February 23, 2024 Madrid
Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's...
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January 19, 2024 Manchester
Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of new...
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January 12, 2024 Barcelona
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...
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January 10, 2024 London
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...
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December 27, 2023 Barcelona
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 Portugal...
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November 18, 2023 London
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 current...
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October 23, 2023 London
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...
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September 20, 2023 Berlin
The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem. Four four-story...
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July 27, 2023 London
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 water...
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July 17, 2023 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge, has entered into a strategic partnership with Northshore to implement an operational sustainability strategy and execution plan. According to the company, the technology-enabled engineering company will assist it in ensuring that data collection and validation processes are streamlined...
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July 13, 2023 Madrid
In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid. Mapfre launched...
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July 05, 2023 London
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 to...
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June 14, 2023 London
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...
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May 01, 2023 AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge has announced that it has secured a new €725 million ($800m) sustainability-linked credit facility, which will be tied to targets focused on efficiency and renewable energy usage. According to the company, the financing package consists of €525 million in committed debt financing and an...
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April 05, 2023 Berlin
Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...
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April 03, 2023 Amsterdam
InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configurations...
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March 21, 2023 London
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...
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March 14, 2023 Madrid
Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 sq...
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March 01, 2023 London
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...
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March 01, 2023 London
The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...
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