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Read Swissgrid Seeks Bids for Data Center Racks in Switzerland
Swissgrid Seeks Bids for Data Center Racks in Switzerland

Swissgrid Seeks Bids for Data Center Racks in Switzerland

March 11, 2026 Switzerland

Switzerland’s grid operator Swissgrid has opened a tender for a three-year contract to install server racks in its data centers. The contract also covers supplying materials such as fiber optic and copper cabling, racks, and protection devices. No data was made available about the location of the...

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Read Top Data Center News for 2nd - 7th March, 2026
Top Data Center News for 2nd - 7th March, 2026

Top Data Center News for 2nd - 7th March, 2026

March 09, 2026 United Kingdom

AWS Behind Plans for $750M Data Center in Clinton, Mississippi Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly planning a $750 million data center project in Clinton, Mississippi on a 99-acre site formerly the home of Milwaukee Tool, where the existing building redeveloped for the data center.Karatzis...

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Read Norway Ammonia Plant Plans Dropped as Company Eyes Data Center Development
Norway Ammonia Plant Plans Dropped as Company Eyes Data Center Development

Norway Ammonia Plant Plans Dropped as Company Eyes Data Center Development

March 07, 2026 Norway

Plans for a proposed ammonia plant in Norway have been scrapped, with the developer now exploring the site for potential data center use. The shift comes after delays caused the project to lose its grid capacity allocation with the local grid operator Iverson eFuels has decided to terminate plans...

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Read Karatzis Group Plans €240M Data Center Project in Boeotia, Greece
Karatzis Group Plans €240M Data Center Project in Boeotia, Greece

Karatzis Group Plans €240M Data Center Project in Boeotia, Greece

March 06, 2026 Greece

Greek multinational Karatzis Group is planning a €240 million ($278 million) data center investment in the Boeotia region, according to real estate news outlet eRed. Headquartered in Crete, the company is best known for manufacturing plastic netting for the agricultural, packaging, and...

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Read Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany
Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

Hochtief has Broken Ground on its Latest Yexio Edge Data Center in Dorfen, Germany

March 03, 2026 Germany / Deutschland

Construction company Hochtief has broken ground on a new timber-built edge data center for Yexio in Dorfen, Germany. The facility is being developed on a 7,500 sqm (80,729 sq ft) site at the Southwest Industrial Park in Dorfen, located in Bavaria’s Erding district, east of Munich.Hubert Aiwanger,...

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Read Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland
Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland

Iron-sodium Battery Company Inlyte has Partnered with NTS to Deploy its Solution at a Data Center in Bern, Switzerland

February 27, 2026 Switzerland

US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities. The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...

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Read Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy
Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

Xference has Launched a New Distributed Infrastructure Platform from its Data Center in Italy

February 27, 2026 Italy

Italy-based inference provider Xference has rolled out a new distributed infrastructure from a data center in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region. The startup also announced plans to launch a beta service for 100 selected users in the near term. The development follows a €700,000 (approximately...

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Read Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers
Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers

Nexalus Selects Alps Alpine to Manufacture Liquid Cooling Kits for Data Centers

February 24, 2026 AWS EU Ireland Region (eu-west-1)

The partnership will combine Nexalus’s expertise in advanced science, thermal engineering, and system-level design with Alps Alpine’s automotive-grade manufacturing capabilities, quality systems, and global operational presence. Together, the companies “form a unified platform capable of...

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Read UK Energy Regulator Launches Consultation to Overhaul Grid Access, Focusing Heavily on Data Center Demand
UK Energy Regulator Launches Consultation to Overhaul Grid Access, Focusing Heavily on Data Center Demand

UK Energy Regulator Launches Consultation to Overhaul Grid Access, Focusing Heavily on Data Center Demand

February 21, 2026 United Kingdom

The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem has launched a wide-ranging review of electricity demand connection rules, with data center growth a primary driver. Data center projects now account for roughly 50GW of the UK’s energy connection queue. This massive pipeline is under intense government scrutiny...

