February 10, 2026

Top news (3)

• maincubes confirms EU Taxonomy alignment for BER01 (Berlin), following its earlier FRA02 alignment (2024). This is a notable signal for EU-focused capital seeking taxonomy-aligned digital infrastructure exposure.
• OVHcloud backs University of Strasbourg’s bgproutes.io BGP research, providing compute, hosting, Bare Metal and network-engineering support for large-scale route collection, real-time visualisation and anomaly detection.
• Cipher Mining sets date for Q4 and full-year 2025 results (release before market open on 24 Feb 2026; call/webcast at 8:00 a.m. ET). For investors, this is a near-term catalyst for disclosure on bitcoin-mining data centre and HPC hosting operations.

Key deals & projects

Europe

• Network research / internet routing observability (France)
  • OVHcloud supports University of Strasbourg’s bgproutes.io: OVHcloud will provide compute, hosting, Bare Metal infrastructure, and network-engineering expertise.
  • Project scope includes large-scale BGP route collection, real-time visualisation, anomaly detection, and integration of analytical tooling including machine learning capabilities.

United States

• Public markets / earnings catalyst (US-listed)
  • Cipher Mining schedules Q4 and Full Year 2025 results call: results due 24 Feb 2026 (pre-market) with a conference call and webcast at 8:00 a.m. ET.
  • Company context provided: Cipher operates industrial-scale data centers for bitcoin mining and HPC hosting.

Power & grid / interconnection highlights

• No power procurement, grid interconnection, transmission, or utility-counterparty developments were included in today’s story set.

Policy, regulation & sustainability disclosures

Europe (EU)

• EU Taxonomy verification (Germany)
  • maincubes’ BER01 data center in Berlin verified as EU Taxonomy-aligned (announced 9 Feb 2026).
  • maincubes notes BER01 is its second EU Taxonomy-aligned data centre after FRA02 (2024); operating footprint includes Frankfurt, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

Technology and operating model updates (relevant to capacity efficiency)

Cloud services (OVHcloud)

• Tranches de Tech podcast: AI and Cloud service updates: OVHcloud highlighted multiple Public Cloud product updates, including:
  • Managed Private Registry now available in Mumbai (APAC).
  • MKS available in Mumbai and Roubaix.
  • File Storage RWX in public beta.
  • Floating IPs for MKS.

Compute architecture / energy efficiency research

• Near-Storage Processing Boosts Offline Inference for Long-Context LLMs: authors introduce HILOS, a near-storage processing framework that offloads attention operations to near-storage accelerators.
  • Reported results (on a system with 16 SmartSSDs): up to 7.86x throughput and up to 85% reduction in energy consumption (offline inference, long-context LLMs).

2-line close

Today’s set was dominated by Europe-facing sustainability verification and network-resilience research support, with limited new information on grid access or power contracting. Near-term investor attention may skew to scheduled earnings disclosures and cloud platform capability rollouts.