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Huawei opens cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offeri...

September 05, 2023

Saudi Arabia

CapMan Infra takes over the Danish colocation company Fuzion

CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...

September 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services.Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were inacc...

September 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

August 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kenya

Varonis Opens Data Center in the United Kingdom to Serve SaaS Customers

Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis' wo...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

DataQube, a UK Edge data center firm, enters insolvency

Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the ...

August 29, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

August 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

Government of Iraq initiates National Data Center

Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which ha...

August 24, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Middle East

Southern Poland data center planned by Gliwice government fiber enterprise

A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice.SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that wa...

August 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Poland

UK Gov't cloud & data center bids close at $152.76m

Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud a...

August 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

A consortium of UK universities is looking for vendors for a data center contract

This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is ...

August 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Aqaba Digital Hub receives funding from Jordan's JCIF fund

Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fi...

August 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Middle East

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

August 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nairobi

New $370 million data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility in Salalah, Oman

A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The da...

August 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oman

Rosatom acquires a data center in development; the 36MW facility is set to open in 2024

The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern Admini...

August 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Moscow / Москва́

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) finishes fit-out data center in Frankfurt, Germany

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on ...

August 08, 2023

Colt Frankfurt West

Irish government data center initiative costs double

Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.The completion date wa...

August 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in part...

August 03, 2023

Birmingham UK

Hill International to support building of two Digital Realty data center projects in Greece

Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is based...

August 03, 2023

Digital Realty: Athens ATH1

Ireland's low tax advantage boosts data center construction

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 lo...

August 02, 2023

Republic of Ireland

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