June 13, 2022 Denmark
Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be...
Read more
June 01, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however,...
Read more
April 26, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
atNorth has announced the launch of its new SWE01 DC facility in Kista, Sweden. The new data center is the first in the country designed to manage high-density workloads, including risk analysis, simulations, and AI. The facility has a total IT capacity of more than 11MW, spanning 6,400 square...
Read more
March 11, 2022 EcoDataCenter Falun, Sweden
EcoDataCenter has announced that it is developing a new data center at its Falun campus, in Sweden. The company revealed that it would be investing up to SEK 1 billion ($102m) in the development of the new facility. The new facility will add 15MW to the campus. Worthy of note is that...
Read more
March 11, 2022 atNorth Stockholm SWE01
atNorth has announced the launch of its first data center in Stockholm, Sweden. The Icelandic company revealed that its Kista data center is now up and running. According to atNorth, the facility is Sweden’s first data center designed for high-density workloads such as risk analysis, simulations,...
Read more
January 12, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021. The...
Read more
December 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square meters...
Read more
December 09, 2021 Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk
Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its Oslo, Norway campus by building a new data center at the facility. Green Mountain revealed that it bought a 570,500 square foot (53,000 square meters) plot of land next to its DC3-Oslo data center campus. According to Green Mountain, the Oslo...
Read more
December 06, 2021 Stockholm
Vattenfall has formed a strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies in a joint sustainable data centre pilot project. Together, the companies will work to construct a facility at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm. Speaking about the...
Read more
November 16, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimize...
Read more
November 09, 2021 Hetzner Finland
German cloud and hosting firm Hetzner has completed the expansion of its Finish data center campus. It has also broken ground on other buildings on the same campus. Earlier in July, Hetzner completed the development of a new building at the Tuusula campus which is to the north of Helsinki. It...
Read more
October 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has successfully bought more land in Denmark for potential data center developments. The search engine giant bought 1.29 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of land in Taulov, in Fredericia municipality, Denmark. Earlier in June 2017, Google bought a 73.2 hectare (7.8 million...
Read more
September 27, 2021 Nordics
The Nordic data center industry is growing fast. As Europe's data center hubs are getting more and more crowded, and discussions about moratoriums spreading, many are looking to Nordic countries for cheaper, greener facilities. This trend follows recent legislative changes to tax laws in the...
Read more
September 22, 2021 Denmark
Denmark’s Energy Ministry has announced a new agreement, which outlines regulations and taxation on heat sent to district heating networks. This agreement, which will come into effect by 2022, will encourage businesses and district heating companies to utilize surplus heat. The Ministry of...
Read more
September 06, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m). The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date....
Read more
August 11, 2021 Norway
The Norwegian government recently updated its sustainability strategy for all data centers in the country in its "Norwegian data centers - sustainable, digital power centers" report. This strategy, it hopes, will project Norway as the world's most sustainable data center nation. Launched by Linda...
Read more
August 05, 2021 Green Mountain OSL1-Enebakk
Green Mountain has announced that it has expanded its DC3-Oslo facility in Norway. Green Mountain just acquired the 4MW facility, and it has doubled its capacity by adding another 4MW capacity to the site. Aside from that, it also added a new backup generator set to the facility. The CEO of Green...
Read more
July 06, 2021 Denmark
TDC Net, the Danish telecoms firm, has announced that it is moving forward with four new solar parks. This comes following TDC Net signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Better Energy. By 2023, the four farms will be capable of supplying 140GWh of energy each year. By 2028, the company...
Read more
July 06, 2021 Bulk: Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX)
Bulk Infrastructure has announced that integrator and software developer Innit has doubled its data center capacity at its Oslo Internet Exchange (OS-IX) facility. The expansion plans were solidified on January 21st through the signing of a new order on the Master Service Agreement (MSA)....
Read more
June 25, 2021 Sweden
Sweden’s Land and Environment Court at Nacka District Court has granted Google’s subsidiary, DSC International AB, permission to build a data center in Horndal, Sweden. Although Google said the land was a potential data center location when they acquired the 109-hectare site in 2017, they said...
Read more