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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Cellnex signs €375m loan with EIB to support rollout of 5G infrastructure
Will fund new tower builds across Cellnex's European markets
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UK mmWave vendor CBNG collapses after loss of Verizon deal
The company entered administration in early October
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Putin gives Russian companies permission to use foreign data centers after Ukraine drone strikes
Russia's data center firms ordered to reserve capacity for government departments
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Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Becomes the program’s 39th participating state
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Putin signs decree that non-state data centers will have to reserve 10 percent of capacity for government use
As data centers come under attack, the Russian state looks to expand its presence
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Fireworks contracts 5MW of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra capacity at Era4 data center in UK
Will be hosted in Era4's Chesterfield data center
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Virgin Media O2 confirms plans to cut thousands of jobs, aims to save £800m by 2029
As company says it's halting investment in further fiber upgrades
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Telia, Ericsson launch 6G field trials in Sweden
The trials taps into Ericsson’s pre-standard 6G capabilities in the upper 6 GHz frequency band
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Tract expands into UK, plans 500MW campus in Durham
Company seeking feedback on plans for seven-building campus
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Drax partners with Brookfield and Radiant for up to 1GW data center at North Yorkshire power station
First phase targeting 100MW of capacity by 2028
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Rostelecom in talks with Norilsk Nickel for underground data centers amid drone attacks
As Ukraine hits data centers, Russia considers bunker facilities
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Green to develop a new data center campus in Birr, Switzerland
The site in Grossacher and Grändel was previously owned by ABB
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Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs in cost-savings push - report
Sky News reports that up to 4,000 roles could be impacted
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Germany's Nexspace to develop 4MW data center outside Munich
Company expanding Edge portfolio
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Nebul deploys Nvidia GPUs at Datacenter United campus in Belgium
European AI cloud leasing capacity in Machelen
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National Grid buys land in Teesside, UK, for 3.2GW substation to power AI data center
Expected to support AI growth zone data center
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Data center mooted in Glasgow by Scottish automotive firm
Local automotive company sounding out local council about a project near Cowlairs Park
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SpiNNcloud rebrands to Sparxity, announces cluster deployment at Jülich center in Germany
Company said rebrand reflects its vision to “only compute what matters”
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Openreach issues warning over January's PSTN switch-off
Warns that businesses will count the cost if they don't migrate from legacy ISDN services
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Virgin Media O2 nears agreement to use BT's broadband network - report
The FT reports that Virgin Media O2 could pause its own fiber infrastructure buildout
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Google buys 56 hectares in Hamina, Finland, amid ongoing issues over Muhos tree-felling
Finnish firm Tekova plans 50MW data center in Perho, SRV backs out of 40MW project in Eura
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Deutsche Telekom halts mega-merger plans with T-Mobile - report
For now, it seems a union between the two is off
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Finnish police open criminal investigation into Google over reported mass tree felling at data center site
Google said it will "cooperate with the investigation"
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Turkish police make 85 arrests over last month's arson attack against Starlink satellite station in Poland
As the net widens over arson attack on September 23
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Nordic data center firm Heim secures investment from Omnes
Investment to fund first projects in Finland
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Orange seeks compensation from Nokia over outage in France earlier this month - report
The outage last week impacted millions of Orange customers
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NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments
Brings company’s AI factory total to four sites across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East
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Alibaba launches Amsterdam cloud region, plans further European expansion
Company also launches latest version of on-premise rack offering