Europe
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Russia's state-controlled telco Rostelecom said one of its subsea cables in the Baltics has been damaged by “an external impact”. -
Investment firm Brookfield is set to invest €20 billion to build out AI infrastructure in France.
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Deep in the Earth, mere metres away from a picturesque Norwegian fjord sits the entrance to a facility that’s the size of 25 football fields, with the access tunnel alone akin to almost five laps around an Olympic running track: The Lefdal Mine Datacenter.
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The Iliad Group has unveiled a €3 billion war chest to invest in AI infrastructure, including new data centres and GPUs to power AI workloads.
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Mistral AI, Europe’s leading answer to OpenAI, unveiled plans to build its first AI cluster in France to further power its training efforts.
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Brussels is falling behind in the race for high-quality 5G, according to new data from MedUX, which benchmarked network performance across the Belgian capital.
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Virtus Data Centres has unveiled plans to launch its first facility in Italy as part of its continuing European expansion.
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Sparkle has signed an agreement with Cypriot integrated electronic communication provider Cyta to launch a cable landing in the country for the BlueMed subsea cable.
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The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has urged European leaders to enhance cooperation on subsea cable security following multiple incidents of cable damage.
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An investigation into the ship that supposedly severed a subsea cable connecting Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland was cut accidentally, authorities confirmed.
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Portus Data Centers has teamed up with Megaport to help support its Network as a Service expansion across Europe.
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Deutsche Telekom has extended CEO Tim Höttges’ contract, originally set to expire in 2026, ensuring “continuity” in leadership until 2028.
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DC01UK, planned to be the largest data centre in Europe, has received approval from the planning committee of Hertsmere Borough Council to proceed.
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As Storm Éowymn battered the UK and Ireland last week, the unprecedented scale of impact on telecom infrastructure highlights a need to strengthen the country’s networks against adverse weather conditions.
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A section of fibre optic cable that links Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland has become the latest subsea system in the Baltics to be damaged.
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Europe is facing significant challenges in meeting its 2025 connectivity targets according to Darryl Brick, VP of partner sales, EMEA, at Ericsson.
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Cathay Pacific and SITA have sealed an agreement to expand high-speed connectivity across 51 global airports.
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Telia has overhauled its group executive management team, with Holger Haljand and Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters becoming the heads of Telia Finland and Telia Baltics, respectively.
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