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Read Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space
Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

November 15, 2024 Finland

Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine...

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Read Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO
Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

October 18, 2024 Finland

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three...

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Read Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity
Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity

Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity

October 09, 2024 Finland

European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the...

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Read IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland
IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

September 21, 2024 Finland

IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...

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Read Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility
Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

March 29, 2024 atNorth

IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus...

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Read Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business
Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

March 04, 2024 Finland

Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit under...

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Read Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group
Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

December 26, 2023 Finland

Finnish vendor Nokia has agreed to sell its device management and service management platform (SMP) businesses to Lumine Group. This deal, valued at €185 million is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, subject to approval. According to Nokia, Lumine "intends to operate DM and SMP...

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Read atNorth plans new facility with heat reuse in Finland
atNorth plans new facility with heat reuse in Finland

atNorth plans new facility with heat reuse in Finland

December 11, 2023 atNorth

Nordic data center provider atNorth has announced that a new 60MW hyperscale facility which will provide heat to the community, will open soon in Finland. The provider mentioned that this FIN04 site in Kouvala, 140km northeast of Helsinki, has an immediate power supply of 60MW and could expand to...

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Read AtNorth to expand DC footprint to Denmark
AtNorth to expand DC footprint to Denmark

AtNorth to expand DC footprint to Denmark

October 16, 2023 atNorth

AtNorth, a major supplier of colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence services in the Nordic region, has announced plans to expand its data center footprint into Denmark by opening a new data center campus in Ballerup, just outside Copenhagen. The company made this...

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Read atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute
atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

atNorth purchases HPC company Gompute

August 29, 2023 atNorth

atNorth, a Nordic data center company, has acquired Gompute, a Swedish High-Performance Computing (HPC) services provider. The terms were not disclosed. Gompute, a company founded in 2002, provides HPC-as-a-cloud services with bare-metal compute nodes for computer-aided engineering (CAE)...

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Read Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center
Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

July 19, 2023 Finland

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the...

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Read AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.
AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

AtNorth unveils a 12 MW data facility in Iceland.

June 13, 2023 atNorth

AtNorth's newest 12MW data center in Iceland is now running. The colocation company announced on June 12 that ICE03, its third facility in Iceland, has begun operations. The site's initial plans were released in April 2022. The data center is located in the northern Icelandic city of Akureyri....

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Read atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics
atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

atNorth opens its sixth data center in the Nordics

June 12, 2023 atNorth

atNorth has announced that its third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now operational. The facility, located 250 km north of Reykjavík, offers an initial capacity of 12 MW, expandable to 50MW. Completed in just 11 months, the company now has a portfolio of six operational data centers, with an...

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Read BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%
BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%

BNP Paribas To Transfer Part of IT Infrastructure to atNorth's Swedish Facility to Enhance Grid Computing Performance by 20%

March 28, 2023 atNorth

BNP Paribas, a long-time client of atNorth, a prominent pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance processing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has revealed that it is still moving some of its workloads to the Nordic area. This will allow the top financial institution to keep up with...

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Read LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'
LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

March 16, 2023 Finland

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. The...

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Read Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo
Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

February 07, 2023 atNorth

Colocation service provider atNorth will construct a new data center in the Helsinki region of Finland. This week, the firm revealed that it has struck a deal to acquire a new site in Finland, which would become its third data center in the nation. The facility, which was acquired from the local...

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Read atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)
atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)

atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)

May 05, 2022 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it has joined the Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA), alongside members Schneider Electric, Huawei and CBRE. The SDIA, represents the data center industry within Sweden and, according to the body, centers on sustainability as an organizational priority and...

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Read atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland
atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

April 08, 2022 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is to build a third data center campus in Iceland, on a plot of land in Akureyri in the northern part of the country. Named IC03, the site will span 4,000 sqm (43,000 sq ft), and include six data halls with 12MW of capacity. According to Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson,...

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Read AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe
AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

February 04, 2022 atNorth

AtNorth has revealed that it is mulling over locations for a potential 50MW data center campus. It also hopes to decide before the end of Q1 2022. The CEO of AtNorth, Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, discussed the company’s plans in an interview with He said Stockholm is the company’s first...

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Read atNorth opens its first Swedish data center
atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

November 24, 2021 atNorth

atNorth has announced that it is opening its first data center in Sweden in Kista, northern Stockholm. The SWE01: SIF DC facility underwent the first phase of construction at the end of 2020, and plans are to build out the second phase of the project shortly. The second phase will see an...

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