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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IonQ opens quantum innovation center at University of Cambridge
Quantum firm will deploy a Superion 256 system at the center
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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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D-Wave delivers Advantage2 quantum computer to Italy
System has been funded by SQT and will support the region's quantum computing ambitions
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Scaleway launches two availability zones for Italy cloud region
Brings total to three AZs
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Greece drafts legislation requiring data centers source 60% of power from renewables
Also proposes the creation of a data center registry
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Siemens makes strategic investment in energy infrastructure firm Skeleton Technologies to bolster AI data center offering
Also signs an exclusive partnership agreement
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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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Photonics quantum firm Orca Computing deploys PT-3 system at Digital Realty’s LHR19 data center
Quantum computer was installed and operational within 24 hours, and is already powering two projects
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Two Turkish nationals arrested over Russian-linked arson attack against Starlink ground station in Poland
Starlink ground station site was attacked last month in Mazovia
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Orange and Equitix join Pisces subsea cable consortium
Telco and infrastructure investor join in on Irish cable project
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Colt, Relativity Networks, NPS deliver hollow-core fiber proof of concept on London network
Connected two Colt network locations in central London
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Aether Infrastructure buys old gearbox factory in Strasbourg, France, for AI data center
Work could start this month
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Sberbank data center in Russia struck by Ukrainian military
Bank confirms attack, doesn't detail scale of damage
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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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VivoPower starts construction at 42MW Mo i Rana data center in Norway
To spin off 2.2GW non-Nordic AI data center portfolio into a new listed firm
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SWI raises €800 million for data center expansion
Funds to support projects in the US and Europe
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Russian military takes out more Ukrainian data centers
Military takes down ISP in Odesa, claims facility was serving Ukrainian armed forces
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Nebius signs LOI with Volt for data center capacity in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Nebius will lease capacity from the "AI Gigafactory" in the Port of Rotterdam
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Echion partners with Proper Voltage to develop 1.6MW UPS for AI data centers
Ink MoU to develop an integrated system
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Midgard Infra to build Sweden-Finland subsea cable
Unrepeatered system to total 144 fiber pairs, full route details not shared
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WindTre workers go on national strike in Italy
Unions warn of further industrial action next month
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Ardian, Oak Holdings could buyout minority shareholders in Italy's Inwit - report
Such a deal would take Italy's biggest tower company private
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Orcadian Energy terminates data center agreement for North Sea gas field - report
Non-exclusive agreement signed with US digital infrastructure developer back in July
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Telia outlines plans to cut 900 jobs as part of $100m cost-savings strategy
The layoffs will conclude by the end of the year
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Third strike on Yandex data center in Russia
Vladimir data center gets hit during drone strike
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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