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Former Green Mountain CEOs Establish New Nordic Data Center Firm

A new Nordic data center firm has been launched by two former CEOs of Norwegian operator Green Mountain. The company, Heim Datacenter, plans to develop data centers in Finland and Sweden.The company was set up by Tor Kristian Gyland, who was CEO of Green Mountain from 2017 until 2023, and Svei...

April 13, 2026

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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

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

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

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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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

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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

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Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The a...

March 21, 2023

London

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

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