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Think tank challenges the employment case for UK data centres

14th Sep 2026

5 minutes

A new report from think tank Verdant estimates that planned UK data centres will create around a quarter of the permanent jobs the industry has projected.
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Trump fires back at Amodei, Musk and Altman’s call to hit the AI brakes

14th Sep 2026

6 minutes

Trump hits back at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI’s call to slow AI, leaving US data centre moratoriums and local opposition as the real brake on pace.
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Scotland to vote on hyperscale pause as SNP’s own council breaks with Swinney

14th Sep 2026

5 minutes

The Scottish Parliament will vote on Wednesday on whether to halt all hyperscale data centre applications, the sharpest test yet of a moratorium debate that has spread from Holyrood to Westminster and split the SNP’s own ranks.
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Finland’s opposition calls for data centre permitting system after Google’s €13bn deal

11th Sep 2026

3 minutes

Finnish opposition parties are calling for a national permitting system for data centres, warning that the country currently has no coordinated oversight of the power demand such projects create.

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Anthropic’s bioweapon report exposes an infrastructure blind spot

11th Sep 2026

7 minutes

Anthropic flagged 35 suspicious bioweapons research attempts this month. The access-control infrastructure behind that finding is the real story.
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Why hyperscalers are laying their own subsea cables

10th Sep 2026

5 minutes

For two decades, submarine cables were built the same way: a consortium of telecoms operators pooled capital, shared risk and split capacity along a new route.

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Google commits at least €13bn to Finnish AI infrastructure in its largest single European investment

9th Sep 2026

4 minutes

Google plans to invest at least €13 billion in digital infrastructure across Finland over 2027-2028, its largest single investment in Europe to date.
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UK unveils £7.8bn Space Strategy, with satellite connectivity central to reducing reliance on Starlink

9th Sep 2026

3 minutes

The UK government has launched a new Space Strategy backed by £7.8 billion of funding through 2030, replacing the 2021 National Space Strategy.
Capacity Europe

8 panels to watch at Capacity Europe 2026

9th Sep 2026

4 minutes

Capacity Europe returns to the InterContinental London – The O2 from 13-15 October, marking the event’s 25th year and bringing together more than 4,000 decision-makers from over 90 countries.

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Digital Realty opens 6.4MW Nairobi Two data centre

8th Sep 2026

3 minutes

Digital Realty has opened its 6.4-megawatt Nairobi Two (NBO2) data centre in Karen, expanding its Nairobi campus and completing the transition of iColo, the East African operator it acquired in 2019, to the Digital Realty brand across Kenya and Mozambique.
Data Centres

Capacity Global readers get 25% off Capacity Europe passes this October

8th Sep 2026

2 minutes

Capacity Global has partnered with Capacity Europe to offer readers a 25% discount on delegate passes for this year’s event.
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