June 17, 2026 London
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...
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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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February 16, 2026 Dublin
Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...
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August 15, 2025 Republic of Ireland
County Kildare in Ireland has completed the construction of a government data center which will be for government use, replacing several smaller data centers, and is located at the Backweston Campus in Kildare. It has been designed with sustainability in mind, and waste heat may be used at other...
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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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November 21, 2024 Dublin
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performance...
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April 15, 2024 London
Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for the...
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March 29, 2024 London
University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to...
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February 29, 2024 London
Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said strong...
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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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January 10, 2024 London
Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...
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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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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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September 07, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as part...
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September 05, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 246...
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August 02, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lowest...
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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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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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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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June 19, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge. Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...
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