Markets and policy
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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.
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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.