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Floating data centers on the agenda

As the data center industry increasingly searches for low-carbon and less water-intensive ways to cool facilities, a number of different methods have been proposed, with everything from underwater to orbital data centers suggested. Denv-R, a French startup, proposes to float data centers on ur...

November 25, 2022

France

Thales Alenia Space to lead the ASCEND feasibility study for data centers in orbit

As data demand continues to surge and countries ponder different ways to reach their respective climate goals, the European Commission has announced that it’s launching a feasibility study into putting data centers into orbit. Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace company has been chosen to lead t...

November 22, 2022

France

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

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 Oc...

November 21, 2022

London

Altice Looking to Dispose its Data Center Portfolio

France-based telecommunication firm Altice is mulling over selling its data center portfolio in France. According to L'informe, the telco has asked investment bank, Perella Weinberg, to find a buyer for its 92 data centers across the country. According to reports, Altice wants a minimum of $1 ...

November 21, 2022

France

Reef Group plans 600MW data center outside 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. C...

November 08, 2022

London

London Docklands proposal rejected

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 wou...

October 31, 2022

London

New data center proposed in east London, UK

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 note...

October 20, 2022

London

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: Keflavik Campus

Thames Water launches probe into data center water use in 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...

August 30, 2022

London

Nation Data Center To Develop Second Data Center in France

French data center company Nation Data Center has revealed it will be developing a second data center. The facility will be located in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy. According to a LinkedIn post from the company, it says it is proud to announce its second data, which it referred to as a fortress...

August 10, 2022

France

Data centers' environmental impact to be monitored by Arcep

Arcep, the French government telecom regulator, has announced that it will start measuring the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from data centers, alongside the volume of water and where that water is sourced from. This comes following the enactment of the Chaize Act, which awarded the regulat...

August 05, 2022

France

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

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 1...

August 02, 2022

London

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

Schneider Electric research reveals "sustainability action gap" in data centres

Schneider Electric recently commissioned three independent research studies which sought to understand better the maturity of sustainability initiatives within both IT and data center organizations, and where the two industries are currently situated with regards to achieving a net zero vision...

June 10, 2022

France

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: Keflavik Campus

XL360 Opens First Data Center in Toulon, France

A new company called XL360 has launched a new data center in Toulon, France. The 17,200 square feet (1,600) square meters data center has the capacity to hold 105 computer racks. The building will also be used as a coworking space. The data center is situated on the Boulevard du Commandant Nic...

May 19, 2022

France

Castle IT To Develop Data Centers in Reims and Aix-en-Provence

According to La Tribune, Castle IT is looking to develop two more data centers in 2023. The report shows that the French colocation firm plans to build these facilities in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône and Reims, Marne. The development will also cost the company up to €30 million ($32.3...

April 22, 2022

France

'Trash-powered' data center campus on its way to East London

Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's ...

April 12, 2022

London

Nation Data Center moves in near Rennes, France

Nation Data Center (NDC) has announced it is to build a new 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center based near Rennes, in France. The facility named the Roah Data Center, will accommodate 600 racks when fully built out. The facility was given the go-ahead after the company obtained a building per...

March 15, 2022

France

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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