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Arelion Expands Nordic Network for AI Growth - 📅 Jun 24, 2025 - Arelion has announced a major infrastructure expansion in Scandinavia, upgrading its network to deliver 1.6 Tb/s wavelength capacity and scalable 400G coherent pluggable optics. The initiative aims to connect hyperscale data centers and meet the region's growing demand for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services, placing Arelion at the forefront of Europe's next-generation network evolution.

The company, formerly known as Telia Carrier, is leveraging Ciena's open 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) to enhance its Tier-1 backbone linking key Nordic cities - Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. This upgraded network not only supports high-performance cloud and AI workloads but also [...]

Colt DCS Cuts Emissions 32%, Boosts Renewable Energy Use to 90% - 📅 Jun 24, 2025 - Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS), a global provider of enterprise and hyperscale data center solutions, has reported a 32% reduction in absolute greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 compared to its 2019 baseline. The disclosure comes as part of the company's third annual sustainability report.

The latest sustainability report also reveals that Colt DCS sourced 90% of its electricity from renewable sources across its global operations in 2024 - an 8% increase over the previous year.

The UK-headquartered firm, which currently operates 13 data centers across Europe and Asia with 19 more under development, has continued its expansion into high-demand markets. Major projects [...]

Vultr Secures $255M to Expand Global AI and Cloud Infrastructure - 📅 Jun 24, 2025 - In addition to $74 million in recently closed lease financing, Vultr, one of the biggest privately held cloud infrastructure companies in the world, announced the closing of a $255 million syndicated credit facility. With the extra funding, Vultr intends to further establish its dominance in the market for independent cloud providers by extending its worldwide presence in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing infrastructure to cater to its fast-expanding clientele.

The new funding includes a $35 million uncommitted agreement. J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo spearheaded the syndicated lending facility, with Citi, Goldman Sachs, and KeyBank joining in.

The [...]

Telstra, Nokia Unlock Network APIs for Developers and Enterprises - 📅 Jun 23, 2025 - To facilitate the development, testing, and deployment of new applications that safely utilize Telstra's sophisticated network capabilities, the agreement will grant developers access to a limited number of live and simulated network APIs on Nokia's Network as Code platform with developer portal through Telstra's muru-D Labs.

The partnership will concentrate on practical use cases from several industries, like prioritizing important services, enhancing network observability, and controlling network traffic during major events. Through the developer platform's consumption of APIs from Nokia's service orchestration software, which is already in use at Telstra, the alliance will also [...]

firstcolo Releases Soundtrack Composed from Its Own Data Center - 📅 Jun 23, 2025 - In a creative departure from traditional infrastructure updates, German hosting and colocation provider firstcolo has released a unique musical composition made entirely from the ambient sounds of its Frankfurt data center. The track, titled the Datacenter Ambient Mix, was launched in celebration of Make Music Day on June 21 and offers a 21-minute immersive journey into the acoustic heartbeat of a live data center.

The composition layers the steady hum of servers, the subtle rush of cool air, and the faint pulse of electrical currents into a textured ambient soundscape. The result is a minimalist, atmospheric piece that echoes the aesthetics of experimental electronic music, yet remains [...]

T5 Data Centers Overhauls Executive Ranks - 📅 Jun 23, 2025 - Atlanta-based T5 Data Centers has reshuffled its senior leadership team and clarified lines of authority across its development, construction, and operations arms, moves the privately held company says will sharpen execution as hyperscale and enterprise demand for capacity accelerates.

In a statement announcing the promotions, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pete Marin said the company is "aligning the organization for the operational precision, efficiency, and service excellence T5 is known for industry-wide."

The adjustments create four direct reports to Pete Marin who now hold expanded mandates designed to integrate decision-making from capital formation through facility [...]

Finnish Telco Elisa Oyj Adopts Google Cloud, Prepares for AI - 📅 Jun 23, 2025 - Google Cloud has deepened its long-running relationship with Finnish operator Elisa Oyj, unveiling an agreement that will push the carrier's network-automation ambitions well beyond today's predictive maintenance dashboards and into the realm of self-governing, ‘agentic' infrastructure.

The multi-year pact positions Elisa as one of the first European telcos to adopt Google Cloud's Autonomous Network Operations blueprint, a reference architecture that combines BigQuery, Spanner, Vertex AI and Gemini-family large language models with an open-source agent framework.

Elisa already runs one of the world's most automated mobile and fixed networks. Its in-house platform, branded Elisa Defined [...]

Global Switch Opens Liquid Cooling Showcase in London - 📅 Jun 23, 2025 - Global Switch has unveiled what it describes as Europe's only live showcase of end-to-end liquid cooling technologies, opening the facility last week inside its London Docklands campus. The demonstration suite, developed with six infrastructure vendors including LiquidStack and Supermicro, features production-grade direct-to-chip and immersion systems designed to tame the soaring thermal loads of AI training clusters and other high-performance computing (HPC) deployments.

The launch marks the second time the wholesale colocation provider has rolled out a multivendor liquid-cooling floor: a similar initiative debuted in Hong Kong late last year. With both sites now in operation, Global [...]

Zero Trust Security: Rebuilding Enterprise Cyber Defenses - 📅 Jun 22, 2025 - The traditional model of cybersecurity, which relies heavily on securing the perimeter of trusted internal networks, is increasingly viewed as inadequate in the face of modern cyber threats. Enterprises today confront sophisticated adversaries capable of exploiting vulnerabilities and compromised credentials, effectively bypassing perimeter defenses.

As a result, a growing number of organizations are shifting towards a zero trust security model - a paradigm that eliminates the concept of implicit trust within a network and instead requires verification of every access request, regardless of user location or device.

The zero trust approach, originating from concepts introduced by Stephen [...]

Zero Trust Security: Rebuilding Enterprise Cyber Defenses - 📅 Jun 22, 2025 - The traditional model of cybersecurity, which relies heavily on securing the perimeter of trusted internal networks, is increasingly viewed as inadequate in the face of modern cyber threats. Enterprises today confront sophisticated adversaries capable of exploiting vulnerabilities and compromised credentials, effectively bypassing perimeter defenses.

As a result, a growing number of organizations are shifting towards a zero trust security model - a paradigm that eliminates the concept of implicit trust within a network and instead requires verification of every access request, regardless of user location or device.

The zero trust approach, originating from concepts introduced by Stephen [...]