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NorthC Group purchased a new data center near Zurich, Switzerland, through a sale/leaseback transaction. This week, the Dutch colocation company announced the opening of a new data center in the Winterthur neighborhood of Zurich. However, the company announced on LinkedIn that it had acquired ...

QuiX Quantum, a Dutch company specializing in quantum computing, plans to construct a data center at its headquarters in Enschede. The partnership between the business and QMware, announced this week, will create the "first fully integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform." The native quant...

VodafoneZiggo has announced a new project to supply the new Tilburg district heating scheme with residual heat from its nearby data center. The company is partnering with real estate developer SDK Vastgoed to establish the sustainable energy system in the new residential area of Smariuskade in...

Nokia has outlined its involvement in a project to prevent ocean plastic pollution as part of The Ocean Cleanup project, which is a non-profit organisation that seeks to extract ocean plastic pollution through technological development. To help clear ocean plastic, the company has partnered wi...

NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...

NorthC has broken ground on a 4.5MW data center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The 43,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) facility will be the company’s second data center in Eindhoven. It will also be located next to its existing data center on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus (HTC). The f...

Eurofiber Cloud Infra has announced that it is exploring employing circular economy principles in association with housing corporation Volkshuisvesting, infra-specialist for new energy Firan, and Eurofiber-owned Dataplace, for its data center in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The three have partnere...

NorthC has announced the acquisition of Netrics’ data center business. Netrics is a Swiss company, making the transaction NorthC’s first move into Switzerland. The deal sees NorthC take over three data centers, two of which are in Münchenstein and the last one in Biel. The total floor space...

NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalen...

The newly formed Dutch government has announced that going forward, it will impose environmental controls on hyperscale data centers, which it said is in response to protests around Facebook’s proposed 166 hectare hyperscale data center in Zeewolde. The proposal received an outcry of oppos...

The largest regional colocation provider in the Netherlands, NorthC, has completed the acquisition of Germany’s IP Exchange. The acquisition sees NorthC expand into Germany for the first time. With the acquisition, NorthC has two data centers in Munich and Nuremberg. The purchase price for the...

Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, an...

Smaller data center companies in the Netherlands have voiced concerns over surging energy prices, which they say is creating a challenging financial climate. The Dutch Data Center Association is now asking for a cap on electricity prices, corporate tax breaks or subsidies for clean energy inve...

NorthC has announced that Nokia provided an IP over a fiber network to link its 10 data centers in the Netherlands to offer one virtual facility to all its customers. NorthC is the biggest native colocation provider in the Netherlands, and it would be using Nokia’s Region Connect Ring to su...

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...

Flevoland, a province in the Netherlands, has joined the likes of Amsterdam, Haarlemmermeer and Singapore with the announcement of a moratorium on the building of new data centers for an undisclosed period of time. The temporary suspension was given the go-ahead after a vote of 30-9. The durat...

The Datacenter Group (TDCG) and NLDC, who merged in July of 2019, will be rebranded under a new name: NorthC. With ten data centers across the Netherlands, NorthC is the largest regional data center business in the country, serving both large organizations and government institutions as well a...

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, - The Datacenter Group (TDCG) has acquired the data center infrastructure of NovoServe in Doetinchem and Enschede. By selling its two data centers, NovoServe is able to apply focus to their international IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) hosting activities, whilst ...