June 04, 2024 Sweden
BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby this week called for the UK to improve its existing telecoms infrastructure. Kirkby, who joined the company earlier this year from Swedish telco Telia, also said that the Nordics is "way ahead" of the UK in telecoms infrastructure."What I would say is Scandinavia is...
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April 08, 2024 Denmark
T-Systems has been selected to operate the mainframe infrastructure of Danish IT service provider KMD from 2025 in a contract which is the largest the company has won yet in Denmark. While T-Systems handles the operation and maintenance of KMD's mainframes, KMD will be able to focus on developing...
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April 04, 2024 Sweden
Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milestone...
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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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March 26, 2024 Sweden
Ericsson has announced it will cut 1,200 jobs in its home market of Sweden as a part of cuts announced earlier this year, with the company citing a "challenging mobile networks market in 2024." "In addition to the headcount reduction, the cost-saving initiatives cover various areas such as...
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March 26, 2024 Sweden
Intelsat recently announced that it has signed a new multi-year, multimillion-dollar agreement partnership with Intelsat on its OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.This deal is valued at up to $500 million over seven years, with a firm commitment of $250m (including a previous $45m deal...
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March 19, 2024 Stockholm
Swedish colocation data center provider Conapto has installed Vertiv Liebert EXL S1, an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that provides an integrated solution for critical power protection and grid support capabilities. “With the introduction of dynamic grid support, we are empowering...
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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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January 09, 2024 Stockholm
New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...
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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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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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December 04, 2023 Stockholm
New data center firm Evroc announced last week that it has signed an agreement with Arlandastad Group to select Stockholm as the location for its first facility and build it in 2024. The company also mentioned that it plans to invest €600 million in the project, which is one of ten it intends to...
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October 18, 2023 Sweden
Swedish telco Telia Company has named Patrik Hofbauer as its new president and CEO, bringing the company's search for a CEO since July to an end. The board of directors agreed with the decision to appoint Hofbauer, and he will be leaving his role as CEO of the gambling firm Svenska Spel to begin...
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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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September 11, 2023 Sweden
Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...
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September 04, 2023 Denmark
CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...
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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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August 24, 2023 Sweden
Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...
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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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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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