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EU Data Center Rules Delayed by Nuclear Sustainability Tests
📅 - The European Commission is preparing minimum energy-efficiency requirements for data centers as AI workloads accelerate electricity demand, but a delayed sustainability plan has exposed a harder policy question: how to treat nuclear-powered facilities when the bloc wants local cloud capacity without locking in higher emissions, grid stress or politically contested energy choices for operators across Europe now.
The issue is no longer whether data centers consume too much power. Brussels has already accepted that the curve is steep. EU data center capacity is expected to rise from 12 GW last year to 28 GW by 2030, more than doubling in a few years. Data centers already account for about [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - QuiX Quantum Adds Real-Time Control to Photonic Stack - QuiX Quantum has installed its first feed-forward control unit, a hardware component needed for its universal photonic quantum computer architecture, moving the Dutch company from component design toward system integration in a field where real-time measurement response is not an add-on but a requirement for making photonic quantum machines programmable, scalable and commercially credible at all.
Photonic quantum computing has always had an attractive story for infrastructure people: light moves fast, optical systems can be built on photonic integrated circuits, and the hardware may eventually avoid some of the cooling burdens associated with other quantum approaches. Nice theory. The [...]
📅 - Pure DC Tests Biomethane to Decarbonize Data Centers - Pure DC has completed a 9 GWh cross-border biomethane transfer into Ireland's gas network, claiming operational-scale decarbonization for gas-connected data centers, while testing whether certificate-backed renewable gas can satisfy hyperscale energy demands, EU emissions rules and Ireland's large energy user policy before domestic biomethane supply is ready to carry the load at scale, locally and reliably enough.
The company, a developer and operator of hyperscale cloud and AI data centers across Europe and the Middle East, said the gas was produced in Germany in 2025 from waste and residue feedstocks, certified under the ISCC scheme, and moved into the Irish network using a mass-balance [...]
📅 - Study: Power Constraints Reshape the US Data Center Boom - The U.S. data center build-out is entering a more expensive phase, with Arizton projecting nearly $839 billion in cumulative non IT infrastructure investment from 2026 to 2031, while AI demand, regional power constraints and hyperscale expansion are shifting growth away from only established hubs toward markets where electricity, land and permitting move faster than rack demand alone suggests.
The headline number attached to Arizton's market note is also large: U.S. data center market investment reaching $494.49 billion by 2031. The broader cumulative figure, excluding IT infrastructure, points to how much concrete, power gear, cooling, land, substations and construction work may be [...]
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📅 - CoolIT Shows 15kW Path for AI Accelerator Cooling - CoolIT Systems has developed a 15kW coldplate for AI accelerators, saying single-phase direct liquid cooling can handle future GPU heat loads as chipmakers drive power density higher. The validation puts a sharper technical marker in the race to cool AI factories, where thermal design is becoming as strategic as compute procurement for operators and hyperscalers now globally.
The company says the coldplate delivers nearly four times the performance of its earlier 4kW design announced in March 2025 and more than ten times the cooling capacity required by current-generation AI GPUs. That is a big claim. Also a useful signal of where the infrastructure market is heading.
AI operators are [...]
📅 - DE-CIX Boosts Mexico-Dallas Capacity Ahead of World Cup - DE-CIX has upgraded connectivity between Mexico and Dallas as networks prepare for heavy FIFA World Cup streaming traffic, after its Mexico exchange posted more than 400% traffic growth since early 2026 and peak usage near 300 Gbit/s, highlighting how live sports, gaming, enterprise workloads and cloud demand are reshaping cross-border internet infrastructure in North America now, quickly.
The upgrade is live. It connects DE-CIX's Mexico footprint more tightly with Dallas, one of the more important interconnection markets in the United States. The stated trigger was demand from Mexico-based networks looking for simpler routes into international data paths.