nLighten appoints Dame Dawn Childs as CEO and Matthew Harris as CFO
Amsterdam, May 6 – nLighten, a leading provider of innovative edge data center services across Europe, today announces the appointment of Dame Dawn Childs as Chief Executive Officer and Matthew Harris as Chief Financial Officer. With these appointments, the company further strengthens its leadership team as it enters its next phase of growth. Dame Dawn […]
Schneider Electric teams with NVIDIA to develop validated Blueprints to design, simulate, build, operate and maintain gigawatt-scale AI Factories
New NVIDIA Vera Rubin reference design, co-developed with NVIDIA, provides validated roadmap for powering and cooling latest NVIDIA rack-scale systems AVEVA, the industrial software company owned by Schneider Electric, and NVIDIA develop lifecycle digital twin architecture in NVIDIA Omniverse for large-scale AI factories to maximize token revenue per megawatt Schneider Electric testing of NVIDIA Nemotron […]
FOGTEC Publishes Whitepaper on High-Pressure Water Mist Fire Protection for Data Centers
As data centers become critical infrastructure supporting AI expansion and global connectivity, fire protection strategies must evolve to match. FOGTEC Fire Protection has released a new whitepaper examining how high-pressure water mist systems offer a compelling alternative to traditional gas-based suppression for data center environments. The whitepaper highlights that these systems can achieve effective fire […]
It’s a match! Weiss Klimatechnik solves heat load problems in older data centers
Climate neutrality by 2030, increased cooling capacity in the same space and greater energy efficiency: many data centers are facing major challenges. Weiss Klimatechnik offers alternative cooling solutions that are ideal for retrofitting brownfield data centers. Operators of older data centers are under pressure to modernize. AI applications and new server generations increase power density […]
Penta Infra expands into Munich with new 20 MW colocation data center
Amsterdam, 28 January 2026 – Penta Infra, a 100% European-owned colocation provider backed by Dutch investors Photon Capital and PGGM, today announced the acquisition of a data center in Munich. The facility will be fully modernized and expanded into a state-of-the-art colocation data center with 20 MW of IT capacity. Designed to meet the evolving […]
Motivair by Schneider Electric announces new CDU with capability to scale to 10MW and beyond for next-gen AI Factories
Newly announced MCDU-70 delivers cooling for up to 2.5 megawatts (MW) of power without compromise, preserving full flow performance and facility pressure at gigawatt-scale With centralized controls, Motivair’s CDU portfolio is scalable to 10MW and beyond to meet the demands of next-generation AI data centers Individual CDU capacities range from 105kW to 2.5MW, providing greater […]
Vertiv Launches Vertiv™ OneCore to Accelerate Deployment of Scalable, Prefab Infrastructure for AI, HPC, and High-Density Data Centers of 5+ MW
Global rollout of end-to-end solution provides flexible, rapidly deployable infrastructure to simplify and accelerate high-performance data center expansion. Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced the global availability of Vertiv™ OneCore. This scalable, prefabricated solution integrates Vertiv’s proven power, cooling, and IT infrastructure technologies into one factory-assembled system. Vertiv OneCore […]
Liège IT group NRB opens first data center in Flanders
Liège-based IT group NRB, whose main shareholder is insurer Ethias, is becoming active in Flanders. The company announced that it has bought a data center in Muizen near Mechelen. NRB already had interconnected and multi-certified data centers in Herstal and Villers-le-Bouillet in Wallonia, where it stores critical data from hospitals, financial sector companies and other […]
BDIA publishes analysis of Belgian Data Center Market
AFFLIGEM, OCTOBER 27 – Today, the Belgian Digital Infrastructure Association publishes the first edition of the ‘State of the Belgian Data Centers’ report. The report provides an overview of the Belgian data center market. The main focus of the report is colocation data centers and the key trends that will shape the Belgian data centers […]
The world’s first Artificial Energy Island
This week @Elia Group got a lot of attention for their plans to build ‘the world’s first’ Artifical Energy Island. Elia: “The island is an innovative tour de force that once again puts Belgium on the map as a pioneer in offshore energy. Belgium’s Maritime Spatial Plan (2020-2026) provides for the development of a new […]
