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Read Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project
Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project

Magnora Secures Milan-Area Land for 30 MW Data Center, Its Second Italy Project

May 18, 2026 Milan

Norwegian renewables and data center developer Magnora ASA has secured land for a new 30 MW data center project in the Milan area, the company announced on Monday. The wholly owned project is Magnora's second in Italy and brings its data center development portfolio to 585 MW gross and 460 MW...

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Read Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France
Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France

Data4 Chosen for €5bn Data Center Project in Northern France

January 03, 2026 DATA4 Group

Data4 is leading a €5 billion ($5.86 billion) project to develop a data center campus at a former steelworks in northern France. The company has been selected to deliver the campus at the Soufflantes industrial park in Escaudain, near Denain, which is just outside the city of Valenciennes.A...

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Read Data4 Signs Energy Contract with Total
Data4 Signs Energy Contract with Total

Data4 Signs Energy Contract with Total

November 03, 2025 DATA4 Group

European data center operator Data4 has signed a renewable energy deal with TotalEnergies. Under the terms of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), Total will provide renewable energy to Data4’s Spanish data centers.“We are delighted with this agreement with Data4, which illustrates our ability to...

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Read Data4 Breaks Ground on Germany Facility
Data4 Breaks Ground on Germany Facility

Data4 Breaks Ground on Germany Facility

September 19, 2025 DATA4 Group

Data4 has broken ground on its new data center campus on the site of a former military base in Hanau, Germany. The company plans to develop a 180MW campus at the site of the former Großauheim military base in Hanau, and held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday. Data4 says the campus will create...

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Read Arjun Infrastructure Buys Stake in Data4
Arjun Infrastructure Buys Stake in Data4

Arjun Infrastructure Buys Stake in Data4

August 01, 2025 DATA4 Group

European data center firm Data4 this week announced Arjun Infrastructure Partners has acquired a stake in a stabilised data center portfolio (aka StableCo) operated by Data4 and featuring facilities in France, Spain, and Italy.Arjun secured a 30 percent stake in the StableCo portfolio, which...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France
Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

May 23, 2025 Paris

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first...

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Read Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant
Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

December 23, 2024 Madrid

European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...

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Read Portus plans Luxembourg data center expansion
Portus plans Luxembourg data center expansion

Portus plans Luxembourg data center expansion

November 28, 2024 Luxembourg

European operator Portus Data Centers this week announced the expansion of its facility in the Grand Duchy with a further 1,350 sqm of white space and additional capacity that will take the site to 3.4MW. The company is also rebranding the unit, previously known as European Data Hub (EDH), to...

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Read EuroHPC JU selects LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer
EuroHPC JU selects  LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer

EuroHPC JU selects LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer

October 24, 2024 Luxembourg

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has announced that LuxProvide in Luxembourg will host the initiative’s MeluXina-Q quantum computer. The system will be integrated with EuroHPC JU’s MeluXina supercomputer and will be made available to European members of the...

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Read Gcore raises $60m in new funding round
Gcore raises $60m in new funding round

Gcore raises $60m in new funding round

July 23, 2024 Luxembourg

Gcore, an Edge artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud provider, has secured $60m in a Series A funding round led by game developer and publisher Wargaming, with participation from Constructor Capital and Han River Partners. “We are on the cusp of an AI revolution that will transform how companies...

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Read Data4 launches new project which could use waste heat to grow algae
Data4 launches new project which could use waste heat to grow algae

Data4 launches new project which could use waste heat to grow algae

March 20, 2024 DATA4 Group

French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Paris....

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Read Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid
Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid

Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid

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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Read Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution
 Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

February 07, 2024 Luxembourg

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

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Read Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center
Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

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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Read Data4 launches Polish data center campus
Data4 launches Polish data center campus

Data4 launches Polish data center campus

May 27, 2023 DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced the launch of its new data center campus outside Warsaw in Poland. The Polish facility, at full build-out, will offer 60MW across 15,000 sqm. Data4's new data center, located in Jawczyce near Warsaw, was first announced back in July 2021 and has seen a total investment of PLN...

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Read Data4 Reveals an Additional Spanish Campus in Madrid
Data4 Reveals an Additional Spanish Campus in Madrid

Data4 Reveals an Additional Spanish Campus in Madrid

April 28, 2023 DATA4 Group

European data center provider Data4 is constructing a second Spanish campus outside Madrid. The company disclosed plans for a new data center facility in San Agustn del Guadalix, a town located north of Madrid and close to the Sierra de Guadarrama, last week. The new MAD02 campus will encompass...

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Read Work begins on third data center at Data4's Madrid campus
Work begins on third data center at Data4's Madrid campus

Work begins on third data center at Data4's Madrid campus

April 25, 2023 DATA4 Group

Data4 has announced that it is developing a new data center building at its campus in Madrid, Spain. The third building at the Alcobendas Campus was announced by the company in a LinkedIn post this week. According to the company, the building already on the site has been demolished to create the...

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Read Data4 plans new campus in Paris
Data4 plans new campus in Paris

Data4 plans new campus in Paris

April 06, 2023 DATA4 Group

Data4 is planning a new data center campus to the southwest of Paris, in Nozay in Essone. The campus, PAR3, will be built across a 22 hectare site, which was previously Nokia’s head office in France. The company has shared its plans to construct eight data centers on the site, with an injection...

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Read SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat
SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

SES is in Merger Negotiations With Intelsat

April 03, 2023 Luxembourg

Last week, SES said that it had been in merger negotiations with Intelsat, a competitor in the satellite industry. Luxembourg-based SES made the statements in reaction to a Bloomberg article claiming that a merger worth $10 billion is in the works. In a statement released in reaction to market...

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Read Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe
Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

Brookfield is in Discussions to Buy Data4 in Europe

March 27, 2023 DATA4 Group

According to reports, Brookfield Asset Management is discussing purchasing European data center operator Data4. Brookfield is reportedly in 'exclusive discussions' to purchase a majority share in Paris-based Data4 that could value the operator at $3.77bn, according to unidentified sources...

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