Europe
Schneider Electric and Start Campus have partnered to launch SIN01, a new large-scale data centre facility in Portugal.- Portus Data Centers has unveiled plans to expand its Munich campus with a new 5.5MW colocation facility.
- European data centre operator nLighten has added two senior executives to its leadership team.
- Telekom Deutschland, the German subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has chosen Compax as its technology partner for the rollout of a new Telco-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform, following a competitive vendor selection process.
- Europe’s leading telecom operators have issued a stark warning to policymakers: without full access to the upper 6 GHz band, the continent risks losing its footing in the global race to 6G.
- Polish data centre operator Beyond.pl is set to launch an ‘AI factory’ providing sovereign services for the central eastern European market via Nvidia’s Blackwell hardware.
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- Space Norway and SubCom have revealed that a contract is now in force for the Arctic Way Cable System – a subsea infrastructure project that will link the Norwegian mainland with Jan Mayen and the Svalbard archipelago, creating the northernmost subsea cable system in the world.
- Challenger bank Revolut is preparing to shake up the mobile market, with plans to roll out its own mobile services starting in the UK and Germany.
- Khazna Data Centers is set to expand to expand into Türkiye, with plans to build a 100MW site in the capital, Ankara.
- On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal experienced one of the most severe power outages in European history, bringing their national power grids to a halt and causing widespread disruption to telecommunications infrastructure.
- Earlier this month, reports suggested Spain was preparing to phase out its nuclear plants. However, a nationwide outage, which forced telcos to run entire networks on backup generators, has likely put those plans on hold.
- Retelit has secured a deal to acquire the remaining operations of BT's Italian arm, the latest in BT's ongoing strategy to divest its international assets.
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) is set to become home to Poland’s first superconducting quantum computer, with installation scheduled for Q2 2025.
- The European Commission has slapped Meta and Apple with fines worth €200 million and €500 million over alleged breaches of its Digital Markets Act.
- Ericsson has launched what it claims to be the first successful 5G Standalone (5G SA) international roaming connection between two different operator groups.
- OpenAI and SoftBank’s $500 billion Stargate project is reportedly looking at expanding across the Atlantic, eyeing plans to build data centres in the UK.
- Sparkle has joined the European research initiative ECSTATIC, which aims to develop new methods for detecting seismic events using submarine fibre-optic cable infrastructure.
