Power and energy
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Florence brownfield scheme ties compute to solar, hydrogen and heat
Comtel and H2-Era plan to place a data centre inside a Tuscan brownfield redevelopment combining solar generation, hydrogen production, vertical farming, and recovery of server heat.
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Kingspan reaches deeper into critical power with €900m BMC deal
Kingspan has agreed to acquire Irish electrical manufacturer BMC for up to €900m, adding low-voltage switchgear and power distribution to its growing data centre cooling and containment business.
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Nebius pushes AI capacity north with Estonia and Finland builds
Nebius has committed to 22MW at Greenergy in Estonia and outlined another Mäntsälä facility of up to 70MW, extending its rapidly growing Northern European AI infrastructure footprint.
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RWE turns grid-rich German sites towards data centres
RWE is close to two German data centre agreements as the utility assesses ten electrically connected sites for digital infrastructure, turning existing grid access and industrial land into development assets.
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Esbjerg puts flexible power at the heart of DDC1
Construction has started on an 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre designed to vary electricity demand, use energy storage, recirculate cooling water, and ultimately send surplus heat into the local district heating network.
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UPS investment forecast to reach $30.7bn
Global data-centre UPS investment could reach $30.74bn by 2031 as AI density, hyperscale development, and grid constraints raise the value of electrical resilience.
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B&W secures 1GW Siemens turbine programme
Babcock & Wilcox has ordered work to begin on 20 Siemens Energy steam turbine-generator sets totalling 1GW for fast-track data-centre power projects.
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Data centres lift Balfour Beatty US orders
Balfour Beatty secured about $350m of US data-centre orders in the first half and has another $1bn of work expected to contract over 12 months.
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Mistral targets 1GW European AI capacity
Mistral plans to build up to 1GW of European compute capacity by 2030 as it tries to turn AI sovereignty into physical regional infrastructure.
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Norway data centres head for 11TWh power demand
Norway’s data centres could consume 11TWh annually by 2030, more than three times last year’s level, according to new estimates from Thema Consulting.