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Raxio to build Tier III data center in Mozambique

Raxio Group has announced that it will build a data center in Mozambique. The data center will be a 1.5MW capacity data center. It will also be the first privately owned Tier III carrier-neutral data center in the country. The facility will be in the Beluluane Industrial Park, outside Maput...

July 09, 2021

Raxio Mozambique

Vantage Data Centers to build campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

As part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion plan, Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on data center campuses in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. As part of this expansion plan, the Company has opened facilities in locations in Wales and Germany.The Warsaw facility dubbed the WA...

July 08, 2021

Vantage Berlin BER1

Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square m...

July 08, 2021

Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2

Amazon's second Drogheda data center jeopardizes environmental targets

An Taisce, the Irish National Trust, have rallied against Amazon building its second data center on its Drogheda site in County Meath. Although the facility was given the go-ahead in June, the Irish planning board is now awaiting an appeal by the environmental group. It says that the authoriti...

July 07, 2021

Amazon Drogheda I

Officials voted to rezone lands in Naas, Ireland for data centers

The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, w...

July 06, 2021

Republic of Ireland

TDC Net expands eco-footprint with four solar farms

TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company ...

July 06, 2021

Denmark

MTS acquires GreenBush data center in Moscow

Russian telco MTS has acquired Moscow based data center, GreenBush. MTS acquired 100% of GDTs Energy Group, which owns the GreenBush data center, for RUB 5.2 billion ($70.8 million). The GreenBush data center was first launched in 2018, and it was Tier III certified. At full build out, it will...

July 06, 2021

MTS Greenbush

Innit doubles data center capacity at Bulk’s Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility

Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA).Spea...

July 06, 2021

Bulk: Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX)

District Council approves AWS' Didcot, UK, data center

AWS has secured the approval of its two-building data center development on the Didcot Power Station from the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee. The data center project was first proposed in 2019. Following local feedback and Covid-19 delays, the Company decided to redu...

July 05, 2021

Amazon: Didcot Campus

MCIT looks towards massive data center expansion in Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Saudi Arabia has announced large-scale data center development plans across the country. Included within these plans is the building of a hyperscale data center. By 2030, it is expected that an injection of $18 billion will be...

July 04, 2021

Saudi Arabia

Safe Host Is Expanding its SH2 data center in Gland, Switzerland

SafeHost, a Swiss colocation provider, has announced that it is expanding its SH2 data center facility in Gland, Switzerland. Webuild Group, through its subsidiary CSC Costruzioni SA, will be responsible for building the additional 18MW of capacity at the SH2 facility. The project will als...

July 01, 2021

STACK Gland GEN02

Thésée DataCenters opens its first Tier IV data center in Aubergenville, France

Thésée DataCenters has opened its first data center in Aubergenville, France. The data center coined TDC01 has 64,500 square feet of floor space in two rooms. The Uptime Institute has also certified the facility as Tier IV. According to Thésée DataCenters' president, Christophe Bouniol, the C...

July 01, 2021

Thésée: Aubergenville TDC01

Google buys plot of land in the Netherlands for potential data center

Google just bought a plot of land in Groningen province, the Netherlands, for €3 million ($3.5 million). The plot of land bought is the last one at the Hoogebrug Winschoten business park in the municipality of Oldambt. There are reports that Google is planning to build a data center on the pie...

July 01, 2021

Google Eemshaven Netherlands

Euronext is moving its data center infrastructure from London to Italy because of Brexit

Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe says it is moving its data center out of London to Italy because of Brexit. It says it made the decision because it needs a predictable regulatory environment which the UK can’t provide. Euronext initially moved its data center infrastructure from...

June 30, 2021

Aruba Global Cloud IT3

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses

The Qatar Investment Authority wants to start investing in data centers and warehouses. This is because the real estate sector is struggling because of the covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund, Mansoor bin Ebrahim al Mahmoud, told an economic forum organized by Bloom...

June 26, 2021

Qatar

Apple seeks planning permission extension for Athenry data center

Apple has applied to Galway County Council to extend its planning permission on its site in Athenry, Ireland. Apple plans to build a 363,800 square feet data center on the site by the end of the extension period. The data center will be a single-story building with a maintenance building, a lo...

June 25, 2021

Apple Athenry

Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden

Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...

June 25, 2021

Sweden

MainOne opens data center in Appolonia, Accra, Ghana

MainOne, a Nigerian telco firm, just opened its new data center in Appolonia City, outside Accra, Ghana. The Company first announced the construction of the data center in 2019. It is a 100-rack facility, and MDXi, MainOne’s subsidiary, would manage it. Interestingly, the facility is also Tier...

June 23, 2021

Equinix Accra AC1

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

June 23, 2021

Europe

Europe's Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

The Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, a movement launched in January 2021 to tackle data centers' environmental impact, has made big moves this week. Cloud and datacenter giants in the movement have taken 19 proposals to the European Union (EU), which outline their "ambitious targets" to make ...

June 23, 2021

Europe

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