November 09, 2021 Hetzner Finland
German cloud and hosting firm Hetzner has completed the expansion of its Finish data center campus. It has also broken ground on other buildings on the same campus. Earlier in July, Hetzner completed the development of a new building at the Tuusula campus which is to the north of Helsinki. It...
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November 04, 2021 Yondr: Slough 1
Yondr Group has revealed its plans to develop a hyperscale data center campus in Slough, just outside London. The initial phase of the development of the data center campus will see Yondr develop a 30MW facility. This phase is scheduled to be in operation by the first quarter of 2023. In...
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November 04, 2021 Dublin
Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building...
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October 29, 2021 Israel
According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be...
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October 28, 2021 Israel
The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green...
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October 27, 2021 Angola
Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...
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October 26, 2021 Wales
DST Innovations, in association with several other business partners, with support from Swansea Council and Associated British Ports, have announced a £1.7 billion ($2,3 billion) project: Blue Eden project. On Swansea's seafront, Wales, this project will include a newly-designed tidal lagoon,...
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October 26, 2021 Republic of Ireland
Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will run...
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October 22, 2021 Russia / Россия
Liberum Navitas, a Russian ICT firm, has announced its plans to build 15 data centers across Russia over the next two years. The ICT firm revealed that it is launching a federal investment project to develop the data centers while unifying them by a single fiber-optic communication line. The...
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October 21, 2021 United Kingdom
Wipro has reportedly signed “a multi-year global strategic IT and digital deal” with National Grid. Through the deal, Wipro will assist National Grid with digital transformation, while integrating its managed services, and consolidating multiple data centers across both the UK and US to next...
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October 18, 2021 Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an...
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October 18, 2021 Telehouse Marseille THM1
Telehouse has confirmed that its first data center in Marseille will be in full operation by the beginning of November. Telehouse calls the new facility THM1, and it will give customers access to 160Tbps of capacity via subsea cables. The cables connect Marseille with Asia, the Middle East, and...
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October 14, 2021 Digital Realty: ATH3
Greece-based data center firm Lamda Hellix has begun work on a new data center close to Athens. Lamda Hellix revealed that the Athens-3 facility would have a capacity of 20MW. The size will also make it the largest data center in Greece. Athens-3 will also have 8,600 square meters (92,500 square...
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October 14, 2021 Netherlands
Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, and,...
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October 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has successfully bought more land in Denmark for potential data center developments. The search engine giant bought 1.29 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of land in Taulov, in Fredericia municipality, Denmark. Earlier in June 2017, Google bought a 73.2 hectare (7.8 million...
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October 12, 2021 United Kingdom
UK fiber firm CityFibre has applied for permission to install two data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire. It filed with Newark and Sherwood District Council to install two data center cabins and associated air conditioning units, meter cabinet and fence, and generators on land on Cliff...
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October 12, 2021 Kazakhstan
QazCloud has unveiled its new data center in Kosshy, in the Akmola region in Kazakhstan. The data center is built to Tier II standards with a total area of 2,787 square feet (259 square meters). The facility also has space for 100 racks. QazCloud was founded in 2018, and it provides hosting,...
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October 11, 2021 Netherlands
Smaller data center companies in the Netherlands have voiced concerns over surging energy prices, which they say is creating a challenging financial climate. The Dutch Data Center Association is now asking for a cap on electricity prices, corporate tax breaks or subsidies for clean energy...
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October 08, 2021 Teraco Cape Town CT2
South African data center company Teraco has announced it completed the first phase of its CT2 facility in Cape Town, South Africa. CT2 is a new hyperscale data center in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Phase one has 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet) of building structure, 18MW of capacity, and...
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October 07, 2021 Rostelecom: Korovinsky NORD-6
Rostelecom has announced the opening of its new data center in Moscow, Russia. The latest data center was opened under its Rostelecom-DPC unit. The new NORD-6 facility is in the Rostelecom-DPC campus in Korovinskoe highway 37. It has a capacity of 5MW and two data rooms that will house 207 racks....
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