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 08, 2025 United Kingdom
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 the...
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January 08, 2025 United Kingdom
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 to...
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January 08, 2025 Germany / Deutschland
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...
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January 08, 2025 France
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 transition...
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January 08, 2025 United Kingdom
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...
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January 07, 2025 Ukraine
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 in...
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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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January 01, 2025 Europe
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 Nvidia...
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January 01, 2025 England
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.Further...
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January 01, 2025 Austria
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...
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December 30, 2024 Europe
The European Investment Bank will provide €43 million ($44.71m) in loans for the development of two data centers in Azerbaijan. The funding will be used to develop two data centers for AzInTelecom LLC which will be located Absheron and Hajigabul regions.Elkhan Azizov, chairman of the board of...
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December 26, 2024 United Kingdom
BT has successfully defended itself in a £1.3 billion ($1.6bn) class action lawsuit that alleged the telco overcharged millions of customers for fixed telephone lines. The case, which lasted for eight weeks and began in January, accused BT of around 3.7 million landline customers. The case...
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December 24, 2024 Europe
Irish construction firm Mercury Engineering is preparing to create 1,000 new roles over the next five years. Standing as one of Europe's largest data center builders, the company operates in 16 markets, including data center hotspots such as France, Ireland, and the Nordics. Mercury currently...
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December 23, 2024 Madrid
European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...
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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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December 19, 2024 Sweden
Nordic colocation provider atNorth has bought a 30-hectare plot for a potential data center in Långsele, Sweden. Located in the Sollefteå municipality in Hamre Industripark, the land will host the company’s first ‘mega site.'“This is a fantastic opportunity for Sollefteå municipality and the...
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December 19, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local...
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December 19, 2024 Europe
In an announcement, the European Commission said it has signed the concession contract for the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²), with the SpaceRISE consortium. A number of key partners were also named, including Thales Alenia Space, OHB, Airbus...
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December 19, 2024 Nigeria
Nigerian mobile network operator 9Mobile has blamed a network outage this week on a fire incident at its main data center in Lagos. The fire is said to have happened on Tuesday night (December 17), leading to network issues for 9Mobile's customers yesterday. Its customers have taken to social...
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