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Read Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap
Loblaw former data center in Canada  bought by Grain & StratCap

Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap

June 22, 2023 Toronto

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract,...

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Read Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans
Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

June 14, 2023 London

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the...

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Read Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm
Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

Manulife Inve Management Buys a Majority Stake in Serverfarm

May 22, 2023 ServerFarm Realty

Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...

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Read Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston
Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston

Netrality Data Centers to expand capacity in Houston

May 15, 2023 Houston

Netrality Data Centers has announced that it is expanding capacity at its Houston data center at 1301 Fannin Street. The company has shared that it will add two new data center halls spanning 17,000 square feet and offering over 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity.Due to come online at the end of...

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Read NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach
NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

April 28, 2023 Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

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Read Serverspace Establish New Data Centers Around the World
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Serverspace Establish New Data Centers Around the World

April 25, 2023 Toronto

Leading cloud provider Serverspace is pleased to announce the installation of hardware in an innovative data center in Toronto, Canada. With current facilities in five other nations, this facility represents Serverspace's sixth international location. The new data center's equipment is kept in a...

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Read Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes
Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

Bitcoin mining rights: The Arkansas Data Centers Act passes

April 20, 2023 Arkansas

The Arkansas Data Centers Act was recently passed after being proposed not long ago on March 30 by Senator Joshua Bryant. The legislation seeks to regulate the Bitcoin mining industry in the state, and will allocate crypto miners the same rights as data centers. It outlines that the government...

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Read Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe
Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

April 03, 2023 Amsterdam

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 Configurations...

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Read Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company
Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

March 21, 2023 London

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The...

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Read LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems
LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

March 01, 2023 London

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

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Read Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility
Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

March 01, 2023 London

The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...

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Read Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London
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Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

February 23, 2023 London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a...

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Read A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard
A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

January 23, 2023 Atlanta

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the...

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Read Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas
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Cox Edge Launches Edge Locations in Florida and Arkansas

December 15, 2022 Arkansas

Cox Edge has announced the launch of new Edge locations in Arkansas and Florida. The company's LinkedIn post reads: "We're excited to announce a new location in Johnson, Arkansas, and in Pensacola, Florida, on our journey to bring compute resources closer to end users!" Cox Edge is Cox...

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Read 600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition
600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

600MW data center campus on East London's green belt in Havering met with opposition

November 21, 2022 London

Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North...

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Read Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London
Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside London

November 08, 2022 London

According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares....

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Read London Docklands proposal rejected
London Docklands proposal rejected

London Docklands proposal rejected

October 31, 2022 London

According to reports, a proposal for a new data center at the London Docklands has been rejected on the grounds that the proposals were "bulky" and could have a negative impact on the nearby Naval Row Conservation Area. Although council planning officers had recommended the proposal, which would...

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Read New data center proposed in east London, UK
New data center proposed in east London, UK

New data center proposed in east London, UK

October 20, 2022 London

According to reports, a new data center is being proposed in east London, UK, on a 1.39-hectare site. Located on the western edge of the former East India Import Dock, the proposed facility could have a potential IT power of 30MW, with six halls each of 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq ft). It's also noted...

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Read Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London
Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in London

August 30, 2022 London

It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...

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Read The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity
The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

The Greater London Authority to halt housing developments due to lack of electricity capacity

August 02, 2022 London

In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...

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