October 21, 2026 Frankfurt
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region, the company said on Oct. 20. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and federal economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche appeared with Amazon chief global...
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October 21, 2026 NorthC Datacenters
NorthC has started construction on its sixth data center in Switzerland, a 4.5MW facility in Meyrin on the edge of Geneva. The building at The Hive technology park will deliver 4.5MW of IT capacity across 5,400 square meters (58,125 sq ft), released in phases of 1.5MW, according to NorthC's...
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October 13, 2026 Rotterdam-The Hague
VOLT has lined up Nebius as the first off-taker at its Rotterdam AI Gigafactory, the anchor customer the Dutch developer needs before it can take a 600 MW campus at the Port of Rotterdam to lenders. The letter of intent, announced Monday, covers a long-term lease, with a first phase of two...
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September 17, 2026 NorthC Datacenters
European data center operator NorthC has begun construction of a new facility in Frankfurt, Germany. “A new chapter begins for NorthC Datacenters Deutschland on Mainzer Landstraße: The preparatory construction work for our new FRA01 data center has begun,” the company said on LinkedIn this week....
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September 01, 2026 Frankfurt
Telehouse has opened Building N, its sixth data center facility in Frankfurt, Germany, adding 5.4MW of capacity. The four-story facility spans 9,300 sqm (100,104 sq ft), including 2,165 sqm (23,304 sq ft) of technical space. It uses air cooling, with Telehouse exploring liquid cooling to support...
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May 16, 2026 Switzerland
Flexbase has begun construction on the Laufenburg Technology Center in Switzerland, which will combine a large battery energy storage system and a 480MW AI data center. The facility will feature a redox flow BESS with 1.6GW of capacity and 2.1GWh of storage, and is scheduled for completion in...
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April 15, 2026 Berlin
European data center operator Virtus has begun construction of a 204MW facility outside Berlin, Germany. Located around 12km (7.4 miles) west of the capital in the municipality of Wustermark, the company plans to invest a total of €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in the project.“This ambitious...
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March 11, 2026 Switzerland
Switzerland’s grid operator Swissgrid has opened a tender for a three-year contract to install server racks in its data centers. The contract also covers supplying materials such as fiber optic and copper cabling, racks, and protection devices. No data was made available about the location of the...
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February 27, 2026 Switzerland
US-based iron-sodium battery storage company Inlyte Energy has teamed up with Swiss data center operator NTS Colocation AG to roll out its technology across NTS’s facilities. The first initiative under the partnership will be a pilot installation at NTS’s data center in Bern. The companies have...
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February 12, 2026 Nuremberg / Nürnberg
German real estate firm Aventos has sold a data center in Nuremberg to real estate investor AEW. Built in 2010, the 2,590 sqm facility is fully leased to a global technology company under a long-term double-net lease.“In view of the currently very high demand for data centers on the real estate...
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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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September 29, 2025 Munich-München
AAAS Energy, a Dutch energy company, has partnered with ChillMine, a US cloud computing firm, to develop a solar-powered data center campus in Botswana. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to “establish a world-class facility designed to serve AI computing, global hyperscalers, and...
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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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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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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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July 16, 2025 Switzerland
Investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners this week announced IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), advised by IFM Investors, has agreed to indirectly acquire 100 percent of Green Group AG. Terms were not shared, but the deal is set to close later this year.“We look forward to embarking on...
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August 22, 2024 Switzerland
IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...
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August 09, 2024 Switzerland
Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone...
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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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September 20, 2023 Berlin
The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem. Four four-story...
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