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News - Europe, NVIDIA
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Nvidia partners with PreussenElektra to explore deployment of AI data centers at former nuclear sites in Germany
Represents the first step in the evaluation process
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Cadence unveils Nvidia-powered AI data center in Munich, Germany
Facility will support electronic design automation (EDA), simulation, and offer sovereign AI cloud services
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Bull awarded €40m to deliver HLRE-5 supercomputer to the German Climate Computing Center
System will be powered by Nvidia GB200 Superchips and Vera CPUs
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Emerald AI, Nvidia share results of latest pilot at Nscale data center in Iceland
Seventh pilot undertaken by Emerald AI to date
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BT bolsters 5G Standalone footprint, confirms AI-RAN trials with Nokia, Nvidia
The AI-RAN trials are set to take place in the UK's second city next year
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NTT deploys Nvidia GPU test cluster at Munich 2 data center
Allows customers to test AI applications on Nvidia Blackwell hardware
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Starling Bank to train transactional foundation model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud platform
Claims to be the first bank to do so
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Scaleway plans GPU cluster deployments in Sweden and Copenhagen
Announced during cloud company's AI-Pulse 2026 event
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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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AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
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Mistral raises €3bn in Series D led by Samsung Electronics
Plans to spend it on more compute
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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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Volta launches out of stealth, to lease capacity in Norway from Bitdeer for “leading AI lab”
New company targets gigawatts of capacity by 2030
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Lenovo partners with the University of Southampton for Nvidia-powered supercomputer
Will support the university’s ambitions of deploying a Top500-ranked system
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Brookfield ups French data center investment by €10 billion
Campus AI joint venture close to selecting second site
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Bull delivers Finland’s national supercomputer Roihu to CSC’s Kajaani data center
System is powered by AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia GH200 superchips
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TotalEnergies inks deal with Nvidia and Dell to build supercomputer in Pau, France
Will be used to advance seismic imaging for hydrocarbon exploration
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EuroHPC JU signs deal with Dell and E4 Computer Engineering for IT4LIA AI supercomputer
System will form part of the IT4LIA AI factory, hosted and operated by CINECA at the DAMA Tecnopolo of Bologna
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Orange pairs with Nokia to push AI RAN development
French telco becomes latest carrier to embrace AI RAN
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Armenian bank Ameriabank invests $60m in Firebird.ai’s planned 100MW data center
AI cloud company Firebird has acquired 50,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs for the facility
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Eleveight AI deploys 512 Nvidia B300s at 2MW data center in Gagarin, Armenia
Construction of facility slated for completion this month
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Pharmaceutical company Roche deploys 3,500 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across hybrid cloud and on‐premises
Building on previous Genentech-Nvidia partnership
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Samsung secures Open RAN deal with Rakuten Mobile in Japan
As the vendor also pairs Vodafone on vRAN call
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Nokia maps out AI RAN vision at MWC ahead of 6G era
As the vendor announces a number of partnerships at this year's MWC
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Deutsche Telekom launches Nvidia AI factory data center in Munich's Tucherpark
Will form the basis of ‘Germany Stack’ to support country’s sovereign AI efforts
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Nokia continues to hedge bets on data center opportunity
As the emergence of AI continues to shape the vendor's focus into 2026
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Europe steps up sovereignty with AI ramping and rumored vendor axing
Huawei and ZTE under threat as EU emboldens security, as European AI gigafactories take a step closer to reality