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Read Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany
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Alibaba Opens Data Center in Frankfurt, Germany

May 17, 2022 Frankfurt

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...

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Read Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed
Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

Interxion's Frankfurt data center completed

January 07, 2022 Digital Realty Frankfurt Campus

Interxion's latest data center in Frankfurt, Germany, FRA16, has been completed, it has announced. Located on the company's Ostend campus at Hanauer Landstrasse, the facility spans 4,800 sqm (51,600 sq ft) of white space, with a capacity of 16.5MW. The data center is expected to go live later...

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Read Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center
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Amplitude branches out into Germany with new data center

January 04, 2022 AWS EU Frankfurt Region (eu-central-1)

Amplitude has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint into Germany with a facility in Frankfurt. The data center, which is certified in ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, will be hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), for both its “privacy” and “security.” Speaking about its move into...

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Read OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF
OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

OVHcloud's solar PPA with EDF

December 15, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has announced it has signed a 15-year renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Renewables, whereby the energy company will supply electricity from its 50MW solar power plant, located in the south of France. The solar plant is expected to be operational by 2024 “We are proud to...

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Read CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead
CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

CyrusOne: Frankfurt expansion goes ahead

November 22, 2021 CyrusOne Frankfurt V

CyrusOne has announced that it is expanding its data center footprint with the purchase of land in Hanau, East of Frankfurt. The company's plans outline that the facility will have an incoming power of 90MW and a critical power capacity of 63MW, once complete, spanning 18,000 sqm. According to...

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Read OVHcloud goes public
OVHcloud goes public

OVHcloud goes public

October 18, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has finally been listed on the stock exchange in France. It went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company’s opening market capitalization was €3.48 billion ($4bn). It also raised €400 million ($469m). OVHcloud opened at €18.50 per share, dipped slightly, but its share...

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Read OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone
OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

October 13, 2021 OVH Group

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down due...

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Read Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)
Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

Strasbourg fire could cost OVHcloud €105 million ($122m)

October 01, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud could be seeing up to €105 million ($122m) leave its coffers because of the fire that destroyed its Strasbourg data center in March. The document the firm filed with a French financial authority is responsible for revealing this. Although insurance has covered most of the cost of the...

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Read Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt
Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

Equinix opens FR8 data center in Frankfurt

October 01, 2021 Equinix Frankfurt FR8

Equinix has announced the opening of its new data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is located to the west of Frankfurt, and it would be known as FR8. The facility's first phase has 51,600 square feet (4,800 square meters) of colocation space available. Equinix also revealed...

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Read OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO
OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in new IPO

September 22, 2021 OVH Group

According to the Wall Street Journal, French data center and cloud services provider OVHcloud plans to raise €400 million ($469m) in an IPO in Paris, France. According to the reports from WSJ, the listing could see the Company’s value rise to over $4.7 billion. OVHcloud was founded in 1999 as OVH...

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Read Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)
Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

Iron Mountain to buy Keppel's 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million)

July 08, 2021 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-2

Iron Mountain has announced it will buy Keppel’s 10MW Frankfurt data center for €76m ($90 million). The Keppel DC FRA1 facility was initially announced in 2016 and opened in 2018. Keppel also paid €76m in 2016 to acquire the facility. Keppel DC FRA1 is a two-story building with 20,000 square...

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Read OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021
OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

OVHcloud to go public by end of 2021

June 16, 2021 OVH Group

OVHcloud has officially confirmed that it would be going public on the Euronext stock exchange. Although OVHcloud hasn’t confirmed the date, but it will happen before the year runs out. Also, it did not say how much it expects to raise through the IPO, but it said the founder’s family, Octave...

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Read Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers
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Frankfurt to restrict and regulate data centers

May 14, 2021 Frankfurt

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) of...

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Read Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete
Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

Colt Pre-Leases all of its Frankfurt West Facility 16 months Before Construction is Complete

September 09, 2020 Colt Frankfurt West

Colt Colt Data Centre Services has announced that its data centre in West Frankfurt has secured customer commitments for all of the space and power in the facility. The facility is due to be completed in late Q4 2021 and will have a capacity of 25.2 megawatts. This underscores the demand in the...

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Read Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer
Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

Iron Mountain Announces 27 Megawatt Pre-Lease in Frankfurt with Fortune 100 Customer

July 13, 2020 Iron Mountain Frankfurt FRA-1

-- New FRA-1 Data Center 100% Pre-Leased -- BOSTON, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information management services company, today announced that it has signed a 27 megawatt data center lease with a U.S.-based Fortune 100 customer in Frankfurt,...

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Read Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020
Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

Colt announces a new data centre "Frankfurt West" to be completed by Q4 2020

June 12, 2019 Colt Frankfurt West

First phase of delivery expected to complete in H4 2020 Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) today announced the expansion of its presence in Germany with its new Frankfurt West data centre. The strategic decision to expand comes alongside demand in the region from cloud service providers, but also...

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Read Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction
Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Globa...

Global Switch Expands European Footprint With Frankfurt Construction

July 13, 2018 Global Switch: Frankfurt South

Global Switch’s move further adds to the data centre ‘hotspot’ reputation of Frankfurt, and with the arrival of a new Chinese customer to Europe as part of the development currently going up, Global Switch says it’s keen to add to its sites to support further demand. Construction has started on...

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Read e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)
e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

e-shelter Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019 (PR)

March 21, 2018 NTT Frankfurt 4

FRANKFURT, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th location in the city. The expansion comes on the back of...

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