José Delfim Valverde

📢 Start Campus: Powering the Future of AI-Scale Data Centres in Europe! 💡 After being in contact with the team at Start Campus and exchanging valuable insights about the SINES DC project, I'm excited to share an update on this game-changing hyperscale data centre campus in Portugal. Thank you for reaching out and sharing your precious knowledge ! 🔹 Location: Sines, Portugal (Less than 100 km from Lisbon) 🔹 Scale: 1.2 GW – Europe’s largest colocation site with fully secured grid access 🔹 Operational Milestone: The first building SIN01 went live in Q4 2024 with 14MW, demonstrating AI-readiness with liquid cooling 🔹 Upcoming Expansion: 5 additional buildings (SIN02-SIN06) will scale capacity to 1.2 GW, with SIN02 breaking ground in early 2025 🏗 Construction & Engineering Highlights: ✔ Fully Secured Grid Access: 1.5 GVA of grid capacity is already in place, ensuring a reliable power supply for the entire campus ✔ Fast-Tracked Deployment: Long lead-time transformers were pre-ordered in August 2024 to ensure a seamless expansion timeline ✔ Seawater Cooling Infrastructure: The site repurposes infrastructure from a decommissioned power plant, significantly reducing environmental impact ✔ State-of-the-Art Engineering: The facility is designed with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and immersion cooling solutions, ideal for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI-driven workloads ✔ Strategic Development Plan: The construction roadmap is designed to avoid market constraints, ensuring cost-efficient scalability and rapid deployment 🌿 Industry-Leading Sustainability: ✅ 1.1 PUE – Ultra-efficient cooling solutions ✅ 0 WUE – Using, but not consuming, ocean water for cooling ✅ Fully secured renewable energy sources 💡 Why SINES DC? ✅ De-risked & Ready-to-Build: Grid capacity, supply chain, and permits already secured ✅ Strategic Location: Positioned as a new digital hub in Europe, with robust connectivity and renewable energy access ✅ Proven AI-Readiness: Direct-to-chip and immersion cooling solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) ✅ Strong Backing: Supported by world-class investors, including a leading US investment firm and a €150M bridge facility from one of the world’s largest banks 🏗 Start Campus is setting new benchmarks for construction speed, scalability, and sustainability. This project is not just a data center—it's a blueprint for the future of AI and cloud infrastructure in Europe! 🚀 🌍 With Europe's growing demand for sustainable AI and cloud solutions, Start Campus is leading the way. What are your thoughts on Portugal’s rise as a data centre hub? #DataCenters #Sines #Portugal #AI #CloudComputing #Sustainability #StartCampus #GreenEnergy #Hyperscale #HPC #Infrastructure #Construction #Engineering

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🎉 Start Campus Inaugurates SIN01🇵🇹 🎉 Big things are happening in Sines, Portugal — Start Campus has officially opened the doors of SIN01, the first hyperscale data centre building within its €8.5 billion SINES DC campus project. This marks a historic milestone in Europe’s digital infrastructure journey. 🔹 Why this matters: SIN01 isn’t just another data centre—it’s the first step in what will become one of the largest data center ecosystems in Europe, covering over 60 hectares and providing 495MW of IT capacity once fully complete by 2030. 🔹 Key Highlights: 💰 Backed by global investors Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Pioneer Point Partners ⚙️ Purpose-built for hyperscale cloud, AI, and content providers 🔋 Designed with 100% green energy sourcing from solar, wind, and ocean-based systems 💧 Features an innovative seawater cooling system, drastically reducing freshwater consumption 🌐 Direct connection to multiple subsea cables (e.g., EllaLink 🌎🌍 Subsea Cable ), linking Europe, South America, Africa & the U.S. 👷 900+ direct jobs and thousands more in indirect impact throughout the region 📍 Strategic Location, Global Reach Sines is uniquely positioned as a landing point for international data and cable traffic, making it a critical node in the global data supply chain. With SIN01 live, Start Campus is well on its way to establishing Portugal as a digital bridge between continents. 🌱 Sustainability at its Core This project stands as a model for how digital infrastructure can scale responsibly. From repurposing a former coal power plant site to pioneering eco-conscious design, SINES DC proves that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand. 🎤 According to Start Campus, SIN01’s launch is “just the beginning” of a vision to create a self-sustaining, tech-driven innovation zone, attracting hyperscalers, startups, and edge computing pioneers. 🚀 What’s next? With the next phases already under way, and strong support from local and national government, SINES DC is fast becoming a magnet for international tech investment and talent. 💬 Could Sines become Europe’s next major hyperscale hub, rivaling the likes of FLAP-D? Is this the future of green infrastructure? #StartCampus #SIN01 #SINESDC #Portugal #DataCenters #DigitalInfrastructure #AI #CloudComputing #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #TechInnovation #Hyperscale #DigitalEurope #EllaLink #SubseaCables #SmartGrowth

