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ENEA selects Lenovo for new HPC cluster

Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has chosen Lenovo for its new HPC cluster, dubbed CRESCO8. It consists of 758 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs, meaning the cluster will bring the compute power of CRESCO (Computational ...

November 15, 2024

Italy

Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine J...

November 15, 2024

Finland

EE expands mobile coverage to mast at Ben Nevis mountain

UK mobile operator EE has deployed its mobile coverage to an existing mast site, located at the base of Ben Nevis, Scotland. Ben Nevis is the tallest mountain in the British Isles, with a summit of 1,345 meters. According to EE, the purpose of the deployment is to aid search and rescue operati...

November 14, 2024

United Kingdom

XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

Quantum computing company XeedQ has installed its so-called Baby Diamond quantum computer at Goethe University in Germany. The five-qubit machine is an XQ1 system from XeedQ’s XQ series. On its website, XeedQ describes the XQ1 as “the first multi-qubit mobile quantum processor that is room-tem...

November 12, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

RUVDS to deliver server to South Pole

Russian hosting provider RUVDS recently announced that it will deliver a server to the South Pole, where it will test the possibility of installing a high-speed communication channel alongside the server. The server will be insulated from the extreme cold through weather-resistant equipment. ...

November 11, 2024

Russia / Россия

Schneider Electric appoints Olivier Blum as new CEO

French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove ...

November 04, 2024

France

Investment firm CVC acquires Spanish colo provider Adam Ecotech

CVC DIF, the infrastructure arm of leading global private markets manager CVC, this week announced it has agreed to acquire Adam Ecotech. CVC said it will support Adam Ecotech in its expansion into other regions of Spain and the wider European market. Adam Ecotech owns three operating data ce...

November 02, 2024

Europe

UK government launches National Quantum Computing Centre in Harwell

The UK government has announced the opening of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, UK. The 4,000 sqm (43,056 sq ft) facility will house 12 quantum computers and will provide industry, academia, and other sectors with open access to quantum computing platforms. It forms par...

October 31, 2024

United Kingdom

ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

German modular supercomputing company ParTec has partnered with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HDRZ) research lab to jointly develop and operate an AI supercomputer. No information has been provided about the system’s hardware but in a statement, the two companies said it will be on...

October 30, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Vodafone amongst others complete 5G mmWave trials in UK

Vodafone, Qualcomm, and Ericsson have completed 5G Millimeter wave (mmWave) trials in the UK. In an announcement, carrier Vodafone said the two trials had been a success. Two trials were carried out, including one in Newbury, which used full spectrum bandwidth (800 MHz of mmWave spectrum)."Whi...

October 26, 2024

United Kingdom

EuroHPC JU selects LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has announced that LuxProvide in Luxembourg will host the initiative’s MeluXina-Q quantum computer. The system will be integrated with EuroHPC JU’s MeluXina supercomputer and will be made available to European members of th...

October 24, 2024

Luxembourg

Edged & Merlin launch new campus in Lisbon, Portugal

Real estate firm Merlin Properties and data center company Edged Energy this week announced the start of construction on the 180MW campus located in the Parque das Nações business district of Vila Franca de Xira. The campus will be constructed in phases with the first of five facilities expect...

October 23, 2024

Portugal

CloudCoCo to sell IT services business to Aspire for £9.2m

Managed services provider CloudCoCo has announced plans to sell its IT services business to Aspire in a £9.2 million ($11.9m) deal that will help the company pay off its debts. The company, which is based in Leeds, UK, added it is in advanced discussions to sell Connect, its data center busine...

October 22, 2024

United Kingdom

Photonics startup Oriole Networks raises funds to scale technology

UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks has raised $22 million to scale up its technology. The startup has raised the cash in a funding round led by VC group Plural, with existing investors UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures all contributing.Orio...

October 22, 2024

United Kingdom

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three opera...

October 18, 2024

Finland

Edgnex to develop new data center in Madrid, Spain

UAE data center firm Edgnex this week announced its expansion into Europe with the acquisition of land in Madrid. The site has been acquired from real estate private equity manager ActivumSG and will host a 40MW data center. Located in the Vicalvaro region, the 236,805 sq ft (22,000 sqm) facil...

October 18, 2024

Spain

UK fire suppression firm Alpine Fire has acquired DAS Fire

DAS Fire is a supplier of fire detection and suppression solutions for data centers. DAS Fire’s offerings include the design, installation, and maintenance of data center fire suppression systems. “This acquisition enables us to accelerate our diversification strategy into sectors that complem...

October 16, 2024

United Kingdom

Eviden partners with IQM to install a quantum computer in France

Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quant...

October 11, 2024

France

Dutch economy minister floats idea of EU chips coalition

The Dutch economy minister told attendees of a G7 meeting in Rome that he believes a European Union (EU) "coalition of the willing" to strengthen the political bloc’s semiconductor industry. Dirk Beljaarts said: “To have a stronger EU, between the other global players, to get leverage, it's im...

October 11, 2024

Rome

Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity

European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the ...

October 09, 2024

Finland

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