Vietnam's cable faults test the redundancy bet
Four of six subsea cables down at once is the latest multi-cable failure to hit Vietnam, and a warning for anyone pricing connectivity as a diversified asset.
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Floating wind and GPUs: the 800kW test of gridless AI
Exascale Labs and EnergyBank plan to put an 800kW modular data center on a Norwegian wind turbine, betting that power delivery, not chip supply, is now the scarce input in AI infrastructure.
Flag's second act: selling the AI on-ramp
The bankrupt carrier rebuilt under 3i Infrastructure is betting its second act on landing stations and modular data centers, not just 66,000 km of fiber, to anchor AI-era connectivity.
AWS clears Irish planning hurdle for its own Atlantic cable
The West Cork landing station for Fastnet survived a local appeal, but seabed consent and grid connection still control the schedule.
Green Mountain signs unnamed neocloud to 14MW in Romford
Green Mountain fills LON-East's new capacity with an unnamed neocloud, testing whether East London can attract AI demand.
Charter CFO joins Blackstone-Google TPU venture
The hire of a cable-industry finance chief shows the neocloud is being built to utility specs, with the balance sheet leading the chips.
Jazz's 1,000 live 5G sites set up a 2,500-site test
The Veon-owned operator's year-end expansion target will test whether its 5G buildout can move past the radio layer.
Maxis fiber deal doubles Melaka tower backhaul coverage
The RM30 million project moves Melaka's mobile network from microwave to fiber and hands Maxis a wholesale product it can sell to every operator in the state.
Lambda's $1B short-term debt leans on Microsoft's lease
The private placement is underwritten by Microsoft's lease payments, not Lambda's merchant demand.
Lidl owner's wind-country data bet puts power first
The EUR 5.6bn site choice treats grid access and queue position, not square metres, as the actual collateral.
ESDS IPO funds a merchant cloud buildout
The fully subscribed Rs 720 crore raise expands data center capacity at a moment when Nvidia's GPU backstop for merchant clouds is on hold.
A server tariff would hit the buildout's weakest tier first
The Trump administration's talks on finished-server tariffs give a trade group's 20% cancellation warning new weight.
Britain's drought becomes a data center siting test
A rejected moratorium call has put water use at the center of the next UK data center planning fights.
Yotta nears IPO as GPU orders outpace disclosed demand
The Indian data center operator's public listing will test whether a $7.5bn Nvidia order book can stand in for a hyperscaler-backed revenue contract.
SLA penalties are data centers' hidden credit risk
A 45-minute outage at a $144 million facility can cut cash flow by 41.7%, and traditional insurance does not cover it.
X2M's data center debut lacks a power number
The Australian IoT company's first GPU facility contract has no named customer, no confirmed site, and no capacity figure — the omissions that tell you where the real risk sits.
atNorth signs YIT for second FIN04 building as campus grows to 430MW
YIT gets another building at Myllykoski, while grid and permitting decisions still control how far FIN04 can scale.
Nvidia's revenue-sharing pause re-prices AI cloud risk
The chipmaker's July backstop for merchant GPU clouds is on hold; the $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio campus shows where it will still put its balance sheet.
Digital Realty breaks ground on a 15MW Zurich bet
ZUR4's 2028 go-live makes the building a five-year wager on Swiss grid capacity.
CVC DIF's Aurora Towers buys American Tower's Canadian business
The 255-site acquisition pushes Aurora past 650 towers and hands CVC DIF a density play in Canada's tower market.
Alibaba plants two data centers in Brazil, opens hyperscaler beachhead
The first South America region pairs local AI services with a $53bn global buildout that needs every region to price like infrastructure.
T1 Energy wins approval to turn Norwegian solar site into data center
The former Freyr Battery campus in Mo i Rana is now approved for a 50MW data center, with a 396MW grid queue position as the real prize.
WDP locks in 380MW of Romanian grid before calling it a project
A Belgian warehouse landlord has an approved grid connection for two possible data centers outside Bucharest, proof that power rights arrive before projects.
Indosat’s AI fiber play needs Zankore’s anchor
IFT’s RAIA Grid wants to be Indonesia’s digital highway; the 1GW data center venture is the tenant that makes the toll road financeable.
Lower Austria's data center queue hits half its grid capacity
A pipeline of up to 100 development inquiries totaling 3.4GW has made land-use approval Lower Austria's choke point.
Italy's 95GW data center queue is a market for grid slots
Terna's queue has tripled since 2024, most applicants are property and logistics firms, and only 15 requests are close to approval. The grid slot is the real trade.
Australia drops data center renewable mandate
The reversal leaves 220 projects and 6GW to a patchwork of state power rules, where grid access, not climate policy, will set the terms.
Volato's $500M AI merger prices Ohio power at $3.25 million a megawatt
An aviation software business buys a powered 154MW campus and a path to 480MW, betting the grid slot outweighs its $105.5 million accumulated deficit.
Schwarz's €5.6bn data center is a bet on a 380kV connection
The Lidl owner's 240MW project in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern puts a price on grid access and sovereign-cloud ambition.
Salim buys out Keppel, relaunches Indonesian venture as IndoData
A delayed 5 MW project becomes a standalone operator whose real asset is a 500 MW power position.
Cooling Failure Redraws the Data Center Risk Map
A Frankfurt outage that took Proton offline put a hard number on the industry's least-priced risk: 30 degrees in 20 minutes.
VCI Global launches Galatron to target 500MW of AI compute
The Malaysian firm is selling 5MW modules with a six-month power story, and the Q3 2027 energization date is the real test.
AWS locks in two million more Nvidia GPUs through 2028
The expanded commitment stretches past 2026's one-million-GPU plan and pushes the fight for AI infrastructure downstream, into power and land.
Gateway files 81MW Sydney data center plan
The former brickworks site would add five stories and 44 generators to a market where consent, not financing, now sets the buildout calendar.
Telekom's BayArena upgrade is a neutral-host play
The 41-antenna network is built for rivals to share, turning stadium capex into a wholesale asset.
Nexspace breaks ground on a second Graz data center
The 2.2MW addition extends Nexspace's regional edge buildout. Without a named anchor, it is a merchant-capacity bet until a tenant signs.
Fossefall's 9MW order is a 1GW beachhead
Five Armada modules reserve a position in the Nordic power queue.
German edge launch banks on grid and efficiency law
A €500 million, 46MW pipeline will test whether midsize enterprises lease space to avoid energy-efficiency compliance.
SK Telecom splits AI data centers into KKR-backed SK Horizon
Eight operating South Korean data centers move into the new company as KKR and IMM take 49 percent, while gigawatt-scale development stays inside SK Hyper.
Delaware rewrites the economics of data center power
The First State now requires hyperscale developers to bring their own clean power, pay for grid upgrades, and forgo job-creation tax credits — a model other states are likely to copy.