October 23, 2024 Portugal
Real estate firm Merlin Properties and data center company Edged Energy this week announced the start of construction on the 180MW campus located in the Parque das Nações business district of Vila Franca de Xira. The campus will be constructed in phases with the first of five facilities expected...
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October 22, 2024 United Kingdom
Managed services provider CloudCoCo has announced plans to sell its IT services business to Aspire in a £9.2 million ($11.9m) deal that will help the company pay off its debts. The company, which is based in Leeds, UK, added it is in advanced discussions to sell Connect, its data center business,...
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October 22, 2024 United Kingdom
UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks has raised $22 million to scale up its technology. The startup has raised the cash in a funding round led by VC group Plural, with existing investors UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures all contributing.Oriole...
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October 18, 2024 Finland
Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three...
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October 18, 2024 Spain
UAE data center firm Edgnex this week announced its expansion into Europe with the acquisition of land in Madrid. The site has been acquired from real estate private equity manager ActivumSG and will host a 40MW data center. Located in the Vicalvaro region, the 236,805 sq ft (22,000 sqm) facility...
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October 16, 2024 United Kingdom
DAS Fire is a supplier of fire detection and suppression solutions for data centers. DAS Fire’s offerings include the design, installation, and maintenance of data center fire suppression systems. “This acquisition enables us to accelerate our diversification strategy into sectors that complement...
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October 11, 2024 France
Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quantum...
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October 11, 2024 Rome
The Dutch economy minister told attendees of a G7 meeting in Rome that he believes a European Union (EU) "coalition of the willing" to strengthen the political bloc’s semiconductor industry. Dirk Beljaarts said: “To have a stronger EU, between the other global players, to get leverage, it's...
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October 09, 2024 Finland
European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the...
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October 07, 2024 Sweden
Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop l ast week announced it had entered into an agreement with real estate development firm Atrium Ljungberg for operational management of the Palmfelt Datacenter in the Slaughterhouse area of the capital. "We see great potential in the data center, which is...
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October 05, 2024 Russia / Россия
Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Center...
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October 03, 2024 Northern Ireland
Investment firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has invested in Atlantic Hub, a data center developer based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The company is looking to develop data center campuses across the island of Ireland and has recently received planning...
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September 27, 2024 Portugal
Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...
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September 27, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Pirbright Institute, a global leader in the study and surveillance of viruses, has installed a new containerized data center. The containerized data center will offer “scalable, resilient, flexible, and energy-efficient infrastructure” for the Pirbright Institute, Schneider and APT...
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September 26, 2024 Portugal
Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...
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September 25, 2024 United Kingdom
Blackstone has confirmed it plans to spend £10 billion ($13.3bn) developing an AI data center on a derelict industrial site in Blyth, UK. The plot of land, known as Northumberland Energy Park, had been earmarked for a battery factory by now-defunct electric vehicle battery maker Britishvolt.Jon...
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September 23, 2024 Sweden
Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 AI...
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September 21, 2024 Finland
IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...
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September 19, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the...
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September 18, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with construction...
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