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2025 datacentre capex up 57%

Eweekly 20 Mar 2026
Datacentre capex increased 57% in 2025 as AI deployments, complemented by general infrastructure investments, accelerated, says Dell’Oro, which expects hyperscalers and AI model developers to sustain strong capex momentum in 2026 ... .
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Days after complaining to FCC about Spacex’s Space datacentre plans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin files application for datacenter satellites

The Times of India 20 Mar 2026
Just days ago, Elon Musk's Starlink rival Amazon Leo sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject Spacex’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centers ... Space-based data centers can help break this bottleneck ... .
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Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north

Computer Weekly 19 Mar 2026
The UK’s largest datacentre construction projects are shifting north, as market saturation and power grid connection issues hit the south east of England ... Top 10 UK datacentres ... We can use it to see the datacentre pipeline.
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TI comes up with 800V datacentre power architecture

Eweekly 18 Mar 2026
“By collaborating with NVIDIA, we’re helping accelerate the deployment of AI infrastructure that can scale efficiently and reliably,” says TI vp Kannan Soundarapandian ... This streamlined architecture supports the NVIDIA reference design ... .
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Ethernet takes two thirds of datacentre switch sales

Eweekly 16 Mar 2026
Although InfiniBand continues to grow, Ethernet is expanding at a much faster pace.”. “The Ethernet vendor landscape in AI back-end networks remains highly competitive. In 2025, Celestica and NVIDIA led the market with a combined 50 percent share ... .
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A new Southland datacentre would be the country's second-largest drain on power

RNZ 16 Mar 2026
It's being billed as the data centre that changes everything - but hopefully that doesn't include the price of your power. It will be the country's second biggest user of electricity after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter ... ....
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Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

The Observer 15 Mar 2026
This may be fine for OpenAI; it can presumably find other datacentres ... It still does not have planning permission but said on Friday it was planning to start construction before July and would switch on the datacentre between April and July 2027.
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The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?

The Guardian 14 Mar 2026
... of ChatGPT but the race to plug artificial intelligence into everything has sparked a surge in datacentres, with escalating environmental costs.
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Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings

The Guardian 12 Mar 2026
Plans for a new datacentre in Lincolnshire have been approved, despite warnings it could ...
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Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval

Computer Weekly 12 Mar 2026
Planning permission has been approved for what is reported to be one of the UK’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres, a 1GW project in north Lincolnshire, one of the government’s AI growth zones ... Read more about datacentre developments.
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Marvell to expand datacentre interconnect portfolio

Eweekly 11 Mar 2026
Marvell also introduced Libra, a 2nm 800G ZR/ZR+ coherent DSP, which enables a lower-power, second-generation COLORZ 800 pluggable ... .
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Wednesday briefing: From missing billions to nonexistent datacentres, inside Britain’s AI drive

The Guardian 11 Mar 2026
In today’s newsletter ... The reality is much murkier. Good morning ... Governments have promised billions in investment, datacentres and supercomputers, and a wave of new jobs as AI is “mainlined” into the economy ... Middle East crisis ... Environment ... Labour .
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America's biggest investor blames Nvidia's 'mafia-like' behaviour for Sam Altman walking out of datacentre deal, says: OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle plan because ...

The Times of India 11 Mar 2026
America’s biggest investor Michael Burry who is also known for predicting the 2008 housing crash has now accused Nvidia of blocking Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) from a major AI infrastructure deal ... Duh ... This is playing out as some of us said it would ... .
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Oracle and OpenAI scrap datacentre project

Eweekly 09 Mar 2026
The scrapped project was to be an addition to the eight datacentre Abilene site (pictured ) – two of which have been built with ...
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British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board

The Guardian 09 Mar 2026
London-based startup, which is vital to the government’s artificial intelligence ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bn ... ....
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