Data Center News

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

May 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Paris

Scaleway of Iliad will turn its data center unit into a separate entity, Opcore

The French cloud and data center organization Scaleway separates its data center division into a separate businesses. President and former CEO of Scaleway, Arnaud de Bermingham, announced on Linkedin that he would oversee the new 46-person unit. In response to a commentator's inquiry about whe...

June 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OpCore

Half of Iliad Group's Polish Network Business Sold For $415m

For $415 million, French telecom Iliad has finalized the sale of a 50% share in its Polish wholesale business, Polski Swiatlowod Otwarty (PŚO). With this change, PŚO will be able to improve its fiber network nationwide and connect approximately six million homes. With the deal, PŚO will run th...

April 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OpCore

Iliad signs first off-site PPA in France

iliad has announced that it has signed a 15-year PPA with Engie SA to purchase energy generation from the Labrit solar farm located in the Landes region in southwestern France. The farm is a 60,000-panel solar park, pegged to produce over 20 GWh of electricity per year, with a capacity of 16 M...

February 07, 2023

OpCore

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

Yann Lechelle joins Scaleway as CEO alongside Arnaud de Bermingham as President

Paris, March 2, 2020 - Arnaud de Bermingham, founder and former CEO of Scaleway, a European cloud provider, has chosen Yann Lechelle as Chief Executive Officer; Arnaud de Bermingham will carry on as President of the company. Effective today, the appointment of Yann Lechelle aims a...

March 02, 2020

Eric Bell

OpCore

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