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Three more data centres proposed near Slough
Plans have been lodged for three data centre buildings on green-belt land at Poyle, adding another large development proposal to the heavily constrained Slough and Heathrow infrastructure cluster.
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Amazon signs 36MW Shetland wind PPA
Amazon has signed a power purchase agreement with Statkraft for 36MW from the planned Mossy Hill wind farm in Shetland, extending its UK renewable-power contracting portfolio.
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Great British Grid targets faster power connections
The UK government has created Great British Grid to invest in electricity networks and accelerate delivery as connection delays increasingly constrain industry, generation, and large electricity users.
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QPT targets 800V AI racks with bus converter
Cambridge power-electronics company QPT has unveiled an intermediate bus converter designed to take 800V DC rack power to 6V in one stage, targeting higher power density in next-generation AI systems.
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Castrol expands into data centre cooling services
Castrol has launched an integrated thermal-management business spanning design, cooling technology, testing, and lifecycle services as liquid cooling becomes a larger operational requirement for AI infrastructure.
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Microsoft opens local Azure zone in Luxembourg
Microsoft and POST Luxembourg have opened an Azure Extended Zone in Luxembourg, bringing selected compute, storage, and networking services closer to customers with local residency and latency requirements.
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Planetel pushes Padua edge data centre towards launch
Planetel says its 1.5MW Terra-1 edge data centre in Padua is nearing completion, with 120 racks, immersion cooling capability, and an inauguration scheduled for November.
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Azure Sweden incident exposes regional dependency
A backend platform failure disrupted Azure AI services in Sweden Central for almost six hours, causing intermittent failures, latency, and HTTP 5XX errors across several Microsoft services.
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Blackfuel takes liquid-cooled capacity in Barcelona
Blackfuel has selected Digital Realty’s BCN1 facility for a multi-megawatt AI inference deployment using liquid-cooled Dell infrastructure and AMD GPUs connected through the operator’s interconnection platform.
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SWI details 2.3GW European data centre pipeline
SWI Group says its AiOnX European data centre platform has about 2.3GW of planned capacity as the investment group shifts more capital towards powered infrastructure and AI compute.