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Power, not incentives, now decides where AI data centres get built, says FiberLight CEO

18th Aug 2026

4 minutes

Power availability has overtaken tax breaks and land costs as the deciding factor in AI data centre site selection, according to FiberLight chief executive Bill Major.
AI Oil shock, gas crunch: The Middle East crisis hits data centre power

Lenders start pricing community opposition into data centre financing as $130bn in projects stall

14th Aug 2026

3 minutes

Banks and asset managers financing the US data centre boom are beginning to treat community and political opposition as a formal credit risk factor.
AI

Anthropic’s $2tn IPO is really a bet on owning data centres

13th Aug 2026

6 minutes

As the AI lab commits billions to purpose-built capacity, the shift from renting compute to owning infrastructure is putting colocation, financing and power markets under scrutiny.
Eutelsat

Eutelsat’s 5G NTN push is bigger than one satellite programme

11th Aug 2026

3 minutes

The European Commission has reached an implementation agreement with the SpaceRISE consortium, Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, to move IRIS², Europe’s sovereign satellite programme, from design into full industrial execution.

Data Centres

TotalEnergies acquires Shell renewables to fuel integrated power strategy

3rd Aug 2026

3 minutes

TotalEnergies purchases Shell’s onshore renewables business and sells a 50% stake in an onshore solar and wind asset portfolio to KKR.
AI

Data centre of the month: Start Campus SINES development in Portugal

3rd Aug 2026

7 minutes

EXCLUSIVE: Omer Wilson, CMO at Start Campus, shares how SIN02 is being sustainably developed at its mega-site in Portugal to scale AI and HPC workloads.
AI

How Anthropic AI was able to hack three companies

31st Jul 2026

3 minutes

Anthropic reveals Claude AI models were able to breach three companies during testing, days after OpenAI found an AI breach that hacked Hugging Face.
AI

The $1tn AI build-out: Power, capital and contractors under pressure

31st Jul 2026

7 minutes

Hyperscaler AI capex has passed $1tn, reshaping data centre construction, power pro-curement and financing risk across the global infrastructure sector.
AI

Veolia holds strong H1 growth during global tech demand surge

30th Jul 2026

4 minutes

Veolia reports good H1 performance this year, which comes after it made strong efforts to strengthen its business model and expand its presence in several markets.
Amazon

Amazon seeks approval for 5,105-satellite direct-to-device network

29th Jul 2026

3 minutes

Amazon has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to launch up to 5,105 LEO satellites for a direct-to-device (D2D) mobile network, as the company moves to compete with Starlink in space-based connectivity.
AI The Datacentre Contractor Concentration Problem

UK energy regulator promises power crackdown for data centres

29th Jul 2026

4 minutes

Ofgem has launched a consultation on plans to tackle speculative data centre projects in the UK’s electricity connection queue amid growing grid delays.