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Read Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark
Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

June 11, 2019 Apple: Aabenraa Kassø

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...

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Read Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus
Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus

Kao Data deploys 100% renewable energy at London One campus

June 05, 2019 Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01

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...

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

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

May 08, 2019 Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

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...

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Read Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam
Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

Equinix Acquires Switch Datacenter's AMS1 Facility in Amsterdam

April 24, 2019 Equinix AM11

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 Amsterdam...

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Read e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center
e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

e-shelter Acquired Land for 2nd Berlin Data Center

April 16, 2019 NTT Berlin 2 (Marienpark)

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 from...

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Read e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam
e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

e-shelter Opens Their First Data Center in Amsterdam

April 12, 2019 NTT Amsterdam 1

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....

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

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

April 09, 2019 Amazon Dublin Mulhuddart Campus

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...

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

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

April 01, 2019 AtlasEdge: Leverkusen

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 the...

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Read Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden
Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

March 25, 2019 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 Stockholm....

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Read Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp
Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp

Orange Belgium Opens a New Data Center in Antwerp

March 19, 2019 Orange Belgium Hoboken

Orange Belgium has opened a $15.8 million data center in Antwerp, Belgium. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange, and president of the board Johan Deschuyffeleer officially opened the 1,000 square meter (10,800 sq ft) data center at a event yesterday. Orange Datacenter in Belgium The data center will be...

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Read Google Launches New GCP Region in Zurich
Google Launches New GCP Region in Zurich

Google Launches New GCP Region in Zurich

March 12, 2019 Google Zurich

Google announced on their Blog that they have launched the Zurich region. Our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Zurich is now live and ready for business. Our sixth European region and nineteenth overall, this new region gives companies doing business in Switzerland more opportunities with...

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Read EdgeConneX Enters the Munich Market with the Acquisition of a Vodafone Facility
EdgeConneX is entering Munich market through the acquisition of a Vodafone data center. The facility will be ready by Q2 2019. 

The Press Release is below.

Munich facility becomes EdgeConneX’...

EdgeConneX Enters the Munich Market with the Acquisition of a Vodafone Facility

January 26, 2019 EdgeConnex Munich

EdgeConneX is entering Munich market through the acquisition of a Vodafone data center. The facility will be ready by Q2 2019. The Press Release is below. Munich facility becomes EdgeConneX’s 9th Data Center in Europe Herndon, VA, – January 21, 2019 — EdgeConneX®, pioneers in edge data center...

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Read Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)
Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)

Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg (Press Release)

January 10, 2019 Equinix Hamburg HH1

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 / -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11...

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Read CyrusOne Expands in the Netherlands to Develop Next-Gen Data Center at PolanenPark in Partnership with SADC
CyrusOne Expands in the Netherlands to Develop Next-Gen Data Center at PolanenPark in Partnership with SADC

CyrusOne Expands in the Netherlands to Develop Next-Gen Data Center at PolanenPark in Partnership with SADC

December 06, 2018 CyrusOne Amsterdam I

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)- CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced the acquisition of 15.5 acres of land from Schiphol Area Development Company N.V. (“SADC”), a developer of high-quality business parks in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, for the development...

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Read Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki
Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

November 29, 2018 Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will...

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Read Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark
Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

November 20, 2018 Google Fredericia Denmark

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

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Read CyrusOne Enters Into Strategic Partnership to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands
CyrusOne Inc announced an agreement with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centers in Middenmeer, The Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement, CyrusOne will have the option t...

CyrusOne Enters Into Strategic Partnership to Develop Hyperscale Data Centers in The Netherlands

November 11, 2018 CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands

CyrusOne Inc announced an agreement with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centers in Middenmeer, The Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement, CyrusOne will have the option to purchase up to 33 hectares of land, in parcels as demand dictates, for a 270MW master planned...

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Read e-shelter to Develop Large UK Data Center Campus in London
NTT Communications subsidiary, e-shelter, a European data center colocation operator with presence in all key city-markets of the DACH-region leveraging 300MW of power capacity to deliver scalable ...

e-shelter to Develop Large UK Data Center Campus in London

November 05, 2018 NTT London 1 (Dagenham)

NTT Communications subsidiary, e-shelter, a European data center colocation operator with presence in all key city-markets of the DACH-region leveraging 300MW of power capacity to deliver scalable data center solutions, has announced the development of a new, large data center campus in the UK....

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Read Alibaba Cloud to launch London region
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt.

The move was not highl...

Alibaba Cloud to launch London region

October 02, 2018 London

China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...

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Read T-Systems completes 'House of Clouds' data center expansion in Biere
Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has completed the expansion of its data center in Biere, a village near Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state capital, Magdeburg.

The facility, which serves enterpr...

T-Systems completes 'House of Clouds' data center expansion in Biere

October 02, 2018 T-Systems Biere

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has completed the expansion of its data center in Biere, a village near Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state capital, Magdeburg. The facility, which serves enterprise and government customers, offers 11,000 square meters of technical space, enough to house 100,000...

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