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DTiX Proposing New Facility in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

DTiX, a French data center operator, is constructing a major data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The company is constructing a second facility in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. There will be enough for 100 racks in two data rooms spanning around 7,...

February 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

The Spanish Tax IT Agency Allotted $76m For an Innovative HQ and Data Center

The Department of Tax Information Technology (DIT) of Spain has been awarded $76.2 million for a new headquarters in Madrid, which will include a new on-premises data center. The facility will be located at 480 Calle Alcala and will contain the DIT, allowing for the creation, installation, ...

February 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Bradford Data Center To Become A College Institute

A British office and data center will be converted into a college teaching facility. This week, CECOS College was awarded permission to convert data center on 8 Currer Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, into an IT teaching facility. The City Council of Bradford accepted a change of use propo...

January 31, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

3data expands footprint in Moscow

3data has announced its expansion in Moscow, after developing its 3data P6 data center, located at 125445, Moscow, ul. Pravoberezhnaya, 6A/5. According to the company, the facility is built to Tier III standards and accompanies its 20+ facilities dotted across the Moscow region.The company rec...

January 27, 2023

Moscow / Москва́

Aire Networks’ Ar Telecom acquires land in Portugal for data center

Ar Telecom has acquired land in Lisbon, Portugal, for a new data center, which it announced on LinkedIn and in ECO this week. The land acquired by the Portuguese telco is located in the Alfragide area of the city and the data center project has now moved on to the design and licensing phase. ...

January 25, 2023

Portugal

Green launches data center campus in Zurich

Green has announced the launch of its 46,000 sqm (495,150 sq ft) site new data center campus in the Dielsdorf region in Zurich. According to the Swiss data center operator, the campus, when fully built out, will contain three buildings, namely M, N, and O.Announced back in January 2021, constr...

January 24, 2023

Zurich

Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

Prosoluce has begun work on a data center in Haute-Garonne, located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France. Alongside an accompanying office building, the data center will be operational and ready for use in the summer of 2023. This new data center, projected to cost around €3 mill...

January 23, 2023

France

Qarnot announces scale up

French startup Qarnot, founded back in 2010, is looking to scale up its efforts with a €35 million financing round, which it said will help it expand its team, and take the business to the next level. It has also negotiated a €22.5 million credit line ($24 million) to finance its projects. Qar...

January 20, 2023

France

CKW announces launch of new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland

CKW Fiber Services has announced that it has launched a new data center in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. The facility, first announced back in October 2021, has 700 sqm (7,550 sq ft) of floorspace and is located next to the CKW Rotkreuz substation in Zug canton.Although the company has constructed th...

January 16, 2023

Switzerland

Alibaba plans expansion near Turkish capital of Ankara

Alibaba has announced that it is planning a data center near the Turkish capital Ankara. According to reports, the facility is part of a more than $1 billion investment in the country, which includes the development of a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport alongside the data center outside Ankar...

January 10, 2023

Turkey

Application for a new 48MW data center site filed in Middlesborough, UK

A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after Cons...

January 05, 2023

United Kingdom

Key Point has announces plans for a new facility in Yekaterinburg

Keypoint is expanding in Yekaterinburg, it has announced, with the addition of a new facility, spanning 3,200 sqm (34,450 sq ft). It will reportedly be built inside an existing building and constructed with the aim of achieving Tier III certification, developed in partnership with Russian telc...

January 05, 2023

Russia / Россия

More applications for data centers in the greater Dublin area as grid capacity concerns continue

According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed wit...

January 01, 2023

Dublin

Green Mountain Expands its Oslo Data Center

Green Mountain has finalized the expansion of its data center campus in Oslo, Norway. As a component of its OSL1-Enebakk complex, the Nordic data center provider has constructed a new 13.5MW data center, initially slated to debut in November 2022, as was announced at the end of 2021. Earlier i...

December 30, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk

New data center joint venture, Data Castle, launches

Data Castle, a new data center joint venture between Angelo Gordon and data center development management company DCD Data Center Developers, has announced plans to build and operate facilities in Germany. The JV will begin work on its plans in the town of Schwalbach am Taunus, just outside of...

December 29, 2022

Germany / Deutschland

Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact announces launch of audit framework

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, made up of 80 data center companies and 22 associations, has announced the launch of an audit tool companies can use to verify the environmental claims they make. The Audit Framework, checked against the EU's Taxonomy regulation, will reportedly ensure tha...

December 14, 2022

Europe

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

December 14, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Helsinki

OADC Launches Data Centers in Johannesburg and Lagos

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has launched facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria. OADC also noted that it would be launching two more facilities in Cape Town, South Africa while expanding its existing facility in Durban. OADC revealed that it opened a data center in...

December 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Africa

Fastweb inks PPA with Statkraft

Norwegian energy company Statkraft and telco Fastweb have inked a 12-year PPA for the output of a photovoltaic plant which is to be constructed in the region of Lazio, Province of Latina, and will be operational in 2023. The 11.25MW solar plant will produce 19GWh of renewable electricity every...

December 06, 2022

Italy

Goldacre Signs JV with Levinstein To Develop Data Center in Israel and Launch Middle Eastern Business

Goldacre and Levingstein Group have entered into a joint venture to launch a data center business for the Middle East data center market. The two companies secured land in the city of Netanya, Israel, to develop their first data center. NED Data Centers, a subsidiary of Goldacre’s parent compa...

December 06, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Israel

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