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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Asia Direct Cable Enters Service for PLDT

  Wawa, Nasugbu, Batangas, Calabarzon, 4231, PhilippinesPLDT

  

  Starts 02/11/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.6 years agoPLDT's^[1][5][6] release of 11 February 2025 announces the cable 'marking its operational and commercial readiness', and PLDT's 20-F for 2025 (reference 1) states 'In February 2025, ADC went into service'.

  The 9,988-kilometre Asia Direct Cable, landing at PLDT's Nasugbu station in Batangas, went live in February 2025, linking the Philippines to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and China.

  $75M

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• Telecom09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Globalinx Ocean City Cable Landing Station Ready for Service

  Ocean City Municipal Airport, Worcester County, Maryland, USAGlobalinx

  

  Starts 09/30/2027ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins70% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 70%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 363 daysEstimated: the announcement says the station is scheduled to be 'Ready for Service (RFS) in Q3 2027' while permits were still being completed, so the last day of the quarter is used.^[1]

  Globalinx's 24,000 sq ft, 5 MW-scalable cable landing station near Ocean City Municipal Airport, Maryland, is planned to be ready for service in Q3 2027 and is poised to host AWS's Fastnet transatlantic cable.

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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  PLDT Opens Apricot Cable Landing Station in Digos

  Digos, Davao del Sur, Davao Region, 8002, PhilippinesPLDT

  

  Starts 03/24/2025ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins59% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 59%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence1.5 years agoPLDT's^[1][5][6] 2 April 2025 release says its leaders 'recently inaugurated the Digos cable landing station' without a date; Data Center Dynamics' report of 24 March 2025 (reprinted by SubTel Forum^[3], reference 1) already says PLDT 'has launched' it, so the ceremony was on or before 24 March.

  PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Smart and Lynk Send Texts by Satellite in Catanduanes Pilot

  Marambong, Pandan, Catanduanes, Bicol Region, PhilippinesPLDT

  

  Starts 01/14/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins71% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 71%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence261 days agoThe test is undated in every source (PNA^[5] captions its photo 'in this undated photo'); PNA reports that PLDT^[1]-Smart 'on Wednesday (Jan. 14, 2026) announced the success' of the pilot, so the pin is anchored to that announcement.

  Smart texted between Catanduanes and Metro Manila and loaded its website through Lynk Global's low-orbit satellites, its first direct-to-device satellite test, from a coastal village in Pandan.

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• AI09/24/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Announce the Lighthouse Stargate Campus in Wisconsin

  Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus, Town of Port Washington, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United StatesOracle

  

  Starts 10/22/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better345 days agoVantage's release is datelined 'DENVER (Oct. 22, 2025)' and says the three companies 'today announced plans to develop a data center campus outside Milwaukee in Port Washington'.^[1]

  Vantage will spend $15 billion-plus on Lighthouse, four data centers with close to a gigawatt of AI capacity in Port Washington outside Milwaukee, as the Midwest site of Oracle's 4.5 GW Stargate deal with OpenAI.

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• Audio09/14/2026@GameDesk

  Sonos Play (Sand)

  Santa Barbara, California, USASonos

  

  Starts 09/30/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins74% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 74%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence2 days agoGear Patrol^[2][4] (https://www.gearpatrol.com/audio/sonos^[1][3][5]-play-speaker-sand/) reports the sand finish revealed 2 September 2026 with pre-orders opening immediately and shipping 'at the end of the month'. No exact ship day is published, so the pin is dated to the last day of September 2026 as an estimate.

  Portable wireless speaker now available in a new sand finish.

  $299.00

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• AI09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Oracle's Lighthouse Campus in Wisconsin Begins Customer Delivery

  Port Washington (Lighthouse) Data Center Campus, Town of Port Washington, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United StatesOracle

  

  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins73% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 73%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 1.2 yearsOracle's^[1][2][3] tracker says Port Washington was 'Contracted in September 2025. Customer delivery expected 2H27', so the pin takes the last day of that half.

  Oracle expects the first capacity at its Port Washington Stargate campus, built by Vantage for OpenAI, to reach customers in the second half of 2027.

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• Telecom09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Smart and Lynk Take Satellite-to-Phone Tests to Ilocos Norte

  Burgos, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Region, 2918, PhilippinesPLDT

  

  Starts 03/02/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins59% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 59%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence214 days agoPLDT's^[1] release of 2 March 2026 says Smart and Lynk 'have completed another round of field tests' in Burgos, Bangui and Pagudpud without dating them, so the pin is anchored to that announcement.

  Smart and Lynk Global texted Metro Manila by satellite and reached the DICT and PAGASA websites from Burgos, Bangui and Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte coastal towns facing the West Philippine Sea.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  ALP Striker Tows the West Bollsta Drilling Rig from Korea to Norway

  Ulsan, South KoreaNorthern Ocean

  

  Starts 06/01/2019ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins60% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 60%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence7.3 years agoTrade press (oedigital^[3], Northern Ocean) reports the rig was delivered from Hyundai Heavy Industries in June 2019, without naming an exact day.

  The harsh-environment semisubmersible West Bollsta, bought by Northern Drilling for $400 million, was towed from a South Korean shipyard to Norway by the ultra-powerful tug ALP Striker.

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• Infrastructure09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Kazakhstan's Data Center Valley Opens Its First 50 MW Facility

  Ekibastuz, Pavlodar Region, KazakhstanKazakhtelecom

  

  Starts 06/30/2027ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins69% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 69%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 271 daysEstimated: the 13 Aug 2026 report says the facility is "scheduled to begin operations in June 2027" with commissioning due in May 2027, a month rather than a day.^[1]

  The first 50 MW facility of Kazakhstan's Data Center Valley in Pavlodar Region, with a 215 MW substation acquired and ultimate plans for 1 GW, is due to enter service in June 2027.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  ThyssenKrupp Unveils Its Rope-Free MULTI Elevator at Rottweil

  TK Elevator Testturm, Berner Feld, Rottweil, GermanyThyssenKrupp

  

  Starts 06/22/2017CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better9.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "MULTI made its global debut as a fully functional unit on 22 June 2017".

  ThyssenKrupp demonstrates a working prototype of MULTI, a cable-free elevator that moves sideways as well as up and down, inside its purpose-built German test tower.

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• AI09/24/2026@TechDesk

  Stargate's Abilene Campus Goes Live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  Lancium Clean Campus, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, United StatesOracle

  

  Starts 09/30/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.0 years agoCrusoe's^[1] release is datelined 'ABILENE, TX - September 30, 2025' and says the first phase 'is now up and running on Oracle^[2][3] Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)'.

  Crusoe said the first two buildings of the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas are up and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for OpenAI, with NVIDIA GB200 racks already running training and inference.

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