May 16, 2026 Switzerland
Flexbase has begun construction on the Laufenburg Technology Center in Switzerland, which will combine a large battery energy storage system and a 480MW AI data center. The facility will feature a redox flow BESS with 1.6GW of capacity and 2.1GWh of storage, and is scheduled for completion in...
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March 11, 2026 Switzerland
Switzerland’s grid operator Swissgrid has opened a tender for a three-year contract to install server racks in its data centers. The contract also covers supplying materials such as fiber optic and copper cabling, racks, and protection devices. No data was made available about the location of the...
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February 27, 2026 Switzerland
US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities. The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...
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July 16, 2025 Switzerland
Investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners this week announced IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), advised by IFM Investors, has agreed to indirectly acquire 100 percent of Green Group AG. Terms were not shared, but the deal is set to close later this year.“We look forward to embarking on...
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August 22, 2024 Switzerland
IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...
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August 09, 2024 Switzerland
Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone...
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September 06, 2023 Switzerland
The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...
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June 23, 2023 Switzerland
IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of...
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January 16, 2023 Switzerland
CKW Fiber Services has announced that it has launched a new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The facility, first announced back in October 2021, has 700 sqm (7,550 sq ft) of floorspace and is located next to the CKW Rotkreuz substation in Zug canton.Although the company has constructed the...
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December 02, 2022 Switzerland
APL has announced that it is teaming up with Swiss-based underground construction company, Eccus, to propose a novel data center location: underground caverns. The underground cavern excavated 30m under existing terrain, is a waterproof cylinder spanning up to 150m long, with chambers built in...
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April 08, 2022 Switzerland
In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries more sustainable and long lasting, a new research program has been launched. CircuBAT, a Swiss project of Innosuisse, led by Bern University of Applied Sciences Technology, will be joined by Green Cubes Technology, a company that makes lithium-ion batteries...
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March 08, 2022 Switzerland
Swiss research body Empa has announced the launch of a new research project on data centers, namely ECO-Qube. The project is in response to the increasing demand for data and the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which...
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March 04, 2022 Switzerland
According to reports, a data center being used by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), of which 11,000 banks from over 200 countries are linked to, is being guarded by police. This news that the local Thurgau cantonal police have set up a perimeter around the...
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