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Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

Prosoluce has begun work on a data center in Haute-Garonne, located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France. Alongside an accompanying office building, the data center will be operational and ready for use in the summer of 2023. This new data center, projected to cost around €3 mill...

January 23, 2023

France

Qarnot announces scale up

French startup Qarnot, founded back in 2010, is looking to scale up its efforts with a €35 million financing round, which it said will help it expand its team, and take the business to the next level. It has also negotiated a €22.5 million credit line ($24 million) to finance its projects. Qar...

January 20, 2023

France

CKW announces launch of new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland

CKW Fiber Services has announced that it has launched a new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The facility, first announced back in October 2021, has 700 sqm (7,550 sq ft) of floorspace and is located next to the CKW Rotkreuz substation in Zug canton.Although the company has constructed th...

January 16, 2023

Switzerland

Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK

A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after Cons...

January 05, 2023

United Kingdom

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

January 01, 2023

Dublin

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

December 30, 2022

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

December 29, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

December 14, 2022

Helsinki

Fastweb inks PPA with Statkraft

Norwegian energy company Statkraft and telco Fastweb have inked a 12-year PPA for the output of a photovoltaic plant which is to be constructed in the region of Lazio, Province of Latina, and will be operational in 2023. The 11.25MW solar plant will produce 19GWh of renewable electricity every...

December 06, 2022

Italy

Aruba launches two new data centers at its Bergamo campus in Lombardy

Aruba has announced the launch of two new data centers at its Bergamo IT3 technology campus in Lombardy. The campus in Ponte San Pietro outside Milan will now house an additional two 'future-proof' data centers. The first of the two, DC-B, spans over 17,000 sqm (183,000 sq ft) offering 9 MW of...

December 02, 2022

Italy

The rise of the underground data center

APL has announced that it is teaming up with Swiss-based underground construction company, Eccus, to propose a novel data center location: underground caverns. The underground cavern excavated 30m under existing terrain, is a waterproof cylinder spanning up to 150m long, with chambers built in...

December 02, 2022

Switzerland

Ennis Data Centre appeal reaches next stage

The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...

November 28, 2022

Republic of Ireland

LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

LCL has announced that it is deploying more solar panels at one of its data centers, at the LCL Wallonia One site in Gembloux. Currently, the park has 2,000, but this expansion will see an addition of 1,300, taking the site’s generating capacity to 1.6MW. According to the Belgian data center f...

November 25, 2022

Belgium

Irish government confirms terms and conditions for ORESS 1

Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auction...

November 25, 2022

Dublin

Floating data centers on the agenda

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

November 25, 2022

France

Invesis Announces the Acquisition of UK’s Asanti

UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...

November 25, 2022

United Kingdom

Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

November 22, 2022

France

New report from the Cool-Data project assesses using waste heat from data centers in district heating

As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data cent...

November 21, 2022

Denmark

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North Oc...

November 21, 2022

London

Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio

France-based telecommunication firm Altice is mulling over selling its data center portfolio in France. According to L'informe, the telco has asked investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to find a buyer for its 92 data centers across the country. According to reports, Altice wants a minimum of $1 ...

November 21, 2022

France

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