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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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

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

Green Mountain AS

Analysing the feasibility and impact of data center heat sharing

In the last year or so, there's been a lot of talk about data centers sharing their heat and promoting the circular economy. The practice is widespread in Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia and Germany was even exploring making it compulsory for operators to reuse waste heat with a new eff...

April 24, 2023

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain plans sustainable expansion in Frankfurt, Germany

Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2...

April 04, 2023

Green Mountain AS

TikTok's Norwegian Data Center to be Built by Green Mountain

TikTok, a social media site controlled by the Chinese government, will utilize a data center in Norway with a capacity of up to 150MW. Green Mountain will construct and manage the OSL2-Hamar plant, consisting of five 30MW-capacity buildings. According to the company, this will make it Norway's...

March 09, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans

Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European ...

November 10, 2022

Green Mountain AS

Mainova Ventures into Data Centers With 30MW Facility in Frankfurt

German energy company Mainova is moving into the data center business. The company broke ground on the new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. Mainova WebHouse, a subsidiary of the energy company, announced that a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place earlier in the month. The new...

October 27, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Frankfurt

Green Mountain to expand its RJU1-Rjukan facility in Norway

Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its RJU1-Rjukan facility in Norway by constructing a new two-story 20MW building. With an investment of €100 million ($99.9m), the first phase will reportedly be operational and ready for service in March of next year.The company has outlined ...

September 16, 2022

Green Mountain AS

Frankfurt: Plans for environmental data center zoning updated

Frankfurt recently announced an updated plan for commercial developments in the city, which will place a limitation on cloud and colocation data center buildings. This comes as a response to concerns around their land and energy usage. Alongside this announcement, the city also outlined its in...

August 08, 2022

Frankfurt

Green Mountain's Parent Acquires SDC Ltd.

Azrieli Group, the parent of Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd. The move sees the company take over SDC’s data center in Romford, East London. Green Mountain will be tasked with operating the data center. This will be Green Mountain’s first facility outside of Norway. Green Mountain...

June 29, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain releases first sustainability report

Green Mountain has come forward with its first sustainability report, which focused on seven ESG areas: energy, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water, biodiversity, social responsibility, and governance. Some of the highlights noted in the report included that all of its data centers now ope...

June 23, 2022

Green Mountain AS

Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

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 conti...

May 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Frankfurt

Tackling data centers' cooling issues

According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A numb...

August 06, 2021

Microsoft Azure

Azrieli Group acquires Green Mountain

Azrieli Group, an Israeli real estate firm, has acquired 100% of Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center Company. The acquisition cost Azrieli NIS 2.8 billion ($849.2m). Azrieli noted that the acquisition would be self-financed, and it will be through debt raising and through an unsecured l...

July 21, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Green Mountain AS

Green Mountain signs agreement to heat land-based trout farm

Green Mountain, the Norwegian colocation company, has entered into an agreement with Hima Seafood to reuse waste warm water from the company’s local data center to grow trout at the farm in Rjukan, Norway.The Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, located 800 meters from the DC2-Tel...

June 28, 2021

Eric Bell

Green Mountain AS

Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

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...

May 14, 2021

Eric Bell

Frankfurt

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