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Apr, 2026 : How Big Tech Embedded Secrecy In EU Data Center Rules
📅 - Europe has finally started collecting hard data on the environmental footprint of its data centers. But just as that information begins to surface, much of it is being kept out of public view. A cross-border investigation shows how lobbying by major tech companies helped reshape EU rules, limiting access at a moment when demand - and scrutiny - is rising.
The sequence is easy to miss unless you look closely. The European Commission set out to require operators to report detailed metrics - energy use, water consumption, efficiency levels. The idea was not especially controversial. Data centers are expanding fast across Europe, and policymakers want visibility into what that growth actually [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - HostPapa Expands U.S. Reach with TMS Acquisition Deal - HostPapa has acquired Dallas-based Tailor Made Servers, adding a long-standing dedicated hosting business to its portfolio as it continues to widen its infrastructure footprint in the U.S. The move brings more than just capacity - it folds in a customer base built around customizable, unmanaged servers, a segment that has not gone away.
For a company that has spent years building out shared hosting, cloud services, and partner platforms, this looks like a deliberate return to the lower layers of infrastructure. Not instead of cloud, but alongside it.
Tailor Made Servers has been operating since 2003, serving businesses and resellers that want direct control over hardware. Bare-metal [...]
📅 - Africa Data Centres Boosts SA Connectivity With Oni-Tel - Africa Data Centres is tightening its grip on one of South Africa's busiest digital corridors, signing a new connectivity deal aimed squarely at enterprises running heavier workloads and expecting less tolerance for downtime. The company has partnered with Oni-Tel Fibre Networks to extend high-speed links across key Gauteng campuses as demand climbs for cloud, AI, and data-heavy applications.
The agreement is not about building new data centers. It is about what happens between them.
Oni-Tel will connect Africa Data Centres' Midrand and Samrand facilities through its Infinity fibre platform, effectively increasing the bandwidth and reducing latency between sites that already sit at the [...]
📅 - U.S. MSP Nexus IT Expands Reach with Imagis Acquisition Deal - Managed hosting provider Nexus IT has closed its acquisition of New York-based managed services firm Imagis, adding another piece to a steady consolidation strategy targeting regulated industries across the U.S. The deal, its tenth to date, extends Nexus' reach into the Manhattan market while reinforcing its focus on healthcare, financial services, and compliance-heavy sectors requiring tighter security.
The pace matters as much as the deal itself. Nexus IT, based in Salt Lake City, has been building out a national platform through a series of acquisitions backed by a $60 million growth facility. Imagis becomes the latest addition - not a transformative takeover on its own, but part of a [...]
📅 - Comcast Business Launches Lab To Test Enterprise IT - Comcast Business is opening a new front in enterprise infrastructure, launching an innovation lab focused on stitching together connectivity, cloud, and colocation environments into something that works in practice. The move comes as companies struggle to align data centers, edge compute, and AI systems without adding layers of operational complexity across increasingly distributed global operations.
The lab, unveiled at the company's 2026 analyst conference, is positioned as a working environment rather than a showcase. The pitch is straightforward enough - bring partners, customers, and infrastructure into the same space, test solutions under real conditions, and move them toward [...]
📅 - Your.Cloud Expands UK Footprint With Pure Cloud Buy - Your.Cloud has picked up another UK managed services provider, acquiring Pure Cloud Solutions in a move that says less about scale and more about how consolidation is actually happening in this market. The deal adds a West Midlands business with three decades of client relationships into a European platform that is growing quietly, one local operator at a time.
On the surface, very little changes. Pure Cloud keeps its name, its leadership, its way of working. That is part of the appeal. Your.Cloud does Pure Cloud Solutions team, from left to right: Matt Simpson (Mobile Sales Director), Shalleen Greasley (Project & Service Co-ordinator), Stacey Hall (Project & Service Co-ordinator), Pete [...]
📅 - Nokia Spins Out Modul8 To Accelerate Space Network Growth - Nokia is preparing to spin out its space communications unit into a standalone company, handing it to a new structure backed by Celestial as the telecoms vendor looks to accelerate commercialization in a market moving faster than its traditional timelines allow. The business, now branded Modul8, has already tested lunar connectivity but remains early in its revenue cycle.
The move is less about divestment and more about pace. Nokia's space work has been sitting inside its research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, where breakthroughs tend to be measured in years. The space economy is not waiting for that rhythm.
So the plan shifts. Separate the unit. Give it access to external capital. Let it [...]
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