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Read Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland
Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland

Plans Unveiled for Data Center on 60-hectare site in Finnish Lapland

February 19, 2026 Finnish Lapland

Finnish energy company Pohjan Voima is looking to develop a project in Keminmaa. In other Finnish news, Compute Nordic is expanding its landholdings in Mikkeli, while another company is targeting a development in Närpiö on the country's west coast.“The project would be of great importance to...

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Read 50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy
50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

50MW Data Center Proposal Progresses in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

February 18, 2026 Italy

Plans by Italian real estate developer GSM to build a 50MW data center outside the town of Certosa di Pavia in Italy’s Lombardy region have advanced.“We consider this project an affront to our territory and, for this reason, we are carefully analyzing the technical documentation, which has only...

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Read ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services
ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

February 16, 2026 Dublin

Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...

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Read Ukrainian Forces Hit Data Center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk
Ukrainian Forces Hit Data Center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk

Ukrainian Forces Hit Data Center in Russian-occupied Prymorsk

February 13, 2026 Ukraine

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) branch struck three targets across Russian-occupied lands, including a data center. The drone division said that it attacked the facility in Prymorsk, a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine."Every day Russian occupying forces make living more difficult....

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Read AEW Aquires Aventos’ Fully Leased Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany
AEW Aquires Aventos’ Fully Leased Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany

AEW Aquires Aventos’ Fully Leased Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany

February 12, 2026 Nuremberg / Nürnberg

German real estate firm Aventos has sold a data center in Nuremberg to real estate investor AEW. Built in 2010, the 2,590 sqm facility is fully leased to a global technology company under a long-term double-net lease.“In view of the currently very high demand for data centers on the real estate...

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Read UK Moves Court System Workloads from Legacy Data Centers
UK Moves Court System Workloads from Legacy Data Centers

UK Moves Court System Workloads from Legacy Data Centers

February 10, 2026 United Kingdom

The UK's HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has migrated its applications out of legacy data centers located in West London and Swindon. In total, HMCTS migrated 37 applications, a project that began in 2020, and has scrapped some and updated others to be moved to cloud platforms, as per a...

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Read Thylander Secures Outside Investors for Data Center Venture
Thylander Secures Outside Investors for Data Center Venture

Thylander Secures Outside Investors for Data Center Venture

February 07, 2026 Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander this week said that Thylander Data Centers' (TYDC) investor base now includes Systematic Holding Aps by Michael Holm, Sagitta Ventures Aps, Weco A/S, and E. Bank Lauridsen Holding A/S. Terms of the investment weren’t shared.“We are well underway in developing our...

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Read Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center
Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

Croatian Telecom Upgrades Cooling Monitoring System at Zagreb Data Center

February 05, 2026 Croatia

Croatian Telecom (aka Hrvatski Telekom) this week announced that, alongside Siemens, it had successfully completed the White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) project.“Thanks to intelligent sensor placement and AI-based cooling management, HT’s data center in Zagreb now operates more efficiently...

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Read DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center
DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center

DL Invest Group Sets Out First Location for New Data Center

February 04, 2026 Poland

Polish real estate firm DL Invest Group will build a new data centre in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. The facility will be the first of a network of twelve in Europe as part of a joint venture agreed in November 2025 with cloud gaming firm Boosteroid.Leszczyński predicted that the Bielsko-Biała project...

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Read Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway
Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

Aker Nscale Plans 96MW Data Center in Skien, Norway

January 28, 2026 Norway

Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway. The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager and...

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Read Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed
Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

Planning Permission for Buckinghamshire Data Center Likely to be Quashed

January 24, 2026 United Kingdom

The UK Government has admitted that it made a “serious logical error” when granting planning permission to a data center in Buckinghamshire, making it likely that the decision will be quashed, reports Bloomberg. The Buckinghamshire Council had already refused this specific data center proposal...

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