Marseille News

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

Telehouse has announced that it has begun work on its new data center at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The second on the site, the data center, is located on a former EADS military site and will provide 12,000 sqm (129,150 sq ft) of IT floor space and 18MW of capacity across five buil...

Interxion has paused its plans to expand its presence in Ireland due to a moratorium placed on new data centers by EirGrid, the country’s national grid operator. EirGrid’s de facto moratorium says that it will only consider new applications from data centers to connect to the grid on a case-by...

KDDI and its data center subsidiary Telehouse recently made their latest sustainability announcements and set a number of target dates to achieve carbon neutrality. Alongside this, they published the details of number of initiatives that will help them to achieve their green goals. Currently, ...

Interxion is one of the latest companies to turn to Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for its data center backup generator needs. The company is using HVO100 fuel and the first site in its French portfolio to make the change was its new PAR8 site, in La Courneuve, Paris. The fuel is made f...

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

In a move that bolsters sustainability and the circular economy, Interxion has announced that it has switched on its €15 million ($17m) river water cooling system in Marseille, France. The cooling system utilizes underground water from a former mine which is transported through 3km of buried p...

Interxion has announced that it is sponsoring an afforestation project in Palencia, Spain, as part of its sustainability efforts. This project with Reforestum will see the planting of trees in non-wooded areas spanning 24 hectares.Unlike reforestation which replenishes forest growth in areas ...

Interxion, Digital Realty's European arm, has announced that in a move to promote a circular economy, it will be using excess heat from its Schiphol AMS5 data center in the Netherlands, with business parks Schiphol-Rijk near Amsterdam. This is happening in cooperation with Polderwarmte, a Dutc...

Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, an...

According to Le Monde Informatique, Interxion has plans to build a new data center campus in the Essonne region of France. Interxion filed a building permit with the DDE asking to operate a 15-hectare land in Les Ulis/Villeiuste. The site will also have a power supply of 130MW. Although detail...

Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink, has agreed to pay $275,000 to resolve a Civil Contempt Claim by the Department of Justice for its acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc in 2016. The Justice Department accused Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) of violating the terms designed to...

Lumen Technologies has announced that it is selling its current local exchange carrier (ILEC) business in 20 states for $7.5 billion. The firm will be selling the business to Apollo Funds. Lumen Technologies currently operates the ILEC business under the CenturyLink name, and the business incl...

Lumen Technologies has announced the sale of its entire Latin American business to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. The sale is said to be worth $2.7 billion. Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, is also investing funds in the deal with Stonepeak. The current leadership team of...

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

PARIS – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, announced today the opening of the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille.  The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the gl...

Interxion has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data centre operator, and that it has also entered into a strategic partnership with the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund (PRIF). PRIF will invest in Icolo and will continue to co-invest with Interx...