DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Europe, Barney Dixon, DCD Intelligence
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Finland to abandon first-come, first-served grid connections, dropping data centers down the queue
Draft amendment looks at reallocating priority based on four groupings
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Film studio turned data center project gets approval in High Wycombe, UK
Passes planning permission, subject to conditions
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Taiwan-based Liteon purchases 25 percent stake in Polish liquid cooling firm, DCX
Deal worth around $176 million
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CBRE: Europe data center market to grow by nearly a quarter in 2026
Reaching 13GW of capacity by the end of the year
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JLL: FLAPD on track for record data center growth year, while Middle East pipeline is paused
FLAPD markets reach a live capacity of 3.8GW in 1H 2026
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Germany’s Maincubes completes first module of new Frankfurt data center
First leg of the 16MW hyperscale/HPC data center
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Tensor Estate takes stake in Greenergy Data Centers' owner with funds going to AI expansion
Capital will grow the Estonian facility in response to AI demand
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Power availability the defining constraint in EMEA data center development - report
Grid infrastructure is curbing the transition from planned capacity to operational capacity
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CBRE: Global data center demand continues to outstrip supply, driving up rental rates and construction costs
Trend seen in all regions despite extraordinary new supply growth
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Polar DC raises €800m senior secured bond for Norway data center development
Funds will be used to refinance existing Drangedai debt, plus additional construction
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English data center planning applications doubled in 2025, FOI requests reveal
Rose from 13 applications in 2024 to 26 in 2025
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Welsh data center proposal rejected by local council
Anglesey County Council rejected planning for the former Octel Factory in Amlwch
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European Commission releases aggregate EED data center data – operators report 6.4GW of installed capacity across the EU
Current data aggregated under the directive, not yet a complete picture
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Savills: European data centers to drive surge in logistics space demand over the next three years
The data center supply chain needs more space
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UK-based Lunar Digital to partner with Asanti for AI and Edge infrastructure expansion
New JV will see Lunar take operational management of Asanti’s platform
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Yondr Group secures $532m in green ABS funding
The bond was secured under its Green Finance Framework
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CBRE: European hyperscaler self-build capacity growth to outpace colocation supply growth, but supply outpaces take-up in weaker than expected 2025
Hyperscaler self-build to increase by 24 percent in 2026
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GIC considering sale of 80 percent stake in xScale JV
Could raise up to €1 billion
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Eutelsat cancels ground station sale after French gov't intervention
French minister Roland Lescure said he had not authorized the sale
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Virtus appoints Adam Eaton as new CEO
Eaton replaces parent company STT GDC’s Thomas Ee
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Cegeka plans underground data center in Belgian Limburg
Company also announces investments aimed at achieving zero-emission cloud services
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UK data centers need "separate use class" to avoid housing construction delays, says London committee
Committee makes ten recommendations to strengthen long-term data center planning
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ING: Netherlands could lose data center lead if government doesn’t act
Growth opportunities could be limited if action isn't taken
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CBRE: European AI data center capacity triples as neocloud demand rises
Nordics see biggest surge in capacity in 2025