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AWS clears Aragón’s environmental gate
AWS has secured environmental authorisation for another Zaragoza data centre, moving the project towards construction within its expanding Aragón infrastructure programme.
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Portugal draws a line around power-heavy growth
Portugal wants proposed data centres to generate wider economic value as a pipeline exceeding 2.6GW competes for electricity, land, and network infrastructure.
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France puts foreign data centres on notice
A parliamentary commission wants France to pause foreign-controlled data centre projects while it reconsiders how scarce power capacity is allocated to digital infrastructure.
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Heathrow retrofit lifts power headroom
Redcentric has completed a major UPS upgrade at its Heathrow data centre, protecting 7MW of critical load and enabling future scaling to 10.5MW.
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Kegworth’s mainframe past becomes warehouse land
A demolished former RBS/NatWest data centre at Packington Hill, Kegworth, is set for warehouse redevelopment, showing how legacy enterprise sites are being recycled.
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Security by design moves to the fence line
The Security Industry Association has published 12 data centre security principles covering design, access, operations, and resilience as facilities face rising critical infrastructure scrutiny.
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Sovereign cloud finds a Geneva anchor
nLighten and Arqit have tested a model that anchors data and cryptographic controls in a Geneva data centre while workloads use public cloud resources.
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AI data centres run into the rulebook
Authorities in Europe and beyond are tightening controls on data centre development as AI demand turns electricity, water, land, and community impact into planning constraints.
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Valencia’s regional cloud layer gets denser
Nunsys Cloud has expanded its Paterna Technology Park data centre with 150 racks and capacity for up to 5,000 servers after a seven-month renovation.
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Plans progress for 60MW data centre in Alicante
Renewable energy developer Valfortec is progressing plans for a €300m data centre campus in Elche, adding Alicante to Spain’s widening digital infrastructure map.