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BGO invests €350 million into Norway's Bulk

Real estate investment management firm BentallGreenOak has invested another €350 million ($380m) into Nordic data center operator Bulk which will be used to ‘accelerate Bulk’s growth plans.’“The latest investment by BGO will fuel our ambitions to shift the gravity for global and European large...

June 07, 2024

Norway

New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

May 08, 2024

Norway

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

London

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

London

Three companies invest in combined $200m data center in Oslo

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund and investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. These companies are to make a NOK 2.4 billion ($200m) joint investment in this data center which is already undergoing constru...

March 19, 2024

Oslo

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

February 29, 2024

London

Green Mountain to host HPE AI and HPC infrastructure in Norweigan facility

Green Mountain is to host Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in two of its Norweigan data centers. Green Mountain has three data centers in Norway and the specific facilities for this project are yet to be reveale...

February 29, 2024

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Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of value...

January 10, 2024

London

Green Mountain begins expansion efforts in London campus

Green Mountain this week announced that it has begun construction work for a new 14MW facility at the company’s LON1-East campus in Romford, London. This expansion is set in two phases, each phase totaling 7MW and across three data halls, inside the existing building. It will also offer more t...

December 08, 2023

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Norway’s Green Mountain completes first Tiktok data center

Green Mountain has completed the data center building at the OSL2-Hamar campus in Norway, which it claims is Europe’s largest data center run on renewable energy and has officially handed it over to TikTok. The social media company is now in charge of delivering, installing, and testing server...

December 01, 2023

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Green Mountain plans 10MW data center at Oslo campus

Norway’s Green Mountain announced this week that it was granted approval to develop a new building at its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway. This planned facility will be a three-story, 9,600 square-meter building at its Enebakk campus, and construction is expected to start soon and be c...

November 20, 2023

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Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

London

Norway's Green Mountain plans $4.5 billion DC campus in Kalberg, Norway

Norway's Green Mountain has announced plans to build a massive data center campus in Norway following a ‘large international client’ request to establish itself near the new Fagrafjell transformer station. This new facility will be built on a site at Kalberg, about 20klometers from Stavanger i...

October 12, 2023

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Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

Norwegian government approves Green Mountain TikTok data facility

The government has granted Green Mountain permission to construct a data center campus for TikTok. However, stricter data center regulations may shortly be introduced in Norway. Green Mountain announced in March 2023 that it would construct three 90MW buildings in the Hamar region by November ...

July 19, 2023

Norway

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

July 05, 2023

London

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

DE-CIX exchanges in Norway Bulk Data Centers go live

DE-CIX has announced that its new DE-CIX IXs are now available in Bulk data centers in Oslo (OS-IX) and Kristiansand (Campus N01). Its InterconnectionFLEX service will be available via the partnership with Bulk Infrastructure Group, through which customers will be provided with an interconnect...

May 05, 2023

Norway

Green Mountain to expand its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway

Green Mountain is adding 10 MW to its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway, it has been announced. The OSL1-Enebakk site (previously DC3-Oslo) will have a new two-story, 5,800 sqm (62,430 sq ft) building added and the company has already begun construction on the expansion project. ...

April 26, 2023

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