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...

KEVLINX, an emerging pan-European data centre operator, has appointed Eric Boonstra as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Boonstra, an industry veteran with extensive experience in the European data centre sector, previously managed the EMEA business for Iron Mountain Data Centers. This development follows KEVLINX's recent success in securing investments from Macquarie...