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Dell’Oro sees $120bn infrastructure market
Dell’Oro expects worldwide data centre physical-infrastructure revenue to reach $120bn by 2030 as nearly 200GW of new capacity drives spending on cooling, power distribution, UPS systems, and other facility equipment.
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Petition seeks AI data centre planning freeze
A UK Parliamentary petition is calling for data centre and battery planning approvals outside AI Growth Zones to be halted, adding another organised challenge to the government’s attempt to accelerate large digital-infrastructure development.
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AI Growth Zones show uneven planning progress
New planning data suggests the UK’s AI Growth Zones have yet to produce a consistent surge in relevant applications, exposing the distance between policy designation and development that is ready to build.
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Latos files Manchester neural-edge data centre
Latos has submitted plans for a 28,000 sq ft Manchester data centre on a three-acre brownfield site, advancing its proposed network of smaller high-density facilities aimed at low-latency AI workloads.
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Harworth expands hyperscale powered-land pipeline
Harworth has moved a second hyperscale site into exclusivity and now sees scope for six major data centre land sales, turning secured or prospective grid capacity into a larger part of its development strategy.
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EU power group warns heat strain persists
European electricity-security officials say supply remains stable but tight as persistent heat and record-low water levels pressure generation, adding another stress point for electricity-intensive infrastructure across Central and South-East Europe.
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Caritas hospital data centre targets 220kW
Caritas Hospital’s new modular data centre in Bad Mergentheim has entered service with a 78kW IT load and expansion capacity to 220kW, backed by redundant cooling, emergency generation, and rooftop solar.
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OVHcloud raises prices as memory costs surge
OVHcloud is raising prices on newer dedicated-server generations as RAM and storage inflation flows into infrastructure costs, with average increases of 28% on Gen 2024 hardware and 51% on Gen 2026 systems.
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Dublin remains Europe’s hyperscale outlier
Dublin is the only European market in Synergy Research Group’s global top 20 for operational hyperscale capacity, as US markets gain share and power increasingly dictates where future campuses can be built.
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Nvidia matches GPUs with Nordic capacity
Nvidia is reportedly connecting GPU holders with Nordic data centre operators, extending its influence from chip supply into the increasingly difficult business of finding powered facilities able to deploy them.