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The Digital Infra Desk 68 stories this week · 419 total

Cell C rents its way to 5G coverage

The South African carrier switched on 5G without a radio network, a capital-lite bet that separates the brand from the infrastructure.
August 24

Nscale's $3bn US IPO puts a $51bn backlog to the test

The UK neocloud aims for a September listing with Goldman and JPMorgan, betting public investors will pay infrastructure prices for a $51bn contracted-revenue backlog while it funds a 10GW buildout.
August 24

FlexSysAI launches software that makes data center load portable

The Nvidia Inception startup's voluntary demand-response pitch aims to shorten time to power; Emerald AI's first commercial deployment is set for Nvidia's 96MW Aurora campus.
August 24

DXN lands AU$12.2m AI HPC pod contract

The 2MW turnkey order is DXN's second AI HPC award in as many months, priced at about AU$6.1m per MW — a unit economics that makes sense only when speed matters more than construction cost.
August 24

ERCOT sets December deadline for data-center queue audit

A December filing will separate queued capacity from real demand in Texas's data-center buildout.
August 24

Acciona buys into Segovia data center and its grid rights

The Spanish energy group's 50 percent stake amounts to a trade in power rights, with the server hall as the offtaker that makes them pay.
August 22

The £2bn Scotland project shows consent is the new constraint

A pre-application data center campus in the Scottish Borders has already drawn a 10,000-signature petition, evidence that community resistance now shapes the buildout as much as power and capital.
August 22

Actis starts Brazil AI campus with a 300MW substation

Terronova's Campinas build begins with a 300MW substation, the scarce asset in the AI data center race.
August 22

Colombia pulls Amazon fiber tender after risk review

The withdrawn 1.14 trillion-peso Amazon fiber tender tried to be a rural connectivity program and an international corridor on one balance sheet.
August 21

Wind developer Vapat to build 160MW data center campus

The Spanish wind group is betting its own turbines and substation connection can anchor a data center campus.
August 21

Nvidia takes minority stake in powered-land firm Cloverleaf

Nvidia's Cloverleaf stake ties powered-land projects to its DSX spec as the chipmaker spreads capital across the power queue.
August 21

Latos files plans for Newton Heath edge data center

The developer's 40-node 'neural Edge' network faces its first planning test in Manchester.
August 21

Meta files for 497 Tbps U.S.-Denmark subsea cable Aurora

The Aurora system would add an open cable to a crowded Atlantic, with a dark-fiber option that lets Meta sell capacity into the secondary market.
August 21

Charter closes $34.5bn Cox deal; Cox stays for 26%

The combined cable giant reaches 38 million customers across 45 states, and Cox Enterprises keeps a quarter of the equity.
August 21

HTS feeders swap a crowded trench for a 24/7 cryogenic plant

The technology can unlock 50 to 100MW where the corridor is full; the test is whether operators run the refrigeration plant with mission-critical discipline.
August 21

Harworth's second powered land deal sets up an 800MW UK pipeline

The exclusivity pact with an unnamed hyperscale provider sets up a second land sale, part of a six-site, 800MW data center pipeline.
August 21

AWS expands UK region, adds Las Vegas Local Zone

The launches extend a hyperscaler buildout that keeps private capital busy in data centers, power, and edge sites.
August 21

Telia Towers breaks ground on a satellite Earth station in Finland

The tower unit's Pyhäjärvi site links satellites to terrestrial networks, but the economics stay hidden.
August 21

Prometheus and Istmo plan a grid-free Texas data campus

The Pecos project will generate its own power behind the meter, using pipeline gas and methane from a fractionation plant on site — no ERCOT queue.
August 21

Telecom Argentina offers fiber to unlock $1.245bn Movistar deal

A proposed fiber divestiture to Metrotel is the regulatory remedy that could let Telecom Argentina close its Telefónica acquisition.
August 21

Macquarie sells its Polish fiber duo to Deutsche Telekom for €1bn

The two Polish networks fold into T-Mobile Polska while Macquarie puts the proceeds to work in data centers and towers.
August 21

Itochu enters data center development with ten sites in Japan

The trading house plans to lease the facilities to U.S. tech giants, then sell them, with 500MW of capacity coming by 2030.
August 21

Most 2026 governor candidates have staked out a data-center stance

A Data Center Dynamics analysis finds 80 percent of Democratic and Republican candidates have taken a position, and even the friendly ones are wary of making ratepayers pay for grid upgrades.
August 21

Tendercapital-backed Cobra Green wins Colleferro approval for 150MW AI data center

The municipal vote moves the project toward a 2027 start, but the Italian government has yet to sign off and no tenant or compute capacity has been disclosed.
August 21

Singapore allocates 200MW to four data center developers

Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel, and STT GDC each take 50MW in the city-state's second capacity call, which mandates low-carbon fuel, liquid cooling, and a Jurong Island site.
August 21

BBT Group powers up 78kW data center at German hospital

BBT Group spent €3.6 million to open a data center at Caritas Hospital. The 78kW facility is owned AI compute, not rented cloud capacity.
August 20

Zayo locks in Corning fiber for 15,000-mile AI buildout

A tripled route-mile target gets the supply-chain certainty to match its ambition.
August 20

J.G. Petrucci files 100MW Allentown data center plan

The project's substation-first structure is a bet on power scarcity.
August 20

Hudson River Trading signs multi-billion-dollar AI cloud deal with CoreWeave

The trading firm will run AI research on Nvidia systems, with no dollar figure, capacity number, or schedule made public.
August 20

InfraTech plans $2.7B Texas data center and fiber buildout

A 5,000-acre site in the Texas Panhandle and a fiber manufacturing bet, with no tenant or manufacturing partner named.
August 20

Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom share fiber to stop parallel network builds

An open-access deal lets two Ukrainian carriers sell internet over each other's fiber.
August 20

Keel decommissions all four US Bitcoin mines in AI pivot

The former Bitfarms has the cash and the sites. It still needs a signed tenant contract.
August 20

Norway Green Energy pulls its 50MW Panay data center plan

A hostile public consultation preceded the withdrawal; Panay now has no active data center proposal.
August 20

Upper Merion denies five-site King of Prussia data center plan

The denial removes 4.6 million square feet of proposed capacity as Pennsylvania tightens its data center rules.
August 20

I Squared backs Saragon with up to $1B for edge data centers

The platform opens with ten former Sprint switching sites in nine US markets and a mandate to buy more.
August 20

Openreach extends XGS-PON expansion, lifting full-fiber top speed to 8.5Gbps

The faster tier reaches more than a million premises in its first year, and Openreach says the wider push will take new construction and equipment work.
August 20

Eight Globalstar satellites reach orbit as Amazon deal looms

The first satellites in a 17-satellite replenishment are now in orbit, securing the emergency SOS network Apple relies on and Amazon is about to own.
August 20
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