nLighten, a European Edge data center company, has acquired the United Kingdom's Proximity Data Centres. The agreement's terms were not disclosed. nLighten, owned by I Squared Capital, plans to retain its data center operations in the country.Proximity, founded in 2020, administers ten regiona...

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

Proximity Data Centres, has announced IX Birmingham, which is the first regional internet exchange in the West Midlands. IX Birmingham will be located at Proximity's Birmingham Edge 8 tier 3 data center, and facilitate high-speed, lower latency connectivity options. Raj Mack, Head of Digital ...

Proximity Data Centres, a local Edge provider, has hired Secure I.T. Environments, a UK modular data center company, to construct a small data center. This week, the company said it had handled the design and construction of a 1MW, 4,750 sq ft facility that had now been turned over to Proximit...

Proximity Data Centres has announced the expansion of its data center footprint in the UK, with the addition of a new facility in Milton Keynes. Named Proximity Milton Keynes Edge 10, the facility is based on a 3.2-acre site and spans 8,000 sq ft (4459 sqm) across multiple data halls, offerin...