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Read CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne launches fifth data center in Frankfurt

December 01, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has just launched its fifth data center in Frankfurt, FRA5 located in Hanau, 25km east of Frankfurt's city center. This new campus, spanning 18,000 square meters across two buildings will offer 54MW of IT capacity. The launch ceremony hosted by Carsten Schneider was attended by Lord...

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Read Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert
Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

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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Read CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain
CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain

CyrusOne completes its first data center in Spain

November 16, 2023 CyrusOne

Colocation company CyrusOne recently completed the shell and core of its first data center in Spain and threw a traditional flag-flying ceremony to celebrate it. The MAD1 facility, situated on a five-acre site, is a two-story facility with an IT capacity of 18MW across 6,000 square meters. This...

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Read CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center
CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center

CyrusOne files to invest $15m in new San Antonio data center

November 15, 2023 CyrusOne

Colocation company CyrusOne has filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to build a new data center for the 'CyrusOne SAT 8 & 9' project in San Antonio, Texas. The application notes that the company intends to invest $15 million in building a two-story data center and...

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Read ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio
ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

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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Read CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt
CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

CyrusOne proposes seventh data center in Frankfurt

September 08, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne is required to construct a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Last week, the company unveiled plans for its seventh data center facility in Frankfurt, designated FRA7 and situated on a 678,125-square-foot plot in the Frankfurt Westside business park. The development will include two...

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Read CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design
CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

CyrusOne launches new AI-specific built-to-suit data center design

August 30, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced the launch of an AI-specific built-to-suit data center design, which it says has been developed specifically to address the “rapidly growing needs of AI applications and services.”The company notes that the Intelliscale data center is built on an ultra-high-density...

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Read CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center
CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

CyrusOne requests approval for a Dublin data center

August 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has applied to the South Dublin County Council for permission to construct a new data center in the Grange Castle Business Park in the Irish capital. The application, submitted on July 14, calls for the demolition of a one-story home called "Erganagh" and the erection of a three-story...

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Read Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage
Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

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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Read CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center
CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

CyrusOne announces plans for new Frankfurt data center

July 07, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced its plans to build its next data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA6, the facility is located in Germany’s “Digital City” and will offer a total IT capacity of 72 MW delivered over four floors, with each level offering 18 MW. The company shared that the acquired...

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Read 98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

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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Read French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction
French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

French court reverses injunction against CyrusOne's Paris data center construction

July 04, 2023 CyrusOne

To obtain planning approvals for a data center in Paris, France, CyrusOne had to fight a legal battle. The Versailles Administrative Court overturned the local mayor's orders to prevent the issuance of two building permits. The company intends to convert a former logistics facility in the...

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Read Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans
Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

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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Read PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell
PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

PowerHouse Data Centers signs lease agreement with CyrusOne for ABX-1 Data Center Powered Shell

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

Earlier this month, PowerHouse Data Centers announced a 30-year lease agreement with CyrusOne, for a spec-built data center, ABX-1, located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company shared that substantial completion of the data center, a two-story, 265,000 SF powered shell, is scheduled for October....

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Read CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company
CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

CyrusOne announces new Japan data center venture with Kansai Electric Power Company

May 23, 2023 CyrusOne

CyrusOne has announced its partnership with Japanese energy firm Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for the development of new data centers across Japan. The 50:50 joint venture, called CyrusOne KEP, will see at least one trillion yen ($7 billion) invested in the project over the next...

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Read CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million
CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

CyrusOne Data Centers is Getting Ready to Issue CMBS Worth $701 million

April 20, 2023 CyrusOne

Asset-backed securities totaling $701 million will be backed by real estate and tenant contracts for space and electrical capacity in five finished and operational data centers in Texas and Virginia. According to a pre-sale assessment from S&P Global Ratings, the CyrusOne Data Centers, 2023-1...

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Read Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company
Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

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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Read LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems
LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

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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Read Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility
Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

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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Read Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London
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Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

February 23, 2023 London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...

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