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Amazon Data Services agrees to buy 1.98m sq ft in Sepang from Sunsuria
The conditional deal values the vacant freehold parcel at about RM316.84 million ($77.6 million), against the RM145.97 million Sunsuria paid in 2015.
Energa Obrót, CGE and Konin sign LOI for a 100MW data center in Poland
CGE estimates the staged project at just under €3 billion and says capacity could reach 260MW with municipal approval; no tenant or offtake terms are disclosed.
Telefónica weighs a Venezuela exit within a year, report says
The carrier has operated in the country since 1991, and its Movistar brand there carries close to nine million mobile subscribers.
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Goodman withdraws 90MW Sydney data center application, citing policy shift
The AU$1.2 billion Lane Cove campus, in planning since March 2025, leaves the New South Wales queue while four other Sydney sites stay in development.
European Commission proposes data center efficiency ratings; industry groups seek climate nuance
The package would grade facilities above 500kW on energy, water, grid support and renewables, as association leaders caution a single scale may not fit the whole bloc.
Virtus Data Centres closes £2.45bn financing from 13 banks for UK and Europe data centers
The package includes a £1.2 billion green capex facility, funds the 78MW Saunderton campus and future Slough investment, and comes with no named tenant against the megawatts.
Digital Realty to build a cable landing station at its El Segundo data center
The Los Angeles landing point is expected to support subsea cables in 2028, and the company has not said how many cables it will host.
SubCo announces three Indo-Pacific cables totaling more than 40,000km
All three systems are specified at 24 fiber pairs and due live in 2029; full landing-point details have not been shared.
Pat Gelsinger-backed PicoJool raises $27.5 million to scale VCSELs for AI links
The Series A, led by Socratic Partners, brings the Palo Alto startup's total funding to $39.5 million as it works toward qualifying its optical modules with customers.
GreenSquareDC signs Sharon AI for first stage of Sydney data center campus
Sharon AI expects to deploy about 8,200 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs at SYD1, with initial operations targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
Akamai signs seven-year, $11.6bn compute lease with Anthropic
The CPU capacity deal includes up to $9bn of potential expansion, $5.5bn of capex, and a warrant for about 5% of Akamai's common stock that vests as the customer buys more.
Siemens webinar puts AI racks at 230 kilowatts, recommending scenario-based planning
A Siemens Grid Software webinar recap published on Utility Dive cites Dominion Energy's Northern Virginia experience on early coordination for large loads as high-density AI projects arrive.
Vertiv plans 22,000 sqm Slovakia expansion for AI power and cooling gear
The two-year buildout at Nové Mesto nad Váhom adds switchgear and liquid cooling lines, with hiring set for 2027 through 2029.
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AI load swings are outrunning the redundancy playbook
A DCD opinion piece separates the failure modes an engineer can name from the interactions between healthy systems that millisecond AI load swings can set off.
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Vocus's 4,000km Darwin fiber has no tenant, cost, or contract named
The Brisbane-Darwin route lands in 2030 with up to 3,456 strands, and the announcement names none of the commitments that would make it financeable.
Nscale's $3.36 billion raise is a bet on 5 percent energized GPUs
The notes convert to ordinary shares at listing, so the pre-IPO money is a wager on the public price, not on a data center fleet that is 5 percent switched on.
Skanska's $84 million Georgia award buys a shell and a clock
At $343 a square foot, the contract is a construction number; the risk sits in the calendar and a power arrangement the release never mentions.
Korea's 'sensitive tier' would wall US clouds out of government work
A pending National Intelligence Service guideline could turn a cybersecurity standard into a residency mandate, and Rep. Carol Miller argues it would break two decades of US-Korea trade commitments.
Prince William cuts by-right data center zoning by two thirds
Shrinking the by-right overlay by two thirds turns Northern Virginia entitlement into the scarce asset and hands the buildout to whoever can afford a public hearing.
Google's first orbital data center is four chips and one kilowatt
The test that matters on Project Suncatcher is radiation tolerance, and mission life is the number orbital compute has to earn.
SFR's €20.35bn breakup has a labor bill the term sheet misses
The three-carrier carve-up takes France from four mobile operators to three, and the redundancy plan it triggers is the cost the consortium has yet to underwrite.
Applied Digital prices Tuscaloosa consent at $270m, tenant still unnamed
The Alabama site prices local permission at $13.5 million a year; the credit that sets the asset's value stays out of the document.
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Onsemi's GaN window makes a power semiconductor the bottleneck behind the meter
The company expects mass production in 2026/27, which would let racks get denser while leaving the grid queue untouched.
Airports are becoming private wireless's anchor tenants
Ontario International is buying a private network across 1,700 acres, and Boldyn is selling the managed security platform. The build rides the airport's credit; the price stays off the page.
Oracle moves a permitting failure onto Blue Owl's books
A New Mexico pipeline denial has become a payment dispute, and how it resolves will tell the market what a 2.5GW hyperscaler lease is actually worth.
Large-load tariffs are becoming the data center credit screen
Collateral, minimum billing demand and exit fees are turning utility rate schedules into the first test every project in the queue has to clear.
Japan buys a quarter of Tower's $4bn optical chip bet
The $1bn state grant puts Tokyo inside the AI supply chain's narrowest layer and leaves Tower's 2029 wafer line to find its own customers.
Virginia draws its data center line at 25 megawatts
The aid cutoff is the cheap half of the order; the disclosure ban and the 240-day rulemaking clock are what will reprice the pipeline.
T-Mobile's 6G test filing is a cheap option on 2028 spectrum
Two years of coexistence testing buys influence over the sharing rules that will price the 2.7GHz auction, and the rooftop is where the build lands.
Microsoft's $10 billion Gulf plan buys capacity, not partners
Two of the three platforms Microsoft names get support without equity, most of the capex lands on lessors, and every Gulf megawatt now carries a war-risk question the announcement answers with paperwork.
One public programme pays for SiPearl's first chip order
The samples prove Europe can build server silicon; the offtake that would prove it can sell the stuff still belongs to a budget cycle.
Samsung locks both Korean carriers into one AI-RAN vendor
Exclusive reference deployments at a shipyard and a petrochemical plant give Samsung first position on the software layer Korea's carriers will buy next.
AI rack density is outrunning the electrical plant
A power-systems whitepaper is bidding to write the 800 VDC reference architecture before the installed base hardens.
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Australia Makes Grid Permission the Price of a Data Center
AEMO's shortened load forecast and the guidelines' bring-your-own generation rule turn power procurement into a condition of approval.
Europe's data center green label hedges certificates, not the bill
Brussels' 2027 rating scheme can be satisfied on annual renewable arithmetic even as national grid-access rules move to hourly matching, leaving operators who lock ten-year cross-border vPPAs holding the weaker hedge.
GLP Buys an Option on Inner Mongolia's Power
The Ulanqab framework is a claim on renewable capacity and local consent; it prices as infrastructure only when a tenant signs.
Seven new California laws turn the data center permit into a contract
Disclosure, cost-shifting and the loss of blanket CEQA exemptions hand counties the leverage that capital used to route around.
Inference demand makes metro interconnection the scarce asset
OpenAI and Anthropic are shopping 20-30MW leases in the US, UK, and Nordics, redirecting demand toward powered metro sites and testing whether lab leases deserve hyperscaler pricing.
Airspan buys Cambium's wireless lines — and 135 people
The distressed sale prices what the unanchored end of digital infrastructure is worth, and the number that matters is the 135 people Airspan did disclose.
Optus's regional 5G buildout is where the coverage math gets costly
Optus promises another 100 New South Wales sites by the end of next year without pricing any of them.