Build and facilities
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Europe loses ground in the capacity race
Europe’s share of global data centre capacity could fall to about 10% by 2030 as grid delays, energy costs, permitting, and constrained sites slow delivery.
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Italy gives data centre permits a ten-month clock
Italy has issued the first operating guidance for its unified data centre authorisation route, setting a ten-month maximum after an application passes the completeness check.
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Italy puts €8bn campuses on fast track
Italy has granted national strategic status to seven Equinix facilities and a 300MW–400MW campus planned on the former Galileo Ferraris power station.
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France’s next 400MW takes shape
Orange and Morrison plan a €3 billion French data centre platform that would combine five operating facilities with new capacity, infrastructure capital, and a 400MW target.
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Google’s Georgia footprint dwarfs the European model
Google has been named as the sole end user of an 8 million sq ft data centre campus in Georgia.
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OpenAI’s 3.2GW campus puts power first
OpenAI’s proposed Project Camellia campus in Georgia adds another multi-gigawatt marker to the AI infrastructure race.
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Fife pushes back on Scotland’s hyperscale dream
ILI Group’s proposed £5 billion Cato data centre near Auchtertool has drawn more than 1,200 objections.
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Poland wants a seat in Europe’s AI factory network
Gdańsk University of Technology has submitted a bid to host the Gaia AI Factory under the EuroHPC programme.
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Milan’s next data centre fight moves west
Two schemes in Pregnana Milanese show how brownfield land and power access are pulling growth beyond central Milan.
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A gigawatt power path opens in Croatia
Pantheon Atlas has secured Croatian grid approval for a proposed AI campus with an 800MW usable IT load.