July 01, 2024 Netherlands
Netherlands-based Edge AI chip startup Axelera AI has raised $68 million in its oversubscribed Series B funding round which included participation from the European Innovation Council Fund, the Innovation Industries Strategic Partners Fund, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Verve Ventures.“There’s no...
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June 29, 2024 Spain
AQ Compute has broken ground on its 60MW data center campus in Spain and has begun construction work on the new site located in the Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès) in Barcelona. The data center, dubbed AQ-BCN1, will eventually have an IT capacity of 60MW with cooling capabilities for...
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June 27, 2024 France
Telecoms OEM Nokia announced today that it has entered an agreement to sell Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to the French State, represented by the Agence des Participations de l'Etat (APE) in a deal which is expected to close at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.Alain Biston, president...
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June 27, 2024 Denmark
Energy Cluster Denmark, Aalborg University, Heatflow, and R&R Consult have teamed up on a data center heat reuse project in Denmark which seeks to reduce power consumption, cool data center servers CO2-neutrally, and send surplus heat to the district heating network and local buildings.Paw...
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June 27, 2024 United Kingdom
Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land at Harworth's Skelton Grange site in Leeds for £106.6 million for a data center development. The deal comprises two adjacent plots, the first plot 27 acres and sold for £52.9 million and the second totals 21 acres and will be sold for £53.2 million.“Since...
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June 25, 2024 United Kingdom
Stack Infrastructure has launched a scholarship program for female students at universities in the UK which will be available to female students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds planning to study a STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subject.The company will be responsible for...
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June 25, 2024 United Kingdom
Ada Infrastructure recently announced that it has received planning permission from the Newham Strategic Development Committee to develop one of London's largest data center campuses; 210MW data center campus in East London's Royal Docks in the UK.Jennifer Weitzel, president of Ada...
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June 25, 2024 Iceland
European data center firm Verne has partnered with high-performance computing (HPC) consultants OFC to deploy an HPC cluster in Iceland on behalf of open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software provider Engys. Engys notes that it is able to access to 100 percent renewable hydroelectric...
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June 21, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data center on the company’s premises in Munich, Germany which currently houses two IQM quantum machines and will eventually have space to host up to 12 quantum computers, with 800kW of power capacity.“Our aim is to solve business challenges...
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June 21, 2024 Nigeria
Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable...
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June 17, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50...
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June 14, 2024 South Africa
Airtel Africa announced on LinkedIn that a large portion of the 2Africa cable, connecting Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, is now operational. It currently is the world’s largest subsea cable and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The cable is...
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June 13, 2024 South Africa
Digital Parks Africa (DPA) has revealed plans to extend its Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa by 4.5MW, adding 810 sqm and 570 racks as it currently offers more than 1,620 sqm of dedicated whitespace with the potential to expand to more than 9,000 sqm and 24MW.“The...
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June 13, 2024 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and will...
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June 12, 2024 Amsterdam
Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...
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June 12, 2024 Barcelona
FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June...
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June 12, 2024 France
France's nuclear waste agency, Andra, has cut down its energy usage and cooling costs by as much as 20 percent through the switch by moving from old HPE equipment to Pure Storage hardware.According to Olivier Tardy, head of infrastructure operations in the department of the CIO at Andra, the...
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June 11, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
German energy firm the Mainova Group this week announced it had sold 50.1 percent of its shares in Mainova WebHouse GmbH to a fund managed by BlackRock's Diversified Infrastructure Team in a deal that would open up new growth potential for data centers in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main...
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June 07, 2024 Norway
Real estate investment management firm BentallGreenOak has invested another €350 million ($380m) into Nordic data center operator Bulk which will be used to ‘accelerate Bulk’s growth plans.’“The latest investment by BGO will fuel our ambitions to shift the gravity for global and European large...
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June 05, 2024 Qatar
Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has named Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub, its newly established carrier-neutral data center branch, set up to provide colocation services to hyperscalers in the Middle East region.“Sunita’s appointment marks an exciting milestone in our journey to...
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