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Italian Organizations Consider San Romedio mine for DC Construction

Some Italian companies have discussed building a data center company in a Dolomite mine. The University of Trento, construction company Covi Costruziono, IT services company Dedagroup, sustainable healthcare provider GPI, and holding company Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo (ISA), are looking to d...

September 28, 2023

Italy

Czech telecoms firm to build new DC campus outside Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...

September 26, 2023

Czech Republic

Digital Realty to expand in Italy

Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to comm...

September 07, 2023

Digital Realty Trust

Rai launches Edge data center network

In Italy, Rai has announced the launch of its Edge data center network, the Rai Way Edge project, to reduce latency speeds. Through the project, the company offers a platform of 18 Edge data centers covering 20 Italian regions, with a combined IT capacity of 3.4MW. This will be supplemented by...

April 27, 2023

Italy

Network Spin Off by Italy's Wind Tre

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...

March 16, 2023

Italy

Italy's Bergamo Will Soon Have a Campus For Data Centers

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...

March 15, 2023

Italy

Fastweb inks PPA with Statkraft

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...

December 06, 2022

Italy

Aruba launches two new data centers at its Bergamo campus in Lombardy

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...

December 02, 2022

Italy

Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new...

October 27, 2022

Frankfurt

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its in...

August 08, 2022

Frankfurt

Aruba announces launch date for delayed Rome data center

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...

July 22, 2022

Aruba S.p.A.

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

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...

June 16, 2022

Italy

České Radiokomunikace To Develop Largest Data Center in The Czech Republic

České Radiokomunikace has announced that it is looking to develop a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. HN first announced the plans of the Czech telecommunication firm before the company confirmed it. Although Miloš Mastník, CR’s sales director, didn’t share details of the data center,...

May 27, 2022

Czech Republic

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European conti...

May 17, 2022

Frankfurt

Former Waste Management Plant in Tuscany, Italy To Become a Data Center

The Rural Vivaistico Ornamentale District of Pistoia and The CNA Toscana Centro have proposed to develop a data center on a former waste management plant in Tuscany, Italy. Claudio Bettazi, CNA Toscana Centro’s President, said developing a data center in the locality through an excellent publi...

April 08, 2022

Italy

Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change

Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants...

March 18, 2022

Warsaw

Full steam ahead: Geoveda Srl, pushes ahead with geo-thermal fuelled data center

Italian Geoveda Srl has announced that it is pursuing the construction of a green data center in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. Sourcing geothermal energy from Larderello, the proposed data center will be net-zero and aim for a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.1.The project, in...

October 06, 2021

Italy

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new ...

October 01, 2021

Milan

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

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...

June 30, 2021

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

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