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According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that  the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located...

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...

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...

Stack Infrastructure has announced the opening of a data center in Siziano, outside Milan, Italy. The MIL02 data center has a capacity of 10MW, and it spans 97,000 square feet (9,000 square meters). Interestingly, Stack completed the data center in under 12 months. The new data center was deve...

Aruba has announced a new completion date for its delayed Rome data center, Hyper Cloud Data Center (IT4). When complete, it will be the largest in Rome, comprising five independent 6MW data centers, totaling 30MW with 2N redundancy at full build-out. Although first announced in 2018 and orig...

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...

Supernap Italia has announced the opening of its second data center on its Siziano campus in Milan, Italy. The new data center has two independent data halls. With this, the facility now has 1 million square feet of space (100,000 square meters) and 40MW of capacity. CEO of Supernap Italia, Sh...

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

Supernap Italia has announced expansion plans for its data center campus in Milan, Italy, after acquiring development-ready land totaling 170,000sq m (1,830,000 sq ft). It is situated in the same location as the company’s other Siziano campus. The land acquisition gives the company the abilit...

SUPERNAB Italia announced that 100% of ACDC Holding’s share capital, a controlling shareholder in the company, has been acquired. The acquisition was made by affiliates of IPI Partners, LLC from affiliates of Accelero Capital Holdings.The CEO of SUPERSNAP, Sherif Rizkilla, said that IPI is the...

SUPERNAP Italia Becomes the Only Operational Data Center in Italy to Earn ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (Tier 4) Certification from EPI Milan, Italy, September 13, 2020 -- SUPERNAP Italia, the most advanced data center in Southern Europe, has achieved the ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 4 (formerly known as Tier 4)...

Equinix has announced that it will open ML5, its fourth data center in Milan. The first phase will cost $51 million and will provide 15,000 square feet (1,400 sqM).  When all phases are complete, ML5 is expected to provide a total of 45,000 square feet (4,200 sqM) of colocation space. The loca...

MILANO, Italy, Dec. 16, 2016­ /PRNewswire/ -- SUPERNAP International today announced the opening of the largest, most advanced data center in Southern Europe. With 500 cabinets and more than 3.3 megawatts of power already sold, SUPERNAP International is delivering on the promise of bringing st...