News
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The data centre drifts offshore
Bureau Veritas has granted approval in principle to Seatrium’s 30MW floating data centre concept.
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Europe’s old hubs still hold the line
DC Byte ranks London, Frankfurt, Dublin, Paris, and Amsterdam as EMEA’s leading markets, despite worsening power and land constraints.
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Power engineers become the scarce asset
Arcadis is buying SATEL to add Iberian grid, substation, permitting, and data centre power expertise.
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Liquid cooling earns an Nvidia seal
LG’s 600kW coolant distribution unit has passed Nvidia’s AI Factory assessment for cooling performance, reliability, monitoring, failover, and direct-to-chip integration.
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Blackpool moves Silicon Sands into delivery
Blackpool Council intends to appoint HOCHTIEF for the first Silicon Sands data centre, combining a 6MW initial supply with liquid cooling and proposed heat reuse.
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Slough data halls become 20-year collateral
Two Equinix xScale facilities in Slough will secure £280 million of long-dated fixed-rate notes, bringing contracted hyperscale cash flows into infrastructure debt markets.
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Slough’s next 107MW clears planning
Tritax has secured consent for a 107MW powered-shell data centre at Manor Farm, supported by accelerated grid access, a prospective pre-let, and battery-backed infrastructure.
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Immersion cooling leaves the data hall
Asperitas has developed an 18.4kW compact immersion system for edge AI installations where dust, vibration, restricted space, and difficult maintenance limit conventional cooling.
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Europe loses ground in the capacity race
Europe’s share of global data centre capacity could fall to about 10% by 2030 as grid delays, energy costs, permitting, and constrained sites slow delivery.
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France confronts the bill for tenfold capacity
Rexecode forecasts a tenfold increase in French data centre capacity by 2035, requiring about €210 billion of investment and materially higher electricity demand.