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Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

June 01, 2022

Verne: Keflavik Campus

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

Spain

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion ($4...

May 27, 2022

Spain

České Radiokomunikace To Develop Largest Data Center in The Czech Republic

České Radiokomunikace has announced that it is looking to develop a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. HN first announced the plans of the Czech telecommunication firm before the company confirmed it. Although Miloš Mastník, CR’s sales director, didn’t share details of the data center,...

May 27, 2022

Czech Republic

Avanti set to build ground station at Free data center in Senegal

A new ground station is set to be built at a Free-operated data center in Senegal, satellite firm Avanti has announced. This announcement comes following the signing of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies, through which the telco will build and host a new satellite gate...

May 26, 2022

Senegal

NTT Opens Data Center in Madrid, Spain

NTT has announced the opening of its first facility in Spain. The data center is located in Las Rozas, outside Madrid. According to NTT, the data center sits on 134,720 square feet (12,516 square meters) of land in the Europolis Business and Technology Park. Currently, the facility offers 3...

May 25, 2022

NTT Madrid 1

Lancom to Develop a Data Center in Crete

Lancom has announced that it is developing a data center on Crete Island. The Greek telecommunication company said it would be developing the facility to Tier III standards. Lancom did not reveal its exact location, specifications, cost, or timeline details. However, it seems the data center c...

May 24, 2022

Greece

EirGrid halts up to 30 potential data centers

The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge ...

May 22, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Selectel To Develop a 20MW Facility in Moscow, Russia

Selectel will be developing a data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center firm will span 48,400 square feet (4,500 square meters) while also offering 20MW in capacity. The data center will be called Yurlovsky, and it will have the capacity to house up to 2,000 racks. The data center is s...

May 20, 2022

Moscow / Москва́

Green innovations: Algae and sunlight power computing

As the race towards more green tech solutions continues, researchers from the University of Cambridge have announced that they have been working on an interesting energy innovation that could, in the future, replace batteries in small off-grid Internet of Things devices. The device was found t...

May 19, 2022

United Kingdom

XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France

A new company called XL360 has launched a new data center in Toulon, France. The 17,200 square feet (1,600) square meters data center has the capacity to hold 105 computer racks. The building will also be used as a coworking space. The data center is situated on the Boulevard du Commandant Nic...

May 19, 2022

France

40-acres of Land Camro Data Park in Cambridgeshire On Sale and Lease For Data Center Development

Per a Realla listing, developers are offering a 43-acre land for lease or sale for data center development in Cambridgeshire, UK. The Camro Data Park available is located in the Elean Business Park. According to confirmed reports, the Data Park has planning permission for 700,000 square fee...

May 17, 2022

United Kingdom

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European conti...

May 17, 2022

Frankfurt

OADC Launches First Data Center in South Africa, Plans 100 Edge Facilities Across The Country

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the opening of its first data center in South Africa. The company’s first data center is located in Durban, and it offers up to 23,700 square feet (2,200 square meters) of white space. It also offers 5MW of capacity. In addition, the Durban data ce...

May 09, 2022

South Africa

Atos to exit Russia

Atos has announced it has begun a managed exit from Russia but outlined that the process would require "significant planning" due to its business operations and staff in the country.In a statement on its site, the company said: "Atos condemns the war in Ukraine, and we stand shoulder to should...

May 06, 2022

Russia / Россия

Figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal huge energy consumption by data centers in Ireland

New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have outlined that the energy consumption situation in Ireland is just as bad as groups such as An Taisce have warned. According to the Office's statistics, last year, data centers consumed more energy than rural homes. According to the Nati...

May 06, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Data center on the way to Didcot, Oxfordshire

According to reports, Reef Group is planning to build a technology park and data center near Didcot, Oxfordshire. The proposed plans, which have the company seeking a Local Development Order (LDO), detail a 23-hectare site located in Appleford, on the northern edge of Didcot. Public consultati...

May 05, 2022

United Kingdom

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