September 26, 2023 Czech Republic
Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) recently announced it's undergoing construction of a new data center campus on its site at the Cukrák transmitter, located in Jílovište to the south of Prague. The telecoms firm noted that the campus will offer a capacity of up to 78 racks at 3kW...
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September 20, 2023 Berlin
The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem. Four four-story...
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September 18, 2023 Nigeria
The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies suggests the Nigeria Customs Service create a trade modeling data center. They have also advocated for establishing a pension institute for retired officials. NIPSS Director General Prof. Ayo Omotayo made this assertion during a courtesy...
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September 12, 2023 Saudi Arabia
DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and...
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September 11, 2023 CyrusOne Frankfurt FRA7
CyrusOne is set to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Named FRA7, this is the company’s seventh data center campus in Frankfurt. Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2024, with an expected delivery date of the second quarter of 2026. Based on a 63,000 sqm (678,125...
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September 11, 2023 Sweden
Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...
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September 07, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as part...
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September 07, 2023 Italy
Digital Realty has announced that it's expanding into the Italian market with a new Tier IV-quality data center, named ROM1. This announcement comes following the acquisition and pre-development planning of land in Rome. The facility will sit on a 22-hectare site, with construction set to...
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September 06, 2023 France
Work has begun on the LyonTech La Doua Calculation and Data Center (CCDD) project in Villeurbanne, France. The University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Lyon INSA) on the facility, has begun earthwork and structural development....
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September 06, 2023 Switzerland
The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of...
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September 05, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 246...
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September 05, 2023 Saudi Arabia
Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offerings...
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September 04, 2023 Denmark
CapMan Infra has acquired the Danish data center colocation company Fuzion. This week, the transaction via the CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II fund was announced. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Fuzion was founded in 2001 and operates out of four data centers in the Jutland region of...
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September 01, 2023 Belgium
Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services. Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were...
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August 30, 2023 Kenya
Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigate a...
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August 29, 2023 United Kingdom
Varonis Systems, Inc., an industry leader in data security, has announced the opening of its first data center in the United Kingdom to support customers migrating to its SaaS offering. Varonis customers will be able to show compliance with national data protection laws and utilize Varonis'...
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August 29, 2023 United Kingdom
Edge data center company DataQube Global Ltd of the United Kingdom has declared bankruptcy. Creditors convened today, August 29th, to deliberate a nomination of liquidators and, if necessary, appoint a liquidation committee. DataQube reps did not acknowledge requests for comment regarding the...
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August 24, 2023 Middle East
Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, Iraq's Prime Minister, has inaugurated the National Data Center. This week, the facility was inaugurated at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad by the Prime Minister. Very little information has been disclosed about the data center, which has...
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August 24, 2023 Sweden
Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...
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August 22, 2023 Poland
A fiber company owned by the Polish government is constructing a data center in Gliwice. 24Gliwice reported that the Silesian Metropolitan Network (SSM) had purchased land at the intersection of Bojkowska and Toruska Streets in Gliwice. SMM is a municipal government ICT network operator that was...
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