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Read Another Hurdle For The Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands
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Another Hurdle For The Development of Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

June 30, 2022 Netherlands

The Netherland's Hollands Kroon municipal is looking to prevent the development of more data centers in the area. The plan comes even after being one of the only two regions the country's government exempted from the ban on hyperscale data centers. The new coalition of Independent Hollands Kroon,...

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Read The Camro Data Park To Create New Data Center after Receiving Funding
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The Camro Data Park To Create New Data Center after Receiving Funding

June 29, 2022 United Kingdom

Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has...

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Read Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End
Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End

Plans For Facebook's Zeewolde Data Center Finally Comes To an End

June 29, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

Facebook has finally announced that it has canceled its plans for the Zeewolde data center. This move comes after it first announced a pause to the project in March. The data center was poised to be largest data center in the Netherlands. Facebook’s plan was to develop a 200MW data center across...

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Read FMC GlobalSat Closes Acquisition of Santander Teleport in Spain
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FMC GlobalSat Closes Acquisition of Santander Teleport in Spain

June 24, 2022 Spain

FMC Globalsat has acquired Santander Teleport, located in Spain. The Santander Teleport was formed as a joint venture between MTN Satellite Communications and Erzia in 2010. It spans over 9,290 square meters (100,000 square feet) and operates up to 30 antennas. These antennas range from 3 to 15...

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Read Minister Announces New Public Data Center in Greece
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Minister Announces New Public Data Center in Greece

June 22, 2022 Greece

The Greek government has announced that it will develop a new data center powered by green energy. The data center will be called Knossos II. Greece's Minister of State and Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, made the data center announcement when he visited the University of Crete....

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Read Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy
Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

Euronext announces completion of data center migration from UK to Italy

June 16, 2022 Italy

Euronext has announced it has completed its data center migration project, which involved moving its data infrastructure from the UK to Italy, (Basildon, UK, to the Aruba Global Cloud data center IT3 in Bergamo, Italy.) According to the company, the new core data center will be completely powered...

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Read Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland
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Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

June 16, 2022 Helsinki

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The building...

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Read 3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia
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3data and Alias Group Form Partnership To Develop Data Center in Krasnodar, Russia

June 15, 2022 Russia / Россия

Russian investment firm Alias Group and data center firm 3data will develop a data center in Krasnodar, Russia. The data center firm revealed that the data center would come online towards the end of next year. It will also use a franchise model with Alias Group. The Krasnodar territory is in the...

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Read New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"
New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

New legislation to enable UK financial watchdog to visit and regulate cloud data centers and other "critical third parties"

June 14, 2022 United Kingdom

HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insurance...

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Read Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta
Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

Dutch Government Decide Not To Sell Zeewolde Land To Meta

June 14, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

The Dutch Government has revealed that it will not be selling the land in Zeewolde to Meta. Meta had initially earmarked the land to develop a massive data center. The Dutch Government partially owns the land in question. However, Meta hoped to reach an agreement to take over the land to develop...

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Read Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA
Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

Denmark: Telenor and Telia sign solar PPA

June 13, 2022 Denmark

Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be...

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Read Agility CMS launches new EU data center
Agility CMS launches new EU data center

Agility CMS launches new EU data center

June 13, 2022 Europe

Agility CMS has announced that it has launched a new EU data center in an effort to improve the speed of content management access, and provide localized support for its customers in both Europe and the UK. This move also comes after a year in which sales doubled and is accompanied by the growth...

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Read Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres
Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

June 10, 2022 France

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision....

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Read Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed
Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry  Data Center Dashed

Apple's Hopes of Developing Its Athenry Data Center Dashed

June 10, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center

Ireland’s High Court has rescinded a decision to allow more time for Apple to develop a data center in Athenry, Galway County. Earlier in 2021, the Galway County Council extended Apple’s planning permission for a data center development in the county. This extension happened at a time when Apple...

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Read Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Neterra Opens SDC 2 in Sofia, Bulgaria

June 10, 2022 Bulgaria

Telecommunication company, Neterra, has launched a new data center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The new data center is called Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC 2). SDC 2 is located next to Neterra’s existing SDC 1 data center. Neterra first announced plans for SDC 2 in April 2021. The data center is housed in a...

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Read Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells
Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

June 01, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however,...

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Read UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud
UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

UK government launches eight-week consultation on data centers and the cloud

May 31, 2022 United Kingdom

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, ​​part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for views...

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Read Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?
Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

Winter power cuts ahead for the UK?

May 31, 2022 United Kingdom

The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or not...

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Read Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain
Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) to develop a data center powered entirely by solar power in Aragon, Spain

May 27, 2022 Spain

Best Wonder Business (BWB) has announced its intentions to develop a 16MW data center, powered solely by solar power, and located at the Huesca Logistics Platform (Plhus) business park outside Huesca, in the Aragon region. Reported to be worth €230 million ($264m); the company hopes the facility...

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Read Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion
Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

Telefónica's sustainable funding increases to over more than €4 billion

May 27, 2022 Spain

Telefónica has announced that it has successfully issued its first senior sustainable bond to fund sustainability projects and initiatives amounting to €1 billion ($1.06bn) with a term of nine years. Telefónica has now made five ESG issuances in the last three years totaling €4.25 billion...

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