EMEA Data Center News

Amazon to open the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region by 2023

Amazon Web Services has announced that it would be opening its new data center region in Israel. Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for AWS, said that plans for the new data center region are in place and that it would open in the first half of 2023. He further added that the region would have th...

June 13, 2021

Eric Bell

Amazon Israel: Tnuvot

DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus

DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is al...

June 13, 2021

Eric Bell

STACK OSL03C

ClusterPower to develop first "hyperscale data center" in southern Romania

ClusterPower, a Romanian cloud services startup, has announced that it is building the first hyperscale data center in southern Romania, based near Craiova. The center is to be the first of five planned on 25,427 sq m of company-owned land in Mischii, Dolj county. The campus, powered by natu...

June 13, 2021

Eric Bell

ClusterPower Craiova

Virgin Media data center in Leeds for sale for £7 million

Temple House in Leeds, Yorkshire, which houses a data center used by UK telco Virgin Media, is up for sale for £7 million ($9.9 million). The building spans 102,400 sq ft (9,500 sqm), with a combined 3.06 acres across two plots, 44,333 sq ft (4,100 sqm) of which is used by Virgin.Speaking abou...

June 12, 2021

Eric Bell

Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)

Regulators raise questions over the future of 30 proposed Irish data centers

In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies.As a result, Eirgrid has vo...

June 10, 2021

Eric Bell

Republic of Ireland

MIS's data center fund to start within six months

Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) announced that it expects its data fund to commence development within the next six months. The fund will go towards the development, ownership and operation of data centers across Saudi Arabia. This follows MIS signing a Memorandum of Understanding (Mo...

June 10, 2021

Eric Bell

Saudi Arabia

D9 Infrastructure raises £175 million for digital infrastructure acquisitions

Digital 9 Infrastructure, a UK investment trust, has raised £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company initially offered an offering to raise £100 million through new ordinary shares. However, it was oversubscribed, and it raised a total of £175 million ($246.7 million). The Company says it p...

June 10, 2021

Eric Bell

United Kingdom

Thrive expands data center footprint with acquisition of UK firm Oni

Thrive has jumpstarted its expansion with the acquisition of data center services provider Oni. Backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, the deal gives the fast-growing MSP a European data center footprint.Although the deal's financial terms have not yet been disclosed, thi...

June 07, 2021

Thrive Luton

MeluXina supercomputer inaugurated in Luxembourg

Atos’s MeluXina supercomputer, first announced in September was inaugurated on June 7th, and will be hosted by LuxConnect’s data centers in Bissen. The MeluXina supercomputer The supercomputer is co-financed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and ...

June 07, 2021

Luxembourg

Togo inaugurates its first data center

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

June 04, 2021

Eric Bell

Togo

Iron Mountain to expand EMEA Data Center footprint with new facility in Sough

Iron Mountain has announced its plans for a 27MW data center in Slough, East of London. The new data center dubbed LON-2 will be a three-story building with up to 25,000 sq m of space. It will also have a capacity of 27MW at full buildout. Moreover, the building will have three 9MW data halls,...

June 02, 2021

Eric Bell

Iron Mountain London LON-2

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem Evo...

June 01, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Gävle, Sweden

AWS announces a new region, AWS Middle East (UAE)

Amazon Web Services has announced plans to build a new data center region in UAE. The new zone will have three Availability Zones, and it will be open before the mid of 2022. Upon completion, the region will be AWS’s second region in the Middle East after opening a Bahrain region two years ago...

May 28, 2021

Eric Bell

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

EPH proposes data center at Kilroot Power Station, Northern Ireland

EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH ha...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Northern Ireland

Digital Realty opens new Toronto facility and broke ground in Marseille

Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility.The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with redu...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty: MRS4

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

May 27, 2021

Eric Bell

Raxio Uganda

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total.Expected to be comple...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

39 human rights groups call on Google to cancel Saudi Arabian data center

Thirty-nine human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have called on Google to stop building data centers in Saudi Arabia. They also said Google should stop its plans to open a cloud region in the country in partnership with Saudi Aramco. These groups noted that Google should at le...

May 26, 2021

Eric Bell

Saudi Arabia

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

May 25, 2021

Eric Bell

Africa

Adam launches Madrid data center

Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 squar...

May 25, 2021

Eric Bell

Adam MAD Alcala

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