EMEA Data Center News

Batelco announces Bahrain data center now 100% solar powered

Batelco, Beyon Group's telecoms unit, has announced that one of its facilities is now Bahrain's first 100 percent green-energy-powered data center.This news follows the completion of Phase 2 of the Solar Park at the Beyon Data Oasis at Hamala. The facility in Bahrain is now entirely powered by...

June 01, 2023

Bahrain

CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

May 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CtrlS Dubai

Rolling blackouts continue in South Africa, difficult winter ahead

In South Africa, state power utility Eskom has warned that energy issues will endure and even get worse by winter as the power crisis continues. According to Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief executive, while the country is currently facing outages for more than 10 hours a day, going forward,...

May 30, 2023

South Africa

OVHcloud claims energy savings to be made from combined water and immersion cooling

According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooli...

May 29, 2023

France

A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $49...

May 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Moveworks opens regional data center in European Union

In a bid to meet growing demands for data privacy and sovereignty, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe, Moveworks, a generative AI platform, has announced that it has opened its first regional data center in the European Union (EU).The company said that launching the fac...

May 25, 2023

Europe

Wildberries deploys new data center in Russia

Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and ...

May 22, 2023

Russia / Россия

Batelco of The Beyon Group Plans to Invest in Two cables And an Additional Data Center

The Bahraini technology company Beyon Group intends to invest $250 million in two undersea cables and a new data center. The company announced this week that its telecommunications subsidiary Batelco had joined the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium (Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe). Batelco...

May 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bahrain

Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free ...

May 18, 2023

United Kingdom

QuiX Quantum Along With QMware Are Constructing a Quantum Data Facility in Enschede

QuiX Quantum, a Dutch company specializing in quantum computing, plans to construct a data center at its headquarters in Enschede. The partnership between the business and QMware, announced this week, will create the "first fully integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform." The native quant...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion

Two British High Court justices were investors in a contested data center project allegedly used as a tax scheme. The Financial Times discovered the investment, along with several other investments made by judges in similar ventures. The money invested by Justices Simon Bryan and Martin Griffi...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Financial Concerns Caused Surfline Ghana to Close Data Center

Surfline Communications, a Ghanaian 4G LTE company, has been compelled to close its data center and radio access network (RAN) due to financial difficulties. The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana revealed to the Daily Graphic that the company was experiencing significant financi...

May 17, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ghana

Océinde Starts Construction on New Facility on Reunion Island

The island of Reunion will receive a new carrier-neutral data center. Local conglomerate Océinde is scheduled to construct a data center in the French department in the Indian Ocean, as first reported by DC Mag. Last week, construction began on the new facility in the Le Port Commune in the is...

May 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Sentech Plans Data Center Business in South Africa

State-owned South African broadcast infrastructure corporation intends to enter the colocation data center market. Sentech's chief executive officer, Mlamli Booi, told ITWeb this past week that the company will upgrade its current footprint and expand nationwide. According to ITWeb's intervie...

May 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Data Center Constructed in Germany Using 3D Printing

A 3D-printed data facility will be built in Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg iT Management, a cloud and data center operator, said this month that it would employ the "largest 3D-printed building in Europe" as a server hotel by the end of 2023. The project is led by Kraus Group, Peri 3D Constru...

May 12, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities

Datacenter United, based in Belgium, is acquiring local collocation provider Hasselt DC and constructing a new data center. This week, investment company and DCU proprietor TINC announced that the two Hasselt DC data centers in Limburg are now "part of the Datacenter United ecosystem." The ter...

May 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

ChatGPT identified as potential threat in water-stressed MENA

Although there are a number of innovative research programs targeting AI's vast resource consumption, for the time being, advanced AI-powered language learning models (LLM) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 require huge amounts of water to cool down. This is a serious issue in drought-prone areas with high...

May 09, 2023

Middle East

Pressure Sensitive Systems' Dubai arm announces launch of new data center

Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and wil...

May 08, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and...

May 05, 2023

London: Slough

North Holland province to prevent new facility in Uithoorn

The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data cen...

May 05, 2023

North Holland

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