Latest news and stories about data centers in technology in Portugal for expats and residents.
An analysis of the infrastructure, energy demands, and strategic requirements necessary for Portugal to compete in the global artificial intelligence sector.
The Portuguese government has unveiled its National Data Centre Plan to boost digital infrastructure investment, receiving cautious optimism from industry experts who emphasize the critical need for effective execution.
Portugal's historical relationship with the sea, from ancient navigators to modern submarine cables and data centres, is explored. The author reflects on the country's tendency to lack a defined long-term vocation, noting the recent enthusiasm for data centres despite the political scandal surrounding the Start Campus project. The text questions whether Portugal is truly prepared for the infrastructure, energy, and water demands of this new digital era, urging the nation to transform this opportunity into sustainable knowledge and growth.
Europe is falling behind in the global race for data centres, warns the report by consultancy Roland Berger titled 'The AI Datacenter Study', released this Wednesday. The study warns that Europe is lagging in the global data centre race and projects that global installed capacity...
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) will invest more than 20 million euros in one of the largest digital infrastructures for science and innovation in higher education, through the construction of two new data centres: one at the Instituto Superior Técnico campus in Oeiras, at Taguspark, and another at the Faculty of Sciences campus, in the Cidade Universitária.
Nuvem, Google's new transatlantic submarine cable connecting the United States to Portugal, was launched this Tuesday, July 21, at the Lisbon Oceanarium. This state-of-the-art infrastructure links Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Sines, with intermediate landing points in Bermuda and the Azores. The project aims to create a strategic and more resilient route for North Atlantic connections, marking the first direct submarine cable link between the US and Portugal. The initiative is part of a broader strategy to position Portugal as a hub for data centres, artificial intelligence, and innovation, reinforcing Europe's digital sovereignty.
Home Business Portugal increases number of data-centre projects and announces new industrial zones. Portugal increases number of data-centre projects and announces new industrial zones. The Portuguese Government has recently announced that seven new Data Centre projects are in the pipeline.
The Amália AI system shows that artificial intelligence does not live on algorithms alone: it requires data centres, reliable energy, well-managed water, and a national strategy to put Portugal on the European computing map.
Portugal has watched major technological revolutions from the sidelines rather than as a player on the field. However, the race for artificial intelligence has opened up an opportunity: Data Centres. A column by Diogo Ferreira Leite.
Big tech companies admit that the race for AI is pushing them away from their promised climate goals. Portugal, which is courting data centres in Sines, has a strategic choice to make.
The global data centre market is expected to grow by about 14% per year until 2030. The figures reveal an excellent economic opportunity, but also the scale of the environmental challenge. Opinion by Márcia Pereira
Economist Abhijit Banerjee, 2019 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, argued for the need to tax resources used by Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically the water consumed by data centres. 'The artificial intelligence project has generated so much enthusiasm that we cannot think of all the consequences,' he said in an interview with the Lusa agency, arguing that 'in...'
In year 2018, Microsoft pioneered the first undersea data centre in the cold waters of the North Atlantic, close to the Orkney Islands. For two years, all appeared to go The post Portuguese data centres: a future under the waves? appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Europe's digital geography is undergoing a profound structural shift. Historically dependent on the FLAP axis (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris), global data traffic is rapidly migrating south. According to DE-CIX, the European interconnection infrastructure giant, Southern Europe has transitioned from a peripheral zone to the continent's primary digital gateway. The Iberian Peninsula, in particular, is being hailed as the world's first 'distributed digital capital,' a decentralized network model supported by a highly complementary infrastructure triangle between Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon. This ecosystem now features over 100 data centres and 35 submarine cable systems, with Lisbon serving as a strategic entry point for transatlantic connections, including the EllaLink cable that links South America directly to Portugal, bypassing the need for data routing through the United States.
The German tech company DE-CIX believes that Europe should further standardise the fees charged to data centres. The CEO of the company, which specialises in internet exchange points, Ivo Ivanov, advocates for a model where taxes are assigned according to the energy and storage capacity of the facility, up to...
The expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) may soon take it into space, with Google and Elon Musk at the centre of the discussion. According to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources close to the matter, Google and SpaceX are in talks to potentially place data centres in orbit around the Earth. This evolution is a goal previously defined by Elon Musk. Google has been installing data centres worldwide, including plans for one in the Azores, and is now considering placing others in space through a partnership with SpaceX. Musk claims that orbital data centres would be cheaper than those on the ground. This potential agreement follows a deal between SpaceX and Anthropic, allowing the creator of Claude to use the xAI data centre in Memphis. Meanwhile, SpaceX is preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) with an estimated valuation of 1.75 trillion dollars, while Alphabet, Google's parent company, remains one of the 'Magnificent Seven' on Wall Street.
Portugal is set to expand its data centre capacity by 2.6 gigawatts, bolstering its strategic role within the European digital infrastructure landscape.
Home Business Portugal’s Data Center Plan Could Be a Turning Point Portugal’s Data Center Plan Could Be a Turning Point Sometimes the most important developments for a country do not make front-page headlines.
Portugal has a historical vice it needs to break free from: the fear of embracing major changes and the revolutions underlying new technology, only to then, unfortunately, console itself with the strategy of begging for European cohesion funds. In ECO, I have repeatedly stressed this point; we need to free ourselves from this...
Portugal is becoming a key connectivity centre thanks to a strong mix of strategic factors.
