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Climate neutral data center pact members to cut water use to 400ml per kWh by 2040

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP), a group of data center operators which includes 90% of the European data center sector, recently pledged to cut their water use by a maximum of 400ml per kWh of computer power by 2040. This proposal was taken to the European Commission in its third...

July 27, 2022

Europe

Irish Premier Micheál Martin says no data center moratoriums ahead

According to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, despite EirGrid warning that data centers are an energy drain and could also prevent the country from reaching its sustainability goals, there will be no data center moratoriums ahead. This news comes following the latest report from the Environmental Pro...

July 26, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in ...

July 25, 2022

Madrid

PPA prices soar

According to a new report by LevelTen Energy, the prices of PPAs have shot up across Europe in the last year. The report outlined that Europe's solar and wind PPA prices increased by 16% in the second quarter of 2022 to €66,07 per MWh. Compared with statistics from last year, prices have incre...

July 18, 2022

Europe

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network ...

July 18, 2022

Madrid

Nubes To Launch Tier III Data Center in Moscow

Russian IT company Nubes has announced that it is developing a Tier III standard data center in Moscow, Russia. The data center is scheduled to be in operation in Q4 2022. The data center will be located in the Biryulyovo Vostochnoye district of Moscow. It is also designed to accommodate 282 r...

July 13, 2022

Moscow / Москва́

Merlin breaks ground on Bilbao, Spain data center

Merlin Properties has announced that it is soon to break ground on its first data center located near Bilbao, Spain. The Iberian real estate company reportedly laid its first stone at the Arasur data center, based near Vitoria, last week. This announcement is part of an almost €600 million ($6...

July 12, 2022

Spain

Another Hurdle For The Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

The Netherland's Hollands Kroon municipal is looking to prevent the development of more data centers in the area. The plan comes even after being one of the only two regions the country's government exempted from the ban on hyperscale data centers. The new coalition of Independent Hollands Kro...

June 30, 2022

Netherlands

The Camro Data Park To Create New Data Center after Receiving Funding

Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has pe...

June 29, 2022

United Kingdom

Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End

Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center acro...

June 29, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

FMC GlobalSat Closes Acquisition of Santander Teleport in Spain

FMC Globalsat has acquired Santander Teleport, located in Spain. The Santander Teleport was formed as a joint venture between MTN Satellite Communications and Erzia in 2010. It spans over 9,290 square meters (100,000 square feet) and operates up to 30 antennas. These antennas range from 3 t...

June 24, 2022

Spain

Minister Announces New Public Data Center in Greece

The Greek government has announced that it will develop a new data center powered by green energy. The data center will be called Knossos II. Greece's Minister of State and Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, made the data center announcement when he visited the University of Crete. Acco...

June 22, 2022

Greece

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

June 16, 2022

Italy

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

June 16, 2022

Helsinki

3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is ...

June 15, 2022

Russia / Россия

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

June 14, 2022

United Kingdom

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

June 14, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...

June 13, 2022

Denmark

Agility CMS launches new EU data center

Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the grow...

June 13, 2022

Europe

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

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