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Unidata Starts Development on 20MW Rome Data Center

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,...

April 03, 2026

Rome

Infranity Invests €175M in Retelit’s Italian Data Centers

Infranity is spearheading a €375 million ($430M) financing package for the data center division of Italian telecom provider Retelit Group. The European asset management firm has committed €175 million ($200M) of the total, according to news agency Agenzia Nova.The investment is intended to exp...

March 21, 2026

Italy

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

Italy-based inference provider Xference has rolled out a new distributed infrastructure from a data center in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region. The startup also announced plans to launch a beta service for 100 selected users in the near term. The development follows a €700,000 (approximately $8...

February 27, 2026

Italy

50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

Plans by Italian real estate developer GSM to build a 50MW data center outside the town of Certosa di Pavia in Italy’s Lombardy region have advanced.“We consider this project an affront to our territory and, for this reason, we are carefully analyzing the technical documentation, which has onl...

February 18, 2026

Italy

A2A Announces Plans for First Data Center in Lombardy, Italy

Italian utility company A2A is planning its first data center in Lombardy, Italy. The utility plans to commence construction in 2027, with operations at the data center expected to begin the following year.Its CEO, Renato Mazzoncini, said the utility plans to invest around €1.6 billion ($1.86b...

December 06, 2025

Italy

Apple Signs 138MW PPA with Engie in Italy

Apple has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with renewable energy developer Engie in Southern Italy. The deal will support the construction of four new renewable projects and a wind repowering project; two wind farms with a combined capacity of 74MW, a wind repowering project wit...

November 01, 2025

Italy

Government Data Center Opens in Venice

The Municipality of Venice this week announced the launch of the new Vega data center in the Italian city. Regional councilor for digital agenda, Francesco Calzavara, and city councilor for economic development, Simone Venturini, attended the opening ceremony.The €4.5 million ($5.2m) project w...

October 10, 2025

Italy

Rai Way Integrates Cloud Storage Services Across Edge Data Centers

Italian Edge data center provider Rai Way has integrated geo-distributed cloud storage enabler Cubbit's DS3 Composer technology into its data center platform, starting with five data centers in Italy, located in Venice, Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Florence. The solution currently offers a storage...

July 18, 2025

Italy

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

Adriatic DC this month announced plans for multiple data center campuses across Puglia in the southeast of Italy. The company claims the 'Puglia Data Center Valley' will total more than 2GW of capacity at full build-out, but few details have been shared."The Puglia Data Center Valley was creat...

July 10, 2025

Italy

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

June 27, 2025

Italy

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

May 23, 2025

Paris

Swisscom seals Vodafone Italy acquisition

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...

January 09, 2025

Italy

Eni switches on new HPC6 supercomputer

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 ...

January 06, 2025

Italy

Nokia pairs with EOLO for 5G Standalone mmWave network in 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 port...

December 20, 2024

Italy

ENEA selects Lenovo for new HPC cluster

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 ...

November 15, 2024

Italy

Dutch economy minister floats idea of EU chips coalition

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 im...

October 11, 2024

Rome

Italian government approves Swisscom's acquisition of Vodafone 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 market....

May 21, 2024

Italy

Telecom Italia to receive a €1 billion payout

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 ...

April 05, 2024

Rome

RAI plans €140 million investment in developing data centers

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 i...

March 27, 2024

Italy

Cordiant acquires two businesses in the cloud and data center sector

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, through its Czech portfolio company České Radiokomunikace (CRA), has acquired cloud services provider Cloud4com and data center company DC Lužice. Cordiant is to acquire a Tier-III data center, DC Lužice for CZK130 million ($5.8m), and Cloud4com for an initial...

December 23, 2023

Czech Republic

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