data centre, representing more than $5bn in H1 2026 data-centre orders.

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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.

Aug 26, 2026
Illustration of two technical trainees examining an 800VDC power system inside a modern data centre in Singapore.

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Dell'Oro forecasts US$120bn DCPI revenue by 2030

Dell'Oro expects data-centre infrastructure manufacturer revenue to reach US$120bn by 2030 as operators add nearly 200GW of capacity.

Aug 22, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

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Data-centre capacity starts with usable power

A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.

Aug 12, 2026
A secure colocation cage with dual power, fibre cross-connect trays and a technician performing controlled remote hands.

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Colocation value is operational, not spatial

Renting a rack is the visible transaction. The durable value comes from resilient power, useful interconnections, physical controls and support that works during an incident.

Aug 12, 2026
A registry records desk separated from independently operated network rooms.

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AS31605 separates records, routes and facilities

AS31605 separates records, routes and facilities intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Global Datacenter…

Aug 12, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a data-centre campus protected by a counter-drone launch box and interceptor drones.

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Impact Drones offers counter-drone service for data centres

Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, but no data-centre customer or operational results have been disclosed.

Aug 11, 2026
Abstract editorial still life with a blank ledger card, a separate punched index card and a detached collector aperture.

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KIDC LIMITED’s AS137427 Separates Registry Identity from Routing Observation

KIDC LIMITED’s AS137427 Separates Registry Identity from Routing Observation intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…

Aug 7, 2026
Abstract editorial still life separating a blank registry archive, a sparse declaration rack and a sealed historic observation specimen.

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Proximity Data Centres’ AS200427 Separates Registry Identity from Routing Evidence

Proximity Data Centres’ AS200427 Separates Registry Identity from Routing Evidence intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…

Aug 7, 2026
A central capital reservoir branches toward fibre, power, renewable-energy, data-centre and transport systems, several of which remain architectural outlines.

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KKR’s $19.2bn Fund V gives it allocation power, not finished infrastructure

KKR has completed fundraising for its largest infrastructure fund, giving the manager a larger pool from which to buy and build critical assets across North America and Western Europe. The close matters because it concentrates investment discretion; it does not mean $19.2 billion…

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data centre with cooling equipment, server racks, power lines and wind turbines at sunset.

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Data centre executives challenge ‘energy guzzler’ label

Industry executives argue that power source, computing output and cooling design give a fuller picture of data-centre resource use.

Aug 4, 2026
A Nordic data-centre campus is shown with server cooling, substations, heat-reuse pipes and translucent emissions-accounting boundaries.

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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…

Jul 31, 2026
Four solid engineered power routes and three wireframe routes lead toward mixed-stage data-centre sites, while three blank contract folders remain separate.

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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…

Jul 31, 2026
A suited data-centre executive standing beside server racks, with a global network map and data-centre campus in the background.

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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.

Jul 31, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data centre beside Veolia water infrastructure, with water, waste and energy linked through the Resource 360 service.

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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.

Jul 31, 2026
Technicians commission a blue-piped data-centre cooling line inside an older industrial hall that retains automotive production fixtures.

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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…

Jul 31, 2026