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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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yondr is selling control of two Slough data centres without giving up the operating room
Yondr has agreed to sell a majority interest in a UK data-centre campus to GLIL Infrastructure, while retaining a minority stake and responsibility for operational management after completion. The asset consists of two fully operational hyperscale buildings in Slough serving one…
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Three ledgers turn Rolls-Royce’s data-centre power story into earnings
Rolls-Royce Power Systems has moved data-centre demand beyond the language of pipeline and potential. Its half-year result now shows the theme in three separate ledgers: power-generation orders rose 55%, power-generation revenue rose 41%, and the division’s operating margin…
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EU grid plan would make data-centre queues an economic contest
Brussels is proposing to replace simple place-in-line logic with a test of who imposes grid costs, who can ease congestion and whose project delivers the strongest public benefit.
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Pure DC Launches €7.5 Billion Data Centre Campus in Finland
Pure DC combines a fully leased 110 MW first phase with over 700 MVA of grid access and repeatable 40 MW modules for later expansion.
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Xlinks postpones Devon data campus consultation until autumn
Xlinks is extending community engagement while preparing separate planning applications for its proposed data centre and battery storage projects.
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Big Tech reports higher emissions as AI infrastructure expands
Corporate disclosures show that AI infrastructure expansion increases emissions from construction, supply chains, and electricity use.
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SEGRO and Pure DC Form Data Centre Joint Venture in Paris
SEGRO and Pure Data Centres have formed a second joint venture for a 48 MW data centre in Paris, with construction start subject to planning approval and a long-term lease with a hyperscale client.
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RAXIO GROUP Secures $380 Million to Support Larger African Data Centre Projects
Raxio secured additional funding as customer requirements across its African data centre platform reach 10 MW and above.
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Southeast Asia AI Data Centres Face Power Constraints
Power infrastructure emerges as a major obstacle to AI data centre capacity expansion in Southeast Asia despite sustained investment in the region.
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Wärtsilä warns power infrastructure slowing AI data centre delivery
Wärtsilä says the biggest challenge for new AI data centres is no longer just electricity demand, but delivering reliable power before utilities are ready to come online.
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Nscale explores on-site power amid grid connection delays
Grid connection delays have pushed Nscale to consider on-site power generation, highlighting how electricity supply is increasingly shaping data centre construction.
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UK data centre industry moves to standardise grid connections
The UK data centre industry is developing standardised designs for electrical grid connections to reduce repetitive engineering work when connecting new facilities to the power grid.