DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe, Cristina Lago
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Iron Mountain sues UK's Home Office over £140m passport contract bid
Firm says it was unable to submit tender after government department quadrupled potential penalties at short notice
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Plans for 120MW data center withdrawn in Lombardy, Italy
Mayor says municipality never received data needed for the grid connection
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Greenfield and Finsbury Infrastructure to invest €360m in Milan data center
The project has already secured 80MW of power capacity
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Two data centers planned in Pregnana Milanese, Italy
A third project has also been reported in the town
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Excess heat from Equinix data centers to power homes in Milan, Italy
The initiative is expected to meet the heating needs of over 21,000 homes
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Kuok Group plans €5.3bn Milan data campus investment
The investment would cover the construction and long-term management of the project
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First data center built inside active mine opens in the Dolomites
The project was completed in just over two years from design to construction
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Locals oppose 240MW data center planned in Lombardy, Italy
The MXP Magenta targets 240MW across five buildings
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Private equity firm acquires Croatia’s ‘Fort-Knox’ data center
The 4MW facility is located at the intersection of three redundant optical crossroads
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Earthquake-proof prefab Rome data center built in five weeks
The €28m facility was built using 100 percent recyclable materials, Italian media said
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Damac Digital plans 6GW data center expansion across four continents
The company already has operational data centers in Saudi Arabia and Thailand
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Joint venture launched in Italy to invest €1bn in renewable data centers
The first facilities are expected to begin construction this year
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EdgeConneX plans €3bn data center investment in Italy
Construction is expected to begin this year
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Italy plans to build ‘Europe’s largest data center’ in former Trino power plant
Data center developer Techbau is reportedly behind the plans
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Medallion sues InfraPartners for $15m over unfinished Lagos data center
Digital Realty subsidiary seeks damages after alleged issues at modular build
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Retelit breaks ground on new data center in Milan, Italy
Once completed, it will become part of the company’s Avalon Campus ecosystem
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Pantheon eyes large-scale behind-the-meter data center campus in Croatia
Project set to be “the largest investment” in the country’s history, company claims
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Local gov't and IDA introduce framework for data center development in Pavia, Italy
Announcement coincides with the appointment of Luca Beltramino as IDA’s new president
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Italian startup gets €211m to develop graphene-based optical chips
A pilot manufacturing facility is expected to be operational by 2028
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Construction completed on underground data center in the Dolomites, Italy
It sits next to storage rooms for wine, cheese and apples
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Unidata begins development on 20MW data center in Rome, Italy
The UniCenter will be backed with a €57m ($65.6m) investment
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Rai Way gets approval for €400m hyperscale data center near Rome, Italy
The project is awaiting authorisation for a 5.5MW photovoltaic plant to power it
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Infranity invests €175m in Retelit data centers in Italy
Aims to accelerate the expansion of critical data center capacity in the country
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Frustration grows as data center project in limbo in Bergamo, Italy
Construction of the 181,000 sqm ‘Innovation Hub’ was expected to start in 2024
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Karatzis Group to build €240m data center in Boeotia, Greece
Campus to have 430MW of capacity at full buildout
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Spanish government to allocate €13.6bn to alleviate grid issues
Proposal includes 3.8GW for data centers
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Abrantes approves €16.2m in tax exemptions to facilitate new data center
The initiative aims to reactivate the local economy and give new life to inactive land
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Vantage enters Spain, to invest €3.2 billion in Zaragoza data center campus
The facility will be located in an eco-industrial park promoted by the company