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Read Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business
Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

Boldyn Networks finalizes acquisition of Cellnex's private network business

March 04, 2024 Finland

Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit under...

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Read T.Loop acquires 800 square meters facility in Stockholm
T.Loop acquires 800 square meters facility in Stockholm

T.Loop acquires 800 square meters facility in Stockholm

January 09, 2024 Stockholm

New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...

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Read Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group
Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

December 26, 2023 Finland

Finnish vendor Nokia has agreed to sell its device management and service management platform (SMP) businesses to Lumine Group. This deal, valued at €185 million is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, subject to approval. According to Nokia, Lumine "intends to operate DM and SMP...

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Read Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm
Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm

Evroc to build its first data center in Stockholm

December 04, 2023 Stockholm

New data center firm Evroc announced last week that it has signed an agreement with Arlandastad Group to select Stockholm as the location for its first facility and build it in 2024. The company also mentioned that it plans to invest €600 million in the project, which is one of ten it intends to...

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Read Swedish telco Telia names new president and CEO
Swedish telco Telia names new president and CEO

Swedish telco Telia names new president and CEO

October 18, 2023 Sweden

Swedish telco Telia Company has named Patrik Hofbauer as its new president and CEO, bringing the company's search for a CEO since July to an end. The board of directors agreed with the decision to appoint Hofbauer, and he will be leaving his role as CEO of the gambling firm Svenska Spel to begin...

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Read Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers
Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

Sweden's nuclear-powered facility will power data centers

September 11, 2023 Sweden

Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...

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Read Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden
Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

Genesis launches cryptomine in Sweden

August 24, 2023 Sweden

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...

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Read Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center
Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

July 19, 2023 Finland

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the...

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Read Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers
Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers

Evroc aims to raise $3.2 billion for tw hyperscale data centers

June 08, 2023 Sweden

A new Swedish startup called Evroc intends to open several large data centers throughout Europe. In its pre-seed round, the company raised $13.9 million, but it hopes to raise $3.2 billion in the following two years to build and run two hyperscale data centers in Europe. Long-term, Evroc aims to...

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Read LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'
LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

March 16, 2023 Finland

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. The...

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Read Bahnhof Intends to Install a Nuclear Power Station at its Stockholm Facility
 Bahnhof Intends to Install a Nuclear Power Station at its Stockholm Facility

Bahnhof Intends to Install a Nuclear Power Station at its Stockholm Facility

March 08, 2023 Stockholm

According to reports from Swedish news outlets, Bahnhof, a company that operates data centers, has plans to construct a nuclear reactor in order to power a new data center. Plans are being drafted for a small modular reactor (SMR) to be constructed on an industrial site in the Hjorthagen...

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Read Conapto Developing a 24MW Facility in Stockholm, Sweden
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Conapto Developing a 24MW Facility in Stockholm, Sweden

October 24, 2022 Stockholm

Data center firm Conapto has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Sweden data center company partnered with real estate firm Fastpartner to develop a 107,650 square feet (10,000 square meters) facility in Southern Stockholm. Upon full development, the...

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Read Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies
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Vattenfall partners with Cloud&Heat Technologies

December 06, 2021 Stockholm

Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...

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Read Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden
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Court grants Google's subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission for data center in Sweden

June 25, 2021 Sweden

Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...

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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 Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden
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Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

July 18, 2018 Stockholm

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October...

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