Operations and maintenance
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Acuity agrees $675m monitoring acquisition
Acuity has agreed to acquire Parameter Technologies for $675m, expanding its data centre portfolio into leak detection, environmental monitoring, and battery monitoring, with completion expected during fiscal 2027.
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The data hall will be finished before its electricians are
Mike Slevin, director of EMEA market at Fluke, argues that funded apprenticeships and protected engineering supervision are essential to prevent the UK’s shortage of skilled electricians delaying new data centre capacity.
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Vertiv completes Irish cooling services acquisition
Vertiv has completed its acquisition of Ireland-based King Environmental Services, expanding its liquid cooling commissioning, fluid management, and testing capabilities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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Iceland AI trial demonstrates temporary demand reduction
Emerald AI and NVIDIA report that tested AI server racks at Nscale’s Icelandic facility reduced power consumption by about 25% for 30 minutes during a simulated grid flexibility event.
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Portuguese health outage renews data centre scrutiny
Portuguese doctors have demanded answers after a power failure at a national health data centre disrupted clinical records and electronic prescriptions. Redundancy and electrical upgrades are now promised.
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DE-CIX adds diverse westbound routes into Frankfurt
DE-CIX has activated new links involving Sofia, Istanbul, and Frankfurt, offering operators three geographical paths towards European cloud and interconnection infrastructure, subject to actual routing and capacity arrangements.
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Lancom expands international peering access in Greece
Lancom has added GNM-IX access to its Greek telecommunications services through a 100G connection in Sofia, providing customers with additional international peering options.
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Fluke extends inspection access in fibre racks
Fluke Networks has introduced extended-reach MMC inspection tips for its FI-3000 fibre inspection platform, allowing technicians to inspect connectors in densely populated data centre racks.
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TIM expands sovereign AI infrastructure in Italy
TIM is developing an Italian hosted AI platform combining central cloud infrastructure, distributed edge nodes and NVIDIA computing technology, with controls over data residency and operations.
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Photon Bridge raises €10m for lasers
Dutch photonics company Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to develop scalable laser sources for optical interconnects used in increasingly large AI computing systems.