News
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Amsterdam finds another 700kW inside existing halls
NovoServe is adding 150 racks across NorthC and maincubes facilities near Amsterdam, creating 700kW of additional bare-metal capacity without a new building.
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Munich’s regional capacity pipeline gains a new site
M-net has started work on a 1,500-square-metre colocation facility in northern Munich, targeting a 2027 test phase and commercial operation in 2028.
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The 800V DC race reaches the power train
DG Matrix and Skeleton Technologies are combining solid-state transformers with fast-response storage to manage the pulse loads expected from dense AI clusters.
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The 246kW rack enters the design brief
Schneider Electric and AMD have published a validated infrastructure design for Helios clusters, including racks drawing up to 246kW and greenfield deployments reaching 10.4MW.
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Norway’s Drangedal campus grows by 40MW
Polar Data Centers has announced a second liquid-cooled facility at Drangedal, adding 40MW of planned IT capacity beside its operating DRA01 building.
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A €300m build takes shape at Kouvola
YIT will deliver design, civil works, MEP systems, and commissioning for a new building at atNorth’s planned 430MW FIN04 campus in Finland.
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Britain’s cyber bill meets a thin skills bench
The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will extend security duties to data centres and managed service providers, while a shortage of experienced personnel threatens to constrain implementation.
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Batteries could loosen Britain’s data centre grid peaks
Research using electricity profiles from 96 UK data centres suggests onsite batteries could reduce maximum grid imports by 10–15%, shifting demand without reducing the energy required by computing and cooling.
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Britain’s AI buildout meets peak water demand
Water UK has warned that rapid data centre growth could create peak water requirements far above average consumption, particularly in already stressed parts of eastern and south-eastern England.
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Heiligenhaus solar covers a sliver of data demand
Yexio has installed 244kWp of solar generation at its Heiligenhaus data centre, forecasting 220MWh a year against a facility capable of scaling from 2MW to 4MW.