Europe and Middle East Trends
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Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Asturias presents €1.23bn Salas data-centre plan
Asturias has presented Digital Valley38, a ten-module 120MW data-centre project in Salas, with construction planned from late 2027 to 2030.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Deutsche Telekom tests two flying base stations in rotation
Two UAV base stations alternated over a Czech trail-running event, using satellite backhaul to maintain mobile coverage while one aircraft refuelled.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
London draft plan proposes dedicated data-centre policy
The draft would make electricity, water, heat recovery and site suitability explicit planning considerations for future data-centre development in London.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Partners Group plans $1bn AVK investment
The investment gives AVK capital to take its 110MW Dublin microgrid model into a wider pipeline of on-site data-centre power projects.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
AST SpaceMobile’s European tests move the bottleneck from orbit to integration
AST SpaceMobile says integration testing is under way with operators in eight European countries. The meaningful advance is not that satellite broadband is commercially live—it is not—but that operators are beginning to test how a space-based radio layer fits into licensed…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
TIM sets out €550m climate plan for networks and data centres
TIM plans about €550 million of network, data-centre and energy measures already included in its industrial roadmap.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Siemens’ €6bn data-centre signal begins in the electrical order book
Siemens has disclosed around €6 billion of Smart Infrastructure data-centre orders across the first nine months of fiscal 2026. That is an unusually clear upstream measure of the build cycle—but it remains order intake, not commissioned capacity, recognized revenue or a map of…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
LATAM selects SES connectivity for more than 60 aircraft
The rollout will cover new Airbus and Embraer jets, extending SES connectivity already used on more than 200 LATAM A320-family aircraft.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Infineon’s AI reservation figure is a funnel, not yet a backlog
Infineon has put a high-single-digit-billion-euro number around multi-year capacity reservations for AI customers. The disclosure makes data-centre power a manufacturing question—but because it combines concluded agreements with negotiations, the number cannot yet carry the…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Deutsche Telekom’s €5 billion ceiling puts fibre utilization on the capital ledger
Deutsche Telekom has expanded its 2026 buyback ceiling to as much as €5 billion after executing roughly €1.2 billion. Its quarter supports the cash-generation case, but the network record shows why an authorization should be assessed beside fibre activation, spectrum timing and…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
When an AI safety test crosses into the real internet, authorisation becomes the safety system
The UK AI Security Institute’s account of unsanctioned actions during a cyber evaluation is not evidence of a machine escaping its sandbox. It is evidence that a benchmark connected to the public internet needs an enforceable boundary between discovering a capability and allowing…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
London proposes dedicated planning policy for data centres
The draft London Plan would require developers to address power, water and local impacts earlier when selecting and designing data-centre sites.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Microsoft begins consultation on proposed Langley data centre
Microsoft is consulting on its Langley proposal before submitting a full planning application, with the final design and development timetable still to be confirmed.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Maincubes completes first phase of FRA03 data centre
The first phase of FRA03 is complete, with customer availability planned for the third quarter as Maincubes continues work towards the site’s full 16MW capacity.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Exclaim Robotics raises $4.95m for data-centre robots
Exclaim Robotics has raised $4.95 million to develop robots for rack-side data-centre maintenance, with customer testing and operating results still to come.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
FuriosaAI plans phased 15MW Stockholm AI data centre
Velox has started construction, but the first 2MW phase and 1,800 planned RNGD accelerators are not expected to enter service until early 2027.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK full-fibre coverage reaches 85% in H1 2026
UK full-fibre coverage rose again in the first half, although more construction took place in areas where fibre was already available.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
FiberCop has one live Rome edge node and a 99-site execution question
FiberCop’s first converted telecom exchange in Rome is now reported live as an edge data centre. The milestone gives physical form to a programme that aims to reuse 100 copper exchanges. It does not make the other 99 sites operational, nor turn the operator’s 10,500-exchange…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
The reported Anthropic–Volta deal rests on a Tydal lease with multiple exit tests
Bloomberg identifies Anthropic as the AI lab behind Volta’s announced $10bn strategic partnership. Volta and Bitdeer do not name the lab, so that identity remains reported rather than first-party confirmed. What the first parties do disclose is unusually detailed: a 121MW IT…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Start Campus targets 2027 opening for 200MW SIN02
Start Campus plans to open its 200MW SIN02 data centre in 2027, alongside Nscale’s planned deployment of more than 66,000 Rubin GPUs.