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Germany Breaks Ground on €11B AI Mega Data Center in Lübbenau
📅 - Germany has taken a high-visibility step toward reclaiming technological independence with the launch of an €11 billion (roughly $13 billion) mega data center project in the small town of Lübbenau, about 100 kilometers southeast of Berlin. The Schwarz Group - the retail conglomerate behind Lidl and Kaufland - has officially broken ground on what could become one of Europe's largest GPU-accelerated computing sites.
It would position the new data center as a critical pillar for building a domestic AI ecosystem capable of competing with the United States and China.
At a rainy inauguration ceremony, executives joined German Minister for Digitalization and Government Modernization Karsten [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Parallels Releases RAS 21.0 with Enhanced Hybrid Cloud Management - Prashant Ketkar, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Parallels, stated, "Parallels RAS 21.0 introduces major advancements that meet the evolving priorities of IT leaders striving to balance security, productivity, and cost efficiency. This release demonstrates our dedication to providing businesses with a unified digital workspace experience - one that offers enterprise-grade security, intelligent automation, and simplified deployment." Promoting Hybrid Employment With tighter integration into Microsoft Azure and other multi-cloud platforms, Parallels RAS 21.0 increases the flexibility of hybrid cloud deployments and facilitates resource provisioning, scaling, and management across [...]
📅 - IonQ Acquires Skyloom to Advance Quantum-Secure Optical Networking - IonQ is expanding its ambitions in quantum-secure communications with a definitive agreement to acquire Skyloom Global, a U.S. company specializing in high-performance optical communications for both terrestrial and orbital networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition brings Skyloom's rapidly scaling optical communications terminal (OCT) technology into IonQ's growing ecosystem, strengthening the company's effort to build a fully integrated global quantum infrastructure platform.
Skyloom, founded in 2017, has become a key supplier of laser-based communications terminals for U.S. government and commercial missions. The company has delivered nearly 90 [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Launches Europe’s First Quantum-as-a-Service Platform - OVHcloud is expanding its role in Europe's rapidly developing quantum computing landscape with the launch of its Quantum Platform, a new Quantum-as-a-Service environment designed to give enterprises on-demand access to some of the continent's most advanced quantum processors.
Announced at Choose France - France Edition, the platform represents the first European QaaS solution capable of providing cloud-based access to multiple quantum technologies, including Pasqal's Orion Beta quantum processing unit, a neutral-atom system that now delivers a 100-qubit architecture to customers.
The initiative positions OVHcloud at the center of Europe's efforts to build a sovereign quantum capability [...]
📅 - Delta and Siemens Partner on Modular Power Systems for AI Data Centers - Delta and Siemens Smart Infrastructure are deepening their collaboration in the global data center market with a new partnership aimed at accelerating the deployment of high-density, power-intensive AI and cloud workloads. The companies have formalized a global agreement to co-deliver prefabricated, modular power systems that promise faster buildouts, lower capital expenditure, and improved reliability for hyperscale and colocation operators.
The partnership combines Siemens' expertise in electrical power distribution and engineering services with Delta's high-efficiency UPS systems, battery technologies, and advanced cooling solutions. The joint offering centers on fully integrated, [...]
📅 - AI Demand Reshapes Global Data Center Costs, Says New Report - Global data center construction is entering a period of rapid divergence as AI demand reshapes cost structures, power availability, and infrastructure strategy worldwide, according to a new analysis from Turner & Townsend, a multinational professional services company headquartered in Leeds, United Kingdom.
As one of the world's largest construction consultancies, Turner & Townsend provides program management, cost management, and infrastructure advisory services across property, transportation, and natural resources - and its newly released Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025 signals a turning point for the industry.
The report reveals a market in which traditional cloud facilities [...]
📅 - VAST Data, Microsoft Unite to Deliver High-Scale Agentic AI on Azure - VAST Data and Microsoft are deepening their alignment around next-generation AI infrastructure, announcing a new collaboration that will bring the VAST Data AI Operating System (AI OS) natively to Microsoft Azure. Unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, the partnership positions VAST Data as a strategic technology layer supporting what both companies describe as the coming wave of agentic AI.
These AI systems composed of autonomous, continuously reasoning software agents operate on massive, real-time datasets.
For Azure customers, the integration means they will be able to deploy VAST's full data platform directly within the Microsoft cloud, using the same governance, security, operational [...]