Cloud

An Omdia analyst told RCR Wireless News that Telefónica and Google Cloud’s new sovereign cloud partnership highlights a growing trend in Europe toward combining hyperscale cloud platforms with local operational controls In sum – what to know: Local control – …

Europe is reshaping its digital economy around sovereignty, from satellite spectrum (new post-2027 auction rules for the 2GHz MSS band) and sovereign cloud (Google Cloud picks Telefónica to serve-up hybrid sovereignty on a US stack) citizen identity systems (the Dutch …

Germany’s sovereign cloud push is advancing with Deutsche Telekom and SAP winning a BMDS AI platform tender built on the “Deutschland-Stack”, while Thales expands its Google Cloud-powered sovereign model in Germany alongside its French PREMI3NS infrastructure. STL Partners has a …

Telenor said the platform will operate from nationally controlled data centers in Norway and will remain separated from commercial global cloud environments In sum – what to know: Sovereign cloud – Telenor is creating a standalone Norwegian cloud company focused …

Most factory-floor ‘physical AI’ runs on lightweight (non-GPU) edge compute, reckons NTT Data – but 5G sensing, in the form of ISAC via SRS, could unlock a new wave of demand for private 5G, tying edge IoT and AI into …

Strong growth and raised guidance sit alongside major AI work at Verizon, about to be unveiled with a brand new AI tech stack to drive further network automation and customer (micro-) segmentation to cut costs, improve service, and drive “industrial-scale” …

Final word on this fascinating Nokia narrative, this time from the independent analyst community – about how the Finnish firm is losing a little to Ericsson in its 5G heartlands, but also switching it up with clever short- and long-term …

China Unicom is also expanding its AI infrastructure, with more than 1.1 million data center cabinets and computing capacity reaching 45 EFLOPS In sum – what to know: AI spending rises – Over 35% of 2026 capex allocated to computing …

The CEO of TIM outlined how the telecom sector’s priorities are shifting as new digital applications place different demands on networks In sum – what to know: AI is interconnected – TIM CEO Pietro Labriola told MWC that telecoms infrastructure, …

Europe’s largest enterprise fibre provider will scale infrastructure and partner-led operations across the Middle East, positioning itself as a regional gateway – whilst also divesting non-AI data centres in Europe to double down on asset-led digital infra. In sum – …

By 2035, global active data center IT capacity is forecast to surge nearly six-fold, from roughly 24 GW today to around 147 GW, as a new ABI Research forecast shows. A staggering expansion driven largely by artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, …

Lumine Group will acquire Synchronoss for $116.4m, taking the cloud-software firm private, expanding Lumine’s global scale and long-term “buy-and-hold” strategy. Acquisition – Lumine buys Synchronoss for $116.4m equity value (enterprise value $258.4m), completing its multi-step acquisition and taking the firm …

The timing of Nokia’s announcements last week about continuing European reductions and increasing US investments is awkward – and raises questions, perhaps, when considered with parallel EU calls in Germany and France, where it is cutting jobs, for home-made sovereign …

TalayLink has extended the Interlink cable, which Google revealed under the Australia Connect initiative in 2023 In sum – what to know: New Australia–Thailand subsea cable – Google introduced the TalayLink cable, creating a diverse route through the Indian Ocean …

Europe’s digital sovereignty ambitions extend beyond cloud and data policy into the nuts and bolts of Industry 4.0 network orchestration. Through initiatives like IPCEI-CIS and 8RA, organisations including Adeptic Reply are building a federated cloud-edge continuum that can orchestrate multi-vendor, …

Omdia projects a 12% increase in CSP cloud spending in 2025, double the growth rate seen in 2024, as operators expand AI integration, automation frameworks, and containerized architectures In sum – what to know: Telco cloud spend to hit $24.8bn …

Through the agreement with Nokia, Telia Company will upgrade its 5G networks in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and Lithuania In sum – what to know: Telia adopts 5G SA core – The operator will deploy Nokia’s cloud-native 5G SA core …

The new U.K. data center facility will support services such as Google Cloud, Workspace, Search and Maps In sum – what to know: $6.8B investment in UK AI – Google’s new data center is part of a two-year package aimed …

The deal ensures that Nvidia will acquire any residual CoreWeave data center capacity not taken up by other customers through April 13, 2032. In sum – what to know: Nvidia signs $6.3B deal with CoreWeave – Agreement runs through 2032, …

Volkswagen will invest €1bn in AI by 2030 to transform vehicle development, production, and IT, targeting €4bn savings, 25% faster innovation cycles, digital sovereignty in Europe, and “AI everywhere” across its industrial value chain. In sum – what to know: …

The new offerings give customers more deployment choices, including SAP cloud infrastructure hosted in European data centers and SAP sovereign cloud on-site operated within customer facilities In sum – what to know: SAP expands sovereign cloud in Europe – Customers …

Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence Group posted revenue of $4.66 billion in fiscal Q1, compared with $4.15 billion in the same quarter last year In sum – what to know: Cloud revenue surged 26% – Alibaba Cloud posted $4.66B in Q1 2026, …

Amazon said its AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region begins operations with three Availability Zones, each consisting of one or more data centers In sum – what to know: NZ cloud expansion – AWS launches its New Zealand Region, giving …

T-Systems has created a new Chief Sovereignty Officer role, appointing Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic to lead data sovereignty strategy. Andreas Schlegel joins as Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer. The appointments follow Deutsche Telekom’s cloud portfolio revamp in July.  In sum – what …

In the United States alone, the AI data center market was valued at $3.35 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach $20.12 billion by 2032 In sum – what to know: Market projected to reach $98B by 2032 – …