Vertiv has announced the acquisition of Strategic Thermal Labs LLC (STL), a specialist in advanced liquid cooling technologies. This acquisition expands Vertiv's thermal chain strategy by strengthening its engineering capabilities at the interface between server-side liquid cooling and supporting infrastructure—an increasingly critical factor in high-density, liquid-cooled environments supporting AI and high-performance computing workloads.

The year 2025 was characterized by economic, geopolitical, and technological changes that are permanently transforming industry, infrastructure, and critical sectors. Global tensions, fragile supply chains, and intensifying technological competition highlight the vulnerability of Europe's critical infrastructure.

Indra Group, through its innovation center for next-generation sensors, is working on the evolution of European multifunction radio frequency (RF) systems, a strategic technology that allows the integration of advanced radar, electronic warfare, and communications functions for air, naval, and land platforms into a single intelligent architecture. Among other initiatives, the company is leading the European R&D project SCEPTER (European Multifunction System Concept applied to Communications, Electronic Warfare and Radar)

NxN Data Centers is consolidating its presence in Spain with the addition of a new strategic asset in Madrid, which is expected to become its first operational center in the country in September 2026. The company has allocated an investment of 20 million euros to this new center to make it one of the most secure and advanced data storage and processing infrastructures, with 100% renewable electricity supply.

On April 22, 2026, the association ACUTELAN filed a formal request with the CNMC (National Markets and Competition Commission) to investigate the operator DIGI for alleged predatory pricing practices. The complaint alleges that certain offers within the "Fibra Smart" range (especially the 500 Mbps and 750 Mbps plans) are priced at levels that are not replicable by an equally efficient operator, thus jeopardizing the sustainability and competition of the telecommunications sector in Spain.

Dassault Systèmes and OMRON have announced their alliance to bridge the gap between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). This collaboration enables manufacturers and machine builders to design, simulate, and deploy smarter, more flexible, and more efficient production systems through a unified approach that merges virtual and physical environments.

According to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group, a leading source of market information on the telecommunications, security, networking, and data center sectors, global telecommunications investments remained stable in 2025. Initial estimates indicate that telecommunications capital expenditure (capex) by the approximately 50 service providers included in the Telecom Capital Expenditure Report—representing about 80% of global capital expenditure—remained unchanged in nominal US dollar (USD) terms.

In the new research, recently published in the prestigious international journal Nature Communications, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have announced one of these promising advances in collaboration with the University of Bath and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Vertiv has announced the acquisition of BMarko Structures LLC (“BMarko”), a US-based provider of custom-engineered structural fabrication. As AI data center deployments accelerate, the infrastructure layer is under increasing pressure to deliver solutions faster and at scale.

Moxa Inc. has announced that its NPort 6000-G2 series has become the world's first serial device server to achieve IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2 certification under the IECEE certification body's program. This achievement reflects Moxa's long-standing commitment to secure serial connectivity in modern industrial networks.

Vector Photonics, the Scottish startup leading the way in using photonic crystal surface emission lasers (PCSELs) for secure communications, has announced the first successful public demonstration of PCSEL technology for optical communication outside of a laboratory. On March 31, 2026, Vector Photonics' PCSELs were used to transmit data across the River Clyde, from the Glasgow Science Centre to the Clydeside Distillery, using a system designed and built by Fraunhofer UK.

Modern data center operators are under constant pressure to deliver performance, reliability, and security at scale, as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing continues to increase rapidly.

In security, sometimes the problem isn't a lack of footage, but quite the opposite. An incident might last only a few minutes, but then require reviewing hours of recordings to understand what really happened. In an operations center, this scenario repeats itself daily.

Photonics is consolidating its position as one of the most relevant strategic technologies for the economic, industrial, and technological development of Europe, according to the European Spinouts Report 2025. This report places photonics alongside areas such as quantum computing and life sciences as one of the pillars of the European deep tech ecosystem.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) has published a new guide outlining how mobile network operators (MNOs) can evolve their cloud-native network operations toward increasingly autonomous, agentive AI-based operating models.

Vertiv has announced four new manufacturing facilities or expansions in the Americas, increasing the company's production capacity for infrastructure, power management, and integrated cabinet solutions. As data center operators focus on rapid scalability and time-to-first-token speed, Vertiv is poised to expand its manufacturing capabilities

Vertiv has signed an agreement to acquire ThermoKey SpA, a supplier of heat rejection and exchange technologies with a long history of relationships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and top-tier system integrators, as part of Vertiv's continued investment in advanced cooling solutions for high-density AI data centers.

Today, the FTTH Council Europe published the latest edition of the European FTTH/B Market Panorama, produced by iDate, which provides a comprehensive update on fiber-to-the-home deployment and adoption in Europe. The report, based on data collected up to September 2025, highlights the continued growth in fiber deployment and adoption in the region, while also noting a gradual transition to a more mature market phase.

Vertiv has announced its key role in advancing converged physical infrastructure designs for the reference design of "AI factories" based on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin DSX platform and the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint. As AI factories scale in density, complexity, and energy demand, operators are under pressure to shorten deployment timelines, optimize infrastructure utilization, and reduce integration risks.

Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) has been selected to participate in the European Space Agency's (ESA) BEXUS program, a milestone that makes it the first private Spanish university to join this leading initiative in the aerospace field. With this achievement, UFV also becomes the eighth Spanish team in the program's history and the first from Spain to do so since 2023.