February 23, 2024 Europe
Security services firm Securitas Technologies has revealed plans to train up and certify 10,000 workers as data center security and safety professionals. The company has also introduced certification to improve the skills of its security officers at its data centers. "The Certified Data Center...
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February 23, 2024 Madrid
Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's...
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February 23, 2024 Wales
Mavin, a UK-based IT services firm has announced it will install a Powercube data center at the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GRCE) in Onllwyn, South Wales. “We are delighted to agree this partnership with Mavin and to utilize their cutting-edge Powercube design at the Global Centre of Rail...
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February 19, 2024 Europe
The European Union's antitrust regulator has granted telecoms firms Orange and MásMóvil permission to complete their proposed merger in Spain. This comes after MásMóvil agreed to divest spectrum across three frequency spectrum bands to Romania's Digi. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in...
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February 17, 2024 Europe
Real estate company Goodman Group has claimed that it has the power capacity available to develop a portfolio of data centers worth $80bn over the next five to seven years. The company noted that it has added 300MW to its "power bank" since November 2023, bringing its total availability to 4GW....
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February 15, 2024 Romania
Two new data center projects totaling 40-45MW are reportedly coming to Romania. These projects are expected to cost about €500 million though the details about the companies involved, project location and scope, or timelines weren’t shared. "In 2024 we are already talking about two investments in...
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February 10, 2024 United Kingdom
Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our...
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February 09, 2024 Spain
Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity....
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February 07, 2024 Luxembourg
European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...
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February 07, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full build...
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February 07, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK government...
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January 19, 2024 Manchester
Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of new...
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January 15, 2024 United Kingdom
A £2.6 million ($3.3m) international project will investigate storing waste heat from an Edinburgh University supercomputer in old mine workings, before using it to heat local homes. This study will examine the idea of storing hot water at 40oC in disused mines before using it for domestic...
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January 15, 2024 United Kingdom
British renewable energy group Octopus Energy has invested £200 million in UK-based data center business Deep Green which specializes in siting small data centers near locations that need waste heat. Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, said, "To tackle the energy crisis head-on,...
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January 12, 2024 Barcelona
Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are...
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January 10, 2024 London
Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of...
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January 10, 2024 Spain
Spanish telecoms firm Aire this week announced that it is acquiring Canary Islands telco Idecnet as it looks to consolidate its presence in the region. Raúl Aledo, CEO of Grupo Aire, said, “The arrival of Idecnet to Grupo Aire responds to our national and international growth strategy, which is...
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January 09, 2024 Stockholm
New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...
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January 08, 2024 United Kingdom
Three Ireland has partnered with Ericsson to launch a 5G Standalone network said to be the first in Ireland. Ericsson noted that this launch is initially available on a trial basis and will eventually be available to select corporate customers who will have the opportunity to test and trial its...
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January 08, 2024 France
New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a new data center in Marseille from French venture firm Reflexion Capital. The planned facility will span 1,700 square meters and offer around 1.2MW with a PUE of 1.2. It will also feature two meet-me rooms, will look to reuse waste...
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