DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn
The previous figure was £700 million
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Council rejects 80MW data center in northern Italy
Municipality argues the plans go against its environmental policy
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Uncertainty over data center development in Trzebnica, Poland
Application unearthed by a local councilor who claimed details were hidden from scrutiny
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Starlink expands its ground stations in Spain to seven
The company has put three new ground stations into service
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IT service provider Infomaniak lists on Swiss stock exchange
The firm currently serves more than 300,000 European customers and operates three data centers in Switzerland
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Second Yandex data center hit in drone strikes in Russia
Yandex's data center in Kaluga has taken a hit
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Nokia to cut more than 250 jobs in Finland - report
The cuts are part of the company's cost-cutting plans put forward in 2023
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Waste heat from Goodman data center in Frankfurt, Germany, to power district heating system
Firm will recover and supply 50MW to warm buildings and a swimming pool
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Google's €13bn data center buildout in Finland under investigation for 300-hectare forest removal
Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority requests reports from local municipalities
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Sesterce to invest $10bn in 600MW AI data center campus in Jämsä, Finland
Developer says it has already secured an anchor customer for the site
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Quantum startup ZuriQ partners with Infineon for development of scalable quantum chips
Scaling QPUs for use in commercial quantum systems
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Yandex data center hit in drone attack in Russia
Data center in Ryazan Oblast struck in drone attack
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Openreach taps Ciena for 1.6Tbps WaveLogic 6 technology
Optical upgrades will support Openreach's wholesale offering
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1,000-year-old Scottish castle could be destroyed to make way for hyperscale data center
Developer says it will incorporate brickwork at 600MW campus
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Danish Parliament adopts "emergency plan" for electricity grid, puts data centers at the back of queue
Measures were first suggested during the summer
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Virgin Media O2 slams BT's planned acquisition of TalkTalk, amid CMA's probe into Nexfibre-Netomnia takeover
The telco says the BT deal "has all the characteristics of a stitch-up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest"
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Virgin Media O2 launches 5G Standalone service in Bristol, UK
As carrier further expands 5G+ footprint
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Applied Digital to develop 1GW data center campus in Finland
Company expands into Europe, but few details provided on project
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Ericsson Italy in redundancy volte face as its halts Genoa downsizing
U-turn comes after intervention from Giorgia Meloni herself
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HPE to be connectivity provider role at next year's Ryder Cup in Ireland
Will deploy Self-Driving Network to provide an up to par experience
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Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology unveils 33 petaflops HoreKa 2 supercomputer
Hybrid system powered by AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia GB200 GPUs
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BT to scoop up TalkTalk as part of rescue deal
Struggling network has been seeking a buyer for a while
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AI cloud startup Verda raises $189m in Series B funding round
Round was led by Emergence Capital
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Former UK power station site could become data center campus
Former Fawley Power Station outside Southampton could host data centers
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Google's head of data center global design and construction joins Anthropic
John M. Wilson to head EMEA capacity delivery
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IT systems in southern Italy back online after data center outage
The regional government ruled out a cyberattack
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atNorth to build 75MW data center in Salo, Finland
First phase to go live in 2028, potential expansion to 230MW
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ESA picks neXat, Telesat, & Colt for $1.68m Cableshield to backup subsea cable infrastructure
ESA to finance emergency data rerouting system via satellite in the event of subsea cable failure