Markets and policy
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Babenhausen learns the price of planning drift
A proposed €3 billion Stack Infrastructure campus near Frankfurt has been abandoned after its landowner blamed a prolonged and uncertain planning process.
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Uniper brings power stations into the data centre race
Uniper has identified more than ten European energy sites for potential data centre development, combining industrial land, grid infrastructure, generation, and long term power contracts.
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Fibre supply moves into ten year territory
Prysmian will supply Molex with data centre optical cable for up to a decade, backed by a €550 million upfront payment and major manufacturing expansion.
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Lombardy puts megawatts on the map
Lombardy has brought data centre power, water, land, and heat reuse into a dedicated regional planning regime as Milan’s infrastructure pipeline expands.
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AI data centres meet the politics of power bills
Ministerial comments put AI data centres inside power bill politics.
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Greece edges into Europe’s capacity map
New research points to Greek capacity growth and renewable power.
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Airbus puts sovereign cloud on the flight path
Airbus selects Scaleway for sensitive European industrial cloud workloads.
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Europe’s data centre zones face a sovereignty fight
SOMO warns acceleration zones could deepen Europe’s cloud dependency.
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Coravel’s first lease carries a 140MW test
ACS and GIP’s Coravel platform has secured a 140MW hyperscale lease in Texas, with expansion rights covering a further 100MW.
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Nebius lands Reflection’s $1bn compute commitment
Reflection AI has committed more than $1 billion to Nebius computing capacity, adding another large customer contract to the rapidly expanding neocloud market.