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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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Read Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers
Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

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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Read Data4 To Open A New Data Center Facility in Hanau, Germany
Data4 To Open A New Data Center Facility in Hanau, Germany

Data4 To Open A New Data Center Facility in Hanau, Germany

February 01, 2023 DATA4 Group

Data4, a French data center company, will open a new facility in Hanau, Germany. P3 Logistic Parks, a European logistics real estate business financed by GIC, revealed plans for a massive data center campus on the grounds of a decommissioned army barracks in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, last year....

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Read Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development
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Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

November 02, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies...

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Read Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt
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Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

October 27, 2022 Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new data...

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Read Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated
Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

August 08, 2022 Frankfurt

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its...

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Read Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus
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Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

July 25, 2022 Madrid

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in...

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Read SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain
SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

July 18, 2022 Madrid

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network in...

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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain
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Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

April 22, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens,...

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Read Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change
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Korbank's Data Center Development in Warsaw Delayed Due To Specification Change

March 18, 2022 Warsaw

Polish telecommunications company, Korbank has revealed that it won’t be completing the construction of its Wroclaw data center till later. The data center was scheduled to be completed this month, but the date has been shifted to June of this year. The delay is happening because Korbank wants to...

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Read Data4 Breaks Ground On Its €250m ($278m) Data Center Campus In Poland
Data4 Breaks Ground On Its €250m ($278m) Data Center Campus In Poland

Data4 Breaks Ground On Its €250m ($278m) Data Center Campus In Poland

January 28, 2022 Data4: Warsaw 1 DC1

Data4 has announced that it has broken ground on its first data center campus in Poland. The French data center company announced earlier in July last year that it would invest up to €200 million ($237m) in developing the data center campus in Warsaw, Poland. The company has now confirmed that it...

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Read €5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain
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€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

January 26, 2022 Madrid

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...

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Read Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan
Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

Irideos is expanding its Avalon campus in Milan

October 01, 2021 Milan

Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...

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Read Data4 to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in new Poland campus
Data4 to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in new Poland campus

Data4 to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in new Poland campus

July 12, 2021 DATA4 Group

French data center firm, Data4 is planning to invest up to €200 million ($237 million) in its new Poland campus. According to Les Echos, Data4 wants to expand in Poland, and it will be investing over €100 million ($118m) within three years. It will also be investing up to €200 million ($237...

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Read MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg
MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

June 07, 2021 Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and will be run and...

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