It's been a busy week for Data Centre Magazine! We take a look back at some of the largest stories we've covered on the website this week...
Digital Realty Launches HER1 Hub with Schneider Electric
Data Centre Magazine was in Crete this week for the launch ofHER1,a new data centre facility by Digital Realty that uses Schneider Electric’s prefabricated data centre solutions.
Based in Heraklion, Crete to establish a new digital gateway for Southern Europe, the work at HER1 seeks to reduce connectivity and infrastructure gaps within the region and enable the interconnection of international, regional and local subsea cables to better serve EMEA regions.
Using Schneider Electric’s prefabricated data centre solutions, Digital Realty hopes to meet the challenges of accelerating time-to-market and remote deployment within just 12 months, while adhering to strict resiliency and energy efficiency standards.
How Meta’s $1bn Wisconsin Data Centre Will Boost AI Growth
Our Deputy Editor Sophie Rice reports: Meta is investing heavily in AI infrastructure to maintain its competitive edge, future-proof its platforms and meet the rise in demand for cloud-powered services.
Earlier this year,CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Facebook that its plans to build a 2GW data centre will feature more than 1.3 million Nvidia AI GPUs.
Mark has demonstrated his drive for securing Meta’s position as a technology and AI leader, stating that the company will invest US$65bn in AI throughout 2025.
As part of this wider AI strategy, Meta plans to spend nearly US$1bn on a new data centre project in central Wisconsin.
This move aligns with the wider trend across the US, where many major data centres are being developed. Meta already possesses a network of data centres across the Midwest in the Chicago suburb of DeKalb and Iowa.
In his previous Facebook post, Mark states: “This will be a defining year for AI.
“In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than one billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts."
HPE Expands Aruba Central With New Deployment Options
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a provider of enterprise technology solutions, has expanded its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform with new deployment options designed to address increasing customer demand for data sovereignty and local network control.
The company has introduced a virtual private cloud (VPC) environment for organisations requiring cloud agility alongside specific data security controls, as well as an on-premises option capable of operating whiledisconnected from cloud infrastructure.
With these updates, HPE is eager to position itself as the only network management vendor that is offering cloud-native AI operations across four deployment models: dedicated customer VPC, on-premises, public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or network-as-a-service (NaaS).
Dell Powers AI Data Centres with New Infrastructure
Our Deputy Editor Sophie Rice reports: In a bid to support both traditional and emerging workloads while reducing complexity and environmental impact,DellTechnologies has released several advancements across its infrastructure portfolio.
The innovations, which span data protection, servers and storage, aim to tackle changing IT challenges like sustainability goals, hybrid workload demands and risingcyberthreats.
Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies, says this infrastructure will help support agile and scalable data centres
“Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with ever-changing data centre demands,” he says.
Colt DCS Expands German Data Centre Capacity by 117MW
Our Deputy Editor Sophie Rice reports: Aiming to enhance its commitment to digital infrastructure in Germany, Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has put out its plans to develop four new data centres across Germany.
The four facilities will be made up of Berlin 1 & 2 and Frankfurt 4 & 5, bringing an additional 117MW to Colt DCS’sGermancapacity and representing a €2 billion investment in the country.
This will make the total in-country capacity stand at 176MW.
Colt DCS’s move will help to meet the rising demand from hyperscalers and enterprises deploying more AI infrastructure and high-performing computing (HPC), while supporting the future of Europe’s digital economy.
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