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Keppel DC REIT acquires data center in Netherlands

Keppel Data Center REIT has acquired a data center in the Netherlands. The data center firm acquired 100% of the property, which has two data center buildings in De Hurk business Park, Eindhoven. Keppel paid €37.2 million ($44.1m) to a fund affiliated with MCAP Global Finance (UK) for the p...

September 06, 2021

Keppel Eindhoven Campus

Digital 9 acquires Verne Global as it strives for sustainability

Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m).The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date. Acco...

September 06, 2021

Verne: Keflavik Campus

Interxion opens PAR12 on the East side of Paris

Interxion has announced the opening of its new data center outside Paris, France. Besides, the data center is also the Company’s 12th in the French capital region. The PAR12 facility is located 30km to the east of Paris in Ferrières-en-Brie. It has up to 12MW of IT capacity. It also has over 6...

September 03, 2021

Digital Realty: PAR12 Ferrières-en-Brie

International Telecoms Week 2021 discusses the growing data center ecosystem in West Africa

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

September 01, 2021

Africa

€1 billion (US$1.18bn) Horizeo project to produce green hydrogen and a data center

Horizeo, a 1GW solar project from Engie and Neoen, is open for public debate in France. Proposed for Saucats in Gironde, in the Nouvell-Aquitaine region, the project is estimated at €1 billion (US$1.18bn), spanning 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).Commencing 9 September and running until 9 January...

August 31, 2021

France

Teraco announces completion of its JB3 data center on Isando campus, Johannesburg

African data center firm Teraco has announced its third data center on its Isando campus in Johannesburg. The facility named JB3 has 480,000 square feet of building structure, with 130,000 square feet of data hall space. It also has a capacity of 29MW. With this added capacity, Teraco’s capaci...

August 28, 2021

Teraco JB3

The Shannon LNG project undermines climate goals in Ireland, say critics

With the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, there is an increasing focus on outlining net-zero pledges and a push towards sustainability targets. Of course, Ireland is included here and is currently seeing two climate bills pass through the Assembly. One seeks net-zero by 2045, and the other i...

August 25, 2021

Northern Ireland

The projects leading the research into data center cooling

In the data center industry, there is an increasing emphasis placed on developing data center cooling innovation. With good reason, too, as research shows that a 1 MW data center that uses traditional cooling can guzzle 25 million litres of water each year, which is unsustainable. Moreover, co...

August 24, 2021

Europe

NTT to expand its Zurich 1 data center

According to Zuercher Unterlaender, NTT has broken ground for expanding its Zurich 1 data center in Rümlang, Switzerland. The facility currently has 70,000 square feet (6,500 sqm) of space, and the expansion will see the Company add a new building B to the site. This new building will give the...

August 18, 2021

NTT Zurich 1

Extinction Rebellion fights against €1.2bn data center expansion in Ennis

Art Data Centres is facing backlash from climate protests over its plans to expand facility proposals in Clare, Ireland. The Ennis data center was first proposed back in 2019, at which point it was estimated to be a €450 million project. This has now jumped massively to €1.2 billion, encompass...

August 13, 2021

Art DC: Ennis Campus

Galway County Council approves five-year planning extension for Apple Athenry data center

Ireland’s Galway County Council has granted Apple a five-year planning permission extension for its Athenry data center. The facility had been canceled since 2019, but Apple applied to extend the site’s planning permission till November 2026. Apple first purchased the site in 2014 for $15 m...

August 12, 2021

Apple Athenry

Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of t...

August 11, 2021

Digital Realty: Düsseldorf

Norwegian updates sustainability strategy for data centers

The Norwegian government recently updated its sustainability strategy for all data centers in the country in its "Norwegian data centers - sustainable, digital power centers" report. This strategy, it hopes, will project Norway as the world's most sustainable data center nation.Launched by Lin...

August 11, 2021

Norway

CyrusOne buys land for 21MW data center in Madrid, Spain

CyrusOne, a data center REIT, acquired five acres of land in Madrid, Spain, to build a new data center. The Company’s recent earnings report showed that it acquired this land in Alcobendas, Madrid. CyrusOne also revealed earlier in the week that it acquired the land to build a new data cent...

August 05, 2021

CyrusOne Madrid I

Green Mountain doubles the capacity of its DC3-Oslo facility

Green Mountain has announced that it has expanded its DC3-Oslo facility in Norway. Green Mountain just acquired the 4MW facility, and it has doubled its capacity by adding another 4MW capacity to the site. Aside from that, it also added a new backup generator set to the facility. The CEO of...

August 05, 2021

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

DATEV acquires q.beyond's Nuremberg data center

DATEV has acquired q.beyond’s Nuremberg data center. Earlier in June, q.beyond (formerly QSC) initially announced its intention to sell its colocation business in June 2021. It operates three data centers in Nuremberg and Munich through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IP Exchange GmbH. The Nuremb...

August 05, 2021

DATEV: Am Tower 5

KPN agrees €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked credit facility

Dutch telco KPN has agreed to a €1 billion ($1.176bn) sustainability-linked loan. The loan is linked with some sustainability performance in the next few years. The credit facility will be linked to three sustainability objectives. The first one is reducing its energy consumption, the secon...

August 04, 2021

Netherlands

Victorian swimming bathhouse in Manchester gets a digital transformation

Ashton Old Baths, a Victorian bathhouse in Manchester, has undergone a significant transformation into a council data center, and a tech hub spanning over 10,000 sq ft of office and coworking space.The historic Grade II-listed building, which first opened in 1870, is now in phase two of redeve...

July 29, 2021

Manchester

New report makes big data center recommendations for UK government

A new independent government report into the efficiency of UK government spending suggests that the UK government should introduce a central registry of all its data centers. According to the report, this recommendation comes in an effort to ensure “every pound is spent effectively and efficie...

July 29, 2021

United Kingdom

Merlin Properties to invest €100m ($118m) in its Barcelona data center

Merlin Properties will be having its first data center facility in Barcelona, Spain. The facility will have a capacity of 24MW. In April, Merlin Properties first announced that it would be developing four data center sites in Portugal and Spain. The announcement stated that the Company would b...

July 22, 2021

Merlin Barcelona

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