News
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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.
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Ireland rewrites the rules for data centre faults
Proposed Irish grid rules would require large demand sites to remain stable through faults and restore at least 90% of pre-fault load within 500 milliseconds.
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Aragón’s grid levy flushes out 150MW
Two Aragón data centre proposals have surrendered 150MW of grid rights, although 17 technology developments still retain more than 3GW of active permissions.
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Italy gives data centre permits a ten-month clock
Italy has issued the first operating guidance for its unified data centre authorisation route, setting a ten-month maximum after an application passes the completeness check.
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Italy puts €8bn campuses on fast track
Italy has granted national strategic status to seven Equinix facilities and a 300MW–400MW campus planned on the former Galileo Ferraris power station.
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France’s next 400MW takes shape
Orange and Morrison plan a €3 billion French data centre platform that would combine five operating facilities with new capacity, infrastructure capital, and a 400MW target.
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SK Telecom turns AI capacity into a platform
SK Telecom has created SK Hyper, a dedicated AI data centre subsidiary targeting 15GW of capacity by 2035.