Team Techopia
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Finland’s 500MW proposal is still a map, not capacity
Helios is pursuing an 80-hectare Finnish datacentre site with a potential 500MW ceiling, although zoning and delivery work remain ahead.
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Madrid’s next 56MW is now under construction
Global Switch has started building Madrid 2, turning long-term AI and cloud demand into a 56MW infrastructure programme extending into 2032.
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Enterprise AI starts with the documents
Quintas Energy is putting content governance ahead of AI agents as it restructures the information behind renewable-asset operations.
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Frankfurt colocation pulls in more infrastructure capital
CVC DIF is acquiring a majority stake in firstcolo, combining two near-full Frankfurt facilities with a 24MW expansion already under construction.
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Europe’s robotaxi race enters the fleet phase
Uber and Pony.ai want more than 2,000 robotaxis operating across five European cities, taking autonomous transport towards repeatable commercial deployment.
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OneWeb becomes a quarter of Eutelsat
OneWeb now supplies a quarter of Eutelsat’s revenue as low-Earth-orbit connectivity carries more of the group’s commercial growth.
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HMRC puts AI assurance into senior management
HMRC is recruiting a deputy director for AI assurance as the tax authority builds permanent controls around systems moving from experimentation into operational government services.
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Facial recognition moves from rail hubs below ground
British Transport Police has extended live facial recognition onto the London Underground, putting biometric identification inside one of Britain’s busiest pieces of everyday public infrastructure.
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Newport turns AI Growth Zone policy into live capacity
Nebius will deploy Nvidia based AI infrastructure at Vantage’s Newport campus, giving the South Wales AI Growth Zone its first announced commercial capacity commitment.
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Palantir’s police footprint emerges contract by contract
At least six British police forces have used Palantir systems under agreements worth £7.8 million, while regional arrangements make the wider operational footprint harder to map.
