December 30, 2024 Europe
The European Investment Bank will provide €43 million ($44.71m) in loans for the development of two data centers in Azerbaijan. The funding will be used to develop two data centers for AzInTelecom LLC which will be located Absheron and Hajigabul regions.Elkhan Azizov, chairman of the board of...
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December 26, 2024 United Kingdom
BT has successfully defended itself in a £1.3 billion ($1.6bn) class action lawsuit that alleged the telco overcharged millions of customers for fixed telephone lines. The case, which lasted for eight weeks and began in January, accused BT of around 3.7 million landline customers. The case...
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December 24, 2024 Europe
Irish construction firm Mercury Engineering is preparing to create 1,000 new roles over the next five years. Standing as one of Europe's largest data center builders, the company operates in 16 markets, including data center hotspots such as France, Ireland, and the Nordics. Mercury currently...
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December 23, 2024 Madrid
European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...
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December 20, 2024 Italy
Nokia has partnered with Italian telco EOLO to deploy a 5G standalone mmWave RAN network in Italy. In the announcement, vendor Nokia claimed the deployment to be a European first, noting it has signed a four-year deal with EOLO. As part of the deal, the vendor will provide its 5G AirScale...
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December 19, 2024 Sweden
Nordic colocation provider atNorth has bought a 30-hectare plot for a potential data center in Långsele, Sweden. Located in the Sollefteå municipality in Hamre Industripark, the land will host the company’s first ‘mega site.'“This is a fantastic opportunity for Sollefteå municipality and the...
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December 19, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local...
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December 19, 2024 Europe
In an announcement, the European Commission said it has signed the concession contract for the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²), with the SpaceRISE consortium. A number of key partners were also named, including Thales Alenia Space, OHB, Airbus...
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December 18, 2024 Greece
The Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece and Serverfarm have signed a Heads of Term agreement to form a joint venture. The joint venture, Gemini, aims to construct and operate hyperscale-ready data center facilities on IPTO-owned sites in Athens and elsewhere in Greece.Gemini...
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December 14, 2024 Norway
Nordic shipbuilder Vard has successfully delivered a cable-laying vessel to I.T. International Telecom Marine (IT), a submarine cable installation and maintenance firm. The vessel was formerly a platform supply vessel and was converted into a specialized cable-laying ship, named IT Infinity, to...
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December 12, 2024 Europe
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected seven sites to host the initiative’s new European AI factories. The factories represent a collaborative effort between 15 member states and two EuroHPC participating states and are the result of a €1.5 billion ($1.6bn) investment, combining...
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December 10, 2024 Europe
European AI cloud firm Nscale has raised $155 million in a new funding round led by Sandton Capital Partners with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management, and Florence Capital and will fuel its growth plans across Europe and North America. Nscale said it is launching a public cloud...
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December 09, 2024 Greece
Edgnex has announced plans to develop a 12.5MW data center in Athens, Greece. The Attica facility will be built in a joint venture - dubbed Data In Scale - between Edgnex’s parent company Damac and electricity utility PPC Group.“By leveraging Edgnex’s expertise in delivering reliable and agile...
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December 04, 2024 Sweden
Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop has appointed Helena Fagraeus Lundström as its new CEO. Lundström was most recently at solar developer Solkompaniet, where she was chief strategy office and then business unit director for land development. Prior to that, she had held roles at Swedish boat...
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November 28, 2024 Sweden
Telenor Sweden CEO Bjørn Ivar Moen has announced he will step down as CEO at the end of this year, and the hunt for a successor has already begun, as confirmed by the company in a statement. "All good things eventually come to an end," said Moen on LinkedIn this week. "Today, we announced that I...
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November 28, 2024 Luxembourg
European operator Portus Data Centers this week announced the expansion of its facility in the Grand Duchy with a further 1,350 sqm of white space and additional capacity that will take the site to 3.4MW. The company is also rebranding the unit, previously known as European Data Hub (EDH), to...
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November 27, 2024 Croatia
Croatian cloud solutions and data center provider DataBox has taken over Digital Realty's cloud services in the country. This move will enable Digital Realty to "realign" its offering in Croatia and focus on acting as an infrastructure provider instead of a cloud service provider in the...
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November 25, 2024 United Kingdom
Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data centre provider Deep Green, which is also set to launch another data centre that will heat a local swimming pool located at the York Stadium Leisure Complex. Civo's newest cloud region,...
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November 21, 2024 France
France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of...
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November 21, 2024 Dublin
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performance...
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