September 11, 2024 Europe
A recent report has advised the European Union (EU) to soften its stance on telecom industry mergers, urging that mergers should be viewed more favorably by the EU than is currently the case. Former European Central Bank president and former Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi stated that...
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September 09, 2024 Poland
Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to build...
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September 09, 2024 United Kingdom
EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed to...
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September 05, 2024 Europe
Singaporean telco Singtel has formed a strategic partnership with AI cloud provider Nscale to accelerate GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. This partnership dubbed GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), will see Nscale receive access to Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Southeast Asia through...
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September 04, 2024 United Kingdom
UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Submer's...
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August 30, 2024 Sweden
GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure from...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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August 25, 2024 Europe
IPTO subsidiary Grid Telecom and Israeli firm Tamares Telecom have signed a Heads of Agreement to both participate in the joint venture Tamares Telecom Cyprus. The venture will establish a carrier-neutral, open-access hub with interconnection data center facilities to connect the island to...
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August 25, 2024 Russia / Россия
Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...
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August 23, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, installed...
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August 23, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Post Office chief transformation officer, Chris Brockleby, has stepped down from his post following delays in replacing the controversial Horizon IT system. He will depart from the Post Office on September 6, with Andy Nice set to take on the role on an interim basis. Nice was previously...
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August 23, 2024 Latvia
Latvian telco Tet has announced plans to invest €30 million ($33.2m) in developing the facility in Salaspils, to the south of the capital city. The construction on the new data center is planned to start at the end of 2024 for a 2028 completion with Tet's construction subsidiary Citrus Solutions...
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August 22, 2024 Switzerland
IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...
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August 18, 2024 United Kingdom
Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI) has closed its Series B funding round which raised over $60 million to further its development of quantum technology in an investment round led by Arch Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Hither Creek Ventures. The Yale spin out was founded in 2015...
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August 14, 2024 United Kingdom
UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site. David Gammie, CTO...
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August 13, 2024 Europe
Investment firm Waterland Private Equity has revealed its plans to acquire MVNO Lebara Group by buying out Alchemy and Triton Partners, the existing owners of Lebara since 2019. The company, founded in 2001 does not own a mobile spectrum license but sells mobile services to more than four million...
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August 13, 2024 United Kingdom
TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major...
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August 09, 2024 Switzerland
Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone...
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August 07, 2024 Europe
Quantum engineering company Riverlane has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Planet First Partners. This funding saw participation from ETF Partners, EDBI, and existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, the UK's National Security Strategic...
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August 02, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to propose reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework including around the development of data centers. With regards to data centers, the proposals would reform the way that the Nationally Significant Infrastructure...
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