Europe

Rob Coupland
Neo Clouds

Cloud Strategy for 2026: the Year of Repatriation, Resilience, and Regional Rebalancing

This year set to be pivotal year for cloud strategy, with repatriation gaining momentum due to shifting legislative, geopolitical, and technological pressures. This trend has accelerated, with a growing focus on data sovereignty. These challenges have set the stage for 2026 to be the year of repatriation, resilience, and regional rebalancing. Here, Rob Coupland, Chief Executive Officer at Pulsant, offers his insights.

AI-nuclear energy systems
Sustainability

France bets on fast neutrons to power the AI age

France has decided that the future of artificial intelligence won’t just be powered by GPUs and grid upgrades; it will be fuelled by fast neutrons. In a move that places the country at the frontier of next-generation energy systems, French startup Stellaria has secured the first commercial reservation for its advanced reactor, Stellarium, and will work with Equinix to deliver 500 MW of clean nuclear power for AI infrastructure.

If the plan succeeds, this would be the first time a nuclear reactor is explicitly designed and deployed to run commercial-scale AI workloads.

A Different Kind of Reactor for a Different Era

Stellaria’s design doesn’t belong to the conventional family of reactors that power grids today. Stellarium is a fast-neutron molten-salt reactor using liquid chloride fuel, a configuration engineered not only to generate energy but also to destroy nuclear waste.

Data Centers

François Sterin: the future of the data centre sector must be written today”

Penned by: François Sterin, COO of Data4

We are at the dawn of a twofold revolution: the rise of artificial intelligence and the unprecedented promises regarding quantum computing. These advances, as dizzying as they are irreversible, are converging in data centres, the core in which this digital revolution is taking shape.

However, this transformation is not happening on its own. At the same time, a historic energy transition is redefining our priorities, our uses and our infrastructures. Faced with this dual challenge – energy and digitalization – data centres are positioning themselves as the cornerstone where these transitions are taking shape. Every server, every optimised kilowatt, every innovation in cooling or low-carbon materials is helping to shape the future, and it starts today.

An AI explosion

Demand for computing power is exploding as a result of the rise of artificial intelligence. By 2030, almost half of all new data centre energy capacity in Europe could be dedicated to AI-related workloads.

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