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Vantage and Nebius launch first South Wales AI Growth Zone deployment
Vantage Data Centers and Nebius have announced an agreement to deploy high-density, NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure at Vantage’s CWL1 campus in Newport, marking the first announced commercial capacity commitment in the... Read More
Quantinuum and Oracle bring hybrid quantum compute into the cloud
Quantinuum and Oracle have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy Helios, Quantinuum’s third-generation quantum computer, inside a US-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI data centre. The companies said OCI... Read More
NVIDIA and major financial firms back AI compute financing platforms
NVIDIA has announced strategic partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent compute financing platforms aimed at mobilising more than £369.7 billion ($500 billion) of... Read More
AVK and Partners Group target data centre power with $1bn deal
AVK has secured an initial investment of more than $1 billion (£740 million) from Partners Group, marking the first external funding round in the power specialist’s 36-year history. Partners Group... Read More
Ofgem targets speculative data centre projects in the grid queue
Ofgem has launched a consultation on plans to tackle speculative data centre projects in Britain’s electricity connections queue after demand applications rose from 41GW to 125GW in under a year.... Read More
Prologis and SEGRO deal highlights digital infrastructure value
Prologis has reached an agreement with the board of SEGRO on a recommended acquisition valuing SEGRO’s issued share capital at approximately £13.9 billion ($18.8 billion), in a transaction that expands... Read More
London draft plan gives data centres a place in city planning
The Mayor of London’s draft London Plan 2026 gives data centres a dedicated policy for the first time, tying future development to electricity and water capacity, clustering opportunities, waste heat... Read More
Zuckerberg turns superintelligence into a debate about access, power, and control
Mark Zuckerberg has argued that the defining question around superintelligence is not when it will arrive, but who will have access to it. In a Wall Street Journal essay, the... Read More
Yondr sells majority stake in Slough hyperscale campus to GLIL Infrastructure
Yondr Group has agreed to sell a majority interest in one of its UK hyperscale data centre campuses to GLIL Infrastructure, bringing pension-backed institutional capital into an operational digital infrastructure... Read More
The ‘commissioning cliff’ is exposing a weak point in data centre operations
Rapid growth in UK and Irish data centre capacity is exposing a weak point in operations once facilities move into live service, according to a white paper published by RS... Read More
Polar announces 40MW AI-ready expansion at Norway data centre campus
Polar Data Centers has announced plans to expand its flagship Drangedal campus in Norway with a new 40MW AI-ready data centre. Known as DRA02, the facility will be built alongside... Read More
Microsoft and Mistral expand European AI infrastructure partnership
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership through a multibillion-dollar agreement that gives Microsoft access to part of Mistral’s Europe-based GPU infrastructure. Mistral is expanding its AI compute capacity... Read More