June 22, 2023 United Kingdom
The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's website...
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June 20, 2023 United Kingdom
Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load...
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June 19, 2023 United Kingdom
Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...
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May 26, 2023 United Kingdom
A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $494m+...
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May 18, 2023 United Kingdom
Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free...
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May 18, 2023 United Kingdom
Two British High Court justices were investors in a contested data center project allegedly used as a tax scheme. The Financial Times discovered the investment, along with several other investments made by judges in similar ventures. The money invested by Justices Simon Bryan and Martin Griffiths...
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May 01, 2023 United Kingdom
In an effort to move its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud, the British Ministry of Defense has awarded Deloitte $2.5 million. The MOD intends to close its data center and migrate to Oracle Cloud, but the transition has been difficult. First reported by The Stack, the...
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March 23, 2023 United Kingdom
EfficiencyIT, a UK data center company, has introduced its own line of prefabricated modular data centers. This week, the company unveiled ModularDC, a new line of adaptable, prefabricated data centers for on-premises, distributed IT, and edge computing settings that can be deployed in 12 to 16...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been...
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March 17, 2023 United Kingdom
Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California....
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March 09, 2023 United Kingdom
New research from the UK's National Oceanography Centre and the University of Central Florida has found that thousands of miles of cables on the seafloor are increasingly at risk due to climate-related disasters. This, experts say, makes the world's internet connectivity vulnerable to outages as...
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January 31, 2023 United Kingdom
A British office and data center will be converted into a college teaching facility. This week, CECOS College was awarded permission to convert data center on 8 Currer Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, into an IT teaching facility. The City Council of Bradford accepted a change of use proposal...
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January 05, 2023 United Kingdom
A new data center campus is being proposed just outside of Middlesbrough at the former Croda chemicals plant within the Wilton International complex, it has been announced. So far, Redcar and Cleveland Council has decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) isn’t required, after...
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November 25, 2022 United Kingdom
UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500...
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October 24, 2022 United Kingdom
The UK government has reportedly held discussions with data center operators about what to do in a worst-case scenario this winter, as the country faces potential power shortages. The government is now considering rationing data centers' access to diesel fuel for backup generators and classifying...
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October 20, 2022 United Kingdom
Ionos, a hosting services provider, has announced the opening of a new UK data center in Worcester, Worcestershire. The new facility, located at the Worcester Six Business Park, spans 43,700 sq ft (4,000 sqm) and comprises a 30,730 sq ft (2,850 sqm) data center and 13,000 sq ft (1,200 sqm) of...
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June 29, 2022 United Kingdom
Camro Data Park has announced a refinancing deal with Topland Group. The property investment firm agreed to a two-year financing deal worth £9.25 million ($11.3m) with Camro Data Park. The new data center site is located within the Elean Business Park in Cambridgeshire. Camro already has...
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June 14, 2022 United Kingdom
HM Treasury has published a policy paper which is proposing a new regulatory framework, whereby the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would have powers to visit and regulate the cloud sector. The ministry outlined that currently, over 65% of UK banking and insurance...
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May 31, 2022 United Kingdom
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport recently announced the commencement of an eight-week consultation, part of the National Data Strategy, to explore strengthening the security and resiliency of the UK's data centers and cloud services. Specifically, it is calling for views...
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May 31, 2022 United Kingdom
The UK government has hit back at rumors that this winter, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK could experience blackouts. The government has said that this would be a "worst-case scenario" and a result of Russia cutting off more supplies to the EU. Commenting on whether or not...
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