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Read Wesco ventures into the data center business
Wesco ventures into the data center business

Wesco ventures into the data center business

March 07, 2023 Pennsylvania

Wesco has announced the launch of a data center group, namely Wesco Data Center Solutions. The company is set to be led by Rahi Systems founding member Tarun Raisoni, who will be senior vice president and general manager, following the recent acquisition of Rahi Systems Holdings.Speaking about...

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

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

February 06, 2023 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 7,000...

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Read Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center
Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

Prosoluce begins work on Haute-Garonne data center

January 23, 2023 France

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 million...

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Read Qarnot announces scale up
Qarnot announces scale up

Qarnot announces scale up

January 20, 2023 France

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. Qarnot...

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Read Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station
Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

Cumulus Data completes work on first data center at Pennsylvania nuclear station

January 19, 2023 Pennsylvania

Cumulus Data, a Talen Energy subsidiary, has announced that it has finished construction of its first data center building at its nuclear-powered Susquehanna 475MW data center campus in Pennsylvania. According to the company, six facilities are planned on the campus, which have the option to...

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Read Floating data centers on the agenda
Floating data centers on the agenda

Floating data centers on the agenda

November 25, 2022 France

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 urban...

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

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

November 22, 2022 France

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 the...

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Read Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio
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Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio

November 21, 2022 France

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...

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Read Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France
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Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

August 10, 2022 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. NDC...

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Read Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep
Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep

Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep

August 05, 2022 France

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 regulator...

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

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

June 10, 2022 France

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....

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Read XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France
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XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France

May 19, 2022 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...

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Read Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station
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Standard Power To Develop 900MW Data Center at Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

May 09, 2022 Pennsylvania

Standard Power has announced that it is developing a massive data center in Pennsylvania. The blockchain company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Energy Harbor Corp to develop a massive carbon-free facility at Energy Harbor’s Beaver Valley nuclear power plant. Per the agreement, the...

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Read Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas
Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

April 26, 2022 Kansas City

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....

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

April 22, 2022 France

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 ($32.3m)....

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Read BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania
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BET Investment To Acquire Prudential's Office and Data Center Building in Pennsylvania

April 06, 2022 Pennsylvania

According to Biz Journal, BET Investments Inc. is buying Prudential Insurance Co.’s property located at 2101 Welsh Road. The 90-acre campus in Pennsylvania has three interconnected office buildings totaling 80,000 square meters (861,000 square feet). The office buildings house a Tier III...

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Read Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France
Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

March 15, 2022 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 permit...

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Read Greenergy Opens a Data Center in Estonia
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Greenergy Opens a Data Center in Estonia

February 18, 2022 Estonia

Greenergy Data Centers OÜ has announced that it opened its first data center in Estonia. The three-story facility spans 156,000 square feet (14,500 square meters) in the Saue Parish near Tallinn. Upon full build-out, the data center will have three buildings with a total capacity of 31.5MW....

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

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

August 31, 2021 France

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...

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Read KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy
KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

October 07, 2019 Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive...

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