Build and facilities
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S&P flags data centre insurance gap
S&P Global Ratings warns that hyperscale data centre values are stretching conventional insurance capacity and changing project finance risk.
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Malesherbois printworks eyes data centre
A former Loiret printworks has been sold for potential data centre conversion, with grid access still the unresolved constraint.
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What counts as a real data centre project?
Announced megawatts rarely prove whether data centre capacity will arrive. UK schemes now face harder tests on land, power, planning, financing, construction, and energisation.
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Lombardy tightens data centre rules
Lombardy has approved a data centre law aimed at steering rapid capacity growth towards brownfield land and clearer authorisation routes.
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AmpTank plans Utajärvi AI data centre
AmpTank is moving from Nordic battery storage into hyperscale compute with a Finnish data centre tied to grid flexibility and nearby renewables.
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Data4 launches 700MW Escaudain campus
Data4 is taking a former northern French industrial site into the AI infrastructure race with a planned €5bn, 700MW data centre campus.
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Delhi fire disrupts Google Cloud traffic
A third-party data centre fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud traffic, exposing the operational reach of physical infrastructure incidents.
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KKR launches power-led AI platform
KKR’s Helix platform shows private capital moving deeper into the power bottleneck behind AI data centre development.
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Cambridge launches Zenith AI supercomputer
Cambridge has launched the £36m Zenith AI supercomputer, adding publicly funded research compute capacity to the UK’s sovereign AI infrastructure push.
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Pure DC advances Brent Cross build
Pure DC has appointed Glencar for the next Brent Cross phase, extending a live London campus toward 90MW of total capacity.