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Electrical and mechanical engineers often work side by side—but not together. Design misalignment, late discoveries, and endless re-spins don’t come from lack of skill—they come from disconnected workflows. In our latest Wevolver article, Altium's Filipa de Melo Sofio explores how breaking down ECAD–MCAD silos helps teams design faster, reduce errors, and build confidence across disciplines. Read the full article to see how modern hardware teams are turning collaboration into true co-creation. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4oj7hdp #altium #wevolver #ECAD #MCAD #cocreation

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🚀 Santos Dumont, LNCC Supercomputer, is getting a major upgrade! This powerhouse, known for sequencing the COVID-19 genome, has received a fourfold upgrade relying on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 architecture and leading technologies from NVIDIA, Intel Corporation and AMD. 🔹Performance boost: a 575% increase in power, reaching 18.85 petaflops, which is 18.85 quadrillion operations per second 🔹AI-ready: the new architecture adds dedicated AI capabilities to support cutting-edge research 🔹Energy-efficiency: with Eviden’s Direct Liquid Cooling patented technology, 98.5% of the heat is efficiently captured and removed, making it cool in every sense ♻️❄️ We believe this upgrade will empower the researchers to achieve breakthroughs and innovate on the scale never seen before. Read more here 👉 http://spr.ly/60414tP85

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This week, we started a new course at Universidade Federal de Itajubá, IESTI05 - Edge Machine Learning Systems Engineering. IESTI05 is a 15-week undergraduate course designed to teach students how to implement AI systems on edge devices, specifically using Raspberry Pi platforms. The course is based on the e-book: "Edge AI Engineering" by Prof. Marcelo Rovai, UNIFEI 2025 (https://lnkd.in/eRrvn9FF). Open materials will be uploaded to this repo (https://lnkd.in/eRp2Q63A) every week. - Slides, Notebooks, Code, and Docs in English - Videos in Portuguese #EdgeAI, #AI

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You're starting a job in the software team at Shapeways. You'd expect to be diving into the code, right? Not so fast. When new engineers join Tiago São José's team at Shapeways, they don’t start by writing code. Instead, they spend a day in production — packing boxes, shipping orders and using the tools they’ll be developing. Because developing the best software comes from understanding how its used in the real world, and knowing the people who use it. ▶️ In this clip, Tiago explains why empathy is at the heart of engineering. See the full video on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e_QZQKC8

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🌍 Portugal is fast becoming a major hub in Europe’s data center landscape. With the launch of Start Campus €8.5 billion project in Sines—a 1.2GW renewable-powered campus purpose-built for AI and cloud—the country is positioning itself as a strategic leader in digital infrastructure. The first building, SIN01, went live in Q4 2024, marking the beginning of one of Europe’s largest AI-focused campuses. 🚀 Other key developments shaping Portugal’s data center boom: MERLIN Properties: planning a 180 MW site in Castanheira do Ribatejo. Equinix: expanding its Lisbon footprint with new AI-ready facilities. AtlasEdge: developing a 9.3 MW campus in Carnaxide. Voltekko, Quetta Data Centers, Edged, and Templus: new entrants and investors driving further growth. 🔑 Why Portugal? AI-first design: ~80% of current investments are targeting AI workloads. Sustainability: renewable-powered operations with innovative ocean water cooling. Connectivity: a prime landing point for global submarine cables linking Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. 💡 With billions being invested and multiple global players entering the market, Portugal is on track to become a critical gateway for Europe’s AI and cloud ecosystem. 👉 Do you see Portugal becoming a top-tier European data center destination over the next 5 years?

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Portugal is rapidly becoming one of Europe’s most attractive destinations for Data Center and AI infrastructure investment. 🇵🇹🚀 The latest proof? Asterion Industrial Partners has just acquired Altice Portugal’s flagship Data Center campus in Covilhã in a €120M transaction reinforcing Portugal’s position as a strategic hub for large-scale digital infrastructure. Located between Porto and Lisbon, the site currently operates with 6.8 MW and offers scalable expansion potential up to 175 MW, making it an ideal platform for hyperscalers, cloud operators and next-generation AI workloads. What’s driving this momentum? ✔️ Competitive & stable energy prices ✔️ A resilient fiber-optic backbone with excellent international connectivity ✔️ Strong regulatory conditions for data & digital infrastructure ✔️ A geographic position bridging Europe, Africa and the Atlantic routes Global capital is finally recognising what many of us have been saying for years: Portugal is not an emerging market it’s an emerging opportunity. For investors seeking strategic footholds in Europe’s accelerating AI and cloud economy, Portugal is no longer a “consideration”. 👉 It’s a competitive advantage.

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🚀 Why do clients choose Celfocus? The Fast Mode talked with Daniel Dias, Executive Director at Celfocus, to know what truly sets Celfocus apart. In this short interview, Daniel explains how we’re helping telecom operators innovate with: 🔹 20+ years of experience delivering for Tier 1 players. 🔹 Pre-built frameworks, automation templates & AI algorithms that can reduce project risk. 🔹 A co-creation model focused on scalability, speed, and tailored outcomes. Watch the interview below 👇or here https://lnkd.in/dSH8bNkm. #Celfocus #CelfocusDoing #TheFastMode #Data #AI #Networks #Automation #Breakthroughs #Excellence #Experience #Technology #Innovation #Events 

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