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Océinde Starts Construction on New Facility on Reunion Island

The island of Reunion will receive a new carrier-neutral data center. Local conglomerate Océinde is scheduled to construct a data center in the French department in the Indian Ocean, as first reported by DC Mag. Last week, construction began on the new facility in the Le Port Commune in the is...

May 16, 2023

France

Denv-R to deploy its first prototype floating data center in Nantes

French startup Denv-R has released an update on its prototype floating data center in Nantes. The company is reportedly on the precipice of deploying its river-based facilities. The prototypes will utilize river water to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and are equipped with solar ...

May 01, 2023

France

France's Lyon facility of Euclyde Data Centers is Being Expanded

The Lyon data center of French operator Euclyde Data Centers is growing. The business announced this week that it is adding two new data halls to its DC5 data center in Villeurbanne, as first reported by DCmag.fr. According to the statement, the project, which will house more than 140 racks, w...

April 24, 2023

France

OVHcloud announces it will report on Scope 3 emissions to customers

OVHcloud has announced that it will release a full report of Scope 3 emissions produced by its cloud usage beginning this summer. Scope 3 emissions are those which are produced by a company indirectly up and down its value chain, and are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Despite flying under...

March 31, 2023

France

Battery System Suspected to be Cause of Fire at Maxnod Data Center in France

A massive fire at a Maxnod-run data center forced the closure of the French facility and seriously damaged the infrastructure. No casualties have been reported; however, it is believed that one firefighter suffered just minor injuries. According to the local government Ain, the Saint-Trivie...

March 29, 2023

France

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

March 16, 2023

Finland

DTiX Proposing New Facility in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

DTiX, a French data center operator, is constructing a major data center in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The company is constructing a second facility in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. There will be enough for 100 racks in two data rooms spanning around 7,...

February 06, 2023

France

Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

Prosoluce has begun work on a data center in Haute-Garonne, located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France. Alongside an accompanying office building, the data center will be operational and ready for use in the summer of 2023. This new data center, projected to cost around €3 mill...

January 23, 2023

France

Qarnot announces scale up

French startup Qarnot, founded back in 2010, is looking to scale up its efforts with a €35 million financing round, which it said will help it expand its team, and take the business to the next level. It has also negotiated a €22.5 million credit line ($24 million) to finance its projects. Qar...

January 20, 2023

France

Floating data centers on the agenda

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

November 25, 2022

France

Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

November 22, 2022

France

Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio

France-based telecommunication firm Altice is mulling over selling its data center portfolio in France. According to L'informe, the telco has asked investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to find a buyer for its 92 data centers across the country. According to reports, Altice wants a minimum of $1 ...

November 21, 2022

France

Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress...

August 10, 2022

France

Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep

Arcep, the French government telecom regulator, has announced that it will start measuring the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from data centers, alongside the volume of water and where that water is sourced from. This comes following the enactment of the Chaize Act, which awarded the regulat...

August 05, 2022

France

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France

A new company called XL360 has launched a new data center in Toulon, France. The 17,200 square feet (1,600) square meters data center has the capacity to hold 105 computer racks. The building will also be used as a coworking space. The data center is situated on the Boulevard du Commandant Nic...

May 19, 2022

France

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

April 26, 2022

Kansas City

Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3...

April 22, 2022

France

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

March 15, 2022

France

€1 billion (US$1.18bn) Horizeo project to produce green hydrogen and a data center

Horizeo, a 1GW solar project from Engie and Neoen, is open for public debate in France. Proposed for Saucats in Gironde, in the Nouvell-Aquitaine region, the project is estimated at €1 billion (US$1.18bn), spanning 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).Commencing 9 September and running until 9 January...

August 31, 2021

France

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