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Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investmen...

November 06, 2019

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

Telxius Opens Purpose-Built Infrastructure in EMEA: Derio Communications Hub (PR)

Leverages the Full Potential of Subsea Cable MAREA Unlocking Opportunities for Global Organizations Madrid, 29 October 2019. Telxius, the communications infrastructure company of the Telefonica Group, has announced today the launch of its purpose-built, interconnection-rich, Derio communicat...

October 29, 2019

Telxius Derio Communications Hub

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other s...

September 30, 2019

Hetzner Finland

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.Internationa...

September 16, 2019

STACK OSL01 Ulven

Digital Realty opens new Docklands facility

The new 120,000 square foot facility is located in the London Docklands, a highly connected area of London. The new facility will be interconnected with Digtial Realty's Sovereign House with a redundant 3,400 metre 432-count fiber ring. DRT Press Release LONDON, Sept. 11, 2...

September 12, 2019

Digital Docklands: Cloud House

Construction is started on the AWS Facility in Mulhaddart, Ireland

The Business Post reports that work has begun on the Amazon Mulhuddart data center campus. The project was known as "Project G" was originally approved in 2017, but was held up by environmental groups. The initial phase will be over 220,000 and is expected to be completed by mid-2021 at the ...

September 09, 2019

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

Leaseweb expands with maincubes at AMS01

maincubes landed a large deal with Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Leaseweb which has 20 locations across the world has a large presence in the legacy EvoSwitch facilities. (EvoSwitch was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.) The deal allows Leaseweb to further diversify their providers. maincubes Press ...

September 04, 2019

maincubes AMS01

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divi...

August 15, 2019

Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Echelon gets final approval for massive Arkow data center project

The Irish Times reports that Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for a 45,000sq m (484,000sq ft) data centre in the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Planning permission for the 100MW centre was originally granted by Wicklow Co Council in February, but wa...

July 19, 2019

Echelon: Arklow DUB20 Campus

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

June 12, 2019

Colt Frankfurt West

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the sca...

June 12, 2019

Northern Data Lefdal

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data ...

June 11, 2019

Apple: Aabenraa Kassø

Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus

June 5th, 2019, London, United Kingdom, Kao Data, the home of innovation and UK’s leading entrant to the wholesale colocation data centre market, has announced it will operate using 100 percent renewable energy and be cost neutral to its customers. When the campus is operating at full load (4...

June 05, 2019

Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

May 08, 2019

Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam. The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Am...

April 24, 2019

Equinix AM11

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

e-shelter announced today that it acquired land for its 2nd Berlin facility. This one will be big. When fully complete it will be 60,000 sqM (645,000 SqFt) and 90 MVA (72 Megawatts.) The site will sit on the South side of Berlin in an area called Marienpark, which is approximately 14 km fr...

April 16, 2019

NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

e-shelter, a subsidiary of NTT, opened a data center in Amsterdam. This is the company's first foray into The Netherlands. The campus which is just South of the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will eventually support 2 buildings and approximately 16,000 square meters and 40 MWs of critical IT load....

April 12, 2019

NTT Amsterdam 1

Amazon will Power Mulhuddart campus with 91.2 megawatt Wind farm in Donegal

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will invest in a the Donegal wind farm, a renewable energy project in Ireland. The 91.2 megawatt wind farm will be developed by Invis Energy and is expected to begin providing energy to AWS Data Centers in Ireland by the end of 2021.The Donegal wind farm ...

April 09, 2019

Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

DE-CIX and Datacenter One Partner to Offer DE-CIX in DC1's Sites

DE-CIX and Datacenter One have formed a partnership to offer DE-CIX’s services in Datacenter One (DC1) sites in Germany. DC1's LEV1 facility in Leverkusen will be the first DC1 data center connected as part of the new partnership. DE-CIX is one of the largest Internet Exchange operators in...

April 01, 2019

AtlasEdge: Leverkusen

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

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