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Read LCL Opens New Data Center in Brussels, Belgium
LCL Opens New Data Center in Brussels, Belgium

LCL Opens New Data Center in Brussels, Belgium

March 27, 2026 LCL Belgium n.v.

LCL Data Centers has opened a new facility in Belgium, unveiling its largest data center yet at the Brussels-North site in Diegem, east of the capital. Laurens van Reijen, founder and CEO of LCL Data Centers, said: “With this new location, we are taking an important next step in building a truly...

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Read Datacenter United Secures €120 Million Financing
Datacenter United Secures €120 Million Financing

Datacenter United Secures €120 Million Financing

October 02, 2025 Belgium

Belgian operator Datacenter United (DCU) recently acquired by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure and TINC, raised a five-year senior financing package of €120 million ($140m) from a consortium of banks comprising DNB, Belfius Bank, and NIBC Bank.“Companies in Belgium and beyond count on us to...

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Read Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus
Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus

Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus

November 15, 2023 Belgium

Xavier Niel, the founder of French telecoms company Iliad, has acquired a six percent stake in Belgian telco Proximus through his holding company Carraun.The Belgian government has a majority stake of 53.51% in this telco, while the company holds 4.59 percent of its share capital. Niel said, "We...

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Read Belgian data center operator LCL to invest €120 million in Brussel facilities
Belgian data center operator LCL to invest €120 million in Brussel facilities

Belgian data center operator LCL to invest €120 million in Brussel facilities

October 25, 2023 LCL Belgium n.v.

Belgian data center operator LCL announced its plan to invest €100 million in two expansion projects in Aalst and Diegem – both in the north of the Belgian capital – and €20 million in sustainability efforts. The company has started the expansion work on the Aalst center and plans to add 2,367...

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Read Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire
Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

Belgian emergency services numbers go offline after Proximus data center fire

September 01, 2023 Belgium

Last week, a fire in a data center operated by the Belgian telecommunications company Proximus temporarily disrupted phone services for contacting emergency services. Last Wednesday morning, emergency numbers 112 (firefighters and ambulances in a hazardous situation) and 101 (police) were...

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Read Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities
Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities

Datacenter United Buys Hasselt DC With Two Belgian Facilities

May 10, 2023 Belgium

Datacenter United, based in Belgium, is acquiring local collocation provider Hasselt DC and constructing a new data center. This week, investment company and DCU proprietor TINC announced that the two Hasselt DC data centers in Limburg are now "part of the Datacenter United ecosystem." The terms...

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Read NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium
NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

NRB Group Purchases The Wallonia Data Center in Belgium

February 09, 2023 Belgium

Belgian IT services provider Win and its data center affiliate Wallonia Data Center have been bought by Belgian ICT company NRB Group. This week, the business disclosed that it had purchased Nethys, a telecom owned by Enodia, as well as Win and its affiliate Wallonia Data Center (WDC). The...

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Read LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux
LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

LCL to deploy more solar panels at its data center in Gembloux

November 25, 2022 Belgium

LCL has announced that it is deploying more solar panels at one of its data centers, at the LCL Wallonia One site in Gembloux. Currently, the park has 2,000, but this expansion will see an addition of 1,300, taking the site’s generating capacity to 1.6MW. According to the Belgian data center...

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Read LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center
LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center

LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center

October 31, 2022 Brussels

LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generators...

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Read TINC invests €5 million ($5.6m) in Datacenter United, acquires DC Star
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TINC invests €5 million ($5.6m) in Datacenter United, acquires DC Star

January 25, 2022 Belgium

Belgian infrastructure investment company TINC has made investments in Belgian data center firm Datacenter United. TINC says the €5 million ($5.6m) investment in Datacenter United is to fund the acquisition of DC Star. Datacenter United was founded in 2011. It currently operates three data...

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Read LCL Data Centers pledges to cut carbon emissions
LCL Data Centers pledges to cut carbon emissions

LCL Data Centers pledges to cut carbon emissions

December 02, 2021 LCL Belgium n.v.

LCL Data Centers has announced that it has joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). It is now the first Belgium company to do so and signing up means that as a company, it will reduce its carbon emissions and work towards keeping the average increase in global temperatures below 1.5°C....

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Read LCL Acquires The ENGIE Solutions Data Center In Wallonia, Belgium
LCL Acquires The ENGIE Solutions Data Center In Wallonia, Belgium

LCL Acquires The ENGIE Solutions Data Center In Wallonia, Belgium

June 15, 2021 LCL Wallonia One

LCL data center Company has acquired ENGIE Solution’s data center in Gembloux. By doing so, the data center now becomes LCL’s first data center in Wallonia, Belgium. The acquisition of ENGIE Solutions’ data center in Gembloux includes the employees and the center’s solar park responsible for...

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