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Read Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires NorthC
Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires NorthC

Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires NorthC

December 11, 2025 NorthC Datacenters

Antin Infrastructure Partners this week announced it has agreed to acquire NorthC Datacenters from DWS and other minority shareholders. The transaction is being carried out through Antin’s €10.2 billion Flagship Fund V and is expected to close in the first half of 2026.Stéphane Ifker and...

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Read NorthC to Build Data Center in Basel, Switzerland
NorthC to Build Data Center in Basel, Switzerland

NorthC to Build Data Center in Basel, Switzerland

September 18, 2025 NorthC Datacenters

European data center firm NorthC last week announced it has signed a contract to build a regional data center at the uptownBasel Innovation Campus in Arlesheim.Alexandra Schless, CEO of the NorthC Group, said: “We are very pleased to announce this expansion of the partnership with uptownBasel....

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Read NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years
NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years

NorthC Renews Lease on Munich Data Center for 25 years

August 22, 2025 NorthC Datacenters

European data center firm NorthC this week has extended its lease on the 4,800 square meters (51,666 sq ft) of data center space with real estate firm Allgemeine Südboden AG for 25 years.Bettina Krause, head of leasing, Allgemeine Südboden: "We are delighted to extend the lease agreement with...

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Read euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center
euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

July 25, 2025 Amsterdam

European fiber firm euNetworks is exiting its Amsterdam data center in the Netherlands as colocation customers have apparently been asked to vacate the data center by next year.The news was revealed by Dirk Pol, of Dutch connectivity firm i4 Solutions, in a post on LinkedIn. “euNetworks will be...

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Read Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI
Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

June 12, 2024 Amsterdam

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

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Read NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl
NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl

NorthC purchases a data center in Switzerland from Kyndryl

July 18, 2023 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Group purchased a new data center near Zurich, Switzerland, through a sale/leaseback transaction. This week, the Dutch colocation company announced the opening of a new data center in the Winterthur neighborhood of Zurich. However, the company announced on LinkedIn that it had acquired...

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Read Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe
Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

April 03, 2023 Amsterdam

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configurations...

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Read INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution
INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution

INNIO and NorthC Datacenters partner to build First Hydrogen Emergency Backup Power Solution

December 29, 2022 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) has partnered up with INNIO to use its Jenbacher Ready for H2 engine technology to deliver an emergency backup power solution for its newest data center, set to be constructed in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the company, if it is faced with electricity grid...

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Read NorthC Developing a 4.5MW Facility in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
NorthC Developing a 4.5MW Facility in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

NorthC Developing a 4.5MW Facility in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

December 16, 2022 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC has broken ground on a 4.5MW data center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The 43,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) facility will be the company’s second data center in Eindhoven. It will also be located next to its existing data center on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus (HTC). The...

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Read NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers
NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers

NorthC Buys Netrics Data Centers

April 27, 2022 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC has announced the acquisition of Netrics’ data center business. Netrics is a Swiss company, making the transaction NorthC’s first move into Switzerland. The deal sees NorthC take over three data centers, two of which are in Münchenstein and the last one in Biel. The total floor space of...

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Read Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers
Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

April 08, 2022 Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

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Read NorthC and green hydrogen
NorthC and green hydrogen

NorthC and green hydrogen

February 15, 2022 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC's data center in Groningen is to be the first in Europe to use green hydrogen fuel cells (H2), created through electrolysis. According to the company, the 1.5MW facility will have 500kW of fuel cells. This will reportedly save tens of thousands of liters of diesel a year, the equivalent of...

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Read NorthC group acquires IP Exchange
NorthC group acquires IP Exchange

NorthC group acquires IP Exchange

November 05, 2021 NorthC Datacenters

The largest regional colocation provider in the Netherlands, NorthC, has completed the acquisition of Germany’s IP Exchange. The acquisition sees NorthC expand into Germany for the first time. With the acquisition, NorthC has two data centers in Munich and Nuremberg. The purchase price for the...

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Read Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam
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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

September 17, 2021 Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through its...

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Read NorthC to use Nokia’s Region Connect Ring to link its ten data centers
NorthC to use Nokia’s Region Connect Ring to link its ten data centers

NorthC to use Nokia’s Region Connect Ring to link its ten data centers

September 09, 2021 NorthC Datacenters

NorthC has announced that Nokia provided an IP over a fiber network to link its 10 data centers in the Netherlands to offer one virtual facility to all its customers. NorthC is the biggest native colocation provider in the Netherlands, and it would be using Nokia’s Region Connect Ring to support...

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Read NLDC and The Datacenter Group Rebrand as NorthC
NLDC and The Datacenter Group Rebrand as NorthC

NLDC and The Datacenter Group Rebrand as NorthC

February 17, 2020 NorthC Datacenters

The Datacenter Group (TDCG) and NLDC, who merged in July of 2019, will be rebranded under a new name: NorthC. With ten data centers across the Netherlands, NorthC is the largest regional data center business in the country, serving both large organizations and government institutions as well as...

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Read The Datacenter Group acquires data centers from NovoServe
The Datacenter Group acquires data centers from NovoServe

The Datacenter Group acquires data centers from NovoServe

July 18, 2019 NorthC Datacenters

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, - The Datacenter Group (TDCG) has acquired the data center infrastructure of NovoServe in Doetinchem and Enschede. By selling its two data centers, NovoServe is able to apply focus to their international IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) hosting activities, whilst...

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Read KPN sells NLDC subsidiary to Deutsche Bank's DWS
KPN sells NLDC subsidiary to Deutsche Bank's DWS

KPN sells NLDC subsidiary to Deutsche Bank's DWS

May 20, 2019 NorthC Datacenters

Dutch telco KPN has agreed to sell its data center division, NLDC, to a fund managed by DWS, a global infrastructure investment manager and part of Deutsche Bank. NLDC consists of six colocation data centers in Aalsmeer, Almere, Eindhoven, Groningen, Oude Meer (Schiphol) and Rotterdam. Terms of...

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