September 27, 2024 Portugal
Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...
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September 27, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Pirbright Institute, a global leader in the study and surveillance of viruses, has installed a new containerized data center. The containerized data center will offer “scalable, resilient, flexible, and energy-efficient infrastructure” for the Pirbright Institute, Schneider and APT...
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September 26, 2024 Portugal
Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...
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September 25, 2024 United Kingdom
Blackstone has confirmed it plans to spend £10 billion ($13.3bn) developing an AI data center on a derelict industrial site in Blyth, UK. The plot of land, known as Northumberland Energy Park, had been earmarked for a battery factory by now-defunct electric vehicle battery maker Britishvolt.Jon...
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September 23, 2024 Sweden
Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 AI...
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September 21, 2024 Finland
IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...
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September 19, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the...
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September 18, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with construction...
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September 11, 2024 Europe
A recent report has advised the European Union (EU) to soften its stance on telecom industry mergers, urging that mergers should be viewed more favorably by the EU than is currently the case. Former European Central Bank president and former Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi stated that...
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September 09, 2024 Poland
Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to build...
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September 09, 2024 United Kingdom
EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed to...
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September 05, 2024 Europe
Singaporean telco Singtel has formed a strategic partnership with AI cloud provider Nscale to accelerate GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. This partnership dubbed GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), will see Nscale receive access to Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Southeast Asia through...
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September 04, 2024 United Kingdom
UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Submer's...
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August 30, 2024 Sweden
GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure from...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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August 25, 2024 Europe
IPTO subsidiary Grid Telecom and Israeli firm Tamares Telecom have signed a Heads of Agreement to both participate in the joint venture Tamares Telecom Cyprus. The venture will establish a carrier-neutral, open-access hub with interconnection data center facilities to connect the island to...
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August 25, 2024 Russia / Россия
Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...
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August 23, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, installed...
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August 23, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Post Office chief transformation officer, Chris Brockleby, has stepped down from his post following delays in replacing the controversial Horizon IT system. He will depart from the Post Office on September 6, with Andy Nice set to take on the role on an interim basis. Nice was previously...
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August 23, 2024 Latvia
Latvian telco Tet has announced plans to invest €30 million ($33.2m) in developing the facility in Salaspils, to the south of the capital city. The construction on the new data center is planned to start at the end of 2024 for a 2028 completion with Tet's construction subsidiary Citrus Solutions...
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