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Scotland’s data centre planning crackdown: What it really means

18th Aug 2026

6 minutes

Scottish ministers now review every data centre planning bid over 50MW. Here’s what the Regulation 31 direction changes, and what it leaves unresolved.
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Texas hits pause on its own AI boom: Inside the 300-project grid audit

17th Aug 2026

5 minutes

Texas has paused new data centre approvals until regulators finish auditing every project competing for a place on the state’s power grid.
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8 sessions to watch at Metro Connect Fall x Datacloud USA 2026

17th Aug 2026

4 minutes

Metro Connect Fall returns to Austin from 1-3 September, co-located with Datacloud USA and the Investment and Finance Forum.

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Nvidia halves Ohio OpenAI backstop to under $120bn: Why it happened, and why it matters

17th Aug 2026

4 minutes

Nvidia has cut the financial guarantee underpinning OpenAI’s proposed Ohio data centre project from a discussed $250bn to less than $120bn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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The AI price war: OpenAI and Anthropic take aim at China

17th Aug 2026

6 minutes

OpenAI and Anthropic have slashed AI pricing by 80% to fend off cheaper Chinese rivals, in a shift that could reshape data centre capacity demand
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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.
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Nebius to deploy AI capacity at Vantage’s Newport campus in first South Wales AI Growth Zone commitment

14th Aug 2026

3 minutes

Nebius has agreed to lease high-density, Nvidia-powered capacity at Vantage Data Centers’ CWL1 campus in Newport.
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Digital infra’s 300,000-worker gap: Veterans could fill it, report finds

14th Aug 2026

4 minutes

The digital infrastructure industry was short of 300,000 workers in 2025.

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Nvidia now agrees to rent back unused GPU capacity from neocloud operators if customer demand falls short

14th Aug 2026

5 minutes

Nvidia’s new GPU backstop model is unlocking neocloud debt financing, but it also makes Nvidia collateral, guarantor and customer all at once.
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North America data centres absorbed a record 25GW in H1 2026

13th Aug 2026

3 minutes

North American data centre demand hit an all-time high in the first half of 2026, but the constraint on further growth is no longer supply, capital or power alone.

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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.