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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

Alibaba has announced that it opened a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new data center is the company’s third facility in the country. According to the company, the new data center will help support the increasing needs for digital transformation from customers across the European...

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Read Equinix Opens New $90 million Data Center In Munich
Equinix Opens New $90 million Data Center In Munich

Equinix Opens New $90 million Data Center In Munich

February 07, 2022 Equinix Munich MU4

Equinix has announced the opening of a new facility in Ascheim, outside Munich, Germany. The company unveiled the opening of the International Business Exchange (IBX) called MU4. Equinix invested $90 million in the development of MU4’s first phase. The facility offers over 24,200 square feet...

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Read Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed
Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty: FRA1

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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Read Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center
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Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center

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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Read CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead
CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

November 22, 2021 CyrusOne Frankfurt V

CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm. According to...

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Read Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt
Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

October 01, 2021 Equinix Frankfurt FR8

Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also revealed...

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Read Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm
Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

Interxion to expand its data center footprint in Düsseldorf by leasing additional 12,000 sqm

August 11, 2021 Digital Realty: Düsseldorf

Interxion is leasing 12,000 sqm (129,000 square feet) in Düsseldorf to expand its data center capacity in the city. The Company has been occupying the property on In der Steele 27-43 in west Germany for 20 years, and it is leasing more space there to expand its data centers. The owner of the...

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Read DATEV acquires q.beyond's Nuremberg data center
DATEV acquires q.beyond's Nuremberg data center

DATEV acquires q.beyond's Nuremberg data center

August 05, 2021 DATEV: Am Tower 5

DATEV has acquired q.beyond’s Nuremberg data center. Earlier in June, q.beyond (formerly QSC) initially announced its intention to sell its colocation business in June 2021. It operates three data centers in Nuremberg and Munich through its wholly-owned subsidiary, IP Exchange GmbH. The Nuremberg...

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Read Vantage Data Centers to build campuses in Warsaw and Berlin
Vantage Data Centers to build campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

Vantage Data Centers to build campuses in Warsaw and Berlin

July 08, 2021 Vantage Berlin BER11

As part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion plan, Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on data center campuses in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. As part of this expansion plan, the Company has opened facilities in locations in Wales and Germany. The Warsaw facility dubbed the WAW1...

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Read Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)
Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

July 08, 2021 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square...

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Read Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers
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Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

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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Read Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete
Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

September 09, 2020 Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Colt Data Centre Services has announced that its data centre in West Frankfurt has secured customer commitments for all of the space and power in the facility. The facility is due to be completed in late Q4 2021 and will have a capacity of 25.2 megawatts. This underscores the demand in the...

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Read Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer
Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

July 13, 2020 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-1

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased -- BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfurt,...

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Read Datacenter One Launched New Location in Dusseldorf, Its Fourth Data Center Facility In Germany
Datacenter One Launched New Location in Dusseldorf, Its Fourth Data Center Facility In Germany

Datacenter One Launched New Location in Dusseldorf, Its Fourth Data Center Facility In Germany

April 07, 2020 AtlasEdge: Düsseldorf

Datacenter One announced that DUS1 has been officially launched in Hilden to the West of Dusseldorf.The construction of ‘DUS1’ started in 2019 and the data center was put into operation in January 2020.The data center is expandable with an overall capacity of over 10,000 square meters of customer...

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Read NTT completes shell of 14 MW data center on Munich, Germany, campus
 NTT completes shell of 14 MW data center on Munich, Germany, campus

NTT completes shell of 14 MW data center on Munich, Germany, campus

March 20, 2020 NTT Munich 2

NTT has announced that it completed the shell of a second building on it's Munich 2 campus. The NTT Munich 2 (MUC2) data center will have 66,700 SqFt of IT space and 14 MW of total IT load. The new building is scheduled to go online in Q4 2020.Read more on NTT.com

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

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

June 12, 2019 Colt Frankfurt West

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...

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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 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 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. 

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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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