Build and facilities
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Bulgaria’s €3bn AI campus reaches the starting line
Brinell Compute says enabling work on its proposed €3 billion campus near Plovdiv will begin this autumn, with power, customers, permits, and financing still undisclosed.
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Poste Italiane brings a 70MW AI plan into view
Poste Italiane has identified land and an energy supplier for a proposed 70MW Lombardy data centre, although the location, consortium, and delivery programme remain undisclosed.
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Staudinger’s coal legacy gives way to compute
Uniper is preparing part of its Staudinger power station in Hesse for data centres, battery storage, and new generation across 459,000 square metres of industrial land.
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Portugal’s grid prepares for the data centre surge
EDP expects data centres to produce about 60% of Portugal’s electricity-demand growth through 2035 as more than 2.6GW of proposed capacity moves through development.
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Europe clears the runway for seven AI gigafactories
Brussels has opened a tender for up to seven AI gigafactories, combining €10 billion of public support with an expected €20 billion or more from industry.
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Scottish fibre lines scale for denser AI halls
Leviton has expanded high-fibre-count cable and cassette manufacturing at Glenrothes, adding more than 100 UK-produced configurations for AI, cloud, hyperscale, and colocation projects.
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Cyanis starts distributed compute push with €250,000
Hamburg-based Cyanis AI has raised more than €250,000 to develop an orchestration platform and prepare a proposed 10MW network of distributed European compute nodes.
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Tallinn expansion draws fresh infrastructure capital
Tensor Estate has acquired a minority holding in the company behind Greenergy Data Centers, adding capital for an AI-led expansion of the operating facility outside Tallinn.
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Kouvola’s 430MW route clears a land hurdle
Land rights for two transmission routes have advanced atNorth’s FIN04 campus in Finland, clearing another infrastructure stage for a development designed around as much as 430MW.
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Middenmeer’s next plot waits on power
Microsoft has acquired another 37.5 hectares at Middenmeer, adding strategic land beside proposed high-voltage infrastructure while zoning and grid constraints continue to govern Dutch data centre growth.