August 18, 2023 United Kingdom
This month, seven of the United Kingdom's Higher Education purchasing consortia (UKUPC), managed by the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new data center framework. The contract runs from January 2024 until January 2027 and is...
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August 18, 2023 Middle East
Jordan Capital & Investment Fund (JCIF) invests in Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), a company that operates a data center in Jordan. The fund revealed this week that it had finalized the terms of a ‘significant minority' investment in ADH, a Jordanian corporation that operates a data center and fiber...
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August 18, 2023 United Kingdom
Bids for a $152.76 million cloud services and data center management deal with the United Kingdom government closed last week. The contract, which was published for the first time on June 23, calls for a variety of services that can be categorized as cloud hosting and support services, cloud and...
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August 15, 2023 Oman
A new data hosting and cryptocurrency mining facility has been built in Oman for $370 million. Established in Salalah on August 13 by the Omani Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT), the center is part of the country's national infrastructure program. The data...
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August 15, 2023 Nairobi
IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently being...
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August 14, 2023 Moscow / Москва́
The state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia has acquired a Moscow data center. C.News.ru reports that Rosatom's Atomdata Center division has acquired a Moscow data center under construction for $237 million. The Moscow-2 facility, situated on 215,280 square feet in the Southern...
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August 08, 2023 Colt Frankfurt West
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS)' data center fit-out in Frankfurt, Germany, is complete, it has announced. Called Frankfurt West, the facility consists of 14 data halls with a total IT capacity of 25MW. This is two fewer than originally planned.Mercury Engineering, the main contractor on the...
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August 04, 2023 Europe
Irish government's new data center has reached an all-time high price tag of €80 million ($87.4m). While initial estimates placed the cost of building the data center at €30 million and the completion date at 2020, the project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns. The completion date was...
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August 03, 2023 Birmingham UK
SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in...
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August 03, 2023 Digital Realty: ATH1
Hill International, Inc. has announced it will work with Digital Realty to support the construction of two new data centers in Greece. The first will be in Heraklion, Crete, while the second will be located in Athens. The latter location is where the company's Greek data center campus is...
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August 02, 2023 Republic of Ireland
Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lowest...
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August 01, 2023 Nordics
Cellnex is contemplating the sale of a minority stake in its Nordic operations, which could fetch up to $1.11 billion. Reuters reported last week that Cellnex would use the earnings to pay down debt, according to sources familiar with the matter. Reuters reported that Cellnex is collaborating...
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August 01, 2023 Africa
The island nation of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) in Africa has been granted a loan to construct two new data centers. This week, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Cabo Verde announced the signing of a loan agreement for $15.3 million to improve the Cabo Verde Technology Park....
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July 31, 2023 United Kingdom
The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing,...
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July 27, 2023 London
Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much water...
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July 20, 2023 Equinix Sofia SO1
The expansion of one of Equinix's Bulgarian data centers in Sofia has been concluded. This week, the company announced the completion of the second phase of its SO2 data center in the capital of Bulgaria. The development, which doubles the site's capacity to 700 servers, cost $12 million,...
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July 19, 2023 Europe
ClickUp has announced that it is expanding its investment in Europe with localised data hosting in its European data center. Operated by Amazon Web Services, ClickUp's European data center is based in Ireland, and following this announcement, customers subscribed to its Enterprise plan will have...
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July 19, 2023 Finland
Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the...
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July 19, 2023 Saudi Arabia
Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 100...
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July 19, 2023 Norway
The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November...
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