EcoDataCenter is a joint venture between local energy company Falu Energi & Vatten and data center operator EcoDC AB.
The EcoDataCenter in Falun is located on a greenfield site with a total area of 80.000 m2, located 1,4 km from the city center and 200 km northwest from Stockholm. The site has a campus design with 4 data center buildings, each with 3.400 m2 white space and up to 8 MW power and cooling. We have a total of 65 MW of redundant power diversely routed from independent and separate primary substations nearby. Estimated latency for wavelength transmission to Stockholm is 2 to 3 ms, with an additional 8-10 ms from Stockholm to Amsterdam and 11-14 ms to London.
Buildings are highly modular and can easily adjusted to customer needs. EcoDataCenter have the ambition to achieve LEED™ Platinum certification for the building and Tier IV certification from Uptime Institute® for the technical systems in the data center. Construction is ongoing and full scale customer operations is planned to start in Q4 2018.
| Distance | Site | About |
|---|---|---|
| 8.66 miles | EcoDataCenter: Borlänge |
EcoDataCenter has bought 20 hectares of former papermill land in Borlänge, Sweden for SEK 400 million ($39m).
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The data center has multiple parallel fully-independent power systems. If one shuts down, the next one goes up.
The facility has fully redundant cooling systems, independently capable of providing all cooling required.
EcoDataCenter provides colocation and data center services in Sweden with world-class performance to customers with mission-critical requirements.
EcoDataCenter creates the world's most modern data centers and stands for a sustainable future. By integrating our data center with the surrounding energy eco-system, we reuse the heat generated and create the world’s first CO2 positive data center.
At our site in Falun, with a total area of 80 000 m2, the data center buildings are highly modular and can easily adjust to customer needs.
Our unique combination of uptime, security, sustainability and energy efficiency creates an unparalleled Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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July 03, 2026 Sweden
Alternative investment manager Barings has signed a 10-year lease extension with a global data center operator at its Vanda 3 facility in Kista, Stockholm. The deal includes an additional 30MW of power from Ellevio to support expansion, with Barings planning to add 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) of...
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June 26, 2026 EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)
Nordic data center developer EcoDataCenter has signed a 10MW hydroelectric power purchase agreement with Finnish energy company Fortum to supply its Falun, Sweden facility. Under the four-year deal running from 2026 to 2030, EcoDataCenter will source electricity from Fortum’s Dalälven hydro plant...
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Swedish small modular reactor (SMR) start-up Blykalla has closed a $50 million (€42m) financing round to accelerate development of its lead-cooled SMR, with a focus on meeting growing demand from the data center sector.Blykalla said that it will use the capital to scale testing and validation...
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September 25, 2025 EcoDataCenter (EcoDC AB)
EcoDataCenter has broken ground on a new data center in Borlänge, Sweden, marking the beginning of construction on 20 hectares of land formerly occupied by a paper mill. At completion, the first phase of the facility will have access to 250MW of energy, with the company’s LinkedIn post stating...
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August 14, 2025 Sweden
EdgeMode, a US-based data center developer, has partnered with AI infrastructure firm Vertical Data to market and deliver a 20MW AI data center in Sweden. The project aims to combine EdgeMode’s Marviken Smart Energy Cluster, which is tied to a 95MW renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA),...
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