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BIT Mining Limited to Invest in a Cryptocurrency Data Center in Kazakhstan

BIT Mining Limited, has announced that it has joined forces with a Kazakhstan-based firm in a binding investment sheet, to invest in a cryptocurrency mining data center in Kazakhstan. The company is investing $9.33 million to construct the facility, which will have an expected 100MW of capacit...

May 25, 2021

Kazakhstan

Garanti BBVA Data Center awarded Tier IV Gold Certification

Garanti BBVA has announced that its data center has become one of the sixteen data centers in the world to be awarded Tier IV Gold Certification in Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute.Commenting on receiving the award, Ilker Kuruoz, Executive Vice President of Engineering and ...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

Garanti BBVA Bank Technology Campus

Microsoft plans to use rainwater to cool Dutch data centers after facing protests

After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its ...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

Microsoft Amsterdam

Etisalat announces new data center in Kalba, UAE to serve as a CLS for Africa-1

Etisalat just announced its new data center in the city of Kalba, northeast of the country. The data center named SmartHub Kalba, scheduled to open in Q1 of 2022, is Etisalat’s third wholesale data center as it opened two facilities in 2020. Besides, the Kaba facility is built to Tier III stan...

May 24, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Etisalat Kalba

3S Group announces new data center in Poland

3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities.Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the grou...

May 24, 2021

Eric Bell

3S Katowice

Lunar data center on the horizon

While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility b...

May 24, 2021

Paris

Penta Infra Group acquires 2nd Hamburg data center

Penta Infra Group just acquired a data center in Hamburg for $16.4 million. The acquisition was financed by Dutch NIBC Bank N.V., which is the fourth data center acquisition Dutch NIBC Bank has financed for Penta Infra.The new data center will also be joining an existing 8MW Hamburg data cent...

May 18, 2021

Eric Bell

Penta Infra: HAM02

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm...

May 14, 2021

Eric Bell

Frankfurt

Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power s...

May 14, 2021

Madrid

Scottish data center firm DataVita acquires Fortis data center

DataVita has announced the acquisition of the Fortis Tier-III certified data center, based in Glasgow, Scotland, after operating the facility since 2016. The acquisition was made with £45 million ($63.1 million) of support by HFD Group, and Datavita will now take full ownership.Built by HFD gr...

May 13, 2021

Eric Bell

DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1

Zayo Group to connect to Netwise's new London East data center

Netwise, A data center firm in the UK, has announced that Zayo Group would be the first major Tier 1 carrier to connect to its new London East data center officially. The new data center is 13,000 square feet in size with a 1.5MW capacity. Netwise also claimed that its new data center would u...

May 12, 2021

Eric Bell

Netwise London East (NLE)

Huawei to build the largest solar-powered data center in the Middle East

Huawei has signed an agreement with Moro Hub, a digital unit of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), to build the largest solar-powered Tier III-certified data center in the Middle East and Africa. The data center, located at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, will be carbon-...

May 11, 2021

Eric Bell

Dubai

Underground data center planned south of Nazareth, Israel

Europe-Israel Group, P.A.I, Swiss fund Lian Group and singer Israeli singer Omer Adam have partnered up to build a NIS 400 million ($122.5 million) underground data center in Israel. Based on a 6.25-acre site in Afula, south of Nazareth, construction is expected to begin later this year, with ...

May 07, 2021

Eric Bell

Israel

Supernap Italia to expand Milan data center

Supernap Italia has announced expansion plans for its data center campus in Milan, Italy, after acquiring development-ready land totaling 170,000sq m (1,830,000 sq ft). It is situated in the same location as the company’s other Siziano campus. The land acquisition gives the company the abilit...

May 06, 2021

Eric Bell

STACK Milan Campus

Amazon submits plans for second data center in County Meath, Ireland

According to Planning documents filed with Meath Local Authorities, Amazon is proposing to build a new data center at the IDA Business & Technology Park in Drogheda, County Meath. The new data center will be a two-story building, and it will have a floor area of 28,566 square meters. Tunis...

May 05, 2021

Eric Bell

Amazon Drogheda I

atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW...

May 05, 2021

Eric Bell

atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær

Microsoft partners with defense company Leonardo to offer cloud services to Italian public sector

Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and ...

April 26, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022.T...

April 23, 2021

Eric Bell

Green Mountain Gismarvik

EdgeConneX enters the Spanish Market

EdgeConnex has announced its entry into the Spanish data center market with its new edge data center facility in the Sant Boi de Llobregat region of Spain. The new center is only 15 km from the Barcelona city center. The data center is a 7,600 square meter, 8 MW N+1 facility. This facility is ...

March 31, 2021

Eric Bell

Edgeconnex Barcelona

OVH Data Center SBG2 Destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it...

March 10, 2021

Eric Bell

OVH Strasbourg Campus

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