The Colleferro data center is a planned campus dedicated to artificial intelligence workloads, located in the Metropolitan City of Rome in Italy's Lazio region, on a greenfield site bounded by a motorway, a consular road and a high-speed railway line. The design uses a closed-circuit cooling system with water recirculation and rainwater harvesting, supported by on-site photovoltaic generation and gas-fired emergency generators fed by pipeline, removing the need for on-site fuel storage. The municipal council approved the necessary zoning variation in August 2026 after a two-year administrative process, with a neighbouring municipality separately approving new road access. Final authorization from the national environment ministry remains outstanding, and construction is expected to begin in 2027.
Cobra Green Hyperscale Srl is an Italian company headquartered in Rome, founded in 2022, whose core business is the design, installation and supply of photovoltaic systems for electricity generation. In June 2025 it was acquired from NV Holding by Tendercapital, the asset manager of an Irish alternative investment fund focused on infrastructure and sustainable projects including renewable energy, energy efficiency, generation and storage, and energy-neutral data centers. Alongside its renewables activity, the company holds a project to develop an energy-neutral data center campus, representing its first venture into the sector. No company leadership has been publicly identified.
April 03, 2026 Rome
Italian telco Unidata and private equity firm Azimut Libera Impresa have formed a joint venture to develop a “green,” carrier-neutral Tier IV-quality data center in Rome. The UniCenter project will deliver 20MW of capacity with more than 2,000 racks across 140,000 sq ft in the Italian capital,...
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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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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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