Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Datacenter trend intelligence tracks data centre market trends, AI-driven capacity demand, power availability, colocation growth, interconnection strategy, and regional campus investment in Europe and the Middle East, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.
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A data-centre connection has no date at Gate 1
A site can have land, drawings and an impressive megawatt number while still lacking the one fact that makes its power plan schedulable: a confirmed grid-connection date.
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Colleferro approves Cobra Green AI data centre
Colleferro has approved Cobra Green Hyperscale's planned AI data centre, but national clearance is still required before construction can begin.
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Vapat proposes 160MW Valladolid data-centre campus
Vapat has proposed a 160MW data-centre campus in Valladolid beside its wind assets and La Mudarra substation, with the project under environmental review.
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Britain proposes putting up to £712,500 per MW behind a data-centre queue place
Ofgem's proposed commitment fee would turn a cheap grid reservation into a financed option. That is useful discipline, but the security is not a certificate of viability: investors still need to prove that a customer, electrical equipment, finance and an energisation path can…
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Latos submits East Manchester data centre plans
Latos's compact edge model now has to clear planning with its power, plant, noise controls and access built into the site design.
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Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.
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Nebius to lease Vantage capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud infrastructure through leased data-centre capacity at Vantage's Newport campus in South Wales.
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RWE says two data centre site deals near agreement
RWE is moving two data centre sites towards customer agreements as it tests how existing power infrastructure can support new European capacity.
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Firebird opens Armenia AI factory, targets 300MW
Firebird has opened its Hrazdan AI factory, with expansion to 300MW and more than 70,000 Nvidia GPUs planned by the end of 2027.
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CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
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Magnora, Blix plan 1MW Oslo AI data centre
Magnora and Blix will convert Oslo space in the same building as Blix’s NR5 facility, with 1MW available initially and potential to reach 9MW.
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UK government approves Brick Lane data centre
The government has approved Truman Estates’ Brick Lane data centre after Tower Hamlets councillors unanimously said the application should have been refused.
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JLL puts FLAP-D live data-centre capacity at 3.8GW
FLAP-D remains tight as large AI training projects look to power-rich secondary markets for room to grow.
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Citylink plans Wrocław data-centre heat recovery
The 24MW facility is still under construction, giving Citylink and Kogeneracja time to design heat recovery before the data centre is complete.
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Harworth in talks to sell second data-centre site
Harworth is negotiating a second data-centre land sale at a site with planning and power, while its wider 800MW connection portfolio remains at different stages.
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MEEZA secures QAR1.6bn for 44MW expansion
MEEZA's new Dukhan Bank facility will fund three M-VAULT projects expected to add about 44MW of data-centre capacity in Qatar.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…