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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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
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Poland’s National Data Processing Center receives EU funding grant
The data center network has received PLN 1.56 billion ($401m) from the European Funds for Digital Development program
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AI data center planned for Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Facility estimated to cost €24 million and open in 2030
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Another data center in Kyiv taken offline by Russian strikes
Dline.ua facility taken down, follows strikes on numerous others data centers in the city
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Castle IT to open new data center in Saint-Omer, France
Will be colo firm's second facility
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Nation Data Center breaks ground on new French data center development
The project in Vélizy-Villacoublay town is part of a mixed-use project
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Enetron Park announces zoning approval for 250MW data center in Pyhäjoki, Finland, despite local government denial
Announcement at odds with government decision
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Concern over 'monster' data center planned for Cheshire, UK
Residents up in arms that fields near motorway could house data center
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Plans filed for 1GW data center campus at former nuclear plant in Scotland
CX Tech says site will feature direct-wire connections to renewable projects
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European Space Agency taps OVHcloud and CGI for Earth observation system
Digital EO will provide Earth observation data to scientists, public bodies, businesses, and citizens
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AI cloud provider Blackfuel emerges from stealth, plans first deployment in Spain
Will be housed in Digital Realty's BCN1 data center
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Russian drones enter into Moldovan airspace, collides with comms tower
After the collision the drone exploded
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Data center in Kyiv, Ukraine, suffers "critical damage" and goes offline after Russian bomb attack
Moscow continues to target digital infrastructure
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Xantaro Group names Christian Werner as CEO
Replaces Martin Czermin in the role
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Civo plans 8MW Edge data center for AI in Hertfordshire, UK
Ultimately planned to scale to 38MW, first of 40 planned sites