September 22, 2025 Estonia
Globalstar has announced that construction has started to double the size of its existing ground station in Estonia to assist the expansion of its mobile satellite system and services.“Our ground station in Estonia, like our facilities in Greece, Spain, and France, is supporting critical...
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September 09, 2025 Poland
A data center project in Poland is offering up to PLN 800 million ($220m) in funding for three state-owned data centers, with the Digital Poland Project Center calling for applications. The data centers are each expected to span around 2,000 sqm (21,527 sq ft), and will "largely" be powered by...
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June 16, 2025 Russia / Россия
Rostelecom's subsidiary RTK-TsOD has launched a data center in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia as well as a new mobile data processing offering for customers. RTK-TsOD is Rostelecom's IT service provider subsidiary, and the Nizhny Novgorod DC is its first data center owned and operated by...
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May 30, 2025 Poland
UK-based investment firm Greykite is converting a former logistics site in Warsaw, Poland, into a data center. The firm alongside White Star Real Estate announced the signing of a long-term lease with a “global leader in data center solutions” at its Digital Ursus site in the Polish...
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January 07, 2025 Ukraine
Veon's Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar has signed an agreement with SpaceX's Starlink that will deliver direct-to-cell satellite connectivity in Ukraine. In an announcement last week, Kyivstar said it expects to launch Starlink's direct-to-cell services with SMS and OTT messaging functionality in...
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November 27, 2024 Croatia
Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the...
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November 11, 2024 Russia / Россия
Russian hosting provider RUVDS recently announced that it will deliver a server to the South Pole, where it will test the possibility of installing a high-speed communication channel alongside the server. The server will be insulated from the extreme cold through weather-resistant equipment. The...
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October 05, 2024 Russia / Россия
Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Center...
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September 09, 2024 Poland
Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to build...
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August 25, 2024 Russia / Россия
Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...
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August 23, 2024 Latvia
Latvian telco Tet has announced plans to invest €30 million ($33.2m) in developing the facility in Salaspils, to the south of the capital city. The construction on the new data center is planned to start at the end of 2024 for a 2028 completion with Tet's construction subsidiary Citrus Solutions...
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July 20, 2024 Russia / Россия
Nasdaq-listed tech giant, Yandex which was formerly referred to as “Russia’s Google,” have been renamed as Nebius Group and pivoted to focus on AI following the company's agreement to sell its Russian operations to local management and investment firms. The company said: “In addition to expanding...
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July 12, 2024 Poland
The EuroHPC JU has signed a procurement contract for EuroQCS-Poland, a 20 qubit trapped ion quantum computer, which will be hosted at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poznan , Poland, and supplied by Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT).Coordinator of the EuroQCS-Poland...
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April 20, 2024 Prague
Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center. Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Using...
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March 26, 2024 Ukraine
Veon subsidiary Kyivstar upgraded approximately 4,000 4G base stations in Ukraine last year and has increased its 4G user base in the country to 14.3 million. However, revenue slumped by 3.3 percent during the fourth quarter of last year, with Kviystar blaming this on a cyberattack, which...
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February 28, 2024 Ukraine
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of our...
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February 15, 2024 Romania
Two new data center projects totaling 40-45MW are reportedly coming to Romania. These projects are expected to cost about €500 million though the details about the companies involved, project location and scope, or timelines weren’t shared. "In 2024 we are already talking about two investments in...
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December 23, 2023 Czech Republic
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, through its Czech portfolio company České Radiokomunikace (CRA), has acquired cloud services provider Cloud4com and data center company DC Lužice. Cordiant is to acquire a Tier-III data center, DC Lužice for CZK130 million ($5.8m), and Cloud4com for an initial CZK...
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December 05, 2023 Russia / Россия
Russian ISP Tattelcom has launched a new data center facility in Kazan, in central Russia. The telco mentioned that this new 3,000 square meter facility will potentially host 400 racks and offer a 1.8MW capacity. The two phases of construction is scheduled to be completed by 2026. General...
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October 19, 2023 Croatia
Croatian ICT solutions provider Cratis revealed that it will launch a new data center this month in Varazdin, north of Zagreb, in partnership with local polyethylene films, bags, and packaging manufacturer Muraplast. This new DC North facility will offer 2.8MW across six data rooms – each 340 sqm...
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