Build and facilities
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ESA awards sovereign cloud infrastructure contract
OVHcloud and CGI will build a distributed European infrastructure for ESA Earth-observation data under a 30-month contract spanning France, Germany, Italy, and Poland.
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Google wins Grange Castle expansion approval
Google has secured planning permission for a 72,400 sq m expansion of its Grange Castle data centre campus, overturning a 2024 refusal centred on electricity-network constraints.
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Submer launches factory-built data centre platform
Submer Group has launched Corenix to factory-build and test integrated data centre modules containing IT, power, cooling, and networking before completing installation and commissioning on site.
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Global Switch hosts Blackwell deployment in Paris
Global Switch’s Paris campus has been selected for a major Nvidia Blackwell deployment, putting liquid cooling, high rack density, power availability, and heat reuse into the same facility programme.
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Vertiv expands Slovak power and cooling plant
Vertiv will add around 22,000 square metres to its Slovak manufacturing campus as demand rises for data centre power, switchgear, and liquid-cooling equipment across EMEA.
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Kyivstar plans sovereign AI data centre
Kyivstar and MeetKai plan a sovereign AI data centre in Ukraine that is expected to begin at 15MW and scale towards 100MW, with initial capacity targeted for 2027.
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Major operator confirmed behind Rødby project
Developer Stender says an unnamed major data centre operator is behind the proposed 960MW Rødby campus, but power, planning, and regulatory approvals will still determine the project’s final scale.
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NxN enters Portugal with Évora acquisition
NxN Data Centers has entered Portugal by acquiring an operational 1MW facility in Évora and says it intends to invest up to €100 million in the country over three years.
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YIT expands XTX Kajaani data centre contract
YIT will deliver fit-out, building services, and commissioning work for XTX Markets’ third Kajaani data centre as the trading company advances a Finnish campus investment worth more than €1 billion.
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STL extends fibre trunks to 6,912 fibres
STL extends Neuralis fibre trunks to 6,912-fibre campus scale deployments.