November 21, 2022 Denmark
As part of the EU's Fit for 55 legislative package, it is pushing for data centers to be connected to surrounding district heating networks to use surplus heat. A new report from the Cool-Data project has comprehensively reviewed the rules and incentives around waste-heat recovery by data centers...
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November 21, 2022 London
Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...
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November 21, 2022 France
France-based telecommunication firm Altice is mulling over selling its data center portfolio in France. According to L'informe, the telco has asked investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to find a buyer for its 92 data centers across the country. According to reports, Altice wants a minimum of $1...
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November 18, 2022 Turkey
Turk Telekom, a Turkish telecommunication company, has formed its cloud and data center businesses into a new unit. The telco launched Turk Telekom earlier in the month as a stand-alone business offering a virtual data center, backup, server, storage, and disaster recovery solutions. The state of...
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November 18, 2022 Iron Mountain MAD-1
Iron Mountain has announced the acquisition of XData Properties, one of Madrid’s largest data center parks. The acquisition sees Iron Mountain expand its footprint considerably. The property reportedly has enough power to develop 79MW over the next years. The property currently hosts a 3MW data...
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November 17, 2022 Dubai
The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar...
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November 16, 2022 Middle East
Earth Wind & Power (EWP) has announced that it has signed with services company Oilserv to place its "green" data centers in oil fields across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. The company utilizes excess energy from wind,...
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November 15, 2022 Germany / Deutschland
The German Federal Ministry for the Economy recently presented a draft for an "Act to Enhance Energy Efficiency, Improve Climate Protection and Implement EU Legislation," named the Energy Efficiency Act (ENEfG). This bill has been proposed with the aim of saving 500 Terawatt hours (TWh) of energy...
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November 11, 2022 Kenya
Helios Investment Partners has announced a $50m investment into Kenyan data center company IXAfrica. The investment in the data center company is expected to close before the turn of the new year. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, which also include Kenyan regulatory...
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November 10, 2022 Manchester
According to reports, Manchester City Council is looking to redevelop a former Barclays data center from the 1970s and bring it back into service. Currently, the council is looking for public feedback on its regeneration proposals for Wythenshawe town center, having already completed the...
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November 08, 2022 London
According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....
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November 04, 2022 Vantage Berlin BER11
Vantage Data Centers has opened three new facilities in Germany. The data center company announced the launch of these facilities in Frankfurt and Berlin. The new data centers see the company’s data center footprint in Germany rise by 72MW and 68,750 square meters (740,000 square feet). Vantage...
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November 04, 2022 London: Slough
Slough Council has agreed to turn a former paint factory zoned for residential development into a data center. The Council decided to sell the site to an unnamed data center developer. Per council documents, the Slough Council acquired the site in February 2021 from Panattoni for £38.5 million...
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November 03, 2022 Teraco JB4
Teraco, recently acquired by Digital Realty, has announced the completion of the first phase of its JB4 hyperscale data center addition to the Bredell Campus in the Ekurhuleni area in east Johannesburg, South Africa. Comprising 30,000 sqm of building structure, 8,000 sqm of data hall space across...
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November 03, 2022 Croatia
Hrvatski Telekom has announced a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Liburana doo. This vPPA, the first of its kind in Croatia, will see the construction of the 'Mazin Gračac' wind farm, which is forecast to produce 50 GWh per year. Speaking about the deal, Kostas Nebis, President of...
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November 02, 2022 Madrid
Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies...
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October 31, 2022 London
According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...
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October 31, 2022 Brussels
LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generators...
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October 27, 2022 Frankfurt
German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new data...
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October 26, 2022 NTT Johannesburg 1
NTT has opened a new data center in South Africa. The facility is located at 21 Sterling Road in Samrand, Johannesburg. The Johannesburg 1 facility will offer 12MW of power across 64,600 square feet (6,000 square meters) upon full build-out. The data center’s first phase currently offers 32,000...
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