June 30, 2021 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will acquire AT&T’s Network Cloud technology and intellectual property. It will also be making job offers to hundreds of AT&T engineers. As part of the deal, AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to Microsoft Azure. AT&T’s 5G core would be the starting point. This deal...
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June 28, 2021 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain, the Norwegian colocation company, has entered into an agreement with Hima Seafood to reuse waste warm water from the company’s local data center to grow trout at the farm in Rjukan, Norway. The Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, located 800 meters from the...
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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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June 18, 2021 Microsoft Azure
According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft is looking to add four new data centers in China by Q1 of 2022. The report states that Microsoft wants to expand its service across Asia and opening data centers in China is a step towards achieving that. Asides from that, the Company also intends to...
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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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June 04, 2021 Google
Google has decided to migrate some of its YouTube infrastructure to its own Google Cloud Service. Initially, many of Google’s key services like YouTube and its search engine are being hosted on internal infrastructure that isn’t Google Cloud Computing Service (GCP). Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google...
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May 19, 2021 Google
Google just opened its new Quantum campus, which houses its quantum computers and serves as a Research and Development lab for future developments. The latest data center campus is located in Santa Barbara County, California. Google is also planning to spend billions of dollars on building a...
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May 18, 2021 Google
Google will be moving workloads to data centers where renewable energy is available to boost renewable energy usage. Ross Koningstein, Co-founder of Google’s Carbon Intelligence Computing program, said that shifting compute tasks across locations is the Company’s first step in carbon-aware...
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May 15, 2021 Google
Google Cloud and SpaceX have announced that they have entered a new partnership which will see SpaceX's Starlink begin to locate its satellite ground stations within Google data centers. Together, through the partnership, the two firms will deliver cloud services, data and applications to...
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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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January 07, 2021 Northern Data AG
Frankfurt am Main – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) acquires a data center facility in Northern Sweden to meet massive customer demand. The site currently consists of six data center halls on an area of 2.5 hectares and will now be further expanded by Northern Data following the...
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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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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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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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April 28, 2020 Northern Data AG
Key step forward for existing strategy of expansion into Canada Continuing to accelerate North America growth and expansion Decisive and additive know-how for data centers construction Frankfurt am Main – April 28, 2020 – Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), one of the world’s...
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April 15, 2020 Google
Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...
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April 01, 2020 Microsoft Azure
SUNeVision Holdings Ltd, a Data centre provider in Hong Kong, has announced a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramp. Enterprises will have the ability to directly connect to Azure in MEGA-i, either through an onsite point of presence (PoP) or via telco partners, managed service providers or...
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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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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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March 25, 2019 Microsoft Azure
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 Stockholm....
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