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Read euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center
euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

July 25, 2025 Amsterdam

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 be...

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Read Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

July 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing demand...

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Read Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms
Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

July 19, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being...

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Read Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft
Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

July 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomputers...

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Read Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers
Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

July 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations to...

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Read Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft
Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

July 03, 2025 Microsoft Azure

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational...

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Read Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna
Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

July 01, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is one...

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Read Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway
Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

June 30, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway's...

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Read Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US
Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

June 26, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to...

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Read Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center
Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

June 25, 2025 Toronto

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High...

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Read New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, Finland
New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, Finland

New Data Center Campus Planned in Keuruu, Finland

June 20, 2025 Finland

The Keuruu government last week announced that Suomen Energiainsinöörit Technology Oy plans to build a data center on a 40-hectare site on the western side of the Karjola industrial area. The company aims to develop a 200,000 sqm (2,152,782 sq ft) facility on the site, which is currently owned by...

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Read Cawley Partners Acquires 5,200 Acres outside Dallas for Data Center Park
Cawley Partners Acquires 5,200 Acres outside Dallas for Data Center Park

Cawley Partners Acquires 5,200 Acres outside Dallas for Data Center Park

June 18, 2025 Dallas

Cawley Partners has acquired 5,200 acres south of Dallas to potentially develop a large data center park outside Dallas. The acquired South Creek Ranch in the City of Ferris is set to see a mix of uses, including data centers, logistics, manufacturing, and residential. “This particular piece of...

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Read Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region
Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

Microsoft Launches Chile Cloud Region

June 18, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft this week launched a new cloud region in Chile, its first in the South American country, located in the Santiago metropolitan region. This region is comprised of three independent physical locations - each with one or more data centers - is now operational.Tito Arciniega, president of...

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Read EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production
EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production

EdgeMode acquires Synthesis Analytics Production

June 17, 2025 Sweden

US data center firm EdgeMode has announced the acquisition of Synthesis Analytics Production Ltd. (SAPL), in a $1.75 million deal that sees EdgeMode take charge of a 95MW power purchase agreement, a long-term lease on an in-development 20MW high-performance computing data center, and freehold...

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Read DeepL Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD in Falun, Sweden
DeepL Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD in Falun, Sweden

DeepL Deploys Nvidia DGX SuperPOD in Falun, Sweden

June 17, 2025 Sweden

Language AI company DeepL has deployed an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with GB200 NVL72 systems at EcoDataCenter's Falun, Sweden, facility. DeepL will use the GB200 NVL72 systems to train its models, noting in a LinkedIn post that the system is powerful enough that it can translate the "entire web" in 18...

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Read GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center
GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center

GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center

June 07, 2025 Norway

GreenScale this week announced the acquisition of Tonstad DataPark, a new data center development located in the municipality of Sirdal in West Agder County (NO2), Norway.Tonstad DataPark spans a 420,000 square meter (4.5 million sq ft) site with 300MW of grid capacity, approved by Glitre Nett...

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Read Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center
Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

June 06, 2025 Sweden

Brookfield Asset Management plans to spend up to 95 billion kronor ($9.9 billion) on an AI data center in Strängnäs, Sweden. The investment more than doubles a planned 300MW facility to 750MW, with the company planning to purchase 350,000 sqm of additional land in Strängnäs to support the larger...

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Read Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint
Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

June 02, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units...

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Read Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary
Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary

Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary

May 30, 2025 Singapore

Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region, with plans to create a digital infrastructure developer that is highly integrated with low-carbon energy...

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Read Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg
Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

May 30, 2025 Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" on LinkedIn. The 100MW facility in Esbjerg is set to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and will have expansion potential to 200MW. Thylander said it is working with...

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