AI
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Hive turns Boden site towards AI compute
Hive’s Swedish lease plan shows Nordic datacentres being refitted for GPU-heavy workloads.
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Persistent deal tests Europe’s engineering market
Persistent’s planned Nagarro takeover would create a larger AI-era digital engineering group.
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Spain backs Openchip’s AI chip push
Spain’s backing for Openchip moves semiconductor policy closer to Europe’s AI compute bottleneck.
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Nationwide doubles down on private cloud
Nationwide is using private cloud to absorb new integration pressure.
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Domyn pushes Europe’s open AI bid
Domyn gives Europe’s open AI ambitions a concrete infrastructure test.
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Austria asks Europe to court Anthropic
Austria wants Europe to secure access to strategic AI systems.
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Brussels tests cloud gatekeeper rules
EU regulators are moving competition rules into enterprise cloud infrastructure.
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Police AI evidence case raises governance stakes
Alleged AI evidence misuse puts police governance under strain now.
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Lloyds expands AI hiring drive
Lloyds is expanding AI hiring as banking automation becomes operational.
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Defence tech draws venture capital in
Defence technology is pulling venture capital into Europe’s security economy.



