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euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

European fiber firm euNetworks is exiting its Amsterdam data center in the Netherlands as colocation customers have apparently been asked to vacate the data center by next year.The news was revealed by Dirk Pol, of Dutch connectivity firm i4 Solutions, in a post on LinkedIn. “euNetworks will b...

July 25, 2025

Amsterdam

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2024

Amsterdam

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

Amsterdam

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

April 08, 2022

Amsterdam

LightEdge acquires Cavern Technologies

LightEdge has announced the acquisition of underground data center firm Cavern Technologies. Cavern Technologies was founded in 2007, and it has a 3 million square foot underground facility outside of Kansas City in its portfolio. The facility is in the Meritex Caves in Lenexa, outside Kans...

September 24, 2021

LightEdge Solutions

Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through ...

September 17, 2021

Amsterdam

Light Edge Acquires OnRamp (PR)

DES MOINES, IA – LightEdge expands its geographical reach and redundancy and invests further into the company’s world-class compliant cloud solutions as it acquires Austin, Texas-based OnRamp. “LightEdge is thrilled to announce the expansion of our secure and compliant hosting and colocation ...

July 17, 2018

LightEdge Solutions

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