April Roach

Europe is setting its sights on gigawatt factories in a bid to bolster its lagging artificial intelligence industry and meet the challenges of a rapidly-changing sector....

As AI skyrockets demand for electricity, Europe’s existing power infrastructure is struggling to keep up. Data center operators are now evolving their own power ecosystem to speed up development and meet booming demand.

Energy-intensive firms have been battling issues around power constraints for some time now and are looking at new technologies to improve efficiency and sustainability. CNBC’s April Roach reports.

The boom in artificial intelligence, a pressing need for more data centers and the energy transition story — particularly in transportation — are all spurring demand for electricity, and the existing...

The emergence of cheaper and more efficient AI models off the back of China’s DeepSeek could reshape demand for data centers, boosting a sector that investors were already heavily betting would continue to boom....

Black founders in the U.K. are looking to buck the trend of declines in funding by targeting high-profile investors and by adopting a more community-focused approach that includes the support of “family and friends” funding rounds....

The boom in artificial intelligence is ushering in an environmentally conscious shift in how data centers operate, as European developers face pressure to lower the water temperatures of their energy-hungry facilities to accommodate the higher-powered chips of firms such as tech giant Nvidia...

UniCredit’s move to take a stake in German lender Commerzbank is raising questions on whether a long awaited cross-border merger could spur more acquisitions and shake up the European banking sector....

The rise of artificial intelligence is skyrocketing demand for data centers to keep pace with the growing tech sector — and pushing Europe to explore space options for digital storage, in a bid to reduce its need for energy-hungry facilities on the ground....

LONDON — Britain’s ruling Conservative party has become embroiled in a scandal concerning allegations that senior officials used inside knowledge to win bets on the date of the general election....

Shares of Adidas jumped 6.3% on Wednesday after the company unexpectedly raised its full-year guidance and reported a year-on-year profit increase in the first quarter....

Russia failed to overturn a ruling in the Netherlands that ordered Moscow to pay around $50 billion in the bankruptcy case of Yukos Oil Co., once the largest Russian oil and gas company....

DSM-Firmenich AG is considering the sale of its animal, nutrition and health unit in a bid to reduce its exposure to a deteriorating vitamin market. The shares jumped.