March 21, 2023 Prague
Seznam.cz has launched a new data center outside Prague, in Benátky nad Jizerou, known as 'Nagoya'. The Czech Internet portal outlined that the facility spans around 1,200 square meters, with a capacity of 3MW across two data halls with 200 racks. Work began on construction in February 2022. The...
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March 21, 2023 London
Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...
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March 20, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Data Grid Network has purchased a teleport outside of Hannover, Germany. This week, Data Grid, a Commercis firm, revealed that it had acquired the TechnoPark facility between the villages of Hamelin and Aerzen and teleport operator Onlime GmbH. The Talia Communications division of Commercis will...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been...
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March 17, 2023 Bulgaria
Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria, part of the PPF Telecom Group, have announced the signing of a 10-year solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Electrohold. Through this deal, the company will offtake energy from an upcoming unnamed 123 MW photovoltaic plant. This will reportedly cover...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California....
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March 16, 2023 Finland
At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. The...
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March 16, 2023 Italy
According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a new...
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March 15, 2023 Italy
A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located in...
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March 14, 2023 Madrid
Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 sq...
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March 09, 2023 United Kingdom
New research from the UK's National Oceanography Centre and the University of Central Florida has found that thousands of miles of cables on the seafloor are increasingly at risk due to climate-related disasters. This, experts say, makes the world's internet connectivity vulnerable to outages as...
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March 09, 2023 Spain
Impulsa Galicia, a public-private partnership from the Galician local government, has announced that it has partnered with Ingenostrum for a carbon-neutral data center project. The project is set to see an investment of €400m ($424m), and will see Ingenostrum assess the feasibility of a...
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March 08, 2023 Stockholm
According to reports from Swedish news outlets, Bahnhof, a company that operates data centers, has plans to construct a nuclear reactor in order to power a new data center. Plans are being drafted for a small modular reactor (SMR) to be constructed on an industrial site in the Hjorthagen...
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March 01, 2023 London
The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...
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March 01, 2023 London
The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...
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February 27, 2023 Europe
TikTok has announced its plans to build two more data centers in Europe. The company said this addition will support its growth and meet data residency requirements. Speaking about this expansion, Rich Waterworth, TikTok's general manager of operations in Europe, said: "We're continuing to...
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February 24, 2023 Europe
As shown by Arizton's most recent research study, the market for data center building in Central and Eastern Europe would expand at a CAGR of 10.64% between 2022 and 2028. Sustained attempts to attract data center operators, expansion in 5G connectivity and construction of edge data centers, and...
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February 23, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Deutsche Telekom has announced its plans to rollout battery energy storage systems across Germany. The company has outlined that the systems will support 300MWh.The first system, which is a 1MW/6MWh unit, has already been deployed at Deutsche Telekom's head office in Munich. This is part of the...
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February 23, 2023 London
A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...
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February 21, 2023 Equinix Manchester MA2
UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building formerly...
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