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Read Norway's data centers to set up Norsk Datasenterindustri, a new industry body
Norway's data centers to set up Norsk Datasenterindustri, a new industry body

Norway's data centers to set up Norsk Datasenterindustri, a new industry body

June 22, 2021 Norway

In Norway, the data center industry has made a significant move to create Norsk Datasenterindustri, its new industry body, to enable it to fulfil its potential. The association will examine sustainability and digital sovereignty while also offering education opportunities and international...

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Read Penta Infra acquires Sentia Denmark's Smedeland data center
Penta Infra acquires Sentia Denmark's Smedeland data center

Penta Infra acquires Sentia Denmark's Smedeland data center

June 14, 2021 Penta Infra: Glostrup

Penta Infra has announced its expansion into the Nordics by acquiring Sentia Denmark's data center in Smedeland, Glostrup. Jakob Høholdt, Managing Director of Sentia Denmark, explained that the move to form a partnership with Penta Infra is due to the operating data center's not being Sentia's...

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Read DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus
DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus

DigiPlex opens third data center at its Fetsund Campus

June 13, 2021 STACK OSL03C

DigiPlex has just opened its new data center in Norway. This is the Company’s third data center at its Fetsund Campus. With white space of 9,700 square feet and a 3MW capacity, this would bring the total floorspace at the Fetsund campus to 64,500 square feet. The campus’s total capacity is also...

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Read Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators
Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

Microsoft Begins Using Eco-Diesel in Data Center Generators

June 01, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center

Ahead of its 2030 goal of eliminating its reliance on diesel fuel for backup power, Microsoft has announced that it would be the first to use a lower carbon renewable fuel for backup power in its Sweden datacenter region. Microsoft’s backup generators in the Sweden region will run on Preem...

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Read atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center
atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

atNorth expands its Mjölnir data center

May 05, 2021 atNorth ICE02: Reykjanesbær

atNorth has announced it is expanding its Mjölnir ICE02 data center in Keflavík, Iceland. The facility currently stands at 13,750 sqm (148,000 sqft), with 80MW of power. The company plans to expand the data center by 10%. This will mean an additional 1,250 sqm (13,400 sq ft) of space, and 4MW of...

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Read Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway
Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

April 23, 2021 Green Mountain Gismarvik

Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022. The...

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Read Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland
Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

Equinix to expand two data centers in Helsinki, Finland

January 25, 2021 Equinix Helsinki HE5

The company announced that it will add approximately 800 cabinets to its HE5 and HE7 International Business Exchange (IBX) sites in Helsinki at a cost of $38.8M (€32M). Equinix currently operates six data centers in Helsinki, all of which run on 100% renewable energy.Equinix Press Release on...

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Read DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl
DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl

DigiPlex opens another Norwegian data center in Hobøl

October 13, 2020 Stack OSL04C

DigiPlex continues to expand. The company announced it has opened a new data center in Hobol, a rural town 45 km Southeast of Oslo. It is DigiPlex's seventh data center in the Nordic region. DigiPlex press release below:OSLO, Norway, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiPlex, the Nordic leader for...

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Read Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs
Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs

Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs

September 21, 2020 Green Mountain SVG1-Rennesøy

Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center provider, has expanded its DC1-Stavanger data center with a new 2.5MW data hall. The Green Mountain press release is below: Green Mountain expands its mountain hall data center in NorwayThe Norwegian colocation provider, Green Mountain, recently opened...

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Read DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom
DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom

DigiPlex opens 2nd data centre on their Fetsund campus in Lillestrom

September 09, 2020 STACK OSL03 Campus

Data center provider DigiPlex has announced that it opened a second facility at Fetsund in Lillestrom borough in the county of Viken. The new data centre is 2,200 square metres and is built to support 3 MW. The new facility is adjacent to the existing Fetsund facility, a 10 MW data center.The 3...

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Read Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power
Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power

Apple Launches Danish Data Center with Green Power

September 03, 2020 Hyperscale Data Center

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...

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

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

June 03, 2020 Verne: Keflavik 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 –...

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Read Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark
Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

Bulk Infrastructure opens DK01 campus in Esbjerg, Denmark

December 03, 2019 Bulk Infrastructure: Esbjerg Denmark DK01

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 installed...

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

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

November 06, 2019 atNorth Stockholm SWE01

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 investment of...

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Read Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center
Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

Hetzner received the ISO 27001 certification for Helsinki data center

September 30, 2019 Hetzner Finland

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...

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

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

September 16, 2019 STACK OSL01 Ulven

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.International...

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Read Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo
Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

August 15, 2019 Verne: Pori (The Rock)

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 divided:...

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Read Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment
Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

Northern Bitcoin scales the Lefdal deployment

June 12, 2019 Northern Data Lefdal

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 scaling...

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Read Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark
Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

Apple Stops Construction at Kassø Facility in Aabenraa Denmark

June 11, 2019 Hyperscale Data Center

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...

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

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

May 08, 2019 Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

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...

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