May 29, 2023 France
According to new research by OVHcloud, hybrid liquid cooling technology has the power to reduce a data center's energy consumption by 20 percent when compared with using water cooling alone. The European cloud provider coupled up with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne to test the cooling...
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May 26, 2023 United Kingdom
A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $494m+...
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May 25, 2023 Europe
In a bid to meet growing demands for data privacy and sovereignty, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Europe, Moveworks, a generative AI platform, has announced that it has opened its first regional data center in the European Union (EU).The company said that launching the...
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May 22, 2023 Russia / Россия
Russia's Wildberries has announced the launch of its first data center, located in the Moscow region. Spanning 16,000 sqm, the facility offers 3.5 MW of capacity. The facility is the company's first and is based at its logistics hub.The project has seen an investment of 1.2 billion rubles and is...
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May 18, 2023 United Kingdom
Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free...
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May 18, 2023 United Kingdom
Two British High Court justices were investors in a contested data center project allegedly used as a tax scheme. The Financial Times discovered the investment, along with several other investments made by judges in similar ventures. The money invested by Justices Simon Bryan and Martin Griffiths...
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May 18, 2023 Netherlands
QuiX Quantum, a Dutch company specializing in quantum computing, plans to construct a data center at its headquarters in Enschede. The partnership between the business and QMware, announced this week, will create the "first fully integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform." The native quantum...
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May 16, 2023 France
The island of Reunion will receive a new carrier-neutral data center. Local conglomerate Océinde is scheduled to construct a data center in the French department in the Indian Ocean, as first reported by DC Mag. Last week, construction began on the new facility in the Le Port Commune in the...
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May 12, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
A 3D-printed data facility will be built in Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg iT Management, a cloud and data center operator, said this month that it would employ the "largest 3D-printed building in Europe" as a server hotel by the end of 2023. The project is led by Kraus Group, Peri 3D...
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May 10, 2023 Belgium
Datacenter United, based in Belgium, is acquiring local collocation provider Hasselt DC and constructing a new data center. This week, investment company and DCU proprietor TINC announced that the two Hasselt DC data centers in Limburg are now "part of the Datacenter United ecosystem." The terms...
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May 05, 2023 London: Slough
After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and a...
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May 05, 2023 North Holland
The Province of Noord-Holland (North Holland) has launched an objection against the development of a new data center project in De Kwakel, Uithoorn. This is the latest intergovernmental dispute over a data center in the Netherlands, where the climate is growing increasingly hostile to data center...
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May 05, 2023 Norway
DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnection...
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May 02, 2023 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
BNP Paribas, a long-time client of atNorth, is still shifting some of its operations to the Nordic region. By doing so, BNP Paribas will be able to meet the increasing need for high-performance, data-intensive IT workloads. BNP Paribas' drive to update and expand its high-performance computing...
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May 01, 2023 France
French startup Denv-R has released an update on its prototype floating data center in Nantes. The company is reportedly on the precipice of deploying its river-based facilities. The prototypes will utilize river water to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and are equipped with solar...
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May 01, 2023 United Kingdom
In an effort to move its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud, the British Ministry of Defense has awarded Deloitte $2.5 million. The MOD intends to close its data center and migrate to Oracle Cloud, but the transition has been difficult. First reported by The Stack, the...
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April 30, 2023 Poland
According to Samsung Electronics Poland, the company has begun selling data center SSDs in the nation. Both the PM893 solid state drive, which is based on SATA technology, and the PM9A3 SSD, which uses MVMe, are now accessible to consumers. Both TD Synnex and AB are carrying out their activities...
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April 30, 2023 Dublin
The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted. SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no...
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April 28, 2023 Netherlands
VodafoneZiggo has announced a new project to supply the new Tilburg district heating scheme with residual heat from its nearby data center. The company is partnering with real estate developer SDK Vastgoed to establish the sustainable energy system in the new residential area of Smariuskade in...
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April 27, 2023 Italy
In Italy, Rai has announced the launch of its Edge data center network, the Rai Way Edge project, to reduce latency speeds. Through the project, the company offers a platform of 18 Edge data centers covering 20 Italian regions, with a combined IT capacity of 3.4MW. This will be supplemented by a...
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