Western Europe Data Center News

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

January 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

January 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved

Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the o...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €1...

January 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

January 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Swisscom seals Vodafone Italy acquisition

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...

January 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

DMO launches data center outside Münster, Germany

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 ...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Castleforge and Galaxy DC acquire data center site outside London

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 ($1...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

GlobalFoundries and Quantum Motion team up for development of quantum processors

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 t...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Asda delays planned IT systems upgrade

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...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Nokia completes sale of subsea cable unit ASN

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 transiti...

January 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Eni switches on new HPC6 supercomputer

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 ...

January 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Cellnex completes €800m Austrian tower exit

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 c...

January 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Austria

TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs in bid to save £120m

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.Furt...

January 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

England

BT wins £1.3bn class action lawsuit

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 ag...

December 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

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...

December 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Madrid

Nokia pairs with EOLO for 5G Standalone mmWave network in 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 port...

December 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

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