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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

Irish Water must insist data centres use technology to reduce energy usage and preserve water supply, say politicians

Irish Water is reportedly under pressure to insist existing data centers in Ireland should upgrade to more efficient cooling systems in an effort to reduce their environmental impact and draining effect on water and energy. According to reports, the cooling systems employed at data centers acr...

July 22, 2021

Northern Ireland

Ark’s new data center shows commitment to a zero carbon future in the UK

Ark Data Centres is pushing towards a carbon-neutral future with the announcement of its Longcross facility, located in Chertsey South West. Due to come online in 2023, it is designed to minimize carbon emissions and reduce waste and water consumption.According to Ark, its new facility will b...

July 21, 2021

Ark: Longcross

TikTok's Irish data center campus to be at Echelon Clondalkin

According to The Sunday Business Post, TikTok plans to lease space at the Echelon data center campus in Clondalkin for its new Irish data center. According to the different sources of the Sunday Business Post, TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, will use the Clondalkin campus as its m...

July 13, 2021

Echelon Clondalkin

3SIIF fund has €1 billion($1.9 billion) to spend, including on digital infrastructure

The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund (3SIIF), an investment fund backed by some state-owned banks, has over €1 billion ($1.9 billion) to spend in the Eastern Europe region, digital infrastructure inclusive. 3SIIF was established in 2019, and it focuses on investing in critical infrastr...

July 10, 2021

Eastern Europe

Vantage Data Centers to build campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

As part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion plan, Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on data center campuses in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. As part of this expansion plan, the Company has opened facilities in locations in Wales and Germany.The Warsaw facility dubbed the WA...

July 08, 2021

Vantage Warsaw WAW1

Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square m...

July 08, 2021

Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2

Amazon's second Drogheda data center jeopardizes environmental targets

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

July 07, 2021

Amazon Drogheda I

Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

July 06, 2021

Republic of Ireland

TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company ...

July 06, 2021

Denmark

MTS acquires GreenBush data center in Moscow

Russian telco MTS has acquired Moscow based data center, GreenBush. MTS acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, which owns the GreenBush data center, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million). The GreenBush data center was first launched in 2018, and it was Tier III certified. At full build out, it will...

July 06, 2021

MTS Greenbush

Innit doubles data center capacity at Bulk’s Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility

Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA).Spea...

July 06, 2021

Bulk: Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX)

District Council approves AWS' Didcot, UK, data center

AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to redu...

July 05, 2021

Amazon: Didcot Campus

Safe Host Is Expanding its SH2 data center in Gland, Switzerland

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

July 01, 2021

STACK Gland GEN02

Thésée DataCenters opens its first Tier IV data center in Aubergenville, France

Thésée DataCenters has opened its first data center in Aubergenville, France. The data center coined TDC01 has 64,500 square feet of floor space in two rooms. The Uptime Institute has also certified the facility as Tier IV. According to Thésée DataCenters' president, Christophe Bouniol, the C...

July 01, 2021

Thésée: Aubergenville TDC01

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