July 10, 2025 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 created...
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July 05, 2025 United Kingdom
UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity by...
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July 04, 2025 Europe
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €30 million ($35m) in Quantonation II, a French early-stage venture capital fund targeting quantum and ‘deep physics’ startups. This forms part of the wider InvestEU strategy that aims to close the equity gap faced by early-stage “innovative...
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July 02, 2025 United Kingdom
UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW. Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “We...
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July 02, 2025 Spain
EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMode’s...
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June 27, 2025 Italy
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 a...
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June 26, 2025 Manchester
Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s...
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June 23, 2025 Europe
Swiss real estate investment advisor Stoneweg is entering the data center market, launching its own data center fund and platform via its Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust (SERT) unit. The company this week announced Stoneweg European Business Trust has made a €50 million ($58m) investment in the...
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June 21, 2025 Scotland
Battery storage firm Apatura has filed an application to develop a data center outside Cumnock, southwest Scotland. The company is requesting an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion ahead of full planning permission as it looks to develop on 24.5 hectares of land south of Creoch Farm...
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June 21, 2025 United Kingdom
Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh this week announced the launch of Nimbus, a new insurance facility providing clients cover for the construction of large-scale data centers across the UK and Europe.Nimbus provides up to €1 billion ($1.15bn) in construction all-risks coverage and up to €350...
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June 20, 2025 France
European satellite operator Eutelsat this week announced a €1.35 billion ($1.55bn) contemplated capital raise, anchored by key shareholders, to “secure the execution of [its] long-term strategic vision,” to fuel its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ambitions, led by the French government.“This capital...
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June 20, 2025 Finland
The Keuruu government last week announced that Suomen Energiainsinöörit Technology Oy plans to build a data center on a 40-hectare site on the western side of the Karjola industrial area. The company aims to develop a 200,000 sqm (2,152,782 sq ft) facility on the site, which is currently owned by...
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June 18, 2025 France
French telco Bouygues Telecom has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy-from-waste (EfW) firm Suez in France which will see Suez supply 53GWh of power per year from its EfW portfolio. Over the term of the agreement, the telco aims to source up to 800GWh of power through...
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June 17, 2025 Sweden
US data center firm EdgeMode has announced the acquisition of Synthesis Analytics Production Ltd. (SAPL), in a $1.75 million deal that sees EdgeMode take charge of a 95MW power purchase agreement, a long-term lease on an in-development 20MW high-performance computing data center, and freehold...
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June 17, 2025 Sweden
Language AI company DeepL has deployed an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with GB200 NVL72 systems at EcoDataCenter's Falun, Sweden, facility. DeepL will use the GB200 NVL72 systems to train its models, noting in a LinkedIn post that the system is powerful enough that it can translate the "entire web" in 18...
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June 16, 2025 Russia / Россия
Rostelecom's subsidiary RTK-TsOD has launched a data center in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia as well as a new mobile data processing offering for customers. RTK-TsOD is Rostelecom's IT service provider subsidiary, and the Nizhny Novgorod DC is its first data center owned and operated by...
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June 13, 2025 Morocco
Naver Cloud this week announced a partnership with Nvidia, Nexus Core Systems, and investment firm Lloyds Capital to build a 500MW AI data center in Morocco. The project aims to provide sovereign AI computing services throughout the EMEA region, which encompasses Europe, the Middle East, and...
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June 10, 2025 United Kingdom
The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a list of district heating networks in development across the UK that have applied for funding and support from three of its programs.A project pipeline document published by DESNZ states: “The opportunities present a wide...
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June 10, 2025 United Kingdom
Nebius will entered the UK with a deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs which will include thousands of the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs - the B300s - and is expected to be operational in Q4 of this year.Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: “We’re pleased to be providing compute...
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June 10, 2025 France
Data center developer CloudHQ has launched a new campus in Paris, France. The company aims to build two data center buildings, each comprising 53,000 sqm (570,000 sqft) and 24 data halls, within Essonne’s Leonardo da Vinci business park. The facility’s waste heat will be connected to...
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