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Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power

Apple has announced that it has launched its Danish data center in Foulum just outside of Viborg. In the announcement, Apple also shared that it will invest in the construction of two large onshore wind turbines in Esbjerg to source clean power for the site. The Esbjerg wind project is in addi...

September 03, 2020

Eric Bell

Apple Denmark Viborg

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst ...

June 03, 2020

Eric Bell

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

Bulk Infrastructure has opened a new data center campus in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Denmark. The 50 sqm campus can initially support to 20 megawatts and there is room for expansion. It took Bulk six months to build the first facility on the campus and anchor customers have already in...

December 03, 2019

Eric Advinci

Bulk Infrastructure: Esbjerg Denmark DK01

Advania Data Centers Expands to Sweden in a deal with Stockholm Exergi (PR)

The excess heat from new data center will be used for local house-heating in Stockholm. Located in the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, Advania’s new data center is a first-rate option for high tech companies in the region. A new data center investmen...

November 06, 2019

Eric Bell

atNorth Stockholm SWE01

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner‘s Data Center Park Helsinki has reached a new milestone by receiving the ISO 27001 certificate for information security. Only 18 months after going live, the park today already has 6,000 m² of web hosting infrastructure in operation. In addition to information security, several other s...

September 30, 2019

Eric Advinci

Hetzner Finland

DigiPlex invests with two new green data centres in Oslo (PR)

DigiPlex has broken ground on the construction of two new data centres near Oslo, Norway. The two centres will have a combined facility size of 8,500 m² and represent an investment of NOK 600 million. The centers are set to be operational in just 12 months, before the end of 2020.Internationa...

September 16, 2019

Eric Advinci

STACK OSL01 Ulven

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divi...

August 15, 2019

Eric Bell

Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Starting signal for the scaling of sustainable mining activities 6 additional mobile mining containers commissioned in June More green sites worldwide to be started up shortly Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Lefdal, Norway – Northern Bitcoin AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) has begun the sca...

June 12, 2019

Eric Bell

Northern Data Lefdal

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple has canceled plans to construct a data center in Kassø, Denmark citing 'business decision.' Apple also plans to sell the land, with no intention to construct anything else on the property, a statement from the municipality reads. It's unknown how this will impact the planned Google data ...

June 11, 2019

Eric Bell

Apple Aabenraa Kassø (Construction Halted)

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

May 08, 2019

Eric Bell

Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

Microsoft Plans 2 New Data Centers in Sweden

Microsoft is reportedly building two new datacenters in Sweden, according to Swedish Newspaper Gefle Dagblad (via MSN). It was previously reported in December that the company had acquired 130 hectares of land in the municipalities of of Gävle and Sandviken, near the Swedish capital Stockho...

March 25, 2019

Eric Bell

Microsoft Azure

Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will p...

November 29, 2018

Eric Bavto

Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki

Google Breaks ground in Fredericia, Denmark

Alphabet’s Google is to invest 600 million euros ($685.98 million) to build its first data center in Denmark.In a blog post, Google’s Vice President for Global Data Centers, Joe Kava, said the facility would be located just outside Fredericia, in the west of the country. Kava added that Google...

November 20, 2018

Eric Bell

Google Fredericia Denmark

Germany’s Hetzner opens major colocation campus in Helsinki

The site in Tuusula offers cloud and colocation services, with 2,000 square meters of space available immediately. It benefits from fast connectivity to central Europe, thanks to Hetzner’s investment into C-Lion 1 cable system (also known as the Northern Digital Highway) between Helsinki and Rost...

October 02, 2018

Eric Bell

Hetzner Finland

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center custome...

August 29, 2018

Eric Bell

Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

DigiPlex data center will help keep Oslo warm

Nordic data center operator DigiPlex has announced plans to recover waste thermal energy from its campus in Ulven, Oslo, and use it to heat residential properties. The company has agreed on a partnership with a subsidiary of utility provider Fortum, which has similar arrangements with data cen...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

STACK OSL01 Ulven

Construction of data center prototype starts in Boden

After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October 2...

July 18, 2018

Eric Bell

Stockholm

Facebook and Luxcara sign 294MW Norwegian wind deal

Facebook and European asset manager Luxcara have entered into long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 100 percent of the output and environmental (green) attributes of three contiguous wind projects (Gravdal, Skinansfjellet and Eikeland-Steinsland) in southwest Norway. In addition, Face...

May 23, 2018

Eric Bell

Facebook Luleå

Google buys plot near Apple's planned Danish data center

Google has acquired a 131 hectares of land in the Aabenraa Municipality of Denmark. “I am pleased and proud that Google has chosen Aabenraa Municipality. It confirms that we have the potential to become a data centre cluster for the world’s largest IT companies,” said Mayor Thomas Andresen. “W...

November 30, 2017

Eric Bell

Google Aabenraa (Prospective)

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