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Transtelecom Develops Disaster Recovery Data Center for Sberbank in Kazakhstan

Transtelecom has announced that it developed a backup data center for Sberbank’s operations in Kazakhstan. Sberbank is a Russian bank, while Transtelecom is a Kazakhstani telecommunication company. The data center is located in Karaganda, to the northeast of Kazakhstan. The companies did not r...

June 17, 2022

Kazakhstan

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powe...

June 16, 2022

Italy

Cloudoon To Develop Kenya's Largest Data Center

Cloudoon has plans to develop a large data center in Kenya. According to People Daily, the cloud hosting company secured up to 6 billion Kenyan Shillings ($51.1m) to develop the facility. The data center will be built on a 10-acre campus near a Forks Hydro-power station in the country. Acco...

June 16, 2022

Kenya

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

June 16, 2022

Helsinki

3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is ...

June 15, 2022

Russia / Россия

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

June 15, 2022

South Africa

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insuran...

June 14, 2022

United Kingdom

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to devel...

June 14, 2022

Facebook Zeewolde

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be en...

June 13, 2022

Denmark

Agility CMS launches new EU data center

Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the grow...

June 13, 2022

Europe

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

Work begins on Africell data center

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it wil...

June 10, 2022

Africa

Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed

Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when ...

June 10, 2022

Apple Athenry

Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria

Telecommunication company, Neterra, has launched a new data center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The new data center is called Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC 2). SDC 2 is located next to Neterra’s existing SDC 1 data center. Neterra first announced plans for SDC 2 in April 2021. The data center is housed i...

June 10, 2022

Bulgaria

Etisalat Opens New Data Center in Kalba, UAE

e& and Etisalat- its subsidiary have opened a cable landing station and data center in Kalba, UAE. e& which used to be called Etisalat Group, opened SmartHub Kalba earlier. According to Telco Etisalat, the new data center was developed to Tier III standards. The data center will also p...

June 03, 2022

Etisalat Kalba

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

June 01, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for view...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or ...

May 31, 2022

United Kingdom

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facili...

May 27, 2022

Spain

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