March 09, 2023 Green Mountain AS
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...
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March 01, 2023 London
The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...
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March 01, 2023 London
The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...
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February 23, 2023 London
A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...
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November 21, 2022 London
Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...
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November 10, 2022 Green Mountain AS
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...
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November 08, 2022 London
According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....
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October 31, 2022 London
According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...
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October 20, 2022 London
According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also noted...
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September 16, 2022 Green Mountain AS
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...
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August 30, 2022 London
It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...
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August 02, 2022 London
In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...
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June 29, 2022 Green Mountain AS
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...
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June 23, 2022 Green Mountain AS
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 operate...
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April 12, 2022 London
Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...
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August 06, 2021 Green Mountain AS
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 number...
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July 21, 2021 Green Mountain AS
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 loan...
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June 28, 2021 Green Mountain AS
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...
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June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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October 02, 2018 London
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...
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