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Read SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center
SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

SCC installs solar panels on its Birmingham data center

August 03, 2023 Birmingham UK

SCC has installed solar panels on its data center in Birmingham, it has announced. Its flagship CV1 facility will have a 737kWp roof-mounted solar-PV system attached that will cover just over five percent of the facility's total energy needs. This new development has been made possible in...

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Read The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G
The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

The UK government to commit an additional $51 million for 5G

July 31, 2023 United Kingdom

The British government has committed $51 million to nationwide 5G innovation. The government announced on July 31 that funding applications are now being accepted. According to the government, the investment is intended to accelerate innovation in industries such as advanced manufacturing,...

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Read Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage
Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

July 27, 2023 London

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much water...

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Read Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals
Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

Application filed for Oxfordshire data center stirs up controversy amongst locals

July 12, 2023 United Kingdom

De Montalt Life Sciences is planning to build a campus comprising seven 25m high buildings, a data center, and two multi-story car parks on the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town in the UK. Planned at the former Wicklesham Quarry in Faringdon and spanning 42,286 sqm (455,163 sq ft), the proposal is...

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Read 98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

July 05, 2023 London

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up to...

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Read UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers
UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

June 23, 2023 United Kingdom

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow...

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Read IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues
IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

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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Read Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center
Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

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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Read Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge
Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

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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Read Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations
Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

Scotland continues to pursue data center developers and suggests five possible locations

June 16, 2023 Scotland

The Scottish authorities are still trying to attract data center developers to their country. Twenty potential data center sites in the nation have been identified in a report created by Host in Scotland in support of the Scottish Authorities, including five additional spots not mentioned in an...

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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 A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation
A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

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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Read Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK
Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

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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Read UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion
UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion

UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion

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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Read Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center
Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

May 12, 2023 KAO Data

Kao Data has announced plans to develop a new data center in Manchester, UK. The facility, located in Kenwood Point, will offer a capacity of 40 MW and will be the first Kao data center to be built in the North of England. Based on a 39,000 sqm (419,800 sq ft) ex-industrial site, the facility...

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Read GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer
GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

May 05, 2023 London: Slough

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and a...

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Read Despite Data Center Closures, UK Ministry Of Defence Payroll Shift To Oracle Cloud Proceeds.
Despite Data Center Closures, UK Ministry Of Defence Payroll Shift To Oracle Cloud Proceeds.

Despite Data Center Closures, UK Ministry Of Defence Payroll Shift To Oracle Cloud Proceeds.

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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Read UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers
UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers

UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers

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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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 Britain's swimming pools to be heated with waste data center heat with Deep Green technology
Britain's swimming pools to be heated with waste data center heat with Deep Green technology

Britain's swimming pools to be heated with waste data center heat with Deep Green technology

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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