Cloud certification, data flows, sovereignty and the European data economy. Coverage from Continental Brief.
The Dutch operator has begun construction on a new facility at The Hive campus in Switzerland, designed to support high-performance computing with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and waste heat reuse.
A power failure at Google's London data centre disrupted services for Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut on 20 October, triggering fresh scrutiny from financial regulators over the resilience risks of relying on a handful of major cloud providers.
The e-commerce and cloud giant plans a major investment push in Germany next year, building on over a century of spending since 2010 and targeting cloud infrastructure, logistics, satellite connectivity and entertainment services.
The Frankfurt-based mobility startup has become a new member of the European data infrastructure association, bringing expertise in connected services and AI governance to the community.
BT International has deepened its collaboration with Netskope, integrating the vendor's security platform with its own network service to help enterprises deploy AI and cloud technologies with built-in protection.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority says both cloud giants have improved their practices but demands further action. The watchdog is also proposing to give Microsoft strategic market status for tighter oversight.
The British fintech is partnering with NVIDIA and Civo to train a transactional foundation model on domestic infrastructure, aiming to reduce reliance on global cloud giants and address concentration risk in financial services.
Major providers of GPU computing and data centre capacity saw sharp declines on 14 October amid concerns that higher US borrowing costs could strain the financing of expensive expansion plans.
A year after launching in Greece, the Wealthyhood investing app has attracted 35,000 users whose profile challenges traditional assumptions about who invests: they are typically 34 years old, start with €100, and mostly buy exchange-traded funds.
The Nordic carrier is ramping up capacity on its Helsinki–Warsaw corridor as financial services, cloud and hosting firms seek faster regional links.
France's leading telecom operator has finished decommissioning its 2G infrastructure nationwide, starting from southwestern departments before rolling out countrywide. The company now plans to retire 3G by 2028.