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Virtus Starts on 204MW Data Center Campus Near 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 undert...

April 15, 2026

Berlin

Penta Infra Acquires Data Center in Munich, Germany

European data center firm Penta Infra has acquired a facility in Munich, Germany. The company announced the acquisition this week, saying the facility will be “fully modernized and expanded” into a colocation data center with 20MW of IT capacity.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "Munich...

January 30, 2026

Penta Infra

euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

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 b...

July 25, 2025

Amsterdam

Penta Infra Data Center to Supply Waste Heat to Heating Network

European operator Penta Infra this week signed a letter of intent to supply residual heat from its Leeuwarden data center to a new sustainable heat network being developed at the De Zwette IV business park.“This project is a great example of how local collaboration can turn sustainability ambi...

May 24, 2025

Penta Infra

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

May 23, 2025

Paris

Penta Infra gets pension fund PGGM

PGGM, which invests on behalf of Dutch pension fund PFZW, has acquired a 49 percent stake in the European data center provider from Photon Capital, an investor that has been involved with Penta Infra since its inception.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "We are proud to welcome PGGM as...

January 02, 2025

Penta Infra

Penta Infra bags new investors

PGGM, which invests on behalf of Dutch pension fund PFZW, has acquired a 49 percent stake in the European data center provider from Photon Capital, an investor that has been involved with Penta Infra since its inception. Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "We are proud to welcome PGGM a...

December 20, 2024

Penta Infra

Penta Infra plans new data center in Copenhagen, Denmark

European data center firm Penta Infra has announced the acquisition of a site that will be developed into a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) data center, delivering 20MW of IT load. This will be the company's second facility in the Danish capital. Penta acquired its Glostrup, Copenhagen, data cente...

September 06, 2024

Penta Infra

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

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...

June 12, 2024

Amsterdam

Penta Infa names Bob Sprengers as new CEO

European data center firm, Penta Infra has named Bob Sprengers as its CEO according to an announcement by the company and lead investor Photon Capital this week. Effective from March 2024, Sprengers will take over from Alex Bakker who has led the company since it was founded in 2015. “The ti...

March 01, 2024

Penta Infra

Penta Infra extends data center footprint to Hamburg

Penta Infra announced this week that it is looking to extend its footprints to Germany and has begun constructing a new colocation data center in Hamburg. Once completed, this facility will offer 4.4MW across 2,500 square meters of white space. It will also be able to offer heat re-use as the ...

December 14, 2023

Penta Infra

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

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-stor...

September 20, 2023

Berlin

Penta Infra expands Copenhagen Facility, Links to District Heating System

Penta Infra has finished an expansion initiative at its Copenhagen, Denmark, data center. Penta, an Amsterdam-based private equity fund specializing in European data centers with operations in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Denmark, was established in 2015. Through a new financing agree...

May 22, 2023

Penta Infra

AtlasEdge forms partnership with PacketFabric

Atlas Edge has announced that it has partnered with PacketFabric, to expand cloud access across its network. The strategic partnership will see the company’s facilities connect to PacketFabric’s TruNaas Converge Platform, which will reportedly allow AtlasEdge customers to access PacketFabric’s...

April 05, 2023

Berlin

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

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 Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

Amsterdam

LCL switches diesel for HVO at its Brussels-West data center

LCL has announced that it's replacing diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) for its backup generators at its Brussels-West data center in Aalst, after investing in six new 2.25 MVA generators. The company is reportedly the first to do so in Belgium, and it aims to have all the generator...

October 31, 2022

Brussels

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

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...

April 08, 2022

Amsterdam

Dutch Data Center Firm Penta Infra Secures €75 million in Funding

Penta Infra has announced that it has raised €75 million ($83.5m) in a financing deal tied to sustainability targets. Penta Infra is a Dutch data center firm with a focus on European data centers. It has facilities in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Penta owns 11 data centers across the...

January 28, 2022

Penta Infra

Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in 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 ...

September 17, 2021

Amsterdam

Penta Infra acquires Sentia Denmark's Smedeland data center

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...

June 14, 2021

Penta Infra: Glostrup

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