The European colocation market is plugging the demand gaps for datacentre capacity caused by the waning appetites of hyperscale cloud firms by cozying up to neocloud providers, research from CBRE shows. The real estate consultancy's third quarter look at the state of the European datacentre market reveals that, despite a drop-off in hyperscaler demand for colocation capacity, the amount being acquired for hosting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads has soared.