Vodafone warms to EU’s AI Gigafactory potential — report

Joe Purnell2026-10-21T14:44:00

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Group linked to a Hochtief-led application under the EU’s €30bn hyperscaler data centre programme. Appetite for the scheme differs among Vodafone’s European telco peers…

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Themes: AI Gigafactories; AI infrastructure; Artificial intelligence (AI); Data centres; Digital sovereignty; High-performance computing (HPC); Infrastructure investment; Sovereign AI.
People: Ferri Abolhassan; Margherita Della Valle; Tim Höttges.
Geographic: Czechia; Europe; Finland; France; Germany; Poland; Spain.
Organisations: ACS; AION; Brookfield Asset Management; Česke Radiokomunikace (CRA); Deutsche Telekom; DGFO; Eneco; European Commission (EC); Hochtief; Nokia; Orange; Santander; Scaleway; Schwarz Group; Telefónica; T-Systems; Vodafone.

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