A Vienna startup and Helsinki's utility plan to heat 70,000 apartments with waste heat from AI chips. Can data centers become a city's furnace?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Despite low temperatures and snow underfoot, life goes on during ...

Walking into a public sauna complex in Helsinki as a foreigner, you could be forgiven for feeling a little unsure about what to do. Men and women sit around taking in the wood-infused steam, often ...

The Finnish capital of Helsinki is a city in a hurry. In 2019 it became the first city in Europe to bring a sustainable development report to the table at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum ...

Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it. That's because the Kruunuvuori Bridge, officially opened to the public over the past ...

HELSINKI, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Kruunuvuorensilta bridge, connecting Korkeasaari and Kruunuvuorenranta, is the longest and tallest bridge in Finland. It is also exceptional on a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s interesting how the city almost slumbers during the colder months, and then suddenly awakens with the ...

Local Helsinkians joined a photoshoot to share their own ways of enjoying the sauna. Photo: Juho Vesanen / Veli Studio Eurovision has sparked global curiosity about one of Finland’s most iconic ...

European data center firm Verne is expanding its existing campus in Helsinki, Finland. The company this week announced the acquisition of more land at its existing Helsinki data center campus, ...

Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near the capital city Helsinki, in the early hours of Friday. Flights were disrupted at the country’s biggest ...