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Alphabetโ€™s Google will spend $40 billion to build three AI-focused data centers in Texas, signaling that power access and grid proximity now define hyperscale strategy more than any single technology feature. The build spans one campus in Armstrong County in the Texas Panhandle and two in Haskell County near Abilene, with investments running through 2027. Google expects the program to create thousands of construction and supplier jobs and hundreds of long-term operations roles, consistent with typical hyperscale staffing patterns. Texas offers relatively low-cost power, faster interconnection timelines, abundant land, and pro-investment policies, making it second only to Virginia in U.S. data center count.
Amazon has moved its low Earth orbit broadband effort out of code-name mode and into a market-facing brand with strategic implications for telecom and enterprise buyers. Project Kuiper is now Amazon Leo, a direct reference to the low Earth orbit constellation underpinning the service. The rebrand signals a transition from R&D to commercial execution. Amazon reports more than 150 satellites in orbit todayโ€”roughly 153 by recent countsโ€”following a string of successful launches and a completed prototype mission. The company says it will light up service as it adds coverage and capacity.
Alphabet will invest โ‚ฌ5.5 billion in Germany through 2029 to expand AI-capable cloud infrastructure and office capacity, anchoring new buildouts in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region. Google will construct a new data center in Dietzenbach, near Frankfurt, and continue scaling its Hanau campus opened in 2023. With Frankfurtโ€™s role as Europeโ€™s interconnection hubโ€”home to DE-CIXโ€”placement in Rhine-Main positions Google to serve latency-sensitive AI, analytics, and financial services workloads. Google Cloud will bring expanded capacity for services such as Vertex AI and Gemini models into its German regions, enabling enterprises to run training, fine-tuning, and inference closer to users and data.
Nokia will remain TNNโ€™s sole 5G RAN and managed services supplier for four more years, underpinning Denmarkโ€™s next phase of high-performance, energy-efficient, and increasingly autonomous mobile networks. The renewed agreement modernizes TNNโ€™s nationwide 5G footprint with Nokiaโ€™s AirScale Radio Access Network portfolio and AI-driven MantaRay solutions to improve speed, capacity, and customer experience for more than three million users. Deployment highlights include Habrok Massive MIMO radios for mid-band capacity, Pandion multi-band remote radio heads for broad coverage, and AI-ready AirScale basebands (Ponente, Lodos, Levante) powered by ReefShark system-on-chip silicon to scale throughput while reducing power consumption.
A cascade of offers from OpenAI, Google, and Perplexityโ€”amplified by Airtel and Reliance Jioโ€”signals a deliberate push to convert Indiaโ€™s scale into durable AI usage, data, and future revenue. With more than 900 million internet users, rock-bottom mobile data prices, and a young, mobile-first population, India offers the worldโ€™s deepest top-of-funnel for AI adoption. Giving away premium accessโ€”such as a year of ChatGPTโ€™s low-cost โ€œGoโ€ tier, Jioโ€™s bundling of Gemini, or Airtelโ€™s tie-up with Perplexity Proโ€”maximizes trial, habituation, and data collection across diverse languages and contexts. Even a low single-digit conversion rate translates into millions of subscribers, while non-converters still contribute valuable signals that improve models.
Telus is in active talks to bring partners into its data-centre and AI business, signaling a capital-light approach to scale sovereign AI compute in Canada. Partner capital can accelerate GPU procurement, facility buildouts, and interconnect investments while aligning with customers that require sovereign environments distinct from hyperscale public clouds. Management addressed investor concerns about potential AI compute oversupply by emphasizing a modular build strategy, adding capacity in phases as demand materializes. The timing aligns with tightening data-residency requirements, heightened AI adoption, and demand for local alternatives to U.S.-centric infrastructure. This reduces stranded capital risk in a market with volatile GPU supply, rapid chip roadmaps, and evolving workload profiles.
SoftBank and OpenAI have formed SB OAI Japan, a jointly owned entity that will commercialize โ€œCrystal intelligence,โ€ a bundled enterprise AI offering focused on management and operations in Japan. The venture will combine OpenAIโ€™s enterprise-grade models and tooling with localization, integration, and support led by SoftBank in-market. Crystal intelligence is positioned as a turnkey solution that pairs model access with domain-specific implementation, governance, and support. SoftBank plans to deploy the solution across its own group companies, validate outcomes in production, and recycle those learnings back into SB OAI Japanโ€™s offerings.
BT is pressing ahead with cost-cutting as it confronts sharper broadband competition, softer device demand, and structural declines in legacy services. BT reduced its total workforce by about 6% in the first half of its financial year, down to roughly 111,000 employees from 116,000 at the start of the period. The group reported around ยฃ250 million in additional annualized cost savings, bringing cumulative savings to about ยฃ1.2 billion across the first 18 months of the program and reaffirming a target of ยฃ3 billion in annual savings. Group revenue for the six months to September 30 declined about 3% year over year to ยฃ9.8 billion. Openreachโ€™s broadband base contracted, with approximately 242,000 fewer broadband customers in Q2 FY25.
Telefรณnica delivered modest organic growth and wider 5G and fiber reach in Q3, while resetting free cash flow expectations amid operational and macro headwinds. Group revenue reached โ‚ฌ8,958 million in Q3, with organic growth of 0.4%, and EBITDA rose organically by 1.2% to โ‚ฌ3,071 million. 5G coverage reached 78% across core markets, while FTTH passings rose 9% to 82.6 million premises. Telefรณnica now expects 2025 free cash flow of โ‚ฌ1.5โ€“โ‚ฌ1.9 billion. The company reaffirmed 2025 guidance for growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA minus CapEx.
OECD data shows fixed and mobile broadband have shifted from build-out to scale-up, with fibre and 5G underpinning a new phase of digital infrastructure. Fixed broadband penetration across the OECD rose to 36.5 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants by end-2024, up from 32 in 2019, while the fibre share of fixed lines jumped from 28 percent to 47 percent over the same period. Gigabit-tier offers (โ‰ฅ1 Gbps) moved from 4 percent of subscriptions in 2019 to 19 percent in 2024, signaling both wider availability and growing appetite for very high throughput. On mobile, average monthly data consumption per subscription increased 2.5xโ€”from 6 GB at end-2019 to 15 GB in 2024, aligned with more video, cloud, and AI-assisted applications shifting to handhelds and connected devices.
Samsung and NVIDIA are scaling a 25-year alliance into an AI-driven manufacturing platform that fuses memory, foundry, robotics and networks on a backbone of accelerated computing. Samsung plans to deploy more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to infuse AI across the companyโ€™s manufacturing lifecycleโ€”from chip design and lithography to equipment operations, logistics and quality control. The โ€œAI factoryโ€ is designed as a unified, data-rich fabric where models continuously analyze and optimize processes in real time, shrinking development cycles and improving yield and uptime. The scope goes beyond semiconductors to include mobile devices and robotics, signaling a company-wide digital transformation anchored in accelerated computing.

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