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President Maia Sandu said four Russian drones violated Moldovan airspace and at least one exploded in the north.

The Financial Times says 30 percent of the value would be paid upfront, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The House passed it 417-3, but the Senate fell three votes short of the 60 needed; a new bill would make large data centers pay their own incremental power costs.

The German network integrator's disclosed UK footprint is more than 40 altnets, the sole pipeline figure in an announcement that carries no revenue or headcount.

Under CEO Marc Ganzi, DigitalBridge remains a separately managed SoftBank subsidiary; its portfolio companies stay outside the transaction.

The order also expedites noise rules, orders a review of diesel backup generator impacts and creates a state AI task force.

Civo has secured five more sites totaling 150MW and says the remaining build-out runs three years, without disclosing how the sites will be powered or whether it builds or leases them.

Amazon Data Services bought the 17-unit site off-market in 2022 for £132.5 million and still owes the council detail on construction traffic, drainage and water use

The zone is a jurisdiction-sized Azure tier aimed at low-latency and data-residency workloads, turning a January 2026 statement of intent into capacity.

The regional government says each facility can handle all of its technological operations if the other goes offline.

The Évora purchase is NxN's first live asset in Portugal, and the up to €100m investment figure is not tied to a specific project.

Eurofiber and Delft Networks say the closed-loop project will test long-range quantum connections over fiber Eurofiber already owns; cost, length and funding are not disclosed.

The blaze is thought to have started in a transformer in the facility's UPS room, and news footage appears to show STTGDC's 30MW Seoul 1, launched in July.

First shipments begin in the second quarter of 2027, and no operator has been named as a pre-order customer.

Atreides, Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest co-led the round; CScale says its interconnect is designed to keep an optical failure from interrupting compute.

Cognition says its SWE-2 inference workloads saw up to a 4.8x increase in total token throughput on the new systems.

The state application covers up to four buildings of 240MW each on 103.4 hectares near a new TransGrid terminal, with the AU$15 billion figure attributed to local government rather than the developer.

The amendment would replace first-come, first-served with four priority groups and is due in force on January 1, 2027, with first allocation set for December 2027.

The prefabricated-module framework agreement carries no purchase obligation from either side, and the definitive sales contract is contingent on a lease.

Verizon asked to discontinue legacy TDM voice service in parts of nine states next month; the commission says it needs more time to review the request.

The Armstrong County project connects directly to two wind farms totaling 531MW, and Aterio Research puts the planned build at more than a gigawatt.

The first data center under the agreement is expected online later this year, and the coverage names no site, utility, or contract value.

Google's four-year expansion leaves the choice between new data centers and denser existing ones to demand, with no investment figure disclosed.

Simon Ahdoot told the Bloomberg Canadian Finance Conference that listing discussions follow the close of the next debt-and-equity raise.

The carrier ties the build to AI-driven data demand, weeks after Verizon signed its own multi-billion-dollar Corning agreement through 2032.

Koch Real Estate Investments is soliciting bids for Edged that could value the company at around $15 billion, according to Bloomberg.

The Netherlands was also on last September's list, and Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong are slated for added capacity.

The two firms say silicon carbide will cut conversion losses in Eaton's MVSST 2.0 platform; no customer, site or delivery date is attached.

Global Switch names no tenant or scale for a liquid-cooled Nvidia DGX-ready build it calls one of Europe's biggest Blackwell deployments.

An Coimisiún Pleanála cleared the 72,400 sqm building two years after South Dublin County Council refused it over grid capacity and unclear power contracts.

The sites serve Plus, Polkomtel's mobile brand, and the equipment list is detailed while the economics go unstated.

The hyperscaler adds its name to Firmus's Indonesian and Malaysian build-out, but the announcement carries no price, no megawatt figure for the tranche and no energization date.

About 300 of the postal operator's locations move to fiber-to-the-premises, with regional sites shifting to Telstra satellite over the next twelve months.

COL Group forecasts €250 million of 2027 sales, putting the deal at about 3.2 times forward revenue.

The Denton County project is scheduled to run from December 2026 to December 2028, with the landowner listed as a likely Hillwood Properties affiliate.

Martin Renkis, most recently of Johnson Controls, will lead a business that ships factory-tested IT, power, cooling and networking modules to project sites.