January 26, 2022 United Kingdom
UK data center company ServerChoice has announced the expansion of its facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The company added a new data hall which hosts 47 racks. In addition, the new hall uses hot aisle containment that ensures greater efficiency. In addition, the racks are backed up by a...
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January 25, 2022 Belgium
Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data...
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January 18, 2022 Equinix Saint-Denis PA10
Equinix is adding a tenth data center into Paris on its Paris Equinix's Saint-Denis campus, with the new site named PA10. In the first phase of construction, the project will offer 3,775 sqm and 1,525 cabinets of capacity. Meanwhile, it will offer 5,775 sqm (62,100 sq ft) of colocation space and...
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January 14, 2022 Republic of Ireland
EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center...
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January 14, 2022 Wales
Gibtelecom has teamed up with the charity Protect Earth for a forestation project. Already, it has planted over 600 native British trees at the Pantpurlais farm, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, including 12 species of native saplings, including 100 Silver Birch, 50 Common Alder, 25 Bird Cherry, and...
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January 12, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021. The...
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January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus
Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...
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January 07, 2022 Telia Lietuva Raisteniškės
Telia Lietuva has announced that it is to invest EUR 10 million in the construction of a data center located in Raisteniškės, next to the Vilnius-Panevėžys highway. This facility will join two Telia Lietuva other data centers in Vilnius, which will mean it will be the largest data center...
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January 06, 2022 Hyperscale Data Center
Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets. This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....
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January 05, 2022 Wales
Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales has announced that it is relocating its primary data center to L block in the Llandaff Learning Centre. According to the university, the reasoning behind this move is due to its School of Technologies expanding into A block in January. The relocation also...
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January 05, 2022 Republic of Ireland
There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are...
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January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)
Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...
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December 21, 2021 Republic of Ireland
TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok,...
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December 21, 2021 nLighten Edge 8 Birmingham
Proximity Data Centres has announced that it has opened its Birmingham facility near the new HS2 rail station and BBC campus. The company outlines the facility site spans, with 63,000 sq ft (5,800 sq m) available in the actual facility with space for 2000 racks located across three data halls....
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December 17, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meeting...
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December 17, 2021 T-Mobile Warszawa-Szlachecka
T-Mobile has opened a new data center in Warsaw, Poland. The new 46,200 square feet (4,300 square meters) data center has three stories, and it offers 18,300 square feet (1,700 square meters) of colocation space across eight data halls. T-Mobile claims to have secured a top business customer as a...
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December 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square meters...
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December 09, 2021 Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk
Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Oslo...
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December 06, 2021 Stockholm
Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...
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December 02, 2021 Zagreb
A1 Croatia has opened a new data center in Zagreb. The company began construction on the facility in October 2020. The 21,500 square feet (2,000 square meters) data center cost the company €11 million ($13m). In addition, the data center was designed to withstand earthquakes up to 9 on the...
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