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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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February 21, 2023 Equinix Manchester MA2
UK MSP Lunar Digital has acquired a Manchester data center owned by Equinix in the upcoming months. This week, Manchester-based Lunar Digital, a provider of managed cloud, data center, and cyber security solutions, revealed that it had bought Reynolds House, a leased Equinix building formerly...
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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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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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November 10, 2022 Manchester
According to reports, Manchester City Council is looking to redevelop a former Barclays data center from the 1970s and bring it back into service. Currently, the council is looking for public feedback on its regeneration proposals for Wythenshawe town center, having already completed the...
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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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