The European Commission has proposed a common rating scheme that would make the energy and water efficiency of data centers across the EU easier to compare. The delegated act, adopted by the Commission on 21 September, is subject to scrutiny by the European Parliament and the Council before entering into
30 September 2026 Bulgaria’s rapid expansion of battery storage is drawing attention after a summer in which low river levels put pressure on electricity generation across Eastern Europe. The country recorded net electricity exports of around 830 GWh a month in July and August, more than twice the average for
Europe’s data center investment map is beginning to follow the power grid more closely than the traditional real estate map. A well-positioned parcel near Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris or Dublin still carries strategic weight, but location alone cannot energize a campus, shorten a connection queue or make a high-density cooling
Powered shell accelerates data center projects by moving the hardest early-stage work forward: land readiness, building envelope, utility coordination, power infrastructure, structural preparation, and connectivity planning. For developers, investors, data center operators, colocation providers, cloud service providers, and enterprise infrastructure teams, the model can shorten the path to usable data
The honest answer is: not with one purchase. A facility becomes greener through a chain of decisions that starts with the land under it and ends with what happens to a decommissioned server. This piece is for developers, investors, operators, and energy infrastructure stakeholders who need the practical version of
Bulgaria is exporting 32–33 GWh of electricity a day during a period of regional supply pressure. The more consequential development, however, is not the export record itself. It is the speed at which battery storage is changing the timing, value and regional reach of Bulgarian power. Bulgaria has been exporting
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