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Blackstone acquires Equinix-occupied data center in London for £196.5 million

Land Securities Group has announced the sale of an office and data center property located in the Canary Wharf side of London. The sale price of the property is £196.5 million ($262.82 million). Equinix is currently occupying the property as its LD8 IBX data center. Land Securities Group so...

November 12, 2021

Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands)

COP26 and OpenUK's 'Patchwork Kilt' Edge data center blueprint

At the COP26 event in Glasgow, OpenUK shared its net-zero data center blueprint. The not-for-profit organisation's "Patchwork Kilt" framework aims to make new Edge data centers more sustainable and promote the curricular economy. The project proposes using derelict building stock and creating ...

November 12, 2021

Glasgow

Government of Galicia plans data center outside Santiago, Spain

The Regional Government of Galicia has plans to build a new data center in the Galicia region of Spain. According to reports, the planned facility will double Galicia's digital capacity. The government first announced a data center called Gaiás Integral Data Processing Center in 2011. The faci...

November 11, 2021

Spain

Hetzner completes expansion at Finnish campus, starts work on two more

German cloud and hosting firm Hetzner has completed the expansion of its Finish data center campus. It has also broken ground on other buildings on the same campus. Earlier in July, Hetzner completed the development of a new building at the Tuusula campus which is to the north of Helsinki. ...

November 09, 2021

Hetzner Finland

Yondr Group announces plans for a 100MW data center campus in Slough, UK

Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In ad...

November 04, 2021

Yondr: Slough Campus

Energia Group plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Dublin, Ireland

Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building ...

November 04, 2021

Dublin

Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region

According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be hos...

October 29, 2021

Israel

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

October 28, 2021

Israel

Africell opens data center in Angola

Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...

October 27, 2021

Angola

Plans for Swansea seafront data center and the $2.8 billion Blue Eden Project

DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon, ...

October 26, 2021

Wales

Hydrogen powered data centers: Research begins in County Offaly

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...

October 26, 2021

Republic of Ireland

Liberum Navitas to develop 15 data centers across Russia

Liberum Navitas, a Russian ICT firm, has announced its plans to build 15 data centers across Russia over the next two years. The ICT firm revealed that it is launching a federal investment project to develop the data centers while unifying them by a single fiber-optic communication line. The c...

October 22, 2021

Russia / Россия

Securing sustainability: Wipro teams up with National Grid to consolidate data centres

Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next g...

October 21, 2021

United Kingdom

Saudi Arabia makes a big investment in digital infrastructure

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an “inno...

October 18, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Telehouse's Marseille DC to begin operation in November

Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, an...

October 18, 2021

Telehouse Marseille THM1

Lamda Hellix breaks ground on Athens-3 data center in Greece

Greece-based data center firm Lamda Hellix has begun work on a new data center close to Athens. Lamda Hellix revealed that the Athens-3 facility would have a capacity of 20MW. The size will also make it the largest data center in Greece. Athens-3 will also have 8,600 square meters (92,500 squa...

October 14, 2021

Digital Realty: ATH3

Groningen municipality: New large data center on the way?

Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, an...

October 14, 2021

Netherlands

Google acquires land in Fredericia, Denmark for potential data center development

Google has successfully bought more land in Denmark for potential data center developments. The search engine giant bought 1.29 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of land in Taulov, in Fredericia municipality, Denmark. Earlier in June 2017, Google bought a 73.2 hectare (7.8 million sq...

October 13, 2021

Google Fredericia Denmark

CityFibre files for permission to develop data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire

UK fiber firm CityFibre has applied for permission to install two data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire. It filed with Newark and Sherwood District Council to install two data center cabins and associated air conditioning units, meter cabinet and fence, and generators on land on Cliff ...

October 12, 2021

United Kingdom

QazCloud launches data center in Kazakhstan

QazCloud has unveiled its new data center in Kosshy, in the Akmola region in Kazakhstan. The data center is built to Tier II standards with a total area of 2,787 square feet (259 square meters). The facility also has space for 100 racks. QazCloud was founded in 2018, and it provides hosting, c...

October 12, 2021

Kazakhstan

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