This Week's Top 5 Stories in the Data Centre Industry
Jeff Bezos believes space may hold the answer to the AI industry’s spiralling energy needs.
Speaking at Italian Tech Week in Turin, the Amazon founder and Executive Chair outlines how solar-powered data centres in orbit could surpass the performance of Earth-based facilities and meet rising demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
“One of the things that’s going to happen next – is we’re going to start building these giant gigawatt data centres in space,” says Jeff.
Echelon Data Centres has announced its expansion into the Italian market with plans to develop a major data centre campus near Milan.
The €3bn (US$3.5bn) investment, in partnership with controlled affiliates of Starwood Capital Group, is one of Italy’s largest digital infrastructure developments and the next phase of Echelon’s European growth strategy.
The company has acquired a 37-acre site strategically located close to Milan with immediate grid power availability.
The new facility, known as the LIN10 campus, will have a total electrical capacity of 250 megavolt-amperes (MVA), with 100 MVA ready to use through an existing onsite substation.
Construction is expected to begin immediately, with operations targeted to commence within 18 to 24 months.
As data centres become more and more power hungry to meet soaring demand and AI workloads, there is concurrent pressure to source energy sustainably – meeting regulatory requirements and ESG goals along the way.
One of the emerging solutions to this dual-layered dynamic is nuclear powered data centres.
Three Swedish companies: Blykalla, evroc and Studsvik have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to team up and explore the ongoing development of Sweden’s first nuclear-powered data centre at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping.
The site was initially used as a research reactor, but that all changed in 2005 when it closed due to economic reasons – making the site attractive for nuclear development two decades later, due to its unique infrastructure which supports nuclear activities.
The meteoric rise of BYD is one of the most compelling industrial stories of the decade. With sales surging from 1.8 million new energy vehicles (NEVs) in 2022 to over 4.2 million in 2024, the company has reshaped the global automotive market at an unprecedented speed.
While its innovative battery technology and aggressive pricing are well-documented, the silent enabler of this hyper-growth is a sophisticated and multi-layered data centre strategy.
This digital backbone – spanning high-performance on-premise compute, a strategic multi-cloud architecture and intelligent edge devices – is the engine powering BYD’s manufacturing prowess, R&D velocity and global expansion.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has secured the top position in Data Centre Magazine's Top 100 Data Centre Companies list for 2025 in recognition of the cloud provider's infrastructure scale and pace of innovation across its data centre operations.
AWS operates one of the most extensive cloud and data centre platforms worldwide, supporting millions of customers across industries, from startups to enterprise and public sector organisations.
In 2025, AWS was ranked number one in Data Centre Magazine's annual Top 100 Data Centre Companies report, due to the company’s global presence, technical leadership and role in providing digital infrastructure to the digital economy.
"I'm honored and humbled to see AWS recognised as THE #1 company in DataCentre Magazine's Top 100 Data Center Companies!" says Sergio M Loureiro, Vice President of Global Datacenters Operations at AWS.
Executives
Jeff Bezos
Founder and Executive Chairman at Amazon
Karl Thedeen
CEO Studsvik AB
Matt Garman
Chief Executive Officer
Niall Molloy
Chief Executive Officer
Wang Chuanfu
CEO
