Build and facilities
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Brookfield lifts French AI infrastructure plan
Brookfield is increasing its planned AI infrastructure investment in France to €30bn as the country courts large data centre capital.
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SoftBank plans 5GW French AI build
SoftBank has committed up to €75bn to develop 5GW of AI data centre capacity in France.
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Bull and Foxconn plan European AI manufacturing
Bull and Foxconn will manufacture AI and cloud infrastructure across facilities in France and the Czech Republic.
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Tet opens first phase of DC7
Latvian telco Tet has completed the first phase of its DC7 data centre near Riga, with liquid cooling and local heat reuse planned.
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Era4 plans landfill-powered Canterbury data centre
Era4 has filed plans for a small AI data centre at a Canterbury landfill site, using private-wire landfill gas power and closed-loop liquid cooling.
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Google starts Horndal data centre build
Google has broken ground on its first owned and operated data centre in Sweden, with air cooling and heat-recovery readiness in the design.
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Retrofit narrows AI cooling cost gap
STL Partners research suggests liquid cooling retrofits can cut headline AI upgrade capex sharply against new greenfield capacity.
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ABB joins Nvidia AI factory blueprint
ABB will add power infrastructure models to Nvidia’s Omniverse DSX platform, supporting source-to-rack simulation before construction.
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EDF picks data centre bidders for power sites
EDF has selected SoftBank and Eclairion for large AI data centre projects at former power-station sites in France.