Microsoft has bought 84.4 hectares in the Centrovía industrial estate in La Muela, near the city of Zaragoza, to develop a new data centre. According to local newspaper Heraldo de Aragón, the cloud computing hyperscaler has paid around €14 million for the land. The change in ownership of the land was registered on 2 October in the land registry of La Almunia de Doña...

Northern Data Group company Taiga Cloud has released plans to invest €330 million (US$361.5 million) to expand its generative AI cloud platform. The investment will see the deployment of 384 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cray XD supercomputer cabinets equipped with 8,200 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. The infrastructure, to be deployed in early 2024, has been designe...

The European Commission is actively working on its Digital Decade 2030 strategy, known as the Digital Compass, aiming to accelerate the digital transformation of Member States. A primary focus is on enhancing digital connectivity, with specific targets, such as achieving 100 Mbps services by 2025 and ensuring gigabit coverage for all EU households by 2030. Progress in C...