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Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while Lond...

June 17, 2026

London

Ark DC Adds New Building to Longcross Data Center Campus in UK

UK data center firm Ark is expanding its Longcross Park campus in Surrey to support AI cloud provider Nebius. The company has committed £807 million ($1bn) to the site, where Nebius will lease the entire existing facility. Expansion plans include vertical upgrades to current buildings, a new 36MW...

June 09, 2026

Ark Data Centres (UK)

Qilimanjaro Opens Quantum Data Center in Barcelona

Quantum computing firm Qilimanjaro last week announced the inauguration of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech's quantum data center in the city's innovation district. The facility has the capacity to host up to ten quantum computers, available in both analog and digital modes, and connected with classic...

November 06, 2025

Barcelona

TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs in bid to save £120m

TalkTalk is set to cut hundreds of jobs as the struggling ISP looks to save £120 million ($150m), detailing the plans during an investor meeting in December. TalkTalk has already kicked off a redundancy consultation, ahead of plans to cut around 130 jobs at its Salford consumer division.Furt...

January 01, 2025

England

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June ...

June 12, 2024

Barcelona

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

London

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

London

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

February 29, 2024

London

Edged Energy starts operations at Barcelona facility

Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are ...

January 12, 2024

Barcelona

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of value...

January 10, 2024

London

New supercomputer inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer was recently inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It cost roughly €151 million to acquire and maintain this supercomputer, a fee which was split evenly between the EU and a Spanish-led consortium which includes Portuga...

December 27, 2023

Barcelona

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

Atos signs IT contract with Special Olympics

Atos has signed an agreement with non-profit sports organization Special Olympics Games for the provision of IT services until 2027. Atos is now in charge of handing and maintaining the organization’s Games Management System, its software, IT security services and innovations; infrastructure s...

October 24, 2023

England

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

London

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

July 05, 2023

London

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The a...

March 21, 2023

London

Morrison in Discussions to Purchase Ark Data Centre

According to reports, New Zealand-based infrastructure firm HRL Morrison & Co. wants to purchase UK operator Ark Data Centres. According to Bloomberg, the sale might be worth roughly $3 billion for the UK company and cites anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation. In August 2022, ...

March 13, 2023

Ark Data Centres (UK)

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

March 01, 2023

London

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