February 28, 2023 Vodafone
Vodafone has announced the signing of a new PPA with Centrica and Mytilineos for solar power in the UK. The 10-year deal signed by the companies will see the telco procure energy from five solar farms in Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Dorset. In total, the energy...
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November 11, 2022 Vodafone
Vodafone has announced the sale of some of its stake in Vantage Towers to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and KKR while also creating a new joint venture with them. Per the deal, the tower unit is worth €16.1 billion ($16.1bn). The sale also sees Vodafone receive €3.2 billion ($3.2bn)...
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November 07, 2022 Vodafone
Vodafone NZ has sold off its tower infrastructure business. The deal is reportedly worth NZ $1.7bn ($1bn). One of the owners of Vodafone NZ- Infratil said the conditions for the transaction has been met and the sale was completed in the first week of November. Co-investors in Vodafone NZ-...
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November 04, 2022 Vodafone
According to Bloomberg, Investment company KKR is the frontrunner in the race to acquire Vodafone’s tower arm unit, Vantage Towers. The unit is worth a stunning $14 billion. KKR is competing with Cellnex Telecom for the acquisition. Vodafone is trying to sell off its 82% stake in the business to...
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September 23, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data centers,...
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September 23, 2022 Iceland
Icelandic data center company Borealis Data Center has completed the acquisition of a data center just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. According to Visir, the company purchased the facility from Islandsbanki. However, the terms of the acquisition weren’t revealed. Borealis currently operates two...
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June 01, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however,...
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January 12, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021. The...
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November 16, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimize...
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September 06, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m). The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date....
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July 05, 2021 Vodafone
Vodafone Idea, an Indian telecom operator, wants to sell its optic fiber unit, fixed-line broadband subsidiary, and data center business to settle its debts. According to the Company’s latest financial books, Vodafone Idea has a gross debt of Rs 1,803.1 billion ($2.4 billion). It is looking to...
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May 05, 2021 atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær
atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW of...
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June 03, 2020 Verne: Keflavik Campus
London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst –...
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