Build and facilities
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Power-rich land drives the £14bn SEGRO approach
SEGRO’s board is minded to recommend Prologis’s improved £14bn proposal, bringing two substantial logistics, powered-land, and data centre development portfolios closer together.
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Sines gains a 384Tbps Atlantic route
Google’s 7,000km Nuvem subsea cable has reached Sines, adding a high-capacity route between Portugal and North America.
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Amsterdam finds another 700kW inside existing halls
NovoServe is adding 150 racks across NorthC and maincubes facilities near Amsterdam, creating 700kW of additional bare-metal capacity without a new building.
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Munich’s regional capacity pipeline gains a new site
M-net has started work on a 1,500-square-metre colocation facility in northern Munich, targeting a 2027 test phase and commercial operation in 2028.
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The 800V DC race reaches the power train
DG Matrix and Skeleton Technologies are combining solid-state transformers with fast-response storage to manage the pulse loads expected from dense AI clusters.
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The 246kW rack enters the design brief
Schneider Electric and AMD have published a validated infrastructure design for Helios clusters, including racks drawing up to 246kW and greenfield deployments reaching 10.4MW.
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Norway’s Drangedal campus grows by 40MW
Polar Data Centers has announced a second liquid-cooled facility at Drangedal, adding 40MW of planned IT capacity beside its operating DRA01 building.
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A €300m build takes shape at Kouvola
YIT will deliver design, civil works, MEP systems, and commissioning for a new building at atNorth’s planned 430MW FIN04 campus in Finland.
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Britain’s AI buildout meets peak water demand
Water UK has warned that rapid data centre growth could create peak water requirements far above average consumption, particularly in already stressed parts of eastern and south-eastern England.
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Backup power adds a 3MVA European option
Everllence has introduced a 3MVA standby generator for European data centres, combining 2.4MWe output with 50Hz operation, container integration, electrically driven cooling, and support for HVO.