Europe
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As the world’s largest research and innovation programme, the UK’s move to re-associate with Horizon Europe following Brexit, underscores the country’s commitment to innovation and development — but what does this mean for telecoms? -
Data centre operator Serverfarm has formed a joint venture with the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece to build hyperscale data centres in the country.
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Sparkle has partnered with shipbuilding giant Fincantieri to develop advanced solutions for detecting and monitoring subsea cables.
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The EU has signed off on IRIS², a multi-orbital constellation of 290 satellites aimed at taking on Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Nordic data centre firm atNorth has secured land in Sweden to build a “mega site” data centre.
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Field service management (FSM) provider Totalmobile has announced the acquisition of Irish workforce management firm Gartan Technologies.
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BSO has unveiled plans to build one of Europe’s largest data centres, a giga-scale platform that aims to deliver 400MW of AI-compatible infrastructure by 2028.
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Nokia has been chosen by Dutch hosting services provider Cloudbear to provide data centre solutions to support its customised hosting services.
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Nokia secured the rights to support more than 3,000 Deutsche Telekom sites as the operator of its large-scale O-RAN network in Germany.
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Global data centre operator Equinix has signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement with renewable energy firm Neoen to supply 53 MW of solar power to support its facilities in Italy.
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Amazon is turning to low-carbon and recycled steel to reduce emissions as it scales up data centre construction.
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The relentless pace of AI shows no signs of slowing down going into 2025. However, the increased demand for intense workloads has created new challenges such as increased power consumption in high-density data centres.
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Atos has revealed the French state is in talks to acquire the company’s Advanced Computing business in a deal that could be worth up to €625 million (US$656 million).
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KAYTUS and NEC Deutschland partnered to supply the University of Cologne with a state-of-the-art liquid-cooled High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster to power research efforts.
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Just outside of the city of Bologna at the foot of the Apennine Mountains lies a juggernaut of a computing system capable of performing 250 petaFLOPS, that’s 250 quadrillion calculations per second.
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Recent damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has sparked fears of sabotage, but experts urge caution before assigning blame.
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French operator SFR has partnered with process automation firm Camunda to enhance its operational support system (OSS).
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Two critical undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea were severed in separate incidents, raising fears of sabotage by Russia, according to reports.
