Markets and policy
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Spain becomes A1 Digital’s sovereign foothold
A1 Digital plans to deploy locally hosted Exoscale infrastructure in Spain, initially using third-party data centre capacity while it builds a regional operation.
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Mitsubishi buys into Europe’s cooling service gap
Mitsubishi Electric has acquired two Dutch HVAC groups, adding local installation and maintenance capacity to its European data centre cooling operation.
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Austria’s EIA rules meet hyperscale reality
WWF Austria wants large data centres written into environmental assessment law after Google’s expanding Kronstorf campus avoided a full EIA.
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Portugal draws a line around power-heavy growth
Portugal wants proposed data centres to generate wider economic value as a pipeline exceeding 2.6GW competes for electricity, land, and network infrastructure.
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France puts foreign data centres on notice
A parliamentary commission wants France to pause foreign-controlled data centre projects while it reconsiders how scarce power capacity is allocated to digital infrastructure.
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Kegworth’s mainframe past becomes warehouse land
A demolished former RBS/NatWest data centre at Packington Hill, Kegworth, is set for warehouse redevelopment, showing how legacy enterprise sites are being recycled.
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Sovereign cloud finds a Geneva anchor
nLighten and Arqit have tested a model that anchors data and cryptographic controls in a Geneva data centre while workloads use public cloud resources.
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AI data centres run into the rulebook
Authorities in Europe and beyond are tightening controls on data centre development as AI demand turns electricity, water, land, and community impact into planning constraints.
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Plans progress for 60MW data centre in Alicante
Renewable energy developer Valfortec is progressing plans for a €300m data centre campus in Elche, adding Alicante to Spain’s widening digital infrastructure map.
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Aragón’s AI pipeline gets another 150MW
Krolmap is planning a 150MW data centre campus near Zaragoza, adding to Aragón’s fast-growing pipeline of AI and hyperscale infrastructure projects.