Italy’s Data Centre Applications Put Digital Infrastructure Planning in Focus

Lombardy’s review of data-centre rules, reported on 15 October, follows applications for more than 60 projects with a combined proposed capacity of 11 gigawatts. The scale of interest highlights the need to coordinate digital infrastructure growth with electricity availability, water management and land-use planning. Businesses and institutions need secure cloud architecture, scalable data platforms and efficient computing infrastructure. HPC can support digital strategy, infrastructure planning and high-performance computing deployments; service costs have not been publicly disclosed.