News
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Grid queue reform puts millions on the line
Ofgem wants large data centre developers to pay a refundable per-megawatt fee and meet new project milestones before retaining scarce capacity in Britain’s electricity-connections queue.
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Cyanis starts distributed compute push with €250,000
Hamburg-based Cyanis AI has raised more than €250,000 to develop an orchestration platform and prepare a proposed 10MW network of distributed European compute nodes.
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Denser racks meet a thinner skills pool
Uptime Institute’s 2026 survey finds more facilities reaching 30kW rack densities while recruitment difficulties, outage costs, power constraints, and incomplete sustainability measurement persist.
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Efficiency ratios face an absolute-use test
WorldGBC has proposed nine data centre policy principles covering efficiency, energy, water, heat recovery, biodiversity, pollution, and planning, with absolute resource use placed alongside PUE and WUE.
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AI build-out swells the cooling backlog
Johnson Controls has raised its full-year earnings guidance after orders and backlog accelerated, with data centres and other mission-critical projects driving especially strong growth in the Americas.
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Cyber rules reach the control cabinet
European Commission guidance has clarified how the Cyber Resilience Act applies to connected products, remote services, support periods, modifications, and vulnerability reporting ahead of September obligations.
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Ireland makes fault response part of data-centre design
ABB has developed an ultracapacitor-based power architecture for Ireland’s proposed fault-ride-through rules, as EirGrid seeks to stop large electronic loads amplifying transmission disturbances.
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Tallinn expansion draws fresh infrastructure capital
Tensor Estate has acquired a minority holding in the company behind Greenergy Data Centers, adding capital for an AI-led expansion of the operating facility outside Tallinn.
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Kouvola’s 430MW route clears a land hurdle
Land rights for two transmission routes have advanced atNorth’s FIN04 campus in Finland, clearing another infrastructure stage for a development designed around as much as 430MW.
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Middenmeer’s next plot waits on power
Microsoft has acquired another 37.5 hectares at Middenmeer, adding strategic land beside proposed high-voltage infrastructure while zoning and grid constraints continue to govern Dutch data centre growth.