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EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

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 comp...

July 04, 2025

Europe

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

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: “...

July 02, 2025

United Kingdom

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

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 EdgeMod...

July 02, 2025

Spain

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

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...

June 27, 2025

Italy

Deep Green to Deploy Compute at Manchester Leisure Center

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 Nort...

June 26, 2025

Manchester

Stoneweg Announces Data Center Investment Fund for 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 ...

June 23, 2025

Europe

Data center Application Filed in 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 F...

June 21, 2025

Scotland

Marsh Launches €1bn Data Center Insurance and Risk Management Services

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 €...

June 21, 2025

United Kingdom

Eutelsat Announces €1.35bn Capital Raise

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 in...

June 20, 2025

France

New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, 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...

June 20, 2025

Finland

Bouygues Telecom Signs 15-year PPA with Suez

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 f...

June 18, 2025

France

EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production

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 ...

June 17, 2025

Sweden

DeepL Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD in Falun, 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 ...

June 17, 2025

Sweden

Rostelecom Subsidiary Launches Facility in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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...

June 16, 2025

Russia / Россия

Naver Plans 500MW Facility in 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 A...

June 13, 2025

Morocco

UK District Heating Networks Look to Data Centers for Waste Heat

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 w...

June 10, 2025

United Kingdom

Nebius to Deploy Nvidia B300 GPU Cluster in UK

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 ...

June 10, 2025

United Kingdom

CloudHQ Launches Data Center Campus in Paris, 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 Corbeil-E...

June 10, 2025

France

GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center

GreenScale this week announced the acquisition of Tonstad DataPark, a new data center development located in the municipality of Sirdal in West Agder County (NO2), Norway.Tonstad DataPark spans a 420,000 square meter (4.5 million sq ft) site with 300MW of grid capacity, approved by Glitre Nett...

June 07, 2025

Norway

Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

Brookfield Asset Management plans to spend up to 95 billion kronor ($9.9 billion) on an AI data center in Strängnäs, Sweden. The investment more than doubles a planned 300MW facility to 750MW, with the company planning to purchase 350,000 sqm of additional land in Strängnäs to support the larg...

June 06, 2025

Sweden

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