The Conseil d’Etat has decided not to refer Orange’s case to the constitutional council (Conseil constitutionnel) in a preliminary ruling on constitutionality which was raised by Orange contesting its fibre roll-out commitments

US-based hyperscale data centre provider Vantage Data Centers today announced the opening of a £250 million UK data centre, 3 months after entering the London data centre market

Pan-European edge data centre provider AtlasEdge has secured a scalable €725 million financing facility from an international consortium of lenders

French data centre operator and investor DATA4 has launched a third data centre, expanding its Alcobendas data centre campus in Madrid

Singaporean conglomerate Keppel targets to raise $2.5 billion for its Keppel Core Infrastructure Fund and soon launches the Keppel Asia Infrastructure Fund 2

German telecoms company Glasfaser Nordwest has announced the construction of a new fibre optic network in the Horneburg region of Germany which will provide fibre to the premises to more than 3,200 commercial and residential locations

The Scottish Government has awarded a £350 million fibre and mobile connectivity contract to BT to deliver public sector connectivity across the country

Norwegian data centre company Green Mountain today announced the expansion of its existing OSL1-Enebakk data centre outside of Oslo, Norway

Time dotCom Berhad has completed a data centre partnership deal with funds affiliated with DigitalBridge Group to accelerate the expansion of the AIMS Group’s data centre business in Asia

Alternative investment entity AXA IM Alts has appointed Victoria Hall as head of funds, infrastructure – a newly created role aimed at strengthening its about €15 billion infrastructure platform

Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted 11 energy and infrastructure lawyers to partner in 9 offices globally

Czech telecoms business CETIN is set to acquire cable and internet services provider Nej.cz from KAPRAIN

Guggenheim Securities has expanded its business in Europe with the appointment of 4 senior practitioners from Greenhill to join its global TMT investment banking practice in London

The Netherlands' North Sea Canal Area Environment Service has granted Microsoft its final permit for the construction of the Het Venster Data Centre in Middenmeer, North Holland

Ariem-owned Ecodatacenter has invested SEK 10 billion to build a data centre complex in Östersund, Jämtland – its biggest investment so far