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Qilimanjaro Opens Quantum Data Center in Barcelona

Quantum computing firm Qilimanjaro last week announced the inauguration of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech's quantum data center in the city's innovation district. The facility has the capacity to host up to ten quantum computers, available in both analog and digital modes, and connected with classic...

November 06, 2025

Barcelona

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June ...

June 12, 2024

Barcelona

Edged Energy starts operations at Barcelona facility

Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are ...

January 12, 2024

Barcelona

New supercomputer inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer was recently inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It cost roughly €151 million to acquire and maintain this supercomputer, a fee which was split evenly between the EU and a Spanish-led consortium which includes Portuga...

December 27, 2023

Barcelona

Morrison in Discussions to Purchase Ark Data Centre

According to reports, New Zealand-based infrastructure firm HRL Morrison & Co. wants to purchase UK operator Ark Data Centres. According to Bloomberg, the sale might be worth roughly $3 billion for the UK company and cites anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation. In August 2022, ...

March 13, 2023

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Ark Data Centres Secures £700 million Sustainability-Linked Loan

Ark Data Centres has announced that it has secured a loan of £700 million ($902m). The UK data center firm plans to use the funds to refinance an existing credit facility and partially expand its data center campuses. The loan was structured by ING. Lloyds, ABN Amro, Crédit Agricole CIB, No...

April 22, 2022

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Ark DC Looking To Develop a New Data Center in Corsham, Wiltshire

Ark Data Centres plans to develop a new data center at its Corsham campus in Wiltshire. The data center firm filed an application with the Wiltshire council for the new facility to be christened P5 South at its Spring Park campus close to Corsham. According to the application, Ark DC wants ...

March 21, 2022

Ark Data Centres (UK)

UK DWP signs £27 million contract extension with Ark Data Centers

The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended its contract with Ark Data Centers for £27 million ($38.1 million). The contract starts in June 2021 and would run till May 2026. Also, this deal will see DWP continue to occupy four 760kW dedicated data halls in Ark Data Center’s faci...

June 08, 2021

Ark Data Centres (UK)

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