November 19, 2025 Verne Global
AI cloud provider Nscale has signed on to lease 15MW of capacity at Verne's data center campus in Iceland. The agreement will see Nscale deploying 4,600 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs across Verne's campus through 2026. The GPUs will be 85 percent liquid-cooled and 15 percent air-cooled.Dominic...
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October 15, 2025 Verne Global
Nordic data center firm Verne this week announced it has sold the Finnish operations, including facilities in Pori and Tampere, to Nordic cloud firm Glesys. “We’re pleased to welcome a talented team and a strong customer base through this agreement with Verne. It expands our data center footprint...
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March 16, 2024 Verne Global
Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...
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December 01, 2023 Verne Global
UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at...
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November 28, 2023 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...
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June 06, 2023 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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...
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September 23, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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 centers,...
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June 01, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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,...
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January 14, 2022 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 year...
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January 12, 2022 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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...
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November 16, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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 “optimize...
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September 06, 2021 Verne: Keflavik Campus
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....
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June 03, 2020 Verne: Keflavik 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 –...
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