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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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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Amazon signs PPA with Statkraft for windfarm in Shetland, Scotland
Builds other wind PPAs in the UK
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Haydale's graphene additive could improve the efficiency of data center cooling fluid
Solution set to be deployed in data centers over the next year
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EU Chips Joint Undertaking puts out two calls for AI hardware development projects
Calls have a combined budget of €80 million
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Alibaba Cloud plans new cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, the Netherlands
Will also expand existing footprint in Malaysia, Germany, UAE, and elsewhere
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Global Switch to host large Nvidia Blackwell deployment at Paris data center
End user has not been disclosed
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Ericsson to support Cellnex's 5G RAN upgrades in Poland
Will support Cellnex's sustainability ambitions
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Google receives planning permission to expand data center in Dublin, Ireland
An Coimisiún Pleanála greenlights plans
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T2, MegaFon expand 5G rollout to key metro stations in Russia
Russian telcos only launched 5G earlier this month
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Eaton to acquire COL Group
Industrial firm buys Italian switchgear maker for €810m
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Submer launches Corenix to offer modular data center infrastructure
New unit to provide custom modules for customers
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Plans unveiled for ‘largest’ data center in Italy
Developer Moncalieri Logistics has already submitted the plans
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Poste Italiane snaps up 85% stake in Telecom Italia
As Poste Italiane grows stake by 65.7 percent
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Lefdal Mine acquires data center development site in Norway
Company looks to expand with second site in Vestland County
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Electricity retailer Energa Obrót signs letter of intent for 100MW data center in Konin, Poland
The total investment made by Central Energy Group in the project is estimated at just under €3 billion
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Virtus secures £2.45bn in financing for data center build-out
Funds to fuel projects in the UK and mainland Europe
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Eir to begin 3G switch-off in Ireland later this week
Eir will kick off 3G shutdown in Donegal
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Russian drones strike Ukrainian telcos and data center operators as part of targeted attacks
Kyivstar's HQ in Kyiv was struck in latest attack on capital
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Vertiv expands data center kit manufacturing capacity in Slovakia
Will add 22,000 sqm to power and cooling factory
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AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
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SFR workers in France strike over proposed takeover
Thousands of the company's employees have taken industrial action amid uncertainty over job security
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ASML’s revenue share drops to zero percent in Europe, says it has sold “absolutely nothing” in the region this year
EUV lithography company says its working with politicians to bolster chipmaking efforts across the continent
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Vertiv to acquire data center fluid management firm King Environmental Services
Transaction to close before the end of the year
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Southern Water deploys Lightsonic water-leak technology using Openreach's fiber infrastructure
As the water company seeks to monitor leaks
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SiPearl delivers first samples of Rhea1 CPU to Bull for Jupiter exascale supercomputer
First order of SiPearl’s Rhea1 processors
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Ericsson, Vodafone demo AI-enabled instant call translation
The pair also showcased AI-based noise cancellation
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Airspan snaps up fixed wireless assets from stricken broadband firm Cambium
Company says more than 135 Cambium employees will join its team
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OpenAI and Anthropic seek 20-30MW data center deployments
As companies ramp up inference footprint