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Government of Iraq initiates National Data Center

Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which ha...

August 24, 2023

Middle East

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

August 24, 2023

Sweden

Southern Poland data center planned by Gliwice government fiber enterprise

A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice.SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that wa...

August 22, 2023

Poland

A consortium of UK universities is looking for vendors for a data center contract

This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is ...

August 18, 2023

United Kingdom

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

August 18, 2023

Middle East

UK Gov't cloud & data center bids close at $152.76m

Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud a...

August 18, 2023

United Kingdom

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

August 15, 2023

Oman

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

August 15, 2023

Nairobi

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

August 14, 2023

Moscow / Москва́

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

August 08, 2023

Colt Frankfurt West

Irish government data center initiative costs double

Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.The completion date wa...

August 04, 2023

Europe

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

August 03, 2023

Birmingham UK

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is based...

August 03, 2023

Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lo...

August 02, 2023

Republic of Ireland

Cellnex contemplates selling a stake in its Nordic enterprises

Cellnex is contemplating the sale of a minority stake in its Nordic operations, which could fetch up to $1.11 billion. Reuters reported last week that Cellnex would use the earnings to pay down debt, according to sources familiar with the matter.Reuters reported that Cellnex is collaborating w...

August 01, 2023

Nordics

Two data centers secure a $15 million loan in Cape Verde

The island nation of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) in Africa has been granted a loan to construct two new data centers. This week, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Cabo Verde announced the signing of a loan agreement for $15.3 million to improve the Cabo Verde Technology Park...

August 01, 2023

Africa

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing, tra...

July 31, 2023

United Kingdom

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

Equinix Sofia data center's phase 2 development completed

The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million, acco...

July 20, 2023

Equinix Sofia SO1

ClickUp announces localised data hosting at its EU data center in Ireland

ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will ha...

July 19, 2023

Europe

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