Markets and policy
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Brick Lane data centre lands on ministers’ desks
Ministers will decide whether a five storey data centre can be built at the former Truman Brewery after Tower Hamlets opposed the scheme.
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Southall trades cereal sheds for hyperscale
CyrusOne has secured approval to redevelop the former Honey Monster factory into a major data centre campus with dedicated power infrastructure and local planning obligations.
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Telxius sale puts Europe’s cable gateways in play
Telefónica and Pontegadea are reported to have reopened a sale of Telxius, placing transatlantic cable routes, landing stations, and connected data centre assets on the market.
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Nebius turns GPUs into bankable infrastructure
Nebius has secured $775 million of debt against deployed GPU systems and contracted customer cash flow, creating an asset level financing model for further AI capacity.
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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.