Retelit to acquire BT Italy's operations
The deal will boost Retelit's fiber network and data center infrastructure
News - Italy
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Vertiv, Nvidia, and iGenius partner on AI supercomputer Colosseum
Will be hosted in Italy
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Telecom Italia approves €700m Sparkle subsea unit sale
Deal expected to be finalized in final quarter of 2025
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CyrusOne to develop second data center in Milan, Italy
54MW facility follows last year’s announcement
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Prysmian acquires cable manufacturer Channell for $950m
Expands Prysmian's presence in the US
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Vivendi to sell 15 percent stake in Telecom Italia to Poste Italiane
As part of the agreement, Vivendi ends legal challenge with TIM over grid sale
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EuroHPC JU signs €13m contract with Pasqal for neutral atom-based quantum simulator
Will be hosted by CINECA in Bologna, Italy
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Vivendi cuts stake in Telecom Italia to 18.4%
The TIM top shareholder strongly opposed the Italian telco's grid sale
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Exa Infrastructure and Ultranet partner for Milan-Genoa fiber route in Italy
Will connect several existing cable landing stations to data center hub in Milan
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IQM to integrate 54-qubit Radiance system with Italy’s Leonardo supercomputer
Quantum computer will be delivered and installed in Q4 2025
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European Space Agency launches five petaflops Space HPC in Italy
System contains 108 Nvidia H100 GPUs
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Orange Marine's cable laying ship Teliri breaks down while laying Unitirreno cable
Vessel was stranded after leaving Calais on February 28
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Data4 signs ten-year PPA with Edison Energia for 500GWh of solar power in Italy
The PPA will cover 10 percent of Data4's energy consumption in Italy
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Inwit pockets €350 million in funding from EIB for telecommunications infrastructure
Set to drive 5G and FWA connections for mobile operators
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Italy’s TIM connects Milan data center to district heating network
Rozzano facility to heat water of 5,000 homes
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Eni partners with UAE’s MGX and G42 to develop 1GW of data centers in Italy
Oil giant to expand data center site in Pavia
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Almost 1GW of new colo capacity expected in Europe in 2025 - CBRE
An increase of 282MW from the 655MW delivered in 2024
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Poste Italiane to snap up CDP's 10% stake in Telecom Italia
Would become the second-biggest shareholder in TIM
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Telecom Italia board approves Sparkle sale to MEF and Retelit
The deal was examined this week and "unanimously" approved
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Italy's EOLO partners with ZTE for 5G mmWave
Adds ZTE to vendor list following recent Nokia deal
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Iliad exploring potential tie-up with Telecom Italia - report
Iliad has previously outlined its desire to push for more consolidation
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STT GDC’s Virtus expands into Italy, plans data center in Milan
Company enters third European market
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Italian appeals court tells gov't to pay €1bn to Telecom Italia to settle lengthy legal battle
Case dates back to 1998
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Sparkle partners with OEC to recycle 22,000km worth of unused subsea cable
OEC will dismantle, separate, and sort all components of unused cable ahead of repurposing
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Italian court rejects Vivendi's request to annul Telecom Italia's grid sale
Vivendi intends to appeal the decision
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Veon, Starlink sign satellite connectivity agreement in Ukraine
Elsewhere, the Italian government is in talks with SpaceX over a satellite deal, while Jeff Bezos wants to launch Amazon satellite broadband service in UK this year
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Swisscom seals €8bn Vodafone Italy acquisition
The transaction will enable Swisscom's growth in the country, says the operator
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Eni switches on HPC6, world’s fifth most powerful supercomputer
System is housed at company’s Green Data Center in Lombardy, Italy