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South Wales AI zone lands its first capacity deal
Nebius will deploy high-density Nvidia infrastructure at Vantage’s Newport campus, giving the South Wales AI Growth Zone its first announced commercial capacity commitment.
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Europe has 2,800 data centre sites — but not 50GW of live load
A new inventory counts almost 2,800 EU data centre sites and more than 50GW of listed capacity, but planned projects, campus totals, and operating facilities sit together inside the headline figures.
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Florence brownfield scheme ties compute to solar, hydrogen and heat
Comtel and H2-Era plan to place a data centre inside a Tuscan brownfield redevelopment combining solar generation, hydrogen production, vertical farming, and recovery of server heat.
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Kingspan reaches deeper into critical power with €900m BMC deal
Kingspan has agreed to acquire Irish electrical manufacturer BMC for up to €900m, adding low-voltage switchgear and power distribution to its growing data centre cooling and containment business.
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Nebius pushes AI capacity north with Estonia and Finland builds
Nebius has committed to 22MW at Greenergy in Estonia and outlined another Mäntsälä facility of up to 70MW, extending its rapidly growing Northern European AI infrastructure footprint.
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RWE turns grid-rich German sites towards data centres
RWE is close to two German data centre agreements as the utility assesses ten electrically connected sites for digital infrastructure, turning existing grid access and industrial land into development assets.
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Esbjerg puts flexible power at the heart of DDC1
Construction has started on an 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre designed to vary electricity demand, use energy storage, recirculate cooling water, and ultimately send surplus heat into the local district heating network.
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UPS investment forecast to reach $30.7bn
Global data-centre UPS investment could reach $30.74bn by 2031 as AI density, hyperscale development, and grid constraints raise the value of electrical resilience.
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InfraPartners puts AI control into prefabricated facilities
InfraPartners and Phaidra are integrating AI-based facility controls into prefabricated high-density data-centre systems, targeting cooling efficiency and operational complexity at scale.
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North America absorbs record 25GW
North American data-centre demand reached 25GW in the first half of 2026, while 95% of a 66GW construction pipeline is already committed.