Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race
Italy’s postal service has spent a century and a half moving letters, parcels and pension payments around the country. Now it wants to move data. Poste Italiane, which still hands out state pensions through roughly 12,600 branches, has cast itself as an unlikely contender in Europe’s scramble to build the infrastructure behind AI.
The bet rests on Telecom Italia. Poste has been steadily tightening its grip on the former state monopoly, and it is now the largest shareholder in a group it frames as the nucleus of a bigger, state-backed digital champion. The company argues that a combined Poste-TIM could put Italian computing capacity on Italian soil rather than renting it from American hyperscalers.
The logic is as much geographic as financial. Poste says the enlarged group could layer new capacity onto TIM’s existing data centres and telecom exchanges, then push processing power outward by turning former mail-sorting hubs...
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