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Read Pure DC Lands €1.3bn to Fund Finland Data Center Project
Pure DC has secured €1.3 billion ($1.48bn) in senior debt financing for the first phase of its Seinäjoki AI data center campus in Finland. Phase I will see more than €1.5 billion invested in a 110M...

Pure DC Lands €1.3bn to Fund Finland Data Center Project

July 22, 2026 Pure Data Centres Group

Pure DC has secured €1.3 billion ($1.48bn) in senior debt financing for the first phase of its Seinäjoki AI data center campus in Finland. Phase I will see more than €1.5 billion invested in a 110MW facility, with the campus planned to scale to 550MW. The first phase is already fully leased,...

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Read Pure DC Plans 7MW Expansion of Abu Dhabi Data Center
Pure DC Plans 7MW Expansion of Abu Dhabi Data Center

Pure DC Plans 7MW Expansion of Abu Dhabi Data Center

April 24, 2026 Pure Data Centres Group

Pure Data Centres is set to expand its Abu Dhabi campus by 7MW. The company this week announced it has received final approvals from TAQA to increase IT capacity at its AUH01 site from 41MW to 48MW, alongside plans to fully decarbonize its operational energy use in Abu Dhabi. Located on a 16-acre...

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Read Pure DC Secures Site in Seinäjoki for New Data Center Campus
Pure DC Secures Site in Seinäjoki for New Data Center Campus

Pure DC Secures Site in Seinäjoki for New Data Center Campus

April 15, 2026 Pure Data Centres Group

Data center operator Pure has acquired land in Finland for a planned data center development. The City of Seinäjoki this week announced it has sold a 22.3-hectare site to Pure DC for €3.86 million ($4.55 million).Data center operator Pure has acquired land in Finland for a planned data center...

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Read Pure DC Secures Hyperscale Customer for 78MW Facility
Pure DC Secures Hyperscale Customer for 78MW Facility

Pure DC Secures Hyperscale Customer for 78MW Facility

December 22, 2025 Pure Data Centres Group

Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC) this week announced it has signed “2025’s largest standalone hyperscale data center lease in Europe,” taking all available capacity at a planned site in Amsterdam.An unnamed hyperscale customer is leasing the entire 78MW campus, situated in Westpoort, Amsterdam,...

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Read Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant
Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

December 23, 2024 Madrid

European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...

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Read Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid
Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid

Mapfre sells 10MW facility in Madrid

February 23, 2024 Madrid

Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's...

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Read Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center
Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

Spanish insurer Mapfre looks for buyer of 8MW Madrid data center

July 13, 2023 Madrid

In anticipation of a potential sale-leaseback transaction, Spanish insurance company Mapfre is listing its data center for sale. According to Cinco Dias, the company has hired CBRE to find a buyer for the Tales de Mileto building in the Alcalá de Henares neighborhood of Madrid. Mapfre launched...

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Read Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers
Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

March 14, 2023 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 sq...

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Read Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development
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Thor Acquires Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Madrid For 100MW Data Center Development

November 02, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced the acquisition of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Madrid, Spain. The site is planned for a data center campus development. Swiss real estate investment company Stoneweg completed the sale on behalf of the Icona Capital Group to Thor. None of the companies...

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Read Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus
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Stoneshield looking to Raise €300 million ($307.3m) to Fund 100MW Madrid Campus

July 25, 2022 Madrid

According to Cinco Dias, Spanish data center developer Xdata is looking to offload a stake in its company to help fund its 100MW Madrid data center campus development. The company has reportedly contacted CBRE and Morgan Stanley to seek an investor. Stoneshield established XData Properties in...

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Read SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain
SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

SiteGround announces it has opened a new data center in Spain

July 18, 2022 Madrid

Web hosting service, SiteGround, has announced that it has opened a new data center in Madrid, Spain, the seventh SiteGround data center to open around the world and the fourth in Europe. In addition to the new facility, the company also announced the expansion of its content delivery network in...

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Read Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain
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Thor Equities Sets Up Data Center Unit, To Develop a 100MW Facility in Madrid, Spain

April 22, 2022 Madrid

Thor Equities has announced its plans to move into data centers. The US real estate group, is also looking to develop its first data center in Madrid, Spain. Thor Equities will be doing this by launching a new data center division called Thor Digital. The new unit will be headed by Roy Gibbens,...

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Read €5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain
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€5 billion ($5.67bn), 360MW data center campus coming to Madrid, Spain

January 26, 2022 Madrid

Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...

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Read Pure DC and LOGOS to develop data centers across the Asia Pacific Region
Pure DC and LOGOS to develop data centers across the Asia Pacific Region

Pure DC and LOGOS to develop data centers across the Asia Pacific Region

December 08, 2021 Pure Data Centres Group

LOGOS and Pure Data centres are partnering to develop data centers in the Asia Pacific region. Both companies announced that they would be developing critical data center infrastructure across the APAC region. Frederic Devos, Head of infrastructure at LOGOS, said there’s an underwhelming supply...

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Read Panattoni and Pure DC to build 50MW data center in Borehamwood, London
Panattoni and Pure DC to build 50MW data center in Borehamwood, London

Panattoni and Pure DC to build 50MW data center in Borehamwood, London

June 18, 2021 Pure Data Centres Group

Panattoni, an industrial construction giant, will build a data center facility with Pure DC in Borehamwood, North London, UK. The decision was made after the Hertsmere Borough Council approved its application last week. The data center will be a 449,500 square feet (41,763 sqm) facility. The data...

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Read LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia
LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers to build a 20MW data center in Indonesia

June 17, 2021 Pure Data Centres Group

LOGOS and Pure Data Centers are partnering to build a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data center will have 215,000 square feet of space with a 20MW capacity. LOGOS said the facility is already under construction and that it would be ready in the first quarter of 2022. LOGOS is a firm...

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Read Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages
Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

Rolls-Royce set to power Madrid data center in outages

May 14, 2021 Madrid

Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power supply is secured...

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