Power and energy
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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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The 246kW rack enters the design brief
Schneider Electric and AMD have published a validated infrastructure design for Helios clusters, including racks drawing up to 246kW and greenfield deployments reaching 10.4MW.
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Norway’s Drangedal campus grows by 40MW
Polar Data Centers has announced a second liquid-cooled facility at Drangedal, adding 40MW of planned IT capacity beside its operating DRA01 building.
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A €300m build takes shape at Kouvola
YIT will deliver design, civil works, MEP systems, and commissioning for a new building at atNorth’s planned 430MW FIN04 campus in Finland.
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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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Heiligenhaus solar covers a sliver of data demand
Yexio has installed 244kWp of solar generation at its Heiligenhaus data centre, forecasting 220MWh a year against a facility capable of scaling from 2MW to 4MW.
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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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Europe’s GPU deal still needs buildings and power
Microsoft will use part of Mistral’s expanding European GPU infrastructure under a multibillion-dollar agreement, although the campuses, electrical load, cooling systems, and delivery programme remain undisclosed.
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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.