Cyber and resilience
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NASK details Poland’s national data-centre design
Poland’s NASK has outlined a modular government data-centre installation with 15MW of planned power capacity, approximately 200km of fibre infrastructure, and digital-twin monitoring.
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RETN expands Sofia connectivity through Neterra facility
RETN has opened a point of presence at Neterra’s Sofia Data Center, bringing its city footprint to eight locations and adding an international IP transit route.
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Kyivstar agrees acquisition of GigaCloud for $50m
Kyivstar has agreed to acquire GigaCloud in a transaction worth up to $50m, extending its enterprise computing infrastructure across Ukraine and Poland subject to completion.
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Oracle expands Acceleron networking for AI infrastructure
Oracle has expanded Acceleron with new high-performance fabric, storage connectivity, and resilient communications capabilities intended to reduce networking constraints across large AI clusters.
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Lords amend data-centre incident reporting in cyber bill
The House of Lords agreed amendments narrowing proposed data-centre incident reporting to actual effects while adding customer update duties. The legislation remains subject to further parliamentary stages.
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The changing fire safety challenge facing Europe’s data centre boom
Aaron Velardi, head of business development at Ramtech, examines how expanding data centre campuses and lithium-ion battery systems are changing fire safety requirements during construction and across operational facilities.
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UK clarifies proposed cyber duties for data centres
Ministers say qualifying commercial data centres would fall within the Network and Information Systems regime under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which remains before Parliament ahead of Lords report stage.
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Swiss government opens CHF7bn cloud services procurement
Switzerland has opened its Swiss Government Cloud procurement, with a CHF7 billion optional purchasing ceiling over 14 years. The programme combines public cloud options with infrastructure operated in federal data centres.
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Portuguese health outage renews data centre scrutiny
Portuguese doctors have demanded answers after a power failure at a national health data centre disrupted clinical records and electronic prescriptions. Redundancy and electrical upgrades are now promised.
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DE-CIX adds diverse westbound routes into Frankfurt
DE-CIX has activated new links involving Sofia, Istanbul, and Frankfurt, offering operators three geographical paths towards European cloud and interconnection infrastructure, subject to actual routing and capacity arrangements.