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Read Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center
Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

July 13, 2023 Madrid

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid. Mapfre launched...

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Read Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals
Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

July 12, 2023 United Kingdom

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal is...

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Read Telkom declines a takeover bid lead by its former CEO
Telkom declines a takeover bid lead by its former CEO

Telkom declines a takeover bid lead by its former CEO

July 12, 2023 South Africa

The South African telecommunications company Telkom has rejected a consortium commanded by its former CEO, Sipho Maseko. Telkom SA disclosed in a filing with the stock exchange last week that its board had considered the proposal from the Public Investment Corporation, a consortium consisting of...

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Read Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility
Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility

Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility

July 12, 2023 Teraco JB4

Teraco, a South African data center provider, has started constructing a second building at its Bredell campus in the Ekurhuleni neighborhood of Johannesburg. The JB4 facility provides highly resilient and secure colocation facilities, and at its completion, it will encompass 861,110 square feet...

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Read Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin
Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin

Further details released about 60MW four-story data center campus planned in Berlin

July 11, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

Further details have been released regarding Van Caem's Berlin data center plans. The company has partnered with Prea Group for a 60MW four-story data center campus near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Named Bluestar, the campus will see an investment of €1 billion ($1bn) and will be the...

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Read Shapoorji Pallonji signs MoU to build data center in Gabon
Shapoorji Pallonji signs MoU to build data center in Gabon

Shapoorji Pallonji signs MoU to build data center in Gabon

July 07, 2023 Africa

Shapoorji Pallonji has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese state for a national data center project.Reports note that the project has been underway for a number of months, with the company first visiting Gabon in March 2023. While further details...

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Read Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT
Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

July 06, 2023 Abu Dhabi

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition...

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Read 98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

July 05, 2023 London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up to...

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Read Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola
Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

June 28, 2023 Angola

Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a...

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Read UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers
UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

June 23, 2023 United Kingdom

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow...

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Read Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin
Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

Van Caem shares plans for €1 billion data center in Berlin

June 23, 2023 Germany / Deutschland

Van Caem, a Dutch developer, has shared its plans to develop a 100MW data center in Germany on a brownfield site near Rhinstraße 139 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. With an investment of €1 billion ($1bn), the facility is set to be the fifth largest in the country and the largest in Berlin.Earlier design...

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Read IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland
IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

IonQ proposes quantum data facility in Switzerland

June 23, 2023 Switzerland

IonQ, a quantum computing company based in the United States, intends to deploy two of its facilities in Switzerland and establish a quantum data center in Europe. This week, the company disclosed its collaboration with QuantumBasel to deploy two quantum computers at QuantumBasel's Center of...

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Read IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues
IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

June 22, 2023 United Kingdom

The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's website...

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Read FullSave launches data center in Auch, France
FullSave launches data center in Auch, France

FullSave launches data center in Auch, France

June 21, 2023 France

FullSave has announced the opening of a new data center in Auch. Offering 30-rack and spanning across two 70 sqm (753 sq ft) IT rooms, the facility also has a PUE of 1.4. Arnaud Turpin, IT manager at FullSave, said: "Our site has its own 144-fiber artery between Auch and Toulouse. Our data center...

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Read Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center
Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

June 20, 2023 United Kingdom

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load...

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Read Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge
Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

June 19, 2023 United Kingdom

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...

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Read In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault
In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault

In light of Ireland's inaction on data center expansion, Ireland's Labour Party calls for hault

June 19, 2023 Republic of Ireland

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge. Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...

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Read Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands
Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

Google signs PPA with Kronos Solar EDPR in the Netherlands

June 16, 2023 Hyperscale Data Center

Google has signed a new PPA for solar energy with Kronos Solar EDPR. The 15-year PPA will see the giant offtake part of the output from the company's four photovoltaic plans currently in the works in the municipalities of Smallingerland in the province of Friesland, Lochem and Berkelland, both in...

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Read Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations
Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

June 16, 2023 Scotland

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in an...

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Read Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia
Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

June 16, 2023 Africa

Wingu.Africa, a data center corporation based in Djibouti, launched its data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When fully functional, the data center will be located in the Ethio ICT park, constructed on a 161,500-square-foot tract of land, with a capacity of 10MW across 800 racks. Minister of...

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