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STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

January 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

January 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved

Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the o...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe

Eight European technology organizations have teamed up to launch a sovereign Edge cloud platform in Europe dubbed Virt8ra. The testbed platform is a collaboration between Arsys, BIT, the Gdańsk University of Technology, Infobip, Ionos, Kontron, Mondragon Corporation, and Oktawave. It is coordi...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €1...

January 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

January 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Castleforge and Galaxy DC acquire data center site outside London

UK private real estate investor Castleforge has acquired the Redhill Data Centre Campus in Redhill, south of London. Tthe 7.8-acre campus totals more than 160,000 sq ft (14,865 sqm) across three buildings and offers 26MW in total. The site reportedly has a development value of £100 million ($1...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

GlobalFoundries and Quantum Motion team up for development of quantum processors

Chipmaker GlobalFoundries (GF) and UK-based quantum computing company Quantum Motion have partnered to develop quantum processors based on a scalable silicon platform. The two companies said GF had manufactured a silicon chip designed by Quantum Motion that is “at least 100 times faster than t...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Asda delays planned IT systems upgrade

UK retailer Asda temporarily opted not to go ahead with its previously planned IT systems shift. The company had intended to introduce new systems at its smaller stores and a few larger stores over the December 7-9 period as part of the separation of its technology from Walmart.Asda is drawing...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany

Datacenter Münster Osnabrück (DMO) last month broke ground on its debut facility at Münster Osnabrück Airport in Greven. The first phase of construction will see more than €8 million ($8.3m) invested in developing a 500 sqm (5,380 sq ft) facility with capacity for 140 racks at densities up to ...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Nokia completes sale of subsea cable unit ASN

Nokia has completed the sale of its subsea cable unit, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), to the French State and said the transaction has netted it around €350 million ($363m). Nokia noted that it retains a 20 percent shareholding in ASN, with board representation, to "ensure a smooth transiti...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Veon X Starlink sign satellite connectivity agreement

Veon's Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar has signed an agreement with SpaceX's Starlink that will deliver direct-to-cell satellite connectivity in Ukraine. In an announcement last week, Kyivstar said it expects to launch Starlink's direct-to-cell services with SMS and OTT messaging functionality i...

January 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ukraine

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

European Commission approves Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai

The European Commission (EC) has approved Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Run:ai. The EC gave the green light for the acquisition on December 20, noting that it had "concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area." The EC added that, while Nvi...

January 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Cellnex completes €800m Austrian tower exit

Cellnex has completed the sale of its Austrian unit to a consortium comprised of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, EDF Invest, and MEAG for €803 million ($834m), bringing an end to Cellnex's presence in Austria after it entered the market in 2021, when it snapped up CK Hutchison's sites in the c...

January 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Austria

TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs in bid to save £120m

TalkTalk is set to cut hundreds of jobs as the struggling ISP looks to save £120 million ($150m), detailing the plans during an investor meeting in December. TalkTalk has already kicked off a redundancy consultation, ahead of plans to cut around 130 jobs at its Salford consumer division.Furt...

January 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

England

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