EMEA Data Center News

Start Campus names new CEO after corruption scandal

Portuguese data center company Start Campus has appointed Robert Dunn as chief executive officer, effective immediately, after the previous one was arrested in a corruption scandal that saw the country’s prime minister ousted.Dunn said: “I am excited to continue leading Start Campus as CEO at ...

July 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Portugal

ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has paired with telco e& to build a private 5G wireless network that spans 11,000 square kilometers which will be the largest private 5G wireless network ever built in the energy industry.“This landmark project with e& is a milestone step in A...

July 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Abu Dhabi

Dutch telcos secure additional 5G spectrum at an auction

Dutch telcos, KPN, Odido, and VodafoneZiggo all secured 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band during the country's latest auction this week which raised €174.4 million.“Companies and consumers have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Meanwhile, the demand for data is growing rapidly...

July 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix

Private South African hospital group Busamed has migrated to a private cloud environment with Datacentrix, consolidating seven on-premise data centers into a single central environment.“Due to our acquisitions, the organization had not only attained new businesses but had inherited the technol...

July 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Africa

Pacific Avenue Capital Partners acquires KiddeFenwal

Private equity firm Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private equity firm specializing in carve-outs and complex situations, has acquired fire suppression company KiddeFenwal.“With its enviable product portfolio, established brand equity, and strong customer relationship...

July 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

CCEP selects Systal Technology Solutions for network transformation

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has partnered with Systal Technology Solutions for its network transformation across Europe, supporting more than 6,500 devices in 300 locations across 11 countries for CCEP.“We are thrilled to officially go live with our direct service as CCEP’s trusted t...

July 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

TotalEnergies unveils Pangea 4 hybrid supercomputer

Energy company TotalEnergies has unveiled the latest generation of its Pangea supercomputer, housed at the Jean Féger Scientific and Technical Center at Pau in southwest France. The Pangea 4 system is smaller and more energy efficient than the Pangea II, using 87 percent less electricity than ...

July 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Iliad founder submits $4.1bn Millicom bid

French billionaire Xavier Niel has submitted a bid for Latin American telecoms group Millicom that values the carrier at $4.1 billion through his investment vehicle, Atlas Investissement.In a statement, Atlas said that its offer will ensure the company can expand its reach. "The purpose of the...

July 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Queen Mary University of London to reuse heat from data center

Queen Mary University of London in the UK is planning to reuse waste heat from its data center as part of a refurbishment project for the Joseph Priestley Building on the campus. Queen Mary president and principal Colin Bailey said: “By harnessing waste heat and minimizing our carbon footprint...

July 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Axelera AI raises $68m in Series B funding round

Netherlands-based Edge AI chip startup Axelera AI has raised $68 million in its oversubscribed Series B funding round which included participation from the European Innovation Council Fund, the Innovation Industries Strategic Partners Fund, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Verve Ventures.“There’s no...

July 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Netherlands

AQ Compute breaks ground on 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute has broken ground on its 60MW data center campus in Spain and has begun construction work on the new site located in the Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès) in Barcelona. The data center, dubbed AQ-BCN1, will eventually have an IT capacity of 60MW with cooling capabilities for hi...

June 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Nokia sells submarine unit to French State

Telecoms OEM Nokia announced today that it has entered an agreement to sell Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to the French State, represented by the Agence des Participations de l'Etat (APE) in a deal which is expected to close at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.Alain Biston, presiden...

June 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Energy Cluster Denmark and Aalborg University to work together for heat reuse project

Energy Cluster Denmark, Aalborg University, Heatflow, and R&R Consult have teamed up on a data center heat reuse project in Denmark which seeks to reduce power consumption, cool data center servers CO2-neutrally, and send surplus heat to the district heating network and local buildings.Paw...

June 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Microsoft acquires plots of land for data center campus outside Leeds

Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land at Harworth's Skelton Grange site in Leeds for £106.6 million for a data center development. The deal comprises two adjacent plots, the first plot 27 acres and sold for £52.9 million and the second totals 21 acres and will be sold for £53.2 million.“Si...

June 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Stack unveils new scholarship program for female students in the UK

Stack Infrastructure has launched a scholarship program for female students at universities in the UK which will be available to female students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds planning to study a STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subject.The company will be responsible for f...

June 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Ada Infrastructure receives approval Docklands data center

Ada Infrastructure recently announced that it has received planning permission from the Newham Strategic Development Committee to develop one of London's largest data center campuses; 210MW data center campus in East London's Royal Docks in the UK.Jennifer Weitzel, president of Ada Infrastruct...

June 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Verne deploys CFD cluster at Icelandic data center

European data center firm Verne has partnered with high-performance computing (HPC) consultants OFC to deploy an HPC cluster in Iceland on behalf of open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software provider Engys. Engys notes that it is able to access to 100 percent renewable hydroelect...

June 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iceland

IQM Quantum Computers launches first quantum data center in Munich, Germany

IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data center on the company’s premises in Munich, Germany which currently houses two IQM quantum machines and will eventually have space to host up to 12 quantum computers, with 800kW of power capacity.“Our aim is to solve business challenges b...

June 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

WIOCC secures green financing to fund OADC roll-out

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

June 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nigeria

UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...

June 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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