June 01, 2021 Microsoft Gävle, Sweden
Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem...
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May 27, 2021 Northern Ireland
EPH has announced that it is looking into the prospects of building a data center in Kilroot, Northern Ireland (NI). The company has commissioned TechRE to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of construction at NI’s last coal-fired power station due to close between 2023 and 2024. EPH has...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty: MRS4
Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility. The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with...
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May 25, 2021 Adam MAD Alcala
Adam, a data center Company in Spain, announced that it would be opening a new data center in Madrid, Spain's capital. The new facility will be Adam’s third and will be situated in the Tecnoalcala Technology Park. The facility will be built in phases, and the first phase will have 3,500 square...
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May 24, 2021 3S Katowice
3S Group has announced it is building a new data center in Katowice, Poland. Its largest data center on the complex yet, the DC3 facility will span 2,200 sq m (23,600 sq ft), built next to its DC1 and DC2 facilities. Based in Southern Poland, the addition of the new data center brings the group’s...
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May 24, 2021 Microsoft Amsterdam
After facing backlash from the resident of the Hollands-Kroon province, Netherlands, that its data center in the region could cause a shortage of drinking water, Microsoft has announced that it would now be using rainwater. Microsoft promised on TV that it would be using rainwater to cool its...
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May 24, 2021 Paris
While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility...
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May 14, 2021 Frankfurt
Frankfurt has proposed a development plan to regulate data centers in the area. The plan, it says, will prevent the “uncontrolled growth” of data centers. The city is the hub of the data center industry in Germany, and one of the four largest hubs in Europe, taking up 64 hectares (640,000 sqm) of...
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May 14, 2021 Madrid
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power supply is secured...
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May 13, 2021 DataVita: Lanarkshire DV1
DataVita has announced the acquisition of the Fortis Tier-III certified data center, based in Glasgow, Scotland, after operating the facility since 2016. The acquisition was made with £45 million ($63.1 million) of support by HFD Group, and Datavita will now take full ownership. Built by HFD...
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May 12, 2021 Netwise London East (NLE)
Netwise, A data center firm in the UK, has announced that Zayo Group would be the first major Tier 1 carrier to connect to its new London East data center officially. The new data center is 13,000 square feet in size with a 1.5MW capacity. Netwise also claimed that its new data center would use...
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May 06, 2021 STACK Milan Campus
Supernap Italia has announced expansion plans for its data center campus in Milan, Italy, after acquiring development-ready land totaling 170,000sq m (1,830,000 sq ft). It is situated in the same location as the company’s other Siziano campus. The land acquisition gives the company the ability to...
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May 05, 2021 atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær
atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW of...
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May 05, 2021 Amazon Drogheda I
According to Planning documents filed with Meath Local Authorities, Amazon is proposing to build a new data center at the IDA Business & Technology Park in Drogheda, County Meath. The new data center will be a two-story building, and it will have a floor area of 28,566 square meters. Tunis...
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April 26, 2021 Italy
Microsoft is partnering with Leonardo, an Italian defense group, to provide Italy’s public sector and critical infrastructure providers with cloud services. The deal will see Leonardo offer cybersecurity services and act as a System integrator while Microsoft will provide a cloud platform and...
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April 23, 2021 Green Mountain Gismarvik
Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022. The...
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March 31, 2021 Edgeconnex Barcelona
EdgeConnex has announced its entry into the Spanish data center market with its new edge data center facility in the Sant Boi de Llobregat region of Spain. The new center is only 15 km from the Barcelona city center. The data center is a 7,600 square meter, 8 MW N+1 facility. This facility is...
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March 10, 2021 OVH Strasbourg Campus
A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it is...
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March 04, 2021 Equinix Bordeaux BX1
Equinix has announced plans to open its first data center in Bordeaux, France. The company announced that the new facility will be known as BX1 and is projected to open in the third quarter of 2021. The company is planning to provide approximately 32,000 square feet (3,000 square meters) of...
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February 26, 2021 STACK Milan Campus
SUPERNAB Italia announced that 100% of ACDC Holding’s share capital, a controlling shareholder in the company, has been acquired. The acquisition was made by affiliates of IPI Partners, LLC from affiliates of Accelero Capital Holdings. The CEO of SUPERSNAP, Sherif Rizkilla, said that IPI is the...
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