EMEA Data Center News

Singtel and Nscale announce partnership to accelerate GPU capacity

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 thr...

September 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Stellium to deploy Submer immersion cooling at Newcastle data center

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, Subm...

September 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in 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 ...

August 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

Qualcomm acquires 4G IoT tech

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 ...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom partner on cable landing station in Cyprus

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 Gr...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium

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...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Russia / Россия

UK Post Office chief transformation officer to step down

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 previo...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Tet plans new data center outside Riga

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 Soluti...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Latvia

DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany

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, install...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

IonQ delivers quantum processor to its European quantum data center

IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...

August 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

Quantum Circuits raises over $60m Series B funding round

Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI) has closed its Series B funding round which raised over $60 million to further its development of quantum technology in an investment round led by Arch Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Hither Creek Ventures. The Yale spin out was founded in 20...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center

UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site. David Gammie, ...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK

TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major ...

August 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Waterland Private Equity to acquire MVNO Lebara

Investment firm Waterland Private Equity has revealed its plans to acquire MVNO Lebara Group by buying out Alchemy and Triton Partners, the existing owners of Lebara since 2019. The company, founded in 2001 does not own a mobile spectrum license but sells mobile services to more than four mill...

August 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Swisscom deploys 300 Nokia's Drones-as-a-Service network accross Switzerland

Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone ...

August 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

Riverlane raises $75 million in a Series C funding round

Quantum engineering company Riverlane has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Planet First Partners. This funding saw participation from ETF Partners, EDBI, and existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, the UK's National Security Strategic In...

August 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Johnson Controls in search for new CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls this week announced George R. Oliver has decided to stand down as CEO, following “substantial progress on its portfolio transformation.” The Irish company is now on the hunt for its next CEO with the assistance of an executive search firm to hel...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

UK Government proposes data center changes

The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to propose reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework including around the development of data centers. With regards to data centers, the proposals would reform the way that the Nationally Significant Infrastructu...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

August 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

August 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

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