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Ardian purchases data center company Verne Global

French private equity firm Ardian just purchased data center company Verne Global from Digital 9 Infrastructure. D9 bought Verne for $320 million in 2021 and has since then acquired and merged Finnish data center firm Ficolo and London’s Volta Data Centres into the Verne brand. However, D9 had...

November 28, 2023

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Remov announces 7.2MW heat-sharing data center

Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the c...

July 19, 2023

Finland

Verne Global receives $100m loan

Verne Global, an Icelandic data center company, received a $100 million loan. This week, the board of directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure announced that the business had inked a new $100 million green term loan debt financing for Verne Global Iceland, along with a $50 million accordion provi...

June 06, 2023

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

LUMI Data Center awarded 'Green Data Centre of the Year'

At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. Th...

March 16, 2023

Finland

Hyperco To Develop two 50MW Facilities in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has announced its plan to expand its data center presence in New Zealand with two new data center campus developments. The Nordic data center company said it would develop the facilities in Helsinki, Finland, with each having an initial capacity of 50MW. The company did not reveal t...

December 14, 2022

Helsinki

Verne and Volta announce they're team up

Verne Global and Volta Data Centres have announced that they have teamed up and will now be operating under the Verne Global brand, spanning from Iceland to the UK. Speaking about the decision to merge, Dominic Ward, CEO of Verne Global, said: “With two complementary, best-in-class data cente...

September 23, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Hyperco Acquires Equinix and Thales-Occupied Data Center in Helsinki, Finland

Hyperco has made its first acquisition as it takes over a property belonging to TS-Yhtyma. The company paid more than €35 million ($36.4m) for the property. The building is located at Myllynkivenkuja 4 in Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland. Thales and Equinix are also occupying the property. The bui...

June 16, 2022

Helsinki

Verne Global partners with Icelandic New Energy and Landsvirkjun to trial hydrogen fuel cells

Verne Global is partnering up with Iceland's national power company Landsvirkjun to trial and deploy hydrogen fuel cells to its data center campus in Iceland. As data center companies push to make their operations greener, many have transitioned to renewables to fuel their facilities, however...

June 01, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Digital 9 is investing extra $93 million in Verne Global

Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed that it is investing an extra $93 million in Iceland’s data center company Verne Global. The investment is to fund a further expansion of the data center firm. Triple Point Investment Management manages D9, and it acquired Verne Global in September last ye...

January 14, 2022

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Verne Global to expand its Iceland data center

Verne Global has announced that it will be expanding its campus in Iceland. According to the company, this expansion will take place over the next year with a $93 million additional investment from Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), following its acquisition of Verne Global in September 2021.The ...

January 12, 2022

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Verne Global to expand data center campus 10MW

Verne Global, a provider of sustainable data center solutions, has announced that it is expanding its 40-acre data center campus by 10MW of capacity. This will be funded by $50m from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), the investment trust which recently acquired Verne. In an effort to “optimi...

November 16, 2021

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Digital 9 acquires Verne Global as it strives for sustainability

Verne Global, which operates a 100% renewable powered data center campus in Iceland, has been acquired by Digital 9, following an investment of £231m (€271m).The purchase of the 40-acre, 24MW campus, is a first for Digital 9, being the only deal to involve a data center operator to date. Acco...

September 06, 2021

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

London, UK, – Verne Global, a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. All current investors – the Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst ...

June 03, 2020

Verne: Reykjanesbr Campus

Protacon sells is data center business to Ficolo

Ficolo and Protacon agreed on the sale and leaseback of Protacon’s data center business to Ficolo. The partnership allows Protacon to free up resources and take advantage of Ficolo’s value-adding services in their own service portfolio. The responsibilities of the partnership are clearly divi...

August 15, 2019

Verne: Pori (The Rock)

Ficolo Invests Over 50 Million Euros in Building a Cloud Delivery Center, Making it the Largest Domestic Player in Findland (PR)

PORI, Finland, /PRNewswire/ -- The data center and cloud delivery company Ficolo buys a data center in Vantaa and will make a major investment to expand it into a modern Cloud Delivery Center. The total investment amounts to over 50 million euros, most of which will be used during the first 12...

May 08, 2019

Verne: Helsinki (The Air)

Ficolo acquires Cybercom data center in Tampere

Ficolo has acquired Cybercom’s data center business in Tampere. Cybercom’s data centers will be transferred to Ficolo and additionally Cybercom outsources data center operations services to Ficolo. The transfer takes place on August 31st, 2018 and does not impact Cybercom’s data center custome...

August 29, 2018

Verne: Tampere (The Deck)

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