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Maincubes Breaks Ground on Second Berlin Data Center

German data center company Maincubes has begun construction on a new Berlin campus. The company this week held a groundbreaking ceremony in Nauen for its BER02 site. “With the official start of construction for the substation and the cable route, we have reached an important milestone for our...

March 26, 2026

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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

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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

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Maincubes ties its loan repayments to sustainability targets.

Germany data center firm Maincubes announced this week that it had added sustainability targets to its existing growth financing, linking the achievement of these targets to the financing conditions."The successful addition of the sustainability targets to our financing facility confirms the c...

May 18, 2024

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DTCP takes majority stake in German operator Maincubes

Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) is now the majority owner of German DC firm Maincubes after acquiring additional stakes from Art-Invest Real Estate, a co-shareholder. Art-Invest, which used to hold about 75% of Maincubes stakes before DTCP’s initial investment, now retains only ...

September 27, 2023

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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

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Maincubes, a German Operator, Obtains a €1 Billion Funding Facility

The German data center company Maincubes has received debt funding in excess of $1.07 billion. The firm stated this week that it had inked a new $1.1 billion scalable financing facility, including $730 million in committed facilities and an additional $373 million in uncommitted accordion c...

March 08, 2023

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DTCP Completes Acquisition of Main Stake in Maincubes

Maincubes has announced that investment management firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has acquired a stake in its firm. The deal sees DTCP take over the shares of the former main shareholder Art-Invest Real Estate. Although the transaction details were not shared, Art-Inves...

September 22, 2022

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Maincubes Starts Work at its FRA02 Facility

Maincubes has announced that it has broken ground on a new data center outside Frankfurt, Germany. The company laid the foundation stone of the FRA02 facility in Schwalbach, close to Frankfurt. Maincubes first revealed it would be developing the data center in July 2021. The development of ...

July 05, 2022

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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

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Maincubes Plans To Develop Third Facility In Frankfurt and First One In Berlin

Maincubes has revealed its plans to develop another data center in Frankfurt, Germany. It also wants to develop its first data center in Berlin, Germany. Maincubes first announced plans for the FRA02 data center in July 2021. It also broke ground on the data center while scheduling the faci...

January 28, 2022

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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

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maincubes is opening its second data center in the Frankfurt area

maincubes is building another colocation data center in Schwalbach near Frankfurt. The new data center will have a sustainable design. The sustainable design of the new facility will include efficient UPS systems that use green power and a waste heat recovery system. It will also have an in...

July 21, 2021

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RTB House Expands European IT Infrastructure, Selects Amsterdam Data Center from maincubes for Its New OCP infrastructure

RTB House, a global company that provides state-of-the-art marketing technologies for top brands worldwide, has selected the maincubes Amsterdam AMS01 data center to co-locate its OCP (Open Compute Project) hardware. OCP-ready equipment requires very specific data center power and cooling tech...

December 04, 2019

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Leaseweb expands with maincubes at AMS01

maincubes landed a large deal with Leaseweb in Amsterdam. Leaseweb which has 20 locations across the world has a large presence in the legacy EvoSwitch facilities. (EvoSwitch was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.) The deal allows Leaseweb to further diversify their providers. maincubes Press ...

September 04, 2019

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maincubes strikes a deal with Rahi Systems at their FRA01 and AMS01 facilities

maincubes strikes a colocation deal with Rahi Systems for services at their facilities in Amsterdam and Frankfurt. maincubes Press Releasemaincubes, a European data center owner/operator with ‘German-engineered’ facilities located in Frankfurt, Germany and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, today an...

June 03, 2019

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