Build and facilities
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Aurora Core moves Finnish project into procurement
Aurora Core has begun equipment procurement, grid negotiations, and environmental work for a proposed Finnish AI data centre, but key project parameters remain undisclosed.
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Alibaba plans Finland and Netherlands cloud regions
Alibaba Cloud will establish new regions in Finland and the Netherlands while expanding its existing German and French data centre footprint.
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Semtech joins 12.8T XPO optics push
Semtech has joined the XPO multi-source agreement with 200G-per-lane optical ICs for a 12.8T liquid-cooled transceiver format aimed at AI networks.
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MicroVision targets AI links with ELSFP
MicroVision’s Scantinel subsidiary has introduced an external laser module for co-packaged optics as it moves lidar-derived photonics technology into AI data centre networking.
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Schladen-Werla advances 200MW data centre
Green Datacenter Development is progressing a 200MW project at Schladen-Werla after securing reserved grid capacity and moving the German site into formal planning.
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SiPearl ships Rhea1 CPUs for JUPITER
SiPearl has delivered the first Rhea1 processors to Bull for integration into the BullSequana XH3000 platform used in Europe’s JUPITER exascale system.
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Financing advances Schwarz Rostock data centre
Frux Capital has financed the FREO-developed Schwarz Group data centre project in north-eastern Germany, where the first phase targets 240MW of computing capacity.
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Polcom plans 40MW Skawina data centre
Polcom is planning a 40MW data centre at Skawina with six server rooms and designs supporting rack densities of up to 150kW.
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Datacenter United lands Machelen AI deal
Datacenter United has contracted multi-megawatt AI capacity at Machelen as it upgrades the Belgian facility with liquid cooling for higher-density workloads.
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BizLink tests wide-and-slow AI optics
BizLink and ams OSRAM are developing a highly parallel optical interconnect that uses multiple lower-speed channels rather than concentrating bandwidth into fewer high-speed lanes, targeting AI scale-up power and latency constraints.