Data center projects worth £14bn announced with new UK government AI plan
Data center zones and new supercomputer also in the pipeline
News - Wales
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Vantage reveals plans for 10-building campus at former Ford car factory in Bridgend, Wales
Company unveils plans for site it bought last year
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Large data center campus planned in Anglesey, Wales
Located at former aluminium site
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Vishay to invest £51 million in recently acquired Newport Wafer Fab, UK
First phase of planned £1bn cash injection
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New UK operator Latos plans 90MW data center in Cardiff, Wales
First of more than a dozen planned data centers across the UK
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Large data center and energy park approved near Cardiff in Wales
Includes 100MW of battery storage
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Application filed to place container data center in Welsh village for district heating
8ft container to be placed in communal garden
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Openreach fined £1.34m over river death of employee in Wales
The company acknowledged it failed to meet health and safety laws
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Vantage looks to raise £600 million securitization funding against Cardiff data centers
Reportedly the first asset-backed securities issuance for a data center in Europe
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Vantage buys former Ford engine plant in Wales for data center campus
The factory closed in 2020
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UK government approves Vishay’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab
Consent order was signed four months after Vishay entered into an agreement to purchase fab from Nexperia
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Mavin to deploy containerized prefab data center at Welsh rail excellence center
New module to support rail rolling stock testing
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Cardiff University deploys 90 Lenovo servers into its Hawk HPC cluster
The technology will support two research groups focused on the origins of the universe and star formation
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EE completes first phase of Shared Rural Network in UK
Becomes the first mobile network operator to do so
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US chip company Vishay acquires Newport fab from Nexperia
China-linked Nexperia forced to sell after UK Gov blocked sale
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Microsoft to build data center in Newport, Wales
Company building facility near to Vantage’s campus
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Vantage to adopt HVO fuel for generators in Wales and California
Company swaps diesel for bio-fuel
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Vodafone kicks off Open RAN deployment in UK, replacing Huawei kit in process
Open RAN is tipped to bring diversity to the telecoms supply chain
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Amazon eyes former Ford plant in Wales for data center: report
1.67 million sq ft site offers 60MVA
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Gcore launches AI Cloud cluster in Wales
In partnership with Graphcore
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OneWeb tests next-generation LEO satellite
Company tests new tech on demonstration machine known as ‘JoeySat’
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110-acre greenfield site outside Cardiff under offer, reportedly from data center firm
Bridgend could soon be home to a new data center campus
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Vantage Data Centers to develop $600 million 48MW campus in London, UK
Company also adds second 40MW data center on its Cardiff campus
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Microsoft to build data center in Welsh radiator factory - report
1 million sq ft building is next to Vantage's Newport campus
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Gibraltar telco Gibtelecom plants 600 trees in Wales
Company plants 12 species of native saplings
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Swansea council to relocate data center amid plans to redevelop city’s Civic Centre
Council to move data center to Guildhall, and some infrastructure to Oracle Cloud
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Cardiff Met Uni relocating on-campus data center
Uni moving primary data center to make room for expanded Technology school
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£1.7bn Blue Eden tidal lagoon in Swansea to include green data center, battery factory
Battery firm leads renewable energy mega project