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Finnish Company atNorth Plans To Construct a 15MW Data Center in Espoo

Colocation service provider atNorth will construct a new data center in the Helsinki region of Finland. This week, the firm revealed that it has struck a deal to acquire a new site in Finland, which would become its third data center in the nation. The facility, which was acquired from the loc...

February 07, 2023

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Volkswagen AG announces climate-neutral plans

Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European ...

November 10, 2022

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Green Mountain to expand its RJU1-Rjukan facility in Norway

Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its RJU1-Rjukan facility in Norway by constructing a new two-story 20MW building. With an investment of €100 million ($99.9m), the first phase will reportedly be operational and ready for service in March of next year.The company has outlined ...

September 16, 2022

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Green Mountain's Parent Acquires SDC Ltd.

Azrieli Group, the parent of Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd. The move sees the company take over SDC’s data center in Romford, East London. Green Mountain will be tasked with operating the data center. This will be Green Mountain’s first facility outside of Norway. Green Mountain...

June 29, 2022

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Green Mountain releases first sustainability report

Green Mountain has come forward with its first sustainability report, which focused on seven ESG areas: energy, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water, biodiversity, social responsibility, and governance. Some of the highlights noted in the report included that all of its data centers now ope...

June 23, 2022

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atNorth joins Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA)

atNorth has announced that it has joined the Swedish Data Center Industry Association (SDIA), alongside members Schneider Electric, Huawei and CBRE. The SDIA, represents the data center industry within Sweden and, according to the body, centers on sustainability as an organizational priority ...

May 05, 2022

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atNorth expands data center footprint in Iceland

atNorth has announced that it is to build a third data center campus in Iceland, on a plot of land in Akureyri in the northern part of the country. Named IC03, the site will span 4,000 sqm (43,000 sq ft), and include six data halls with 12MW of capacity. According to Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinss...

April 08, 2022

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AtNorth Mulling Over Location For ‘50MW mega-site’ in Northern Europe

AtNorth has revealed that it is mulling over locations for a potential 50MW data center campus. It also hopes to decide before the end of Q1 2022. The CEO of AtNorth, Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, discussed the company’s plans in an interview with He said Stockholm is the company’s first invest...

February 04, 2022

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atNorth opens its first Swedish data center

atNorth has announced that it is opening its first data center in Sweden in Kista, northern Stockholm. The SWE01: SIF DC facility underwent the first phase of construction at the end of 2020, and plans are to build out the second phase of the project shortly.The second phase will see an additi...

November 24, 2021

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Tackling data centers' cooling issues

According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A numb...

August 06, 2021

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Azrieli Group acquires Green Mountain

Azrieli Group, an Israeli real estate firm, has acquired 100% of Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center Company. The acquisition cost Azrieli NIS 2.8 billion ($849.2m). Azrieli noted that the acquisition would be self-financed, and it will be through debt raising and through an unsecured l...

July 21, 2021

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Green Mountain signs agreement to heat land-based trout farm

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 DC2-Tel...

June 28, 2021

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Green Mountain Secures More Land for Data Center Expansion In Norway

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.T...

April 23, 2021

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Advania Data Centers Rebrands to atNorth

Advania Data Centers, a high-density computing technology company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced today that it had changed its name and will now be known as atNorth. Among the other changes will be its logo, tagline, and domain name to atnorth.com. "Rebranding is a logical step...

December 08, 2020

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Green Mountain expands DC1-Stavanger data center by 2.5 MWs

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 ...

September 21, 2020

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