January 09, 2025 Italy
Swisscom has finalized its €8 billion ($8.33bn) acquisition of Vodafone Italy, noting that the acquisition is "a key step for Swisscom to achieve its strategic objective of profitable growth in Italy." Swisscom confirmed that the existing commercial brands Fastweb, Vodafone, and Ho Mobile will...
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January 06, 2025 Italy
Italian energy company Eni switched on its new HPC6 supercomputer on Christmas Day: a 477.9 petaflops system which ranked fifth on the latest edition of the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers.HPC6 is an HPE Cray EX235a system powered by AMD 3rd generation Epyc CPUs, around 14,000 AMD...
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December 20, 2024 Italy
Nokia has partnered with Italian telco EOLO to deploy a 5G standalone mmWave RAN network in Italy. In the announcement, vendor Nokia claimed the deployment to be a European first, noting it has signed a four-year deal with EOLO. As part of the deal, the vendor will provide its 5G AirScale...
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November 15, 2024 Italy
Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has chosen Lenovo for its new HPC cluster, dubbed CRESCO8. It consists of 758 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs, meaning the cluster will bring the compute power of CRESCO (Computational...
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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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May 21, 2024 Italy
Swisscom revealed that the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers "unconditionally approved the acquisition pursuant to the golden power legislation." Swisscom noted that it was informed that its acquisition of Vodafone would not threaten competition within the Italian telecoms...
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April 05, 2024 Rome
Telecom Italia (TIM) is set for a €1 billion ($1.1bn) payout after it won its 15-year dispute with the Italian government. A court in Rome ordered the government to pay the sum after TIM sought to recover the license fee it was required to pay to the state in 1998, the year after the telecoms...
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March 27, 2024 Italy
Italian broadcaster RAI this week announced its board of directors had approved a new 2024-2027 business plan, which includes a number of data center investments. The company said it plans to invest €140m related to the roll-out of its ‘diversification initiatives’ by 2027. These investments...
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September 28, 2023 Italy
Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to...
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September 07, 2023 Italy
Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...
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April 27, 2023 Italy
In Italy, Rai has announced the launch of its Edge data center network, the Rai Way Edge project, to reduce latency speeds. Through the project, the company offers a platform of 18 Edge data centers covering 20 Italian regions, with a combined IT capacity of 3.4MW. This will be supplemented by a...
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March 16, 2023 Italy
According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a new...
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March 15, 2023 Italy
A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located in...
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December 06, 2022 Italy
Norwegian energy company Statkraft and telco Fastweb have inked a 12-year PPA for the output of a photovoltaic plant which is to be constructed in the region of Lazio, Province of Latina, and will be operational in 2023. The 11.25MW solar plant will produce 19GWh of renewable electricity every...
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December 02, 2022 Italy
Aruba has announced the launch of two new data centers at its Bergamo IT3 technology campus in Lombardy. The campus in Ponte San Pietro outside Milan will now house an additional two 'future-proof' data centers. The first of the two, DC-B, spans over 17,000 sqm (183,000 sq ft) offering 9 MW of...
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July 29, 2022 STACK: MIL01A
Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was...
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June 16, 2022 Italy
Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powered...
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April 08, 2022 Italy
The Rural Vivaistico Ornamentale District of Pistoia and The CNA Toscana Centro have proposed to develop a data center on a former waste management plant in Tuscany, Italy. Claudio Bettazi, CNA Toscana Centro’s President, said developing a data center in the locality through an excellent...
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November 25, 2021 STACK: MIL01A
Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia,...
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October 06, 2021 Italy
Italian Geoveda Srl has announced that it is pursuing the construction of a green data center in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. Sourcing geothermal energy from Larderello, the proposed data center will be net-zero and aim for a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1. The project, in...
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