Operations and maintenance
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Munich’s regional capacity pipeline gains a new site
M-net has started work on a 1,500-square-metre colocation facility in northern Munich, targeting a 2027 test phase and commercial operation in 2028.
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The 800V DC race reaches the power train
DG Matrix and Skeleton Technologies are combining solid-state transformers with fast-response storage to manage the pulse loads expected from dense AI clusters.
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Britain’s cyber bill meets a thin skills bench
The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will extend security duties to data centres and managed service providers, while a shortage of experienced personnel threatens to constrain implementation.
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Batteries could loosen Britain’s data centre grid peaks
Research using electricity profiles from 96 UK data centres suggests onsite batteries could reduce maximum grid imports by 10–15%, shifting demand without reducing the energy required by computing and cooling.
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Backup power adds a 3MVA European option
Everllence has introduced a 3MVA standby generator for European data centres, combining 2.4MWe output with 50Hz operation, container integration, electrically driven cooling, and support for HVO.
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Liquid cooling orders double before standards settle
Georg Fischer says orders for data centre liquid-cooling systems doubled in the first half of 2026 as prefabricated polymer pipework, valves, controls, and instrumentation move into larger deployment programmes.
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Dutch outage pulls power and cooling into one failure
A utility power failure in Google Cloud’s Dutch region developed into a cooling loss and protective workload shutdowns, disrupting bare-metal, VMware, and managed storage services for more than 12 hours.
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Munich build clears the concrete milestone
Equinix and Mercury have completed the main structure and roof of MU4.3 in Aschheim, moving the live campus expansion into fit out, integration, and commissioning.
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NFrance cools Toulouse without a drop
NFrance has completed a live cooling retrofit that it says cut cooling power by about 20%, removed operational water use, and protected hosted services throughout installation.
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Datadog brings observability data closer to UK workloads
Datadog adds UK hosting for observability and security telemetry data.