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The plans by the European Union to give police greater access to personal data have been greeted with alarm by those advocating for privacy, businesses, and civil society. More than 50 organisations signed an open letter, from NGOs and journalist unions to tech companies and legal associations, addressed to the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, warning that changing police access to data could gravely undermine human rights... Read More

Anglesey Land Holdings, a subsidiary of Stena Line, has submitted an application for a £1 billion ($1.2 billion) data centre in Anglesey, Wales. The project, on the site of the former Penrhos Aluminum Works in Holyhead, will repurpose the 213-acre site into a state-of-the-art technology park, renamed Prosperity Parc. The primary focus of the development... Read More

NorthC DataCenters has announced plans to build two new data centres in Germany over the next two years. These facilities, located in Frankfurt and Berlin, are aligned with NorthC’s strategy of meeting increased demand for scalable, sustainable, reliable IT infrastructure across Europe. The Frankfurt data centre is NorthC’s second in the city. The first, announced... Read More

IBM has announced a breakthrough in co-packaged optics technology (CPO) that intends to reshape data centre operations. By reducing reliance on copper-based electrical wiring, CPO can change bandwidth and energy utilisation in data centres, enabling faster generative artificial intelligence (AI) model training and improving energy efficiency. Traditional data centre infrastructure relies on copper-based electrical wiring... Read More

Microsoft has advanced an innovative data centre cooling design featuring zero water loss through evaporation. Called “zero-water evaporated designs,” the innovation uses a closed-loop water system that greatly reduces water use while continuing to meet the ever-growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Traditionally, data centres use large volumes of water to cool... Read More

UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has overturned the local council to greenlight a major data centre development in Buckinghamshire. The proposal was originally rejected when it was determined to be an “inappropriate development on the green belt” that would damage the “landscape, character, and appearance and visual effects” of the area. Deputy PM Rayner’s... Read More

DLD (Salford) Limited has submitted plans for developing a new data centre in Eccles, Salford, near Manchester in the UK. If approved, the application said the development will be situated at the dormer White’s Reclamation Site on Liverpool Road and will span 2.57 hectares.  Currently, the site is used for vehicle sales, storage, and office... Read More

A burst water pipe caused significant flooding in the Joint Science Operations Centre (JSOC) at Stanford University. The JSOC is responsible for processing data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft. A message on the JSOC website said “The JSOC server room was significantly affected by flooding on 2024-11-26.... Read More

Amsterdam-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company, Nebius, has raised £550 million ($700 million) in private investment from NVIDIA, Accel and Orbis, with the Class A shares being valued at £16.50 ($21) each in the sale. Following the split of the domestic and international areas of the Russian internet business, Yandex, Nebius now functions as a... Read More