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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European conti...

May 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Frankfurt

40-acres of Land Camro Data Park in Cambridgeshire On Sale and Lease For Data Center Development

Per a Realla listing, developers are offering a 43-acre land for lease or sale for data center development in Cambridgeshire, UK. The Camro Data Park available is located in the Elean Business Park. According to confirmed reports, the Data Park has planning permission for 700,000 square fee...

May 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

OADC Launches First Data Center in South Africa, Plans 100 Edge Facilities Across The Country

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the opening of its first data center in South Africa. The company’s first data center is located in Durban, and it offers up to 23,700 square feet (2,200 square meters) of white space. It also offers 5MW of capacity. In addition, the Durban data ce...

May 09, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Atos to exit Russia

Atos has announced it has begun a managed exit from Russia but outlined that the process would require "significant planning" due to its business operations and staff in the country.In a statement on its site, the company said: "Atos condemns the war in Ukraine, and we stand shoulder to should...

May 06, 2022

Russia / Россия

Figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal huge energy consumption by data centers in Ireland

New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have outlined that the energy consumption situation in Ireland is just as bad as groups such as An Taisce have warned. According to the Office's statistics, last year, data centers consumed more energy than rural homes. According to the Nati...

May 06, 2022

Republic of Ireland

Data center on the way to Didcot, Oxfordshire

According to reports, Reef Group is planning to build a technology park and data center near Didcot, Oxfordshire. The proposed plans, which have the company seeking a Local Development Order (LDO), detail a 23-hectare site located in Appleford, on the northern edge of Didcot. Public consultati...

May 05, 2022

United Kingdom

Aire Networks Opens New Data Center in The Malaga TechPark of Spain

Aire Networks has announced the opening of its new data center in Malaga, Spain. The new data center is located in the Malaga TechPark, and it cost the company spent €2.5 million ($2.6m) to develop. Aire Networks did not reveal the specifications of the data center. A statement from the c...

May 03, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Interxion data center to heat Vienna hospital

Interxion's Vienna data center campus is set to heat the nearby Floridsdorf Hospital, it has been announced. This will be facilitated by the Austrian government injecting €3.5 million ($3.7m) from environmental funds into the project, which will see the construction of an insulated pipe betwe...

April 29, 2022

Digital Realty: Vienna

TelOne Opens New Data Center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has announced the opening of its new data center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The 400kW, 120 rack data center is built to Tier 3 standard, and it is the first of its kind in Matabeleland, south of the country. The facility also offers redund...

April 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Zimbabwe

Energia Group granted permission for data centers in Dublin, Ireland

Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 ...

April 27, 2022

Dublin

Datum Datacentres To Double The Space at Its Farnborough Facility

Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,...

April 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Datum FRN1

atNorth Launches its SWE01 DC Facility

atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...

April 26, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens...

April 22, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Madrid

Kasi Cloud breaks ground on new Lagos hyperscale data center

Kasi Cloud has announced that it has broken ground on a new hyperscale data center in Lagos, Nigeria. A ceremony to celebrate this milestone was recently held in Lekki, Lagos, attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Sovereign Inve...

April 21, 2022

Nigeria

Interxion Developing New 13.6MW Data Center in Belgium

Digital Realty’s Interxion has broken ground on a new facility in Belgium. The company laid the first stone of the data center called BRU4, which will be located in Zaventem, Belgium. According to Interxion, the data center will offer 13.6MW of capacity. It will also offer 72,100 square feet (...

April 21, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty: BRU4

Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footpr...

April 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi

TikTok's European data center encounters further delays

Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the com...

April 14, 2022

Dublin

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

April 12, 2022

London

ClusterPower opens its first Romanian hyperscale facility

ClusterPower has announced the opening of Romania's largest data center. Located in Mischii, Dolj County, the hyperscale facility saw an investment of €40 million. Its 25,400 sqm (273,400 sq ft) campus is expected to house five buildings. In total, the ClusterPower Technology Campus will have ...

April 11, 2022

ClusterPower Craiova

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