Operations and maintenance
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Ecolab buys the cold plate layer
Ecolab has completed its $4.75bn CoolIT acquisition, adding direct liquid cooling hardware to its water and optimisation platform.
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Lisbon gives FuriosaAI its European testbed
FuriosaAI is installing RNGD inference servers at Equinix Lisbon LS2, turning its European hardware push into live colocation infrastructure.
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Dutch AI cloud starts before the factory
VOLT is launching Dutch AI Cloud from NorthC-hosted infrastructure before moving towards a larger Rotterdam AI gigafactory.
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AI capacity runs into the labour ledger
Turner & Townsend says data centre construction demand is rising while labour shortages, MEP pressure, and contractor capacity tighten delivery risk.
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Norway’s build-out reaches the trades
EQVA has secured Norwegian data centre work covering piping, mechanical installation, electrical services, and commissioning support.
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Haydock gets the power-room factory
AVK is scaling modular electrical rooms for data centre delivery.
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Intesa puts core banking in Italian cloud
Intesa has moved core banking systems into Italian cloud regions.
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Mo i Rana tests the battery layer
VivoPower is studying battery storage at its Norway data centre.
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Dawn outage turns heat into compute risk
Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer outage shows how extreme heat can turn cooling infrastructure into compute risk.
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NTT tries to factory-build hyperscale
NTT Facilities says its Hyper Ready Module approach could sharply reduce delivery times for large hyperscale data centres.