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CyrusOne, a leading global data centre owner, developer and operator, announced the promotion of Andreas Paduch to Managing Director, Europe, who also joins CyrusOne's Global Executive Team. In his new role, Paduch will drive Europe's regional growth strategy, delivering the company's hyperscale data centre business across key markets, and overseeing performance across the region's leadership team.

euNetworks has announced the delivery of a new long haul route, offering the market's most direct connectivity path between Paris and Milan. The route, which spans 1057 km, runs on a new, diverse path through the Alps, offering a shorter alternative to the more common routes running along the coast via Lyon and Marseille.

More than 500 young people showcased their innovative STEM and AI projects at Microsoft's headquarters in Dublin, as part of the Dream Space Showcase for data centre communities, writes Jo Kenny. The Dream Space Showcase for Data Centre Communities is a new STEM and AI initiative for students living near Microsoft's current or proposed data centres in West Dublin, Fingal and Kildare.

USA: In what is being dubbed one of the biggest efficiency leaps in data centre history, US technology company NVIDIA is employing liquid cooling at up to 45ºC. The Rubin generation of NVIDIA AI infrastructure is said to be the world's first to achieve 100% liquid cooling in a closed loop with no fans anywhere in the system.

For companies seeking to build a giant data centre in Great Britain right now, the biggest bottleneck isn't a shortage of cutting-edge chips, a lack of capital eager to fund the next wave of large language models (LLMs) or inference workloads, or the availability of software engineers who understand neural networks. The bottleneck is the electricity grid and associated infrastructure, which currently features a waiting list that can stretch comfortably into the next decade.

A 145 acre plot of former horticultural land in Kent is set to become a 300 megawatt AI data centre campus, and the UK government's national significance designation signals how badly it wants the compute. A Greenfield Bet on AI Compute Clearstone, working through its affiliate CSE52 Ltd, is proposing a 300 megawatt AI data centre campus near Dartford in Kent, on 145 acres of former horticultural land.

RED Engineering Design is pleased to announce the appointment of as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 July 2026. Mark succeeds Thierry Kalfon, who recently moved into a strategic leadership role within the ENGIE Group , and will lead RED through the next stage of its strategic growth. Having joined RED in 2015, Mark has played a central role in the company's evolution over the past decade.

Rackspace Technology and Rubrik have launched a UK Sovereign Cyber Recovery Cloud aimed at protecting and restoring UK public sector and regulated workloads within hours of a ransomware attack The service combines Rubrik's Security Cloud with Rackspace Technology's UK Sovereign Services to provide a dedicated, automated clean room recovery environment.

A developer behind a long-stalled business park in Norwich is shifting its strategy to accommodate a major data centre project, signaling a potential boost for the UK's digital infrastructure in a region with a limited data centre footprint. The planned facility, with a capacity of 150MW, would represent a significant addition to the East of England's data centre market, which currently remains small outside of London.

A massive data centre and battery storage site is being proposed for a site in the Devon countryside, creating up to 1,200 permanent jobs. The UK-based company behind the scheme, Xlinks, said the AI data and energy storage development at Alverdiscott, North Devon, would bring "significant economic investment, skilled employment, and clean energy infrastructure to the region".