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French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Par...

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

Data4 has announced the launch of its new data center campus outside Warsaw in Poland. The Polish facility, at full build-out, will offer 60MW across 15,000 sqm. Data4's new data center, located in Jawczyce near Warsaw, was first announced back in July 2021 and has seen a total investment of ...

European data center provider Data4 is constructing a second Spanish campus outside Madrid. The company disclosed plans for a new data center facility in San Agustn del Guadalix, a town located north of Madrid and close to the Sierra de Guadarrama, last week. The new MAD02 campus will encom...

Data4 has announced that it is developing a new data center building at its campus in Madrid, Spain. The third building at the Alcobendas Campus was announced by the company in a LinkedIn post this week. According to the company, the building already on the site has been demolished to c...

Data4 is planning a new data center campus to the southwest of Paris, in Nozay in Essone. The campus, PAR3, will be built across a 22 hectare site, which was previously Nokia’s head office in France. The company has shared its plans to construct eight data centers on the site, with an injecti...

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources f...

Data4, a French data center company, will open a new facility in Hanau, Germany. P3 Logistic Parks, a European logistics real estate business financed by GIC, revealed plans for a massive data center campus on the grounds of a decommissioned army barracks in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, last y...

French data center firm, Data4 is planning to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in its new Poland campus. According to Les Echos, Data4 wants to expand in Poland, and it will be investing over €100 million ($118m) within three years. It will also be investing up to €200 million ($237...

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

Data4 has announced that it has raised €620 million ($737.5 million) in debt financing, which will allow it to overcome new digital challenges and execute its 2024 growth plan. The financing, secured from three banks - Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and SMBC, means the company now has access ...

Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund PFA has bought a 20% stake in data centre platform DATA4 from AXA in its continued drive to pile on foreign real estate. The DKK688bn (€92.2bn) pension fund said it bought the shares from AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, which was also serving as...

Involved in the governance of DATA4 since 2012, AXA IM – Real Assets has supported the company in taking on the challenges of the digital transformation of companies and recognised the strong potential of the Internet infrastructure sector, two areas that are key to the digital economy. Establ...