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IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria

Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...

February 12, 2024

Nigeria

Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years

Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our i...

February 10, 2024

United Kingdom

Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform

Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity. Sant...

February 09, 2024

Spain

Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

February 07, 2024

Luxembourg

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full bu...

February 07, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

UK government announces £45 million funding package for quantum projects

The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK governme...

February 07, 2024

United Kingdom

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

January 19, 2024

Manchester

International feasibility study tests storing waste heat underground

A £2.6 million ($3.3m) international project will investigate storing waste heat from an Edinburgh University supercomputer in old mine workings, before using it to heat local homes. This study will examine the idea of storing hot water at 40oC in disused mines before using it for domestic hea...

January 15, 2024

United Kingdom

Octopus Energy invests in UK-based data center business

British renewable energy group Octopus Energy has invested £200 million in UK-based data center business Deep Green which specializes in siting small data centers near locations that need waste heat. Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, said, "To tackle the energy crisis head-on...

January 15, 2024

United Kingdom

Edged Energy starts operations at Barcelona facility

Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are ...

January 12, 2024

Barcelona

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

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 value...

January 10, 2024

London

Telco Group Aire merges with Canary Islands telco Idecnet

Spanish telecoms firm Aire this week announced that it is acquiring Canary Islands telco Idecnet as it looks to consolidate its presence in the region. Raúl Aledo, CEO of Grupo Aire, said, “The arrival of Idecnet to Grupo Aire responds to our national and international growth strategy, which ...

January 10, 2024

Spain

T.Loop acquires 800 square meters facility in Stockholm

New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...

January 09, 2024

Stockholm

Three Ireland partners with Ericsson to launch 5G SA network

Three Ireland has partnered with Ericsson to launch a 5G Standalone network said to be the first in Ireland. Ericsson noted that this launch is initially available on a trial basis and will eventually be available to select corporate customers who will have the opportunity to test and trial it...

January 08, 2024

United Kingdom

New French operator raises €5 million for new facility

New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a new data center in Marseille from French venture firm Reflexion Capital. The planned facility will span 1,700 square meters and offer around 1.2MW with a PUE of 1.2. It will also feature two meet-me rooms, will look to reuse was...

January 08, 2024

France

CAT dismisses Motorola’a appeal against the CMA

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Motorola’s appeal against the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Motorola, in its appeal, had claimed that the CMA made errors in assessing competition in the relevant market and the profitability of the Airwave Network. However, the CM...

January 06, 2024

United Kingdom

Co-CEO Alexandre Fonseca leaves Altice amidst corruption probe

Altice co-CEO Alexandre Fonseca has left the group following an investigation into alleged corruption at the telco, despite not being a suspect in the investigation. Fonseca has also temporarily stepped down to “fully protect and safeguard” Altice as the investigation was carried out in July. ...

January 05, 2024

Portugal

Airtel Africa CEO to retire in July 2024

Airtel Africa revealed in an announcement this week that it’s CEO, Olusegun Ogunsanya, is to retire and will officially step down from his role in July 2024. He will then become the Airtel Africa Charitable Foundation’s inaugural Chair. Sunil Taldar has been appointed as managing director and ...

January 03, 2024

Africa

The University of Stuttgart acquires two supercomputers from HPE

The University of Stuttgart has ordered two supercomputers called Hunter and Herder from HPE for its High Performance Computing Center. These systems will cost €115 million and they are expected to take the HLRS up to exascale level in two stages by 2027. Anna Steiger, Chancellor at the Univer...

December 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

New supercomputer inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer was recently inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It cost roughly €151 million to acquire and maintain this supercomputer, a fee which was split evenly between the EU and a Spanish-led consortium which includes Portuga...

December 27, 2023

Barcelona